Welcome to the TextileX resource guide—a growing effort created to map out and connect the vibrant textile community and resources in the Portland metro area and beyond. The foundation of this guide was built from the diversity of organizations that participate in the Portland TextileX Month festival every October.

Development of and funding for this guide have been provided by Textile Hive with additional funding from a RACC catalyst grant in 2019.

We encourage you to contribute additional resources through this form and consider becoming a member of TextileX to help further develop this resource guide as well as Portland TextileX Month.

 Businesses

ace&jig

www.aceandjig.com

ace&jig is a textile love story. in 2009, we set out to create a seasonless women's collection from one fabrication: our own yarn-dye, woven fabric. we wanted to create timeless garments from our own textile designs, as interesting in texture as in color and pattern.

Altar

www.altarpdx.com

Altar is a clothing company and retail store with a brick-and-mortar location in Portland, OR. We initially opened a business in 2010 (under another name in the same retail location) with a focus on supporting independent artists from our immediate region, and by 2015 when we became Altar, we had grown that vision into the beautifully curated and ever-changing space it is today. We celebrate independent manufacturers and artists from across North America, with a focus on the stories that are woven into their work. We use the phrase, “objects with meaning” because we believe in sharing the unique stories behind these pieces.

Our clothing brand, Altar Houseline, is proudly made in America using deadstock materials and serves size gradations from size small to 6XL.

Cassie Ridgway opened her shop in 2010 with less than $3000 in the bank and a night job. Owning and operating this small business has been defined by labor of love and perseverance. Cassie's passion for sustainably produced and ethically manufactured apparel was a driving force, and has kept her laser focused on making this company better by the year. Her aesthetic sensibilities are always sort of changing (ok, sometimes all over the place), but she has always consistently been inspired by desert color-stories, moody floral motifs, art deco filigrees, and modern art.

 fashion  sustainability  textile reuse

Anne Williams of Atelier Douce France

www.adfupholstery.com

Anne Williams was born and raised in Normandy, France where she began to learn traditional upholstery at the young age of 15. She graduated from French upholstery school in 2007 and has been traveling internationally for the past 12 years, to master the skills of upholstery. Some of the major cities where she has worked include Paris, London, Melbourne (Australia), New York City and Portland. Through her background working in each of these cities she has gained a well-rounded skill set, an attention to detail, and versatility in a wide range of upholstery techniques. Now she is the proud owner of Atelier Douce France, a small business that focuses on high-end work for interior design firms and exclusive residential projects.

 upholstery

Appetite Shop

appetiteshop.com

We are a sister team, Erin + Megan (and pup, Beetle!), raised in New Mexico but now happily based in Portland, OR for the last 14 years. Our shop is a cozy blend of our Southwestern roots melded with our love of the Pacific Northwest. There's always a great array of cacti and houseplants mixed in with our handmade and vintage finds. Our shop also houses a working studio where we refurbish vintage finds, plant in vintage pottery and hand-print and make our own collection of housewares and accessories. Our mom makes all of the macrame plant hangers and wall hangings we sell in the shop.

 home goods  home staging  macrame  textile design

Baan de Sol

https://baandesol.com/

Baan de Sol is an artisan-made home goods company that brings traditional, handmade products from small communities in Thailand to your home in the U.S. Made in small batches with the traditional backstrap loom technique in Northern Thailand, Baan de Sol pieces are painstakingly handwoven, hand-dyed, and completely unique.

BlackSheepMade

www.blacksheepmade.com

Alyssarhaye Graciano is a trilingual, POC fiber artist. Once in the tech industry as a linguistic specialist, she left her day job to pursue a creative career. While she mainly knits, crochet, macramé and weaving are also part of her everyday life.

She started BlackSheepMade as a way to fund an internship abroad while in college, but since 2014 it has evolved into large public installations, long-term pop-ups and traveling workshops. You can find her latest mural in her hometown of San Jose, California at The Berryessa Flea. She wove a 15 x 8–foot (4.5x 2.5–m) mural with her dad, Francisco, as an homage to her late abuelita and hometown culture.

In 2018, she ran a two-month long pop-up in downtown Portland via a city-funded program. She was able to test out her idea of a “deli for knits”: choose a style of beanie or scarf, pick your colors and she’ll knit it up in a week. In 2019, Travel Portland and My People’s Market brought Alyssarhaye to Japan to discuss life as an entrepreneur and teach a macrame workshop. In January of 2020, Alyssarhaye published her first DIY knitting book, Chunky Knits: Cozy Hats, Scarves and More Made Simple with Extra-Large Yarn.

Today, she continues her art career as a designer for various fiber brands and local businesses and she teaches fiber workshops in both English and Spanish. Alyssarhaye now lives in San Jose, California where when she’s not knitting, can be found sewing, cycling, or on a hike.

 crochet  knitting  natural fibers  textile art  weaving  wool

Bolt Fabric Boutique

www.boltfabricboutique.com

Bolt Fabric Boutique was founded in 2005 to serve our community with high quality, unique fabric and complimentary items that inspire creativity, regardless of your skill level. Since then, the shop has grown to serve both Portland locals and become a popular destination for tourists. We strive to ensure that Bolt is a truly unique experience—when you walk in the door, you will discover fabrics and other delights that you haven’t seen anywhere else.

 fabric store

Calixto Trading Co.

https://www.calixtotradingco.com

Calixto Trading Co., is an artisan trading company focused on curating and offering a unique selection of artisanal textile products that embody an authentic and vibrant lifestyle.

Cargo

www.cargoinc.com

PURVEYORS OF CURIOUS OBJECTS Authentic, handmade and unique. We support small manufacturers, artists and local merchants.

 textile history  vintage textiles

Creative Capital Design

www.creativecapitalpdx.com

As founders of Creative Capital Design, we are, at our core, friends who know we are better together. Our success is largely a product of those who mentored, encouraged, and inspired us along the way. We continue to be buoyed up by the enthusiasm and energy, imagination and intelligence, of those around us. Now it’s our turn to share our knowledge and resources with the industry that has treated us so well. We developed Inside Fashion Design, a behind the scenes look into the world of apparel design. A site dedicated to first-year students, emerging designers and industry leaders alike. It’s a place to teach and to learn. A place to bring everyone into the conversation and celebrate what we all love to do.

 fashion  textile design

Focus Group Vintage

www.instagram.com/focusgroupshop

Focus Group is the place to get all your lightly used street wear and vintage!! We focus on the most current vintage styles. Located in the heart of SE Portland, in the famous Hawthorne shopping district. Friendly prices, friendly atmosphere, and friendly faces.

 fashion  vintage textiles

GMA Architects

https://www.gma-arch.com/home

We embrace our role as community builders, seek out public engagement, and regularly give back through community service. What we accomplish, we accomplish together by putting people first. We build relationships based on fairness and respect. Our work is founded on trust, strengthened through sincere communication, and inspired by daily innovation.

Herbivore Clothing

www.herbivoreclothing.com

Josh and Michelle started Herbivore in 2002 in the spare bedroom of our apartment in SE PDX. Why? Well, we wanted good looking clothes, ethically made, that would show the world we believed animals deserved respect, love, and to be free from harm. We wanted to spread the word about living cruelty-free.

We spent a few years in spare bedrooms in Portland, shipping our clothing all over the world before we took the leap to open our first little store. And by little, I mean one lap around without missing anything took about 40 seconds. We stocked our ever-expanding clothing line alongside an ever-expanding line of vegan cookbooks. We filled the rest of the store with cruelty-free belts, bags, and wallets.

Then, in 2007, we got together with Lisa, the founder of Sweetpea Baking Company, Chad and Emiko of Food Fight! Vegan Grocery, and Brian and John of Scapegoat Tattoo, and we moved down to SE 12th and Stark Streets. The Vegan Mini-Mall was born. It started as a joke, but the name stuck.

A lot has changed over the years, but the core belief and drive behind the vegan mini-mall hasn't. Basically, ethical veganism is awesome, you can be one, too! All while eating a donut with one hand, sipping a soy latte with the other, wearing ethically made, fashionable clothing as you wait for your tattoo appointment to begin in a shop that uses vegan ink and supplies.

As for Herbivore, we have spent all these years designing rad clothing, as well as manufacturing belts and wallets. We have hosted countless events, co-founded an animal rights conference, and spoken at vegfests. We've published some books. We've travelled the country tabling at events. We've donated our time at sanctuaries, and donated our skills to lots of organizations in the form of pro-bono design work. We have raised lots and lots of money for animal rights organizations and sanctuaries, as well as other social justice movements.

We believe these movements are linked and the oppression of one is the oppression of us all. We believe in animal liberation and human liberation are the same cause, so we fight for both.

Our approach has always been to show veganism as a positive choice that gives you back so much more than you give up. Compassion Is Invincible!

 fashion  home goods

Hidden Opulence

https://www.hiddenopulence.com

Hidden Opulence Design House was an idea in the making for Drea Johnson since 2014. Born from the raw passion of sewing through various apparel production gigs it was realized that many designers do need assistance, even if it's temporary. Coupled with the unfortunate truth that the fashion industry is one of the most non eco-friendly industries out there, was planted a seed help drive change. If there was a community more open to change the makeup of how garments are produced and why, for the sake of our planet, it was Portland.

In 2017, Drea was approached for in-house services by Artifact Creative Recycle . Thus was born our first location where the local community could easily access a comfortable, fun and inspirational alterations environment. The community (and you!) is also where the conversations about garment sustainability need to be. Three years later, we are building our team, in our own independent workspace and continuing to educate our clients about how to make their closets more eco-friendly, as well as, produce garments for local designers who strive to be sustainable.

Hidden Opulence Design House

www.hiddenopulence.com

Hidden Opulence is a Design House that’s focused in Apparel sustainability and upcycling. We enjoy serving both existing apparel brands and the general public. We feel pride especially serving those who identify as Queer, Non-Binary and/or BIPOC. It’s all about meeting you where you are at in your slow fashion and sustainable journey!

We are your one stop shop when it comes to refreshing or perfecting those cherished items in your wardrobe or from your home. Basic tailoring, mending and altering are a part of our core. Projects that have anything to do with heirloom refurbishing, repairing and re-configuring (garment or textile) touch our hearts. Unfortunately at this time, we do not provide pattern rendering or clothing concept development.

 fashion  sustainability  tailoring

Inside Fashion Design

www.insidefashiondesign.com

Inside Fashion Design shares behind the scenes look into the Apparel Industry. Created to support, inspire, educate, inform, connect and engage community.

 fashion  talks

Kat + Maouche

katandmaouche.com

Katen Bush is the co-owner of Kat + Maouche, a gallery specializing in vintage Moroccan rugs. She and her husband, Latif, focus on research and provenance.

 Morocco  rugs  textile traditions  vintage textiles

Kate Blairstone

kateblairstone.com

Kate creates from her home studio in Portland, Oregon, where her family, kitchen and garden are always within reach.

She believes we are deserving of color and pattern in our lives and that they can be harnessed to tell our stories, create connection, and inspire joy in our homes, communities and around the world.

 interior design  surface design  visual art

Laundry Studio

www.laundrystudio.com

Founded in 2000, Laundry is a multi-faceted design studio in Portland, Oregon specializing in print and pattern design, illustration, graphic design and creative workshops focusing on all of the above.

 textile design  workshops

Lords Luggage

https://lordsluggage.com/

Bags for outings on wheels or afoot. Featuring waxed canvas, upholstery vinyl, industrial tarp and marine cover fabrics. SE Portland, OR.

Love Fest Fibers

lovefestfibers.com

Based in San Francisco, we offer small-batch, sustainably sourced yarn + fiber goods. We design our collections to spark creativity in makers (that’s you!) while creating meaningful opportunities to support and elevate fiber-producing communities. Our incredibly skilled partner artisans practice their craft in small, family-run workshops in Nepal, Tibet and America's West Coast.

 natural fibers  sustainability  yarn

Made on 23rd

www.madeon23rd.com

Made On 23rd is a modern design workshop specializing in hand-crafted textiles. Our products are block printed by traditional processes by skilled artists.

 block print  interior design  workshops

MADRE

www.madrelinen.com

MADRE is Shay Carrillo and Jeanie Kirk, two women deeply stirred by mothering, both beauty + breakdown, homemaking, and food. We all eat, and we all rest, therefore MADRE strives to offer linens that support food, rest, and our community. Linen napkins are the foundation of MADRE, and we are proud also offer tabletop and kitchen goods, bedding, and other select home essentials. Shay and Jeanie dreamt up the idea for MADRE from a simple premise: to create linen home essentials that are as close to 100% domestic as possible. We are honored to be a part of welcoming flax back to Oregon! MADRE is a feminist brand committed to embodying our aspirations for a feminine economy. We believe we are mutually indebted to each other and to our one true madre: MAMA EARTH. Therefore, we commit to you, to ourselves, and to the plants, lands, and waters, to embrace the obligation of our core values: integrity, honesty, transparency, collaboration, and radical inclusivity.

 home goods  linen

MAOTA

www.maotajp.com

With continuous support from local craftsmen MAOTA commits to a maintained visible production. We are based only a short distance to our weaving mills, yarn factories, dyeing mills and production factories in Japan, making possible frequent visits and keeping the production local and close to home. We use high quality yarns which are the base to unique textures, shapes and colors. Yarn is the beginning.

 fashion

Mujer Woo

www.mujerwoo.com

Youkyung Kaycee Woo was born in South Korea, achieved a BFA diploma at Parsons School of Design as a fashion design student in New York. Also, Kaycee studied textile design at Central Saints Martin in London UK for almost one year. She has been working as a textile and fashion designer since she graduated in 2019. Besides, she opened her textile workshop in New York City. Currently, she is working on tufting art installations for exhibitions and several art projects in New York and South Korea. Also, she opens workshops for art and textile students who want to learn tufting techniques. MUJER WOO, Youkyung's fashion and home interior design brand, embraces time-honored techniques with her bold but feminine textile design and a modern sensibility to create unique and feminine pieces for all different ages of women. Indeed, MUJER WOO's priority is producing sustainable living products and tufting artwork. All the tufting works are hand-made and made with 100% New Zealand Tex wool. Also, the brand has sustainable and unique shapes of soap for a zero-waste living. The designer wants customers to be intelligent, confident, and love themselves through the contemporary feminine garment and sustainable products, consider the environment, and love other people.

 fashion  interior design  sustainability  tufting  wool

Nest Showroom

www.nestportland.com

Founded by international interior designer Michael Reper in 2009, the Nest Showroom reflects what he, as a designer with thirty-five year’s experience in all aspects of the business, and an in-depth knowledge of design, wanted his ideal showroom to be; a complete and exceptional resource for Northwest designers with staff who understand his obsession for quality.

 interior design  textile design

Origin Story

https://originstory.shop

ORIGIN STORY is a retail experience paying homage to the journey behind those intentional pieces that shape our lives. From the thread, to the hands, to the seed ... this is how these stories begin. What's in store? Expect Modern Myth's perfectly curated imported Moroccan textiles, Soluna Collective's absolutely gorgeous eco-conscious clothing, plus lush, happy houseplants, handmade planters and locally made ceramics from Wildehaus. Together we will share the cultivated layers and unique beginnings of everything Origin Story offers, including a carefully selected group of guest vendors as well. Come explore, shop and celebrate this multifaceted experience with us in 2023 and beyond.

Over & Over Style

www.overandoverstyle.com

Over & Over Style is the project of Barbara & Vivian, veterans of the Seattle apparel industry, with shared passions for textile artistry, history & travel, and the transformative power of clothing.  In search of our next act, we came across a treasure trove of vintage kimonos (way too beautiful to be hidden away in moth balls) and decided to give them new life. The result, after hours upon countless hours of designing, deconstructing, washing, steaming, cutting & sewing, is a collection of unique home decor and one-of-a-kind garments in a dazzling array of patterns and colors.

 fashion  tailoring  textile design  textile history

Parker Simonne Designs. Inc.

www.parkersimonnedesigns.com

parker + simonne designs is a woman-owned small batch clothing line modernized kimonos, tops and tunics, inspired by my dreams.

 fashion  sewing  textile traditions

Pattern People

patternpeople.com

Pattern People is an industry leading print studio which offers seasonal trend guides, custom pattern design services, stock prints for immediate use, design tools, and educational ebooks for designers of all levels.

 fashion  textile design

PenFelt Studio

www.penfelt.com

PenFelt Studio provides delightful, original projects and high-quality materials for felters who appreciate consciously-sourced materials, good design and a sense of fun.

Founded in 2004 by artist and felting instructor LeBrie Rich. Known to some as Duchess of Felt, LeBrie is best known for her highly realistic sculptures of food packaging rendered in felt. LeBrie has taught workshops at colleges, art studios, and fiber festivals all over the world—from a small village in the mountains of Japan to New York City. In addition to custom work for private clients, LeBrie has worked with Bent Image Lab, Nike, and a sustainable diaper manufacturer who needed a presentation box made out of felt for Kate Middleton (the Duchess of Cambridge). She lives and works in Portland, Oregon.

 felting  wool  workshops

PLACE

place.la

PLACE is a design studio engaging landscape architecture, art, and urban design to make the world a better place. As a partner of 1% for PLANET, our impact is reflected in prestigious accolades including the 2021 ASLA Landmark Award and the inaugural Architecture MasterPrize Landscape & Urban Design Firm of the Year.

 landscape design  sustainability  urban design

Portland Apparel Lab

portlandapparellab.com

PAL is a member-based makerspace for sewn-goods. PAL is a design support team here to get you production-ready. PAL is a collaborative knowledge-sharing community that takes your skills to the next level.

 classes  fashion  manufacturing

Portland Garment Factory (PGF)

www.portlandgarmentfactory.com

Portland Garment Factory is a full-service design and fabrication studio with expertise in soft-goods design + manufacturing, creative direction, and art fabrication + retail display + experiential marketing design. Led by PGF founder Britt Howard, the zero-waste studio has been upending the factory model for more than 10 years, as a leader in soft-goods innovation, design, and fabrication.

 fashion  manufacturing

Reclaimed Wool

www.reclaimedwool.com

Heidi Leugers created her brand and studio, Reclaimed Wool in 1998 with one guiding principle: to turn her artistic practice into a business only if she could "reclaim" all the waste she (also) had created in the process of making adorable or functional items - whether for exhibition or for sale. Her studio has been zero waste for over two decades. The 8K - 12K hotpads, coasters, holiday ornaments and pincushions she makes, are limited to what she can produce with her own hands and can be found at museum stores, craft galleries, and specialty retailers. In 2007, her zero waste practice received critical, scholarly attention in the college teaching text, "Cycle-Logical Art", by Linda Weintraub. Heidi firmly believes that "zero-waste" is a practice, not a purchase.

 sustainability  textile reuse  wool

Renewal Workshop

renewalworkshop.com

The Renewal System takes discarded apparel and textiles and turns them into Renewed Apparel, upcycled materials or recycling feedstock. Data is collected on everything that flows through the system and is given back to our brand partners to help them improve the production and design of future products. It is a zero waste system that recovers the full value out of what has already been created as a way of serving customers, partners and planet.

 circular fashion  textile reuse

Revive Upholstery

www.revivepdx.com

Revive Designs and Upholstery was established in Portland, Oregon in 2011. Specializing in heirloom furniture, including vintage re-upholstery, mid-century antique commercial design, bespoke product.

 interior design  sustainability  textile design  textile reuse  upholstery

Shogun's Gallery

www.shogunsgallery.com

Joshua Peterson took over as Shogun's owner and operator in 2019. He and founders Jim and Kimiko King met through common friends and discovered a shared passion for Japanese history, culture, and aesthetics. Joshua grew up in Northwest Portland, window shopping at Shogun's retail location as he walked home from school. Joshua's interest in Japanese culture started with Aikido as a child. He studied Japanese language at Lincoln High School, then spent his senior year at Shibuya Makuhari High School in the Chiba Prefecture east of Tokyo, where he joined the Tea Ceremony club. He spent his first college year at Miyazaki University, augmenting his studies with the study of Tea and Kyudo archery and traveled extensively in Japan. After finishing his degree in wildlife biology, he spent ten years working in the field, specifically on Pacific Northwest bat populations and other animal and plant ecologies, before shifting careers. Joshua helped to establish one of the original e-commerce web platforms for Powell’s Books and spent 25 years in e-commerce for Powell’s and Goodwill Industries. Excited to use his Japanese language skills and re-immerse himself in Japanese culture, Joshua began to help Jim and Kimiko with the Gallery, which had since established itself as a Portland Institution known for its high-quality and impeccably pedigreed collections. It quickly became apparent to Joshua and the Kings that he was uniquely qualified to take over the reins so the Kings could refocus their attention to other passions. It's been a dream come true for Joshua, and he is looking forward to growing the galleries’ collections and connections.

 antiques  japan  vintage

Sincere Studio

https://www.sincerestudiopdx.org/our-mission

Sincere Studio is Portland’s only non-profit community sewing studio whose mission is to provide sewing education with a focus on sewing as a tool of social change and empowerment. Opened in January 2023, Sincere Studio provides low cost and free classes, community affinity clubs, events, and more. Our newest projects include a sewing machine library and a series of classes on reworking used textiles. We hope to inspire and aid the empowerment of those around us through textiles and sewing.

Soluna Collective

https://www.solunacollective.com

Soluna Collective partners with global artisans to create woven textiles. In India, we work with Five P Venture to produce waffle fabric using hand looms. In Peru, we collaborate with teams specializing in Pima cotton and Alpaca wool. In Guatemala, The New Denim Project upcycles denim scraps to create sustainable fabric. Our love for textiles drives our collaborations, celebrating the endless possibilities of woven styles.

Speck's Records & Tapes

https://www.specksrecords.com/

Speck’s Records & Tapes is a family-run record shop, located in the Kenton neighborhood of Portland, Oregon.

Sustainable Fashion Forum

www.thesustainablefashionforum.com

Founded on the principals of discovery and education, the Sustainable Fashion Forum is a highly-curated, community-driven sustainable fashion conference held annually in Portland, Oregon. The SFF looks to the future by fostering honest, thought-provoking and in-depth conversations about the social and environmental effects fashion has on our world and what we can do individually and collectively to improve it.

 fashion  sustainability  talks

Textile Hive

www.textilehive.com

Textile Hive, based in Portland OR, is home to the 40,000 textiles of the Andrea Aranow Textile Design Collection. The collection is the largest fully digitized independent textile collection in the world. Through its membership program the visual database offers access to educational institutions, design professionals and textile enthusiasts. Textile Hive’s mission is to preserve and enable greater access to the rich history, intricate techniques, and stunning visual beauty of the textile collection through immersive physical and digital experiences.

 archive  textile design  textile traditions  tours  vintage textiles

Trendependent

www.trendependent.com

Vicki Ostrom (she/her), is a futurist and trend editor for trendependent.com, a lifestyle trend analysis and consulting company, and for SanMar, a leader in the promotional products industry. With nearly 25 years in design and forecasting, Vicki has honed these skills and shares how trends connect to products. She provides researched, clearly presented materials that help corporations understand what is happening today and forecast what is likely to happen tomorrow. This guidance informs decision-making to deliver a future-proof brand.

 sustainability

Weaver House

www.weaverhouseco.com

Weaver House is a yarn shop, textile studio and weaving school located in Philadelphia. We weave heirloom textiles in honor of craft tradition, to regain tactility and a hand-making consciousness within the home and in relation to the body. Our woven practice is forever recorded in cloth, forming a tangible language between maker and loom. We teach mindfulness and mediation throughout all of workshops, and believe that weaving can be therapeutic and healing.

 weaving  yarn

Wildehaus

https://www.wildehauspdx.com

Wildehaus is a Biophilic interior design collective located in Portland, OR bringing the WILD inside your home, office, or creative space since 2017.

Woonwinkel

www.woonwinkelhome.com

Woonwinkel is a Portland, Oregon-based home and gift shop where everyday goods shine bright. Our passion for color makes your visit more than just a shopping trip--it uplifts and inspires.
Yup, we have a thing for color. Don't get us wrong--we love all our colors equally--so gorgeous neutrals do have a place in our shop. But what we really love is luxuriating in the perfect blush bedding, or feeling jazzed by an eye-popping yellow ceramic vessel. Twenty-five years in the color design industry have taught us that color is powerful. It can transform a mood and a home so we choose it with care. We carry home goods and gifts from all over the world, much of it created by individuals and itty bitty companies. We like doing business with the little guys because it means we get to work with real people--people who are brave enough to take an idea and make it happen without a giant safety net. People who go the extra mile to make sure their product is well crafted. People who know that having fewer things that are better made is a way to live in harmony with the earth. By the way, woonwinkel means “living shop” in Dutch.

 home goods

Wrenbird Arts

https://wrenbirdarts.com

Hi there! Thanks for stopping by wrenbirdarts! I'm Erin Eggenburg, sometimes called "wrenbird", hence the name of my business. I have always been "crafty" and in 2011, I dabbled my way over to hand embroidery, and fell deeply in love with it. I decided to add a few hankies to what was then my fabric wallet shop on Etsy, and the wallets soon became a thing of the past. For the next few years, I would go on to hand embroider more than 15,000 hankies! Then in 2018, while working at a local creative reuse non-profit, I found a way to blend embroidery and upcycling/reuse, called visible mending. I was able to salvage my favorite pair of jeans with a few patches and some embroidery. As I shared my projects locally and on social media, there was an enormous positive response. I began teaching mending workshops and created my own mending and embroidery patterns. When COVID hit, I took my workshops online, and started Mending Club for fellow stitchers looking to connect during a very stressful and scary time. Mending Club has taken a different form, but still meets online once a month, and continues to grow in membership today. Wrenbirdarts, like many handmade businesses started out on Etsy, and though wrenbirdarts.com has so many more resources, I continue to maintain a shop on Etsy for mending and embroidery patterns and my book. If you'd like to read the reviews from my customers, please click here. Every month, I donate to various local and national non-profits in support of social justice, civil and human rights. I am an ardent supporter of reproductive rights, BIPOC and LGBTQI rights for equality. My book, The Mending Directory, was released in November of 2021. It's a book of 52 mending patterns that includes detailed instructions, and some mending transfer designs too! Order a copy here or from your local bookstore! I've lived in lots of different places in the United States over the years. About 10 years ago, I moved to the Pacific Northwest, and it felt like home.  I currently live in Portland, Oregon with my adorable cats, and sweet partner. When I'm not teaching workshops, or working on a mending project, you'll find me attending local events, gardening, thrift shopping or playing pinball.

 embroidery  sewing

 Farms

Ewethful Fiber Farm & Mill

www.ewethfulfiberfarm.com

At Ewethful Fiber Farm we create custom made fiber products for flock owners and fiber enthusiasts. In addition we also create our own line of products using locally sourced fiber. We specialize in processing fine animal fibers to our customer’s specifications. Using MiniMills Equipment we are able to process sheep, alpaca, llama, angora rabbit, dog hair, bison and goat in addition to several other fiber animals. We receive raw (unwashed) fleeces from our clients, wash them, dry them and then process the fiber into batts for felting or roving for hand spinning. We are able to custom blend fibers and have a wide selection of blending materials to choose from to create our customers perfect product. In addition we are able to dehair, to separate out course fibers from fine finer and remove vegetable matter from fine fiber fleeces.

 farm  spinning  wool  yarn

Imperial Stock Ranch

imperialstockranch.com

It’s not common to find a privately held ranch whose headquarters is a National Historic District. It’s even less common to find one located in Oregon that sustainably produces a wide variety of all-natural products. In fact, the Imperial Stock Ranch is the only one. Our rich history of more than 145 years is deeply rooted in visionary thinking and the implementation of practices that are anything but ordinary. We are proud to offer you something different. Something special and unique. Something extraordinary.

 farm  wool  yarn

Vibrant Valley Farm

www.vibrantvalleyfarm.com

We are a group of dedicated farmers and passionate educators committed to exploring innovative solutions to enliven the current food system, both locally and globally. We work to honor ancient traditions in growing food and connecting to the land as well as to helping to create healthier communities. We are partnering with local schools and youth projects to create mentorship programs as well as green job training possibilities to accompany the hard work and dedication of growing food and learning from one another in a field setting.

 farm  indigo  linen  workshops

 Galleries

1122 Gallery

1122gallery.com

From 2018-2020, 1122 was in a backyard garage in the Montavilla neighborhood of Southeast Portland. As of May 2021, 1122 is an outdoor space in the Tabor neighborhood. 1122 is a community art gallery located in Portland, Oregon. It offers workshops, hosts events, and is open to collaborations of all kinds. It is inclusive, immersive, and aims to support people in the creative process. 1122 is a platform for all voices and stories and is committed to helping people generate art. We believe in responding to the world through creative acts, and support the community of makers, thinkers, dreamers, and imaginationists that make this happen. Jen Denrow and Lauren Wallig, creative humans and cousins, have been dreaming about creating a space like this for years.

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after / time collective

https://www.aftertimecollective.com/

after / time is an artist-run gallery and experimental curatorial platform based in Portland, Oregon.

To come after is to acknowledge what has come before: histories, practices, actions, positionalities and to move with the knowledge and capacity to care for the past, build the present, and nurture the future. Understanding that just as time is not fixed and thus forms a time-complex that we move through, so are our actions and thoughts in a constant state of flux: reacting with and against the perimeters we exist within while also projecting into new registers of possibility. After declares the need for balance: that at times our work, while important, needs to come after our needs as people and as artists; we strive not to drain and exhaust, but to build, to inspire, and recharge.

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Blackfish Gallery

www.blackfish.com

Combining a mentor-based approach with an exceptional visiting artists program, students work one-on-one with nationally and internationally recognized designers, makers, and scholars in a self-directed curriculum that challenges them to bring to life the full strength of their ideas and skills.

 gallery  textile art

Carnation Contemporary

https://carnationcontemporary.com/

Carnation Contemporary was founded in 2018 by a collective of Portland-based artists who champion critical and contemporary artwork. Carnation supports emerging and mid-career artists from the Pacific Northwest, and is committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse community of member artists (including but not limited to diversity in race, ethnicity, language, religion, gender, sexual orientation, physical ability, and age).

Elizabeth Leach Gallery

www.elizabethleach.com

Established in 1981, the Elizabeth Leach Gallery presents prominent Northwest and internationally established artists working in a wide variety of contemporary media. The gallery's mission is to create a dynamic dialogue between the local community and the global art world.

 gallery  textile art

Fuller Rosen Gallery

fullerrosen.com

Fuller Rosen Gallery was founded in 2018 by artists EM Fuller (she/her) and BriAnna Rosen (she/her) as a collaborative curatorial project. The gallery exhibits regional, national, and international emerging artists who address urgent, contemporary issues.

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Gagallery

https://www.instagram.com/gagallery.pdx/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D

GAGALLERY is a vibrant art gallery and community space in Portland, Oregon. We offer a variety of events and exhibitions, andare open for special events. evening receptions, First Friday Art Walks, and by private appointment. Our mission is to promote the work of visual and performance based artists and to create a welcoming space for the community to come together and experience art.

Gallery Go Go

www.gallerygogo.com

Art, Boutique, Experiments & Workshops for the Community

 community  gallery  textile art

Helen's Costume

costumeintl.com

Helen's Costume is a contemporary art gallery in a modified domestic setting, in the Montavilla neighborhood of Portland OR.

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HOLDING Contemporary

www.holdingcontemporary.com

HOLDING Contemporary presents exhibitions and programs by emerging and established visual artists across disciplines. Through a deliberate curatorial vision and a strategic business model, we position ourselves towards challenging the economical and social privilege of the art world.

 gallery  textile art

Home Gallery

https://www.instagram.com/homeatcommunitywarehouse/

Home is a gallery and creative space featuring local artists, pop-ups, and collaborations with mission-aligned organizations in the Estate Store at Community Warehouse. We believe in the power of the arts to connect to community. 

Lumber Room

lumberroom.com

The lumber room is a space for contemporary art in Portland, Oregon. Founded in 2010, it is dedicated to an ever evolving approach to the exhibition and discussion of emerging as well as established artists and their work.

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MK Gallery

https://mkgallery.org/

The Art Building at Portland State University is home to the MK Galleries.

MK Gallery brings world-class exhibitions and events together with pioneering learning and community programmes to Milton Keynes.

An independent café and shop, cinema from Curzon, and spectacular views over the park feature in this new building, which launched in 2019. Three major exhibitions are presented each year across five elegant and spacious galleries, from thematic group exhibitions to in-depth solo presentations. Alongside our exhibitions, we offer music, dance, talks and conferences, mixing emerging and locally based talent with established names. We also deliver a weekly film programme featuring the best of independent cinema in partnership with Curzon. We offer schools and family activities throughout the year and our artist-designed play area is open 365 days a year.
MK Gallery works with partners locally, nationally and internationally to bring the best cultural activities into the region. The Gallery is part of the Arts Council’s National Portfolio and a member of the Plus Tate network.

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Nationale

www.nationale.us

Nationale is an art space established in 2008 by Owner/Director, May Barruel. Nationale is dedicated to the promotion of culture through exhibitions, performances, and a selection of carefully chosen goods.

 gallery  textile art

Nine Gallery

https://www.blueskygallery.org/nine-gallery

Nine Gallery was founded in 1987 by nine artists interested in working periodically outside the context of the commercial gallery. It is an artist-run cooperative and is administratively and financially independent from Blue Sky, funded solely by its members. Each member of Nine Gallery is in charge of the gallery for one month each year. Usually members show their own work, however, they are also welcome to curate shows of other artists’ work. Periodically the members of Nine Gallery, present work together in group exhibitions, and at other times they collectively invite other artists to show. Beyond the general interest in creating a largely non-commercial exhibition environment with a minimum of bureaucratic and institutional structure, the members of Nine Gallery have no collective ideological program or philosophy.

 cooperative  gallery

Parallax Art Center

http://www.parallaxartcenter.org/

Parallax Art Center is located in the Pearl district of downtown Portland, Oregon. We are a non-profit art organization focused on ecology, social justice, and contemporary issues. Our art center is free and open to the public.

PDX CONTEMPORARY ART

pdxcontemporaryart.com

Opened in 1996, PDX CONTEMPORARY ART continues to be one of the Pearl District’s most forward-thinking commercial galleries. Representing artists both local and international, owner Jane Beebe strives to mix conceptual work with more personal offerings that are “both intellectually and visually satisfying.” The elegant space, designed by Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture, boasts monthly exhibitions of represented artists as well as the PDX Window Project, a more experimental space viewable from the street.

Potted in Portland

https://www.pottedinportland.com/about

Sara Childers and Carie Nedley grew up in the Portland area in a home full of plants and gardening.

During weekly sisters nights, Carie and Sara dreamed up Potted In Portland as a way to help everyone have houseplants that thrive. Selling succulent arrangements at their location gift shop grew into helping people around the city design plantscapes and care for their plants.

In 2020, they opened their neighborhood plant shop on a vibrant block of SE Clinton full of local businesses. In 2022, Sara and Carie opened their satellite location inside the Schoolhouse Electric showroom, bringing plants and pottery to thoughtful designs. Now, the Potted in Portland dream continues. Their two shops are full of interior houseplants, gifts and pottery, and their staff of plant care specialists help them care for 50+ businesses and growing around the Portland Metro area.

SATOR Projects

https://www.satorprojects.com

SATOR projects is a migrating exhibition series directed by Jess Nickel. The name is inspired by the sator/rotas square. While the meaning of this symbol has been interpreted in various ways, this project was inspired by the Latin meaning behind SATOR - sower, planter, and its reverse ROTAS - rotating, turning wheels. It is the mission of SATOR projects to seed arts into fallow spaces in the community through exhibitions, public programs and events.

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SEQUOIA GALLERY + STUDIOS

https://sequoiagallerystudios.org/

SEQUOIA GALLERY + STUDIOS creates an art-centric ambiance that puts art appreciation and artists’ stories at the forefront. Our various programs, events, and exhibitions offer safe and accessible opportunities for artists to showcase their work, learn, and grow. We enrich the community through innovative outreach and in-house programs, extending our impact beyond the gallery walls.

Truckenbrod Gallery

@truckenbrodgallery

Contemporary art gallery curated by @joantruckenbrod Open Fri & Sat: 12p - 4p

Well Well Projects

https://www.wellwellprojects.com/

Well Well Projects is a contemporary artist-collective gallery in Portland, Oregon established in January 2021. In total, we are 14 member artists from the greater Portland region.

Well Well opened its doors with the intent of giving artists gallery representation and enriching their home base in the Oregon Center for Contemporary Art. We aim for this project to serve as a launchpad for artists while open calls and other opportunities seek to reach a wider audience that expands outside the Pacific Northwest region.

An inclusive culture of respect that honors the rights, safety, dignity, and worth of every individual is essential to the success of our gallery. We are committed to creating a space that is free of racism, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, misogyny, classism, and other bias.

We host opening receptions for new exhibitions on the first Saturday of each month.

Our open gallery hours are Saturday & Sunday 12 - 5 pm.

hello@wellwellprojects.com

 Organizations

Babaran Segaragunung Culture House

babaransegaragunung.org

Babaran Segaragunung Culture House (BSG) is a non-profit arts organization located in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The mission of BSG is to explore cultural traditions of Indonesia and the world in order to gain a greater understanding of the application of the rich cultural heritage of indigenous cultures in this era. BSG facilitates educational programs teaching the ancient creative process of Nusantara, collaboration and cultural exchange, publications, exhibitions, cultural tours, workshops, as well as documentation of creative process. Serving artists, artisans, cultural lovers, both locally and abroad, BSG intends to increase the creativity and interconnections of all aspects of Indonesian art.

 community  textile design  textile history  textile printing  textile traditions

BASIC NEEDS food shelter clothing

foodshelterclothing.squarespace.com

BASIC NEEDS is about making things whose beauty is intertwined with their utility and sustainability. Sometimes it takes the form of a small collection of unique pieces, like hand felted sheepskins or botanically-dyed textiles, other times it may be a garden, designed and cared for over many years.

 felting  sculpture  sustainability  wool

Columbia FiberArts Guild

www.columbiafiberartsguild.org

Columbia FiberArts Guild is a vibrant group of textile artists celebrating their 50th anniversary this year. Our guild provides a network and forum encompassing ALL aspects of fiber art, including art quilting, surface design, sculptural, and wearable art. Fiber artists of all abilities are welcome. Established in 1969 as the Columbia Stitchery Guild, the Columbia FiberArts Guild serves the greater Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington areas.

 guild  textile art

Conservation through Poverty Alleviation (www.cpali.org) and SEPALI Madagascar

www.cpali.org

At CPALI, we work with rural farmers to develop sustainable livelihoods that support both people and ecosystems. In our approach, we focus on existing resources, local leadership, community ownership and linking partners to global markets.

 natural dyes  textile art

Eastside Jewish Commons

https://ejcpdx.org/

For decades, eastside community members have dreamed of creating opportunities to engage in Jewish life closer to where they live, work, and play. Now, this dream has come to life! After a four-year process involving community engagement and organizing, we proudly opened our doors in July 2021 at NE 24th and Sandy.

The Eastside Jewish Commons (EJC)’s mission is to create and sustain a joyful, inclusive, and inspiring community space on Portland’s eastside where people can connect, learn, and grow.

Our values are:

  • Inspiring: We inspire the opening of  hearts and minds, ignite curiosity and embrace innovation,

  • Inclusive: We are welcoming, accessible, and inclusive to all interested in Jewish life.

  • Joyful: We uplift each other by coming together in a place where we all feel seen and heard and can celebrate and honor what unites us.

Our vision includes:

  • Regular programs for children, teens, and adults offered by 24 Jewish community partners as well as individuals and other organizations.

  • Services on Shabbat and holidays, offered by multiple congregations.

  • Counseling, massage, yoga, and other wellness services.

  • A social action hub.

  • A cultural hub for films, concerts, lectures, and more.

  • A learning center for all ages.

  • A program site for children and teens when schools are out.

  • Elder programs for social connection and links to essential services.

  • A social hub across the spectrum of Jewish life.

Esprit Heritage Archive

www.espritflashback.org

Los Angeles-based designer Michelle Koza accidentally accumulated the largest 80s ESPRIT archive. The archive includes everything from ESPRIT corporate collateral, garments, accessories, product catalogs, packaging, 35mm slides, photographs, audio, video, and various publications. ESPRIT Flashback was first established on Instagram in 2017, her passion project developed into a source of inspiration for brand enthusiasts and various creatives from around the world. The mission of the archive has evolved from collecting & preserving to research & discovery – unearthing the soul of the archive.

 archive  fashion

Fibrevolution

www.fibre-evolution.com

Fibrevolution is revitalizing linen production in the Pacific Northwest. Co-founders Angela Wartes-Kahl and Shannon Welsh

 linen  natural fibers

Five Oaks Museum

fiveoaksmuseum.org

Five Oaks Museum is a gathering place of vibrant art, culture, history and storytelling — a resource for all who are curious about the world around us. It’s a place for everything from learning and self-reflection to the sheer joy of making art or enjoying cultural traditions together. Since our founding in 1956 as the Washington County Historical Society, we’ve worked to preserve the artifacts and narratives that define the Tualatin Valley’s unique place in the world. By collaborating with others to explore how art, culture and history shape the past and influence the future, we help visitors connect to a collective local history made up of community voices and the important stories they tell. Here, everyone is part of the story.

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Gather:Make:Shelter

www.gathermakeshelter.org

Gather:Make:Shelter is a new collaborative model of engagement, connecting people experiencing houselessness and poverty (PEHP) with collaborators in creative professional fields. The project builds relationships and ongoing partnerships with PEHP, fostering opportunities through teaching and leadership skill-building. Gather:Make:Shelter was founded in 2017 in Portland, Oregon to create consistent, authentic connections between people which recognize our shared humanity.

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GLEAN

www.gleanportland.com

The GLEAN Program invites artists to push the boundaries of material exploration. With a stipend to support their practice and seemingly endless materials to work with, artists are challenged to expand their existing studio practice by making work from the materials gleaned from the Metro Central Transfer Station (aka, “the dump”). One of the goals of this program is to introduce established and emerging artists to the wealth of materials available to them through the GLEAN. With the ultimate goal to reduce waste and raise awareness with this program, no prior experience with discarded materials is required. All artists in the Portland area are encouraged to apply.

 residency  sustainability  textile reuse

Green Anchors PDX

www.greenanchorspdx.com

Green Anchors is a center for community engagement through the arts, business, and ecology. Situated on a historical shipbuilding site along the Willamette River, our 7-acre property is a model for brownfield remediation through ecological restoration. We are a local business incubator, collaborative arts center, educational forum, and site for eco-innovation.

 community  sustainability

Hillsboro Brookwood Library

https://www.hillsboro-oregon.gov/our-city/departments/library

Welcoming and inclusive, the Hillsboro Public Library is a world-class system where our entire community gathers, connects, and explores. The second floor of Brookwood Library is home to the largest non-professional art gallery in Washington County – over 129 feet of wall space! Shute Park Library’s smaller gallery space often showcases artwork from students and emerging artists. It is part of the Hillsboro Cultural Arts District. Both gallery spaces:

  • offer an inclusive, all-ages art experience.
  • create community and discussion around diverse art and culture.
  • create a space where artists and patrons connect.
Hillsboro Public Library is honored to house many beautiful works of art in the Hillsboro Public Art Collection. Public art at Shute Park Library includes the mural, Bird Child Travels Through History, by artist Angelina Marino-Heidel, and Shute Seeds, a sculpture by artist Blessing Hancock. Public art at Brookwood Library includes the murals Learn to Dream and Read to Grow by Addie Boswell.

JCC Denver

www.jccdenver.org

The JCC Denver is a non-profit organization whose mission is to serve, strengthen, and inspire community guided by timeless Jewish values.

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Ko Falen Cultural Center

www.kofalen.org

Ko-Falen Cultural Center, located in Bamako, Mali and Portland, Oregon is the inspiration of Baba Wagué Diakité, a Malian artist and writer now living in Portland. It has been his dream to share the culture of his homeland with the people of his adopted home. In Bambara, the word ko-falen means “gift exchange.” Ko-Falen Cultural Center seeks to promote cultural, artistic and educational exchanges between the people of the United States and Mali through art and educational programs. We believe that a greater understanding and respect between people can be reached through these personal exchanges.

 classes  community  education  textile traditions

Maryhill Museum of Art

www.maryhillmuseum.org

Maryhill Museum of Art ignites a journey of educational enrichment in the Columbia River Gorge by preserving and interpreting art and historic collections.

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Multnomah Arts Center

www.multnomahartscenter.org

The Multnomah Arts Center (MAC) provides excellent arts education in the visual and performing arts at an affordable cost to students of all ages. We offer programs in music, movement, dance, theater, woodshop, literary arts, conditioning, metal arts, mixed media, printmaking, drawing, painting, photography, ceramics, sculpture, textiles, and more. Programs run year-round, and scholarships are available. Along with our vibrant arts education program, MAC hosts theatre, music & dance performances, gallery exhibitions, and other special events.

 classes  weaving

Museum of the African Diaspora

www.moadsf.org

MoAD, a contemporary art museum, celebrates Black cultures, ignites challenging conversations, and inspires learning through the global lens of the African Diaspora.

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Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival

www.oregonflockandfiberfestival.com

The Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival has grown significantly since its inception in 1997. The Festival includes three days of workshops and a weekend filled with demonstrations, livestock shows, seminars and kids’ activities.

 festival  spinning  wool

Oregon Historical Society

ohs.org

The Oregon Historical Society (OHS) is a private museum, archival library, and educational institution headquartered in downtown Portland. It was founded on December 17, 1898, with the purpose of forwarding the “collection, preservation, exhibition, and publication of material of a historical character, especially that relating to the history of Oregon and of the United States.”

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Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education

www.ojmche.org

The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is the largest museum dedicated to the documented and visual history of the Jews of Oregon, United States. The Museum is dedicated to the preservation, research, and exhibition of art, archival materials, and artifacts of the Jews and Judaism in Oregon.

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Pacific Northwest Feltmakers Group

carlilekovacs.wixsite.com/pnwfeltmakers

We are a group of professional fiber artists located in Oregon and Washington. We primarily work in feltmaking, but enjoy other media as well. We formed to share experiences, to further our understanding and knowledge of felt making, to support one another in our creative endeavors and to act as a resource for others to help them learn this craft we love so much.

 community  felt

Portland Handweavers Guild

www.portlandhandweaversguild.org

The guild has a long history, having started in 1945. If you’re interested in the people who handle all the guild’s activities you can see who serves on our board, and who leads various aspects of the guild. And if you’re interested in the guild’s organizational structure and underlying rules you can see our bylaws, and minutes from past board meetings too. Lastly, you can learn about some of our members and see examples of their work on our featured artist page.

 guild  textile art  weaving

Portland Textile Club

www.instagram.com/portlandtextileclub

Portland Textile Club is a social club that meets on occasion to talk all things textile, fabric, design, and printing practices. Established in 2014, Portland, OR.

 club  social  textile printing

Portland TextileX Month

www.textilex.org

The Portland TextileX Month Festival was founded and organized to foster cross-pollination among textile enthusiasts, artists, businesses, schools, and cultural organizations. We create programming and provide an open platform to share histories, knowledge, commerce, experiences, and practices, across cultures and generations. We seek to partner with facilitators and organizations, rooted in community building, sharing, accessibility, inclusivity, diversity, and collaboration. By creating and fostering textile programming that champions grassroots collaboration and dialogue, we create meaningful opportunities for change.

 festival  talks  textile art  workshops

ReClaim It!

www.reclaimitpdx.org

ReClaim It, is a place where the creative citizens of Portland can find unique materials to reuse, repair, and reimagine.

 sustainability  textile reuse

Rewild Portland

www.rewildportland.com

Rewild Portland is an environmental education focused non-profit organization serving Portland, Oregon and the surrounding wild and rural communities. Our mission is to create cultural and environmental resilience through the education of earth-based arts, traditions, and technologies. This mission comes to life in the form of educational workshops and programs, community-building events, and ecological restoration.

 community  sustainability  workshops

SCRAP PDX

portland.scrapcreativereuse.org

SCRAP PDX is a nonprofit creative reuse center specializing in reused materials for the arts, education programs, birthday parties, and more.

 classes  textile reuse

Stelo Arts and Culture Foundation

www.steloarts.org

Stelo illuminates the power of art to invite conversation and build community. We are dedicated to responsive models of support via partnerships, collaboration, and exchange.

 community  gallery  residency  textile art

SWANA Rose Culture and Community Center

https://www.instagram.com/swanarosepdx/

A space for the diaspora of Southwest Asia and North Africa in Portland, Oregon.

SWANA Stitch

https://www.instagram.com/swanastitchpdx/

Portland SWANA Stitch is a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic community event. We gather monthly to practice ancestral fiber arts and organize within the Southwest Asian and North African community. Our members practice traditional regional fiber arts like Palestinian Tatreez, mending, knitting, crocheting, Armenian Janyak, Marash, and quilting. We also organize classes and events, both for our members and the public. Portland SWANA Stitch is housed at SWANA Rose Culture and Community Center and organized by its members. Homelands Within is curated by Amirra Malak, Ali Leeds and Milla Prince

 embroidery  needle work

The Immigrant Story

theimmigrantstory.org

Founded in 2017 by Sankar Raman, who immigrated to the U.S. from India, The Immigrant Story (TIS) is a volunteer-run nonprofit with a mission to foster empathy and build a more inclusive community by sharing stories of immigrants and refugees who often overcame tremendous odds to reach the United States. Sankar, who has experienced violent, racially-motivated attacks, founded The Immigrant Story in response to a Kansas shooting in February 2017 that killed one Indian American man and injured two others.

The Soul Restoration Center

www.thesoulrestorationcenter.com

The Soul Restoration Center is housed within the location of the former Albina Arts Center, which was established in the 1960s after Black youth advocated for a safe gathering space where they could take free creative arts, dance and music classes, taught by Black professionals. The building became a significant Black community hub until the 1970s. Several organizations occupied the building over the decades. Yet, it had been completely closed for about 16 months before it was temporarily reactivated by a few Black artists in late 2021 through January 30. In February 2022, I Am MORE signed a 2-year lease and transformed the neglected space into a healing-centered, arts-focused Black respite that collaborates with heart-centered individuals, donors, organizations and other partners who value Black lives.

 community  social

The Surface Design Association

www.surfacedesign.org

The Surface Design Association is an international organization focused on inspiring creativity, encouraging innovation, and advocating for artistic excellence as the global leader in textile-inspired art and design. Our mission is to promote awareness and appreciation of textile-inspired art and design through publications, exhibitions, and conferences.

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The Tatreez Institute

https://www.tatreezandtea.com/

The Tatreez Institute (معهد التطريز), also known as Tatreez & Tea, is a Palestinian-led educational arts initiative focused on the preservation, documentation and research of textiles in the South West Asia & North Africa (SWANA) region. Embroidery, or tatreez (تطريز), is a centuries-old practice preserved through intergenerational exchange over a cup of tea, or shay (شاي). Inspired by generations of fiber artists, The Tatreez Institute continues the rich traditions of embroidery, textile and storytelling of Palestine, the Palestinian diaspora and Greater Syria from the United States.

In 2022, The Tatreez Institute was established to expand the scope of Wafa’s research into regional costumes beyond Palestine, produce more publications, as well as ensure that her documentation efforts can secure funding to continue. The Tatreez Institute was incorporated on her son’s fifth birthday, a meaningful symbol to Wafa that reminds her of the intergenerational impact of her work for Palestinians living in the diaspora.

The Tatreez Institute is founded in the belief that the study of embroidery and textiles in Palestine and Greater Syria cannot be divorced from its historical context. Anyone interested in joining the Tatreez & Tea community must stand unequivocally against the appropriation of arts and culture, for Palestinian liberation, and fight against the oppression of marginalized and oppressed communities equally. Individuals that are not able to meet this criteria must first build their activism and alliance, prior to joining the Tatreez & Tea community. The Tatreez Institute is not a service to the culturally curious— it is an active agent in fighting for Palestinian liberation. Therefore, The Tatreez Institute works to build an informed ally movement that stands against oppression, appropriation, and erasure — not just for Palestinians — but for all indigenous, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities facing the same.

The Vanport Mosaic

www.vanportmosaic.org

The Vanport Mosaic is a platform for memory activism. We amplify, honor, and preserve the silenced histories surrounding us to understand our present and envision a new chapter where we all belong.

 Schools

Assembly | Gather + Create

www.assemblycreate.com

Since 2016, Liz Wright has been bringing people together to learn new skills in a fun social environment, both in-person and online, with Assembly. From starting with occasional pop-up workshops at local venues in Portland, to running her own full-time classroom studio (Assembly PDX), and then shifting to the virtual space in 2020- it's been a rewarding and exciting journey so far. Not to say that running a business through a global pandemic has always been stress-free (yikes!), but the enduring universal human need for connection and creativity has kept Assembly successfully afloat and sailing onward.

 classes  felting  needle work

Damascus Fiber Arts School

damascusfiberartsschool.com

Audrey Moore has been teaching Navajo-style weaving for 50 years and is the owner of Damascus Fiber Arts School, formerly known as Damascus Pioneer Craft School. Terry Olson, once Audrey's student, has taught Tapestry-style weaving at Damascus for 20 years. Tammy Rosecrans is a current student, going on her second year with DFAS, who focuses primarily on Navajo-style weaving.

 spinning  weaving  workshops

Eiseman Center for Color Information and Training

www.LeatriceEiseman.com

Leatrice Eiseman is a color specialist who has been called “the international color guru.” Her color expertise is recognized internationally, especially as a prime consultant to Pantone, the leaders in color communication and specification. She has helped many companies to make the best and most educated choice of color for product development, brand imaging, interior/exterior design, fashion and cosmetics, or any other application where color choice is invaluable to the success of the product or environment. Lee is also involved in color and trend forecasting across multiple industries. She heads the Eiseman Center for Color Information and Training and is also executive director of the Pantone Color Institute. Lee has been widely quoted in many publications and recognized by Fortune Magazine and the Wall St. Journal as one of the most influential people in the world of color. She is the author of ten books on color. She is also a sought-after speaker for trade shows, schools, in-house business presentations, and webinars on color trends, the psychology of color and its usage as well as consumer color preferences and also offers classes on those subjects.

 color  workshops

Heritage School of Interior Design

heritageschoolofinteriordesign.com

Our interior design school, located in the heart of Portland, provides aspiring designers the opportunity to cultivate their natural design talents through hands-on learning programs in a supportive classroom environment. Our curriculum enables students to transform their passion into an extraordinary design portfolio. Students build confidence as they acquire the knowledge and skills required to succeed professionally in the industry.

 classes  interior design

One River School

https://lakeoswego.oneriverschool.com/

Founded in 2012 in Englewood, NJ, “one river” west of New York City, One River School has embarked on a mission to "transform art education"® in America. Today, our innovative program teaches thousands of students in fourteen locations across six states. The company has developed a unique method for teaching art and digital design classes to people of all ages. Very simply, One River's students have more fun, learn faster and produce more compelling creative outcomes. Our state-of-the-art facilities create an aspirational mindset that inspires our students to tap into their creative spirit. And, our proprietary / original lesson plans allow us to facilitate an educational experience that is differentiated from anyone else. One River also produces exhibitions from world class contemporary artists, which allows us to be the voice of contemporary art in our communities and to enhance our ability to "teach through the lens of living artists." Our team at One River is made up of passionate, mission-oriented art-centric professionals who are motivated to provide hospitality level service to our students. As we grow, One River is focused on becoming the "best place to work in the arts" and also providing business ownership opportunities in the arts via our franchise program.

Pacific Northwest College of Art Applied Craft + Design MFA Program

pnca.willamette.edu/academics/graduate/acd

Connecting design thinking to design doing, the MFA in Applied Craft + Design program is grounded in hands-on making, entrepreneurial strategies, and social and environmental engagement.

With a curriculum focused on the development of a strong artistic voice, the realization of work for a specific community or client, and entrepreneurism that connects making a living with making a difference, the MFA in Applied Craft and Design is the only graduate program of its kind.

Combining a mentor-based approach with an exceptional visiting artists program, students work one-on-one with nationally and internationally recognized designers, makers, and scholars in a self-directed curriculum that challenges them to bring to life the full strength of their ideas and skills.

Encouraging a cross-disciplinary studio environment in which the workshop is a lab to collaboratively explore design and making processes, the mentor-based MFA in Applied Craft and Design welcomes students from a wide range of creative backgrounds to make original work with an applied purpose.

 classes  craft  fashion  textile art  textile design

Portland Fashion Institute

www.portlandfashioninstitute.com

Portland Sewing started business in 2002 with a beginning sewing class for four students. The business grew to add classes in intermediate and advanced sewing. In 2010, Portland Sewing added classes on the business of apparel. In 2016, Oregon made it a licensed career school. Thus Portland Fashion Institute was created to offer three certificates and give people the skills to start businesses and get jobs at apparel companies. Yet PFI still offers classes to people who just to take one or two just for fun. We offer sewing classes for the beginner to the advanced stitcher wanting to learn something new, from sewing basics to patternmaking, draping, tailoring and couture. No matter the class, our job is to make sure you gain skills, create a project you like, build your confidence — and have a good time doing it!

 classes  fashion

Portland State University Textile Arts Program

www.psutextilearts.com

The Textile Arts program provides a critical investigation of clothing and textiles with a focus on craft, sustainability, and community engagement. Students learn techniques in weaving, surface design, and sewn construction towards fashion, costume, and contemporary art.

 community  fashion  sewing  sustainability  textile art  textile design  textile history  weaving

Social Justice Sewing Academy

www.sjsacademy.com

Founded in 2017, the Social Justice Sewing Academy (SJSA) is a non-profit organization that aims to empower individuals to utilize textile art for personal transformation, community cohesion, and to begin the journey toward becoming an agent of social change. Prior to COVID-19, youth workshops and programs were at the core of the organization.Through a series of hands-on workshops in schools, prisons, and community centers across the country, SJSA used social justice and art education to bridge artistic expression with activism.  Many of our young artists made art that explored issues such as gender discrimination, mass incarceration, gun violence, and gentrification. The powerful imagery that youth created in cloth demonstrated their critique of issues plaguing their local and larger communities. These quilt blocks are then sent to volunteers around the world to embellish and embroider before being sewn together into quilts to be displayed in museums, galleries, and quilt shows across the country.

While youth programming remains at the heart of SJSA, the civil rights movement of 2020 and the concurrent COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted SJSA’s programming. Due to no longer being able to provide in-person programming and limited virtual youth workshops, SJSA launched a series of new initiatives to critically respond to the times. With each project, SJSA bridges the differences between age, race,and socioeconomic status to facilitate conversations about and encourage action toward social justice issues in households across the country.

 community  social justice  textile art

Tinker Camp

www.tinkercamp.org

Tinker Camp is a North Portland based non-profit providing a material-rich family-friendly maker space for kids and adults grades three and up. Tinker Camp, now in its 10th year, is overseen by volunteer teachers and mentors who guide kids in STEAM learning experiences that take place in group and camp settings using narrative and storytelling as the backdrop for creative problem solving,

 education  youth

Variegated Places

www.variegatedplaces.com

Cydni Carter Lopez is a place-based artist and designer based in SE Portland. Recently graduated with her MFA in Applied Craft & Design from the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Cydni has a passion for working with her hands and the slow processes that come with traditional craft work. Raised in the Pacific Northwest Cydni comes alive in nature; it is where she feels most grounded and finds infinite joys and curiosities. Her work uses the crafts of natural dyeing and foraging as methods of connecting deeper with the self and the world that we inhabit. Deepening connections between people and place Variegated Places invites you to reimagine the potential of our interconnected worlds through a color based collaboration with a plant.  The website serves as a place based color catalogue and growing educational resource including instructions, demonstrations, material resource lists, and someday lesson plans designed to facilitate interconnection between our human selves and the places, spaces, and worlds all around us.

 classes  natural dyes  textile traditions

WildCraft Studio School

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Expanding textile traditions. Sharpening creativity. Seeing culture through craft. Learning from nature. Since 2013, WildCraft’s mission has been to offer exceptional creative programming to diverse, adult learners (18 yrs & up), with a special focus on Craft, Textiles, Studio Art, Native Art and Nature-based workshops. From our SE Portland studio—as well as from the farms, forests and beaches that make up our off-site classrooms—WildCraft strives to awaken creativity and deepen an understanding of place, through hands-on experiences in making and learning.

 workshops

 Studios

Abbie Miller

https://abbiemillerstudio.squarespace.com/

Abbie Miller (b. 1981, Billings, Montana) received her BFA from the University of Wyoming in 2004 with a minor in apparel construction and holds a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from Maryland Institute College of Art, 2005 and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, 2007. She has had solo exhibitions at the Missoula Art Museum, Nicolaysen Art Museum and Teton Art Lab where she was an artist in residence for two years.  Miller has been included in group shows throughout North America, including the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Reading Public Museum, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Portland Art Museum and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her sculptures are included in the permanent collections at the Portland Art Museum and the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.  She is a recipient of a Wyoming Arts Council Fellowship, a Contemporary Northwest Artist Award and a Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Abbie lives in the Pacific Northwest and works as a studio artist, educator and stylist.

Adam Arnold

www.adam-arnold.com

Drawing inspiration from many sources, I have built a dedicated clientele. My skill and esteem as a designer and creator of clothing has garnered me collaborations with the Portland Art Museum, Contemporary Craft Museum, and Oregon Ballet Theater. My garments are known for their clean lines, tailored silhouettes, timeless appeal, and impeccable construction.

 fashion  tailoring

Adriene Cruz

www.adrienecruz.com

Harlem native Adriene Cruz was deeply inspired by her mothers creative use of color and the rich cultural influences of her childhood community.

Adriene attended the High School of Art and Design and received a BFA from the School of Visual Art in NewYork. After relocating to Portland, Oregon she explored quilting at the Oregon School of Art and Craft. What emerged were brilliantly colored and adorned quilts, large and small, piecing together richly patterned materials in rhythmic arrangements, structured as well as improvisational, deeply moving on a spiritual level and simply enjoyable for their sheer beauty. Fabric, cowrie shells, mirrors, sequins, beads , tribal silver, even beetle wings and fragrant herbs are among the endless adornments and amulets in Adriene's artistic alchemy.

Adriene's creative vision garnered invitations to create public art in her Portland community. Often engaging community youth, Adriene created street banners, murals, decorative trash bins and a billboard. Public artist Valerie Otani invited Adriene to design one of Portland's Light Rail stations. The artists collaborated creating colorful glass mosaic, handmade tiles, steel railings and concrete benches reflecting Ashanti culture. "Stone quilts" embedded in the paving also adorn the platform of Killingsworth Station.

Adriene has exhibted internationally in Brazil, Costa Rica and South Africa. Nationally her work has exhibited at the Smithsonian in D.C., The Folk Art Museum, NY, American Craft Museum , NY, Museum of Biblical Art, NY, The Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, The National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, and the Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA. to name a few. Collections include the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, Hartsfield International Airport, Atlanta GA, Haborview Medical Center, Seattle, Portland Community College and numerous private collections.

 textile art  textile traditions

Ali Cat Leeds

https://entangledroots.com

Ali Cat. is an artist and print maker living on unceded Cowlitz, Multnomah and Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde land at the confluence of two rivers, also know as Portland, Oregon. She produces her work under the name Entangled Roots Press. Her prints mingle the literal and metaphorical to illuminate and comment upon the world around us. Relief, screen, and letterpress prints span from the carnage of clear-cuts to the beauty of peoples movements. Ali’s prints pull from ancestral herstories and push towards liberatory futures; entangling lessons from gardens, symbols in coffee cups, woven threads from Armenia and Euskal Herria, to the printed page. Ali received her BFA at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland. She completed an artist-residency at Proyecto’ace in Buenos Aires in 2014, and was a member of Flight 64, a member-run, nonprofit print studio, from 2015- 2018. Ali worked as the Print Studio Technician at PNCA from 2017 – 2021. They now teach and volunteer at the Independent Publishing Resource Center.

 print  textile art  textile printing

Alison Heryer

www.alisonheryerdesign.com

Alison Heryer is an interdisciplinary artist whose work combines costume, installation, performance, and community engagement. As a costume designer, she is a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829. Her design credits include productions at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, 59E59 Theaters, La MaMa, The New Victory Theater, Portland Center Stage, Portland Opera, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Artists Repertory Theatre, ZACH Theatre, The Hypocrites, and Redmoon. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, World Stage Design, and The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space. Awards include a RACC Build Grant, Drammy Award and Austin Critics Table Award for Costume Design, and the ArtsKC Inspiration Grant. Heryer is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Texas at Austin. She is a faculty member at Portland State University where she was recently granted the Sue Horn-Caskey & Charles F. Caskey Professorship of Textile Arts & Costume Design. Alison Heryer’s 2021/2022 projects have been generously supported by a RACC Build Grant.

 costume design  textile art  textile design

Amirra Malak

https://www.amirramalak.com/

Amirra Malak is an Egyptian American artist living in Oregon while also inhabiting spaces between cultures, countries, geographies, and identities. She feels most at home in liminal spaces, especially in the natural world and is interested in using light, pattern, movement, time, sound, and visual sensation to create meditative healing experiences. Work includes drawing, painting, textiles, meditative video, interactive and immersive video installations, and curated online spaces. She is currently exploring bridging past and future through the combination of ancient craft and modern technologies in video and textile installations inspired by Egyptian Khayamiya tent applique.

Amirra shares her belief that humans are makers and creators by nature with her two children and her high school students in Hood River where she has been an art teacher for twenty years. She strives to create equity and access to college level art curriculum for all students through building and maintaining an inclusive AP art program at Hood River Valley High School and serving on the Hood River County School District Equity Committee. She also served on both the Arts Academic Advisory Committee and the Advanced Placement Art & Design Development Committee for the College Board. She was awarded the College Board Regional Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts for her equity work within the AP Art & Design program.

 textile art

Amy Reader

amyreaderartist.com

Amy Reader is a fiber and installation artist based in Portland, OR. Her primary interest is in using fibers and textiles to create sculptural forms. In 2015, Amy facilitated a large-scale, collaborative crochet installation that received international acclaim. In 2016, Amy traveled to Peru for an artist residency in the Amazon Rainforest where she built a permanent sculpture in the jungle. From 2016-2018, Amy was a Display Artist at Anthropologie where she created large scale installations and window displays. Currently, Amy splits her time between sewing her own artwork, teaching workshops, and writing educational blogs. Amy is a member of the Society for Embroidered Work - an international honor society promoting the best stitched art worldwide. She has been featured on local news segments like Wilson’s World on WCCB and on the art blog Brown Paper Bag.

 crochet  embroidery  sculpture  textile art

Anne Greenwood-Rioseco

www.annegreenwood.net

Anne Greenwood-Rioseco (b. Jamestown, North Dakota, 1967) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores themes of time, spirituality and the transcendent genius of the natural world. Collaboration, vibrant color and fostering relationships are the common threads in her social art practice that spans textiles, plants and poetry. She has worked as a residential gardener in Portland tending to small gardens across the city for 25 years. In 1989 she co-founded the Albina Green in North Portland and for over ten years collaborated in Ariadne Community Supported Agriculture Garden. In 2018 she was introduced to the TC2 Digital Jacquard loom at the Icelandic Textile Center, and in 2022 she was invited to return to weave 10 yards of textile. This work will be featured in the 2023 international exhibition Threads | Þræðir Intertwined in Iceland: Textiles & Book Arts at Nordia House NW in Portland and this will be a featured exhibit, artists talk and workshop with Portland Textile Month. This exhibit will feature twelve artists brought together by the Icelandic Textiles Center and includes new work in collaboration with Arnþrúður Ösp Karlsdóttir. Anne incorporates photography, natural dyes, hand-work, book making, writing, and installation in her creative practice. She has collaborated with her husband Mauricio Rioseco Milano as artists in residence, installation exhibits, writing prose & making images for Vestiges & Shapes of Land artists’ books. Mauricio (b. Rosario, Argentina, 1965) is a first generation Argentine who has worked as a woodworker for 25 years in Portland. Siblings Anne and Tom Greenwood started an ongoing community project called Ray-mains Blanket Company in 2019. The two worked with the Portland Garment Factory over the summer and fall to make an edition of 44 repurposed wool blankets to help fund the Albina Green 20th Year Celebration in North Portland. Anne has worked with Caldera and Arts Education in the Gorge teaching in both urban and rural schools. She co-curated VOLUME 4 of the PNW version of Class Set with Bay Area artist Jessalyn Aaland. Class Set provides K-12 teachers with free artist-designed, Risograph-printed posters for their classrooms featuring quotes by authors and activists. Anne’s work has been collected by the Plains Art Museum in ND, the Bainbridge Island Art Museum, many special collections libraries, rare book rooms, and private collections. Her work is sold by David Abel at Passages Books in Portland, OR, Erin Michelson at 23 Sandy in Santa Fe, NM, and Fran Durako of Kelmscott Book Sellers in Baltimore, MA. The OAC, the PICA, RACC, the Hallie Ford Foundation, the Multnomah County Cultural Coalition, and the North Dakota Council for the Arts have all financially supported her projects. Greenwood Rioseco has been an artist in residence at Portland State University Textile Arts, Playa (Summer Lake, Or.), Caldera (Sisters, Or.), Signal Fire (Or.), and Pine Meadow Ranch (Sisters, Or.).

 residency  textile art  weaving

Aradhita Parasrampuria

aradhitaparasrampuria.net

Aradhita Parasrampuria is a materials designer originally from India, based in New York. Parasrampuria combines synthetic biology with fashion to create sustainable, scalable textiles to replace toxic petroleum-based materials. She works primarily with raw materials such as Microalgae, Escherichia coli, and Cellulose. Parasrampuria received recognition on Indian Forbes 30 under 30 2023 list in the climate change category. She has also been awarded the Swarovski Foundation's "Creatives For Our Future" grant and the Aronson Fellowship from Tishman Environment and Design Center. Her work has been showcased in prominent events and publications such as United Nations, COP27, Vogue, L'officiel Brazil, CFDA, Dezeen, No-Kill Magazine, New York Design Week, and Portland Textile Month.

 fashion  science  sustainability  textile design

Ariane Mariane

www.arianemarianeshop.com

Ariane Mariane is a German fiber artist living and working in Paris. Trained in architecture and graphical textile design she felt in love with textile arts in 2004. Since 2008 she runs her own textile art studio, creating wall-hangings, sculptures, home decor, wearable art and accessories. In her work she combines graphical design and several textile techniques to make outstanding pieces in a fancy and playful style. She paints with powerful colored fibers and creates little stories in a poetic and humorous way. Each item is unique: created by hand, in a time-consuming and artistic process. In each piece Ariane Mariane explores new techniques, association of colors and materials. She describes her process as involuntary, deconstructed and messy. "My workshop is filled up with fabrics, wool fibers, pigments, papers and findings of all kind. It’s my kingdom from where I travel to imaginary countries, enjoy great adventures and often come back with marvelous treasuries. My best creations "just happen or as Picasso pointed out:"Inspiration exists but it must find you working."” In Ariane Mariane’s world, clothes and accessories stand side by side to wall hangings and sculptures. "I do not see any difference in making a garment or a picture," she explains. "My approach is always graphical and somehow storytelling: a combination of colors, shapes and materials. In the beginning“ making art for art seemed pretentious to me and I needed a function to authorize myself to create. Nowadays I play around with both. I may even feel freer when doing wall hangings and sculptures. On the other hand it’s so exciting to see a creation transformed by another human. I love the sparkling eyes when a woman tries out an art vest, a hat or accessory. Something’s happening –the art work and the woman are transformed.” The artist’s goal? Spread good vibes and color life.

 sculpture  textile art

Arnþrúður Ösp Karlsdóttir

https://arkir.art/about/arnthrudur-osp-karlsdottir/

Arnþrúður Ösp Karlsdóttir is a visual artist. In her textiles and artist books she works with traditional textile and fiber techniques, expressing nature's visual qualities, in form and image, texture and atmosphere. She has an education in textile art and design from The Icelandic School of Arts and Crafts and as a teacher in adult education from Håndarbejdet Fremmes Seminarium in Copenhagen. She has participated in exhibitions in Iceland and abroad and lives and works in Reykjavík.

Baba Wagué Diakité

babawague.wordpress.com

Wagué grew up drawing–first for his own pleasure, then for schoolwork and finally for part-time jobs. He first learned claywork however, after meeting American artist Ronna Neuenschwander, and moving to Portland, Oregon in the US in 1985. There, he began using clay as his canvas.

Wagué and his wife, artist Ronna Neuenschwander, have collaborated artistically on a number of projects, including an animated film by Jim Blashfield entitled “My Dinner With the Devil Snake”, an award-winning documentary film by William Donker of their lives entitled “Don’t Paint Lizards on my Wall”, and a number of public art projects. They recently completed a large tile floor mosaic for the Serengeti Plaza at the Oregon Zoo. They continue to return to Mali with their two daughters bi-annually for extended stays.

Wagué is founder and director of the Ko-Falen Cultural Center in Bamako, Mali, which enables artists and travelers from other countries to live, meet, study and collaborate with artists of Mali. The Ko-Falen Cultural Center encourages cross-cultural exchanges through art, dance, music and ceremony to promote a greater understanding and respect between people. Ko-Falen also manages education programs for youth of artisans in Mali.

 ceramics  classes  storytelling  visual art

Bardsley Handwoven

www.bardsleyhandwoven.com

Jessica Bardsley is a weaver and textile artist living in Portland, Oregon. Primarily self-taught, Jessica is interested in exploring weaving and other textiles as a way to connect to culture, history, and heritage, and using it as an avenue to build community and connections across generations.

 textile art  textile history  textile traditions  weaving

Bautista Weaving

www.bautistaweaving.com

Francisco Bautista is a fourth generation Master Weaver in his family. He and his wife Laura were born in Teotitlán del Valle, a Zapotec village in Oaxaca, Mexico; they have always been fascinated by the infinite possibilities of crossing threads. They use only hand-spun, hand dyed wool, and weave each of their works on a foot pedal loom. The vibrant colors you see in their weavings come from their own natural and aniline dyes. Together they work to ensure that the quality achieved by the Master Weavers of old will continue to live on in each piece they weave.

 mexico  textile traditions  weaving

Blue McCall

bluemccall.com

Blue is a trans-disciplinary artist originally from Southern Appalachia, currently based in Portland, OR. They make fantasy-industrial cast sculpture, dance, textiles, and paintings. They choreograph for hyperpop and metal musicians, most recently directing a video for Jan Julius' album Meat Shot Idyllic. They are currently writing an experimental multimedia novella set in a factory about sex, labor, and revolt.

 textile art

Bonnie Meltzer

http://www.bonniemeltzer.com/

Bonnie Meltzer’s art-making, activism, community building and gardening are linked together like crochet; one thread looping with itself creating an interlocking life. Born in New Jersey, Bonnie moved to Seattle to get an MFA at the University of Washington. There, she found her medium, her social commentary voice, and installation as a format. As a networker she crochets (crochet being a form of net making) and in the other meaning, she purposefully designs projects that invite people to participate and connect with each other. Throughout her career she has used fiber art techniques and found objects in experimental ways to make very mixed media social commentary. In the last five years she has added stitched and crocheted text to her body of work that comments on the social fabric. Textile Month 2021 highlighted her interactive Installation, Tikkun Olam - Mending the Social Fabric at the Oregon Jewish Museum, which included 75 handkerchiefs with embroidered text. At the same exhibition, visitors under Bonnie's guidance mended a torn parachute, a metaphorical social fabric. The coming together in those traumatic times brought a sense of healing to the sewers. Other recent work includes a beaded wire and fishing line crocheted sculpture of the Columbia River was exhibited at Maryhill Museum. “Water and Land”, a decade of environmental works were shown at PLACE Portland during spring 2023. Her work is in private and public collections; The National Science Foundation, University of Washington, Baylor University Rosenberg Artist Book Collection, Community Music Center, Portland and Multnomah County, Oregon. Her mixed media sculpture is on the covers of the books “The Fine Art of Crochet” and “Artistry in Fiber: Sculpture”. Her pioneering crochet is in many crochet books from the 1970s. She has taught textile workshops for decades. This past summer she taught “Text on Textiles” sponsored by Creative Arts Community at Menucha

Brahma Tirta Sari

brahmatirtasari.org/profile.html

Crossing both visible and invisible boundaries of nationality-ethnic background, the traditional-the contemporary, art-craft Agus Ismoyo (Indonesian) and Nia Fliam (American) have been working collaboratively to produce contemporary textiles in their fine art batik studio, Brahma Tirta Sari in Yogyakarta, Indonesia since 1985. Ismoyo’s ancestors were batik makers in the court city of Solo in Java. He was trained in industrial management at the Industrial Academy (AKPRIND) in Yogyakarta. Nia originally explored dye resist techniques from Africa and Asia in America. She completed her fine arts degree at Pratt Institute in New York City before coming to Indonesia in 1983 to study traditional batik. ‘This collaborative art team is renowned for their intricate, nuanced and time-intensive contemporary fine art textiles. They have exhibited at many prestigious exhibitions around the world and worked with world distinguished curators. Since 1994 they have explored and worked in collaboration with Australian Aboriginals, American Indians and various Asian and Australian artists, They have received critical acclaim for their successful use of traditional textile techniques in exploring their own realm of creativity while pursuing an understanding of the value, role and meaning of tradition in the development of our world culture.’ Christine Cocca, Antenna Projects, Yogyakarta Indonesia. Their studio produces not only fine art batik and paintings but a range of wearable art products and craft as art interior items. Brahma Tirta Sari (BTS), which means ‘creativity is the source of all knowledge’, was founded on the belief that there are many relevant traditions rooted in cultures throughout the world.

 batik  indigo  indonesia

Bridgette Hickey

https://www.sitkacenter.org/2022-past-residents/bridgette-hickey

Bridgette Hickey is a multidisciplinary archivist exploring interspecies communication with her ancestors. She works in repetitive time intensive traditional mediums to weave fragmented and disembodied themes and materials. They are a community herbalist, poet and care worker currently developing their skills in textiles, education and grief facilitation. She has been led here through a remembering of her families Black Gullah, Irish, Nipmuc and Mohawk lifeways. Bridgette has a background in medical anthropology with a focus on state inflicted intimate violence and chronic illness. She has an appreciation for relational neuroscience and somatics: the ways our sinew hold stories of joy, pain, love, and guidance for the beyond. Bridgette’s work Doing My Hair was included in an artist talk alongside Lisa Jarrett, Sharita Towne and Susana Pilar Delahanate Matienzo in 2015. In 2020 Bridgette collaborated with Salimatu Amabebe’s love letters to black folks creating flower and environmental literary essencesThey are featured on Water in The Desert website as one of the 2020 Switch artists in residency alongside Intisar Abioto, Sidony O’neal, Yawa Amenta, and Ni Abioto. Bridgette is a spring 2022 recipient of a make build learn RACC grant to support her current herbal textile work Beloved Fragments in collaboration with Adriene Cruz, and is a current summer 2022 PLAYA resident.

Bryan Miller

Bryan Miller was the Special Collections Archivist at Textile Hive in Portland, Oregon in 2024. He studied English and History at Lewis and Clark College where he worked at Watzek Library, and has since worked at the Portland Art Museum and the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine. He started at Textile Hive as an intern in 2023, during which he developed a comprehensive working knowledge of Textile Hive's Special Collections and Dakota Transit Collection. Currently working toward his MLIS at Indiana University, his curatorial practice has been informed by a deep personal attachment to material culture and historical research.

Callum Angus

https://www.calangus.com/

Callum Angus is a trans writer and editor living in Portland, Oregon, where he edits the literary journal smoke and moldteaches writing workshops online and in-person, and is at work on a novel. He is the author of the story collection A Natural History of Transition, (Metonymy Press) which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction, the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, and an Oregon Book Award/Ken Kesey Award in Fiction. His work has appeared in Joyland, Orion, Nat. Brut, and many other venues, and has been anthologized in Kink, a collection edited by Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon. He has received fellowships and residencies from Lambda Literary, Signal Fire Foundation for the Arts, the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, and The Seventh Wave, among others. A former bookseller at Powell's and the independent Odyssey Bookshop, he holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a BA from Mount Holyoke College, In addition to his own independent classes, he has taught writing at Smith College, UMass Amherst, and Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, as well as at the Tin House Winter Workshop. He also spent an enlightening stint working in publicity for Catapult, Counterpoint, and Soft Skull Press.   

 editor  writer

Carolyn Hazel Drake

www.carolynhazeldrake.com

Carolyn Hazel Drake is a third-generation Oregonian who works with textiles, ceramics, and domestic materials. She references devotional objects and archetypal imagery to create objects and installations that are familiar yet cryptic. Drake studied literature & architecture at PSU’s Honors College and has an M.Ed. in art education. She has been awarded residencies at GLEAN, Leland Ironworks, Suttle Lodge, and Sitka. Her work is represented by Carnation Contemporary and Hanson Howard Gallery. Drake is an assistant professor of art education at Arizona State University. She divides her time between Phoenix and Portland. www.carolynhazeldrake.com / @carolynhazeldrake

 ceramics  sculpture  textile art

Charlie Wilcox

www.charliecwilcox.com

Charlie Wilcox is a designer, animator, embroiderist, musician, artist, collaborator, and friend who hails from Lindstrom, Minnesota, also known as “America’s Little Sweden.” Charlie’s social practice involves exploring what it means to turn the creation of animation into a hands-on event that can focalize and generate community. By developing animation into a collaborative act that integrates qualities from textile craftwork and participatory art, Charlie explores new situations and purposes for animation as a method for collective expression and visioning. His work creates methodologies for representations of social design and collaboration that favor embodied realities beyond sheer logicism and consensus. Charlie makes his own embroidered animations, curates and organizes the Frombelow Microcinema, helps organize Portland Textile Month, works in the performing arts departments at Reed College, and plays tuba in the punk band Horsebag.

 animation  embroidery  needle work  textile art

Charlotte Flory

https://www.instagram.com/morepatternmorebetter/?hl=en

Charlotte Flory is an artist and design director living in Portland, Oregon. She comes by way of New York City, where she lived for 21 years after graduating from Parsons School of Design. Her fashion and home accessory designs sold in eponymous NYC shops such as Barneys New York, Bergdorf Goodman and ABC Carpet & Home, while a piece she designed for Louise Bourgeois hangs in MoMA, signed in red stitches “LB”. Her textile work has walked the runway for Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, and more. Working for Master Printmakers to edition hand pulled etchings of Sean Scully and Phillip Pearlstein, and learning Letterpress Printing from the grandson of Alexander Calder, her true passion for approaching design as art has offered her a lifetime of fulfilling work. “More Pattern More Better” has been her moniker for some time now, and as a Decorative Expressionist, color, pattern and especially the mix of them, is her favorite way to amplify beauty and inspire joy. Please visit her Instagram page for more @charlotteflory

 fashion  print  textile art

Chisao Hata

https://www.chisaohata.com/vision-statement

Chisao Hata is a performing artist, community organizer, and global citizen artist. Her work shares the Japanese-American story to communities from Hiroshima, Japan to Cuba, and New Mexico to Ontario, Oregon. As an arts educator, her perspectives are shared as an Oregon Humanities Conversation Leader and Vanport Mosaic/Stories in Movement artist. She originated Gambatte Be Strong, stories of Japanese-American displacement and resilience in Portland and is a partnering artist at the Dance Exchange in Takoma Park, Maryland.

Danielle Maggio

https://daniellemaggio.com

I am an ethnomusicologist, writer, educator, producer, vocalist, and DJ based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I earned my PhD in Ethnomusicology in 2020 from The University of Pittsburgh, where I wrote an in-depth ethnography of 1970s funk musician Betty Davis called “‘SoundProjector’: Reissuing, Representing, and Reclaiming the Music of Betty Davis.” My research interests include Black popular music, women in music history, the music industry, and both the cultures and practices associated with music collecting, curating and archiving.

In 2016, I became the Associate Producer of Betty - They Say I'm Different (Native Voice Films, 2017), a documentary about Pittsburgh’s own Betty Davis. The film premiered in Amsterdam at IDFA in November of 2017 and had its US premier in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2018. In the following years, I collaborated with organizations across the country to produce mixed-media events surrounding the film, such as panels and symposiums on women in media and the music industry, public talks, DJ dance parties, and concerts that included a reunion of Betty Davis's backing band, Funk House, who performed for the first time together in over four decades.

I have over a decade of teaching experience with people of all ages (pre-school to higher education) and socioeconomic backgrounds that cuts across the creative arts and humanities. My teaching is inspired by the intersections of performance, history, and community and includes work with numerous non-profits, public schools, community centers, and both public and private universities.

I am an avid vinyl enthusiast and enjoy DJing from my personal collection under the moniker Sauce Queen. I am also a vocalist who has performed with Truth and Rites, Brittney Chantele, and the Afro Yaqui Music Collective. Most recently, I sang lead vocals on the first new song written and produced by Betty Davis in forty years. As a creative team, Davis and I released A Little Bit Hot Tonight - a sultry pop-hybrid of soul, blues, Latin and jazz - on July 22nd, 2019.

In 2019, I served as the Music Curator for the Sourceress podcast and in 2023 I worked with Light in the Attic Records to author liner notes for the re-releases of Betty Davis’ first two albums (Betty Davis and They Say I’m Different) and a previously unreleased album called Crashin’ From Passion.

Dorian Verducci-Will

@limitless.dyes

Textile dyer, seamstress, indi clothing brand founder, designer and manufacturer. Dyed garments/accessories for companies such as Findlay Hats and Alien Mermaid co. Organized mini tie-dye workshops at pop up events. Volunteer at Portlands Textile Hive.

Ebenezer Galluzzo

http://www.ebenezergalluzzo.com/

I am driven by my experience as a trans man, the symbology associated with traditional westernized gender, and redefining those gender systems through my art practice. Elements of nature are incorporated into a variety of my images, countering the notion that certain bodies and identities are not natural. Through photography, I find new possibilities of existence where all expressions are sacred, honored, and a vital part of the human ecology.

Emily Pacheco

www.instagram.com/emilypoprocks

Emily Pacheco is a multi-disciplinary artist creating wearable art, soft sculpture, illustrations and papier-mache work. Her practice is a middle school love letter asking DIY, arts and crafts and outsider art if they'll go to prom.

 sculpture  textile art  wearable art

Eric Jordan

Eric Jordan is a multi-disciplinary artist focusing primarily in sound. His sound works have been performed and presented in San Antonio, Austin, Marfa, Brooklyn, and Portland. He has also recorded music under his own name, Coo, Sleepy E, and Mort, and with other musicians in The Chronics, Scooter Einstein, Little Monkey Venus, Two-Toed Sloth, FRAZZ, The Ray Talley Dancers, and Notnauts. He’s composed and performed sound/music for film, dance, radio, site-specific events, and educational curricula. He DJ’s under ever-shifting DJ handles for radio and events, and was a guest contributor, curator, and advisor for Trickhouse.org.

 music

Felicia Murray

www.feliciajmurray.com

Felicia Murray is a fiber artist from Maine, who now lives and works out of her studio at NW Marine Artworks in Portland, Oregon. Her tactile work explores motifs from nature, while creating imagined landscapes of color and texture. She received her B.F.A. in Fibers from The Savannah College of Art and Design in 2019, and has since been continuing to develop her work through collaborations, commissions, community projects, and exhibitions.

 felting  needle work  textile art  tufting  wool

Francesca Capone

www.francescacapone.com

Francesca Capone is a materials designer, visual artist, writer, and educator. Her work is primarily concerned with the creation of materials and a poetic consideration of their meaning. She is interested in how tactile forms simultaneously serve as functional surfaces for daily life and as a mode of communication or symbol within the cultural paradigm. Her books Woven Places (Some Other Books, 2018), Text means Tissue (2017), and Weaving Language (information as material 2018, Self Published 2015) focus on textile poetics. They are available for purchase via Printed Matter, and are available for viewing at the MoMA Library and the Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has exhibited at Whitechapel Gallery in London, LUMA/Westbau in Switzerland, Textile Arts Center in NYC, and 99¢ Plus Gallery in Brooklyn. She has been an artist in residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and Andrea Zittel's A-Z West. Her academic work includes lectures and workshops at Brown University, Rhode Island School of Design, Reed College, University of Washington, and Alberta College of Art and Design, among others.

 textile art  textile design

Fringe Benefits Weaving

www.fringebenefitsweaving.com

Megan Rothstein is a weaver, explorer of natural dyes, restorer of looms and general fiber artist. In her production weaving practice she forages natural dyes from the Portland landscape in order to dye natural fibers. After the dying process she weaves shawls and scarves with a focus on twill weave structures which she sells at craft sales through out Oregon. One of her woven naturally dyed shawls recently won the award of “Grand Champion” in the weaving division at the Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival and her handspun blanket received a first place ribbon at the Black Sheep festival. Her fine art weaving practice focuses on re-using materials from her production weaving process and upcycling synthetic fibers into hanging tapestries. Megan is also an Ikebana (Japanese floral art) artist. She holds a 3rd grade teaching certificate with the Sogetsu school of Ikebana. She focuses on teaching workshops to those interested in incorporating the concepts of Ikebana to their fine arts practice and ongoing classes to gardeners interested in using the gardens to create Ikebana. Her Ikebana practice focuses on found plant material, rather than relying on flower shops, and re-using materials such as cardboard, plastic pieces and other discarded materials.  She teaches classes throughout the Portland area and has done several demonstrations at the Portland Japanese Garden. She also holds a masters degree in folklore and has done research on roadside memorials and multimodal communication in 911 call centers. In addition she has a collaborative installation practice focused on re-used materials with Adam Rothstein. She also co-runs Weird Shift an ongoing project, twice funded by the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art’s precipice fund, with Adam Rothstein and Carl Diehl.

 textile art  weaving

Fuchsia Lin

www.fuchsialin.com

Fuchsia Lin is a Taiwanese-American artist, fashion/costume designer and  filmmaker, called a visionary by the Seattle Times for the imaginative art  and performance work she has produced.  Fuchsia began her career as a fashion designer, studying at Parsons  School of Design in NYC. Years later, Fuchsia turned to the medium of film  to showcase her fashion and costume designs in motion. Her first short  film, Crystals of Transformation, went on to win her a scholarship award to  study fashion filmmaking at London College of Fashion, one of two  universities in the world that teaches fashion filmmaking.   Fuchsia is currently finishing up her second film, Future Cosmos Flow, a  fantasy drama film. This film features more than 40 custom couture pieces  made from sustainable materials Fuchsia designed especially for the film,  worn and set in motion by award-winning performers.  Future Cosmos Flow is a genre-bending film and magical fairy tale inspired  by mythology and the natural elements. An exiled royal family must learn  to harness a mystical water-power to subdue a tyrannical Uncle who  threatens the ecological survival of their Kingdom. It relates to our modern  day need for the renewed care of our environment.  Fuchsia will speak about her journey from costume designer to filmmaker.  She will share how she uses the medium of film to show fashion in motion  and tell a story through textiles. And she’ll show excerpts from her new  film, Future Cosmos Flow, which will be screened at a special event at the  Portland Art Museum in 2024.

 costume design  fashion  film  sustainability

Grace Wesson

http://gracewesson.com/

Grace was born and raised in California, and studied agriculture at Texas A&M University. Afterward, she worked in biomedical science research, specifically in the field of reproductive biology. Her passion for learning led her to explore the world of fine art. She worked for a fine art gallery for a year, and during this time, showcased her oil paintings in local exhibitions. Her art practice explores Western, Americana, and pop culture themes. In addition to her love of painting, she enjoyed creating and teaching children's textile art curriculum. Recently, Grace moved across the country from East Texas to Oregon, where she works for Oregon State University Extension Service and assists TextileHive with collections and online projects. Grace loves working with textiles because of the stories, heritage, and craftsmanship interwoven into each piece.

 painting  scientific illustrator

Heather Watkins

heatherwatkinsstudio.com

Heather Watkins’ work explores the nature and possibilities of the drawn line – materially and symbolically. Working with ink, cord, thread, cloth, and paper, she submits these materials to many cycles of saturation, compression, intertwining, and transference. Through these physical processes, she investigates phenomena such as flow, stasis, circulation, and gravity. Her work takes many forms: sculpture, drawing, text-based work, printmaking, and artist’s books.

Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, at venues including: PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland, OR; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Planthouse Gallery, New York, NY;  the lumber room, Portland, OR; Front of House, Portland, OR; The Art Gym, Marylhurst, OR; and Nine Gallery, Portland, OR. Her work is held in private and public collections including the Portland Art Museum, the Miller Meigs Collection, the Regional Arts and Culture Council’s Portable Works Collection, the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer, Portland State University, Reed College, and Rhode Island School of Design Artist’s Book Collection. She has been the recipient of grants from Oregon Arts Commission, The Ford Family Foundation, and Regional Arts & Culture Council, and has been awarded residencies at Caldera; Sitka Center for Art & Ecology; Oregon College of Art and Craft; and at Em Space Book Arts Center. Watkins holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and is represented by PDX CONTEMPORARY ART.

 sculpture  textile art

Helen Kennedy

http://htkennedy.com/

I have been creating with fiber and textiles since childhood. I redirected these skills while employed in non-profit management which included color printing. In 2008, I rekindled and expanded this art form often working with nationally recognized fiber artists specializing in wet and nuno felting, botanical and natural dyeing, eco-printing, surface design and shibori. I have been fortunate enough to be able to study textiles and dyeing internationally. Presently I work in a studio in SE Portland. I have participated several times in PDX Open Studios and my work has been exhibited in the Portland/Vancouver region and in Arizona. I have worked and studied with Kathy Hattori at Botanical Colors, Charlotte Kwon, Sophena Kwon, Danielle Bush and Natalie Grambow at Maiwa School of Textiles, Takayuki and Tomo Ishii of Awonoyoh, Ana Lisa Hedstrom, Joan Morris, Nicola Brown, Rick Rao, Jane Callender, Irit Dulman, Porfirio Gutierrez, and Aboubakar Fofana. Online: Michel Garcia, John Marshall This is not a hobby.

Hyun Jung Jung

www.instagram.com/hjung_jung

Hyun Jung Jung is a Korean artist and designer currently based in Portland, Oregon with a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. Hyun Jung’s artistic practice centers around creating interactive and immersive experiences for her audience, resulting in various outcomes across different forms and mediums. Inspired by personal experiences and Pop culture, she aims to capture the generation she lives in and create work that is relatable to people from different backgrounds and cultures. Hyun Jung plans to continue creating works that capture the generation that she lives, and to fuel meaningful dialogues.

 fashion  textile art

Jeanne Medina Le

www.jeanne-medina-le.studio

Jeanne received her BFA in Fiber and Material Studies (2001) and Post-Baccalaureate in Fashion, Body and Garment (2009) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), and her MFA in Fiber (2013) from Cranbrook Academy of Art where she was awarded the Toby Devan Lewis Award. The award enabled her to pursue research in Antwerp, Belgium at the ModeMuseum (MoMu), and to work with fashion designer, Christian Wijnants. In 2018 she was awarded the Fountainhead Fellowship in Craft & Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). There she worked with the Highland Support Project and fair-trade weaving organization, Pixan, in Xela, Guatemala to develop textile designs with indigenous Mayan weavers. Her collaborations include a 2019 Bessie Award winning project with choreographer, Ni’Ja Whitson. She has been Artist-in-Residence at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Caldera, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, and Pine Meadow Ranch. Jeanne served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Fibers at Oregon College of Art and Craft (OCAC) in Portland, OR. Her exhibitions include Interpretive Center for Embodied Textiles solo-exhibition at the Alice Gallery in Seattle; GARB at ArtCenter Pasadena; International Fiber Art Fair in Seoul, Korea; Ancestral Offerings solo-exhibition at Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, VA; and Discursive at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum in Eugene, OR. Her work is in the permanent collection at Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, MI and the Oak Spring Garden Foundation Rachel “Bunny” Mellon Collection in Upperville, VA.

 sculpture  textile art  weaving

Jens Pettersen

www.instagram.com/jensnonprofit

Jens Pettersen b. Arendal, Norway, 1998 is a multidisciplinary artist and image maker living in Portland, Oregon. His work alludes to coyness, bumper stickers, highway road signs. Codes and messages for people to see, ways of communication, a cry for help and things that might be hidden in plain sight. Pettersen is a 2021 BFA graduate from Pacific Northwest College of Art. He has exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions at Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR, Ghost Gallery, Portland, Oregon and Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arendal Norway.

Jessica Nickel

Jessica Nickel is an independent curator, writer and arts manager based in Portland, Oregon. She received a BA in Fine Art focusing on painting, and a BA in Literature from the University of Oregon in 2009 and began her career in the arts as an artist. During a year-long artist residency in 2010 at Engage Studios in Galway, Ireland she found her artistic practice in curating, organizing pop-up shows of fellow residents in vacant spaces. A career in arts administration followed, with directorship positions at Disjecta Contemporary Arts Center, Upfor Gallery, Converge 45 and public art collective Site Specific. Nickel founded SATOR projects as a way to continue her curatorial practice, and has organized thirteen exhibitions over the past two and half years, with more to come! She currently works for Saatchi Art with the art advisory team, and as a coordinator for the Oregon Arts Commission Percent for Public Art program.

 curator  writer

Jessie Vickery

https://patternpeople.com

Jessie Vickery is a creative director and founder of the surface design studio Pattern People.

Jim Lommasson

www.lommassonpictures.com

Jim Lommasson is a freelance photographer and author living in Portland, Oregon. Lommasson received the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize from The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University for his first book, Shadow Boxers: Sweat, Sacrifice and The Will To Survive In American Boxing Gyms, Stone Creek Publications. In 2009 Oregon State University Press published Lommasson’s Oaks Park Pentimento. Lommasson's 2015 book Exit Wounds: Soldiers’ Stories – Life After Iraq and Afghanistan and traveling exhibition is about American Veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, and their lives after their return from war. The book includes Lommasson’s photographs, interviews and photographs by the participants. What We Carried: Fragments from the Cradle of Civilization, about Iraqi and Syrian refugees was published in 2016 by  Blue Sky Books. Lommasson is a 2012-2016 Oregon Humanities Conversation Project Grant Recipient for his public discussion "Life after War: Photography and Oral Histories of Coming Home." Lommasson was awarded a Regional Arts and Culture Council Project Grant for his current project: What We Carried: Fragments from the Cradle of Civilization.

 photography

Jo Hamilton

www.johamiltonart.com

Jo Hamilton’s crocheted portraiture and landscape works are a fascinating combination of traditional technique with contemporary subject matter. A native of Scotland, Hamilton earned a degree in painting and drawing from the Glasgow School of Art, but after moving to Portland, she translated her artistic vision into the medium of crochet, which she had first learned as a child from her grandmother. Her work is included in the collections of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene; Portland Community College and the Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; and the City of Seattle, among others.

 crochet  textile art

Joan Truckenbrod

http://joantruckenbrod.com/

Joan Truckenbrod is a digital artist exploring the intersection of the digital realm with textiles. Currently she is creating hand digital Jacquard weavings using a TC2 loom. She also works with various forms of printmaking using digital images that juxtapose different aspects of the self that sometimes collide in conflict and other times collaborate, including incongruous, socially constructed and prescribed roles. Her artwork is exhibited internationally. Earlier this year her textiles were included in the Weaving Data Exhibit at the Schnitzer Art Museum at PSU. In 2021 the Schneider Art Museum in Ashland Oregon hosted a solo exhibition highlighting Truckenbrod’s fiber artwork, titled Digital Fibers 1979 to Present. This year, one of her early textiles was included in a group exhibition at LACMA titled Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952–1982. The Whitney Museum of American Art included her early coded algorithmic textile and drawings in their exhibition Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965 to the Present in 2018 and 2019. This artwork is in their permanent collection. Truckenbrod’s textiles are included in collections at The Art Institute of Chicago, the Block Museum of Art, and the Illinois State Museum, have Truckenbrod’s textiles in their collections. Tina Sauerlaender published “A Short History of Self-Representation in Digital Art”. International Journal for Digital Art History, no. 5 (December):3.2-3.17 in 2020 that includes her artwork. https://doi.org/10.11588/dah.2020.5.77407. Truckenbrod is Professor Emeritus in the Art and Technology Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has relocated her studio to Corvallis where she opened the non-profit Truckenbrod Gallery to exhibit professional and emerging artists. Joan Truckenbrod’s artwork is represented by the RCM Galerie in Paris, France.

Judilee Fitzhugh

www.judileefitzhugh.com

Judilee Fitzhugh is a textile artisan who specializes in natural plant dyes and couture sewing. A tour of duty in Japan with the U.S. Navy led to a profound Japanese influence and a lifelong affection for indigo and plant fibers. She gained her Certificate in Craft at the Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2002, and taught in the BFA and Studio School programs until the school’s closure in 2019. Her finely crafted work combines natural objects with vintage fabric remnants, hand weaving, and surface design to portray a single moment in history.

 fashion  natural dyes  sewing  textile art  vintage textiles

Julie Beeler

https://mushroomcoloratlas.com

Julie Beeler is an acclaimed designer, artist, and educator with a deep love and curiosity for the natural world. Her work has been featured by The New York Times, Popular Science, The Smithsonian Institution and The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, among others. She created the Mushroom Color Atlas website to honor and celebrate the universe of resplendent color that exists in the fungi kingdom, making it accessible to people around the world. Her book The Mushroom Color Atlas, recently published by Chronicle Books, is a comprehensive primer on the universe of colors lurking inside fungi. Julie’s work inspires new ways of thinking about the possibility and power of natural color and supports an important, scalable trend and innovation to the benefit of the greater good: moving people away from synthetic colorants to those readily available in nature. She is equally inspired to experiment, discover, and contribute to our expanding knowledge and appreciation of fungi.

 dye  mushroom  natural dyes

Julz Clementine

www.julzclementine.com

Julz Clementine is a surface designer, illustrator, and teacher living out her dreams in Portland, Oregon. She has a BFA with a concentration in Communication Design from Texas State University. During the expanse of her career as an artist, she has worked as a designer in print & apparel, an art director in advertising, and is currently working as a surface pattern designer & illustrator. Her deep love for nature and female empowerment led her to begin Hummingbird Art Camp in the summer of 2018. A few of her favorite things since childhood have been creating, crafting, rainbows & finding simple beauty in the everyday. Once she became a mama, she began to teach her daughter about sharing kindness with the world, appreciating art and looking for the good. She realized that many of these teaching opportunities were her favorite parts in the day, and now dedicates her life to creating and connecting with others through art and sharing ways to play and seek out the magic in everyday life.

 textile design

Keeva Moselle

www.instagram.com/realmandreigndesignstudio

Growing up Keeva Moselle made all of her Halloween costumes from age nine on, repurposing items from around the house. Keeva learned to work with her hands and a myriad of materials and techniques to create wearable art. These skills eventually translated into fashion design and garment construction. Today Keeva is a Portland native artist creating large scale interactive art installations, immersive beauty experiences, costumes, and multimedia art. All of her endeavors primarily use post-consumer waste & salvage materials. Keeva is a graduate of Oregon State University Graduate School, where she studied socio-political ethics. Keeva is an environmentalist and a Black Feminist thinker and author; her art reflects that same powerfully dynamic voice. In 2011, Keeva created an original character “The Queen of Unicorns”, as a public persona to inspire imaginative play and give young girls, especially those of color, representation in the cosplay and festival community.

 fashion  sustainability  textile reuse  vintage textiles

Kindra Crick

www.kindracrick.com

Kindra Crick is a multimedia artist who gives visual expression to the wonder and process of scientific inquiry. In her experiential installations and layered mixed-media work she incorporates drawings, diagrams, maps, and imagery from under the microscope. She is fascinated by the human brain - our complex machine - which can fathom the beginning of time and the nature of its own thought. Crick has a degree in Molecular Biology from Princeton University and a Certificate in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been influenced by the inspired marriage of her grandparents, the artist Odile Crick and the scientist Francis Crick. Noted exhibitions include: Christie’s, The Phillips Collection, the New York Hall of Science, Littman Gallery, and MDI Biological Laboratory. Her artwork is included in the LMB collection in Cambridge, England, the Gordon Gilkey Print Center at the Portland Art Museum and the Jordan Schnitzer Collection. Her work has been featured in HuffPost, PBS NewsHour CANVAS, Science Magazine, and Oregon Art Beat. She is on the board of NW Noggin, an arts-integrated neuroscience outreach organization and has given talks about the intersection of art and science at Princeton University, Lewis and Clark College, University of Wisconsin, and the Portland Art Museum.

 science  textile art

Kyle Denman

https://www.kyledenmanfashion.com/

Kyle Denman is a designer whose mission is to create social change, share cultural narratives, and humanize the experiences of underserved communities. Denman teaches fashion design and art to at-promise youth in Los Angeles, California. Many of his students have experienced trauma, such as trafficking, homelessness, gang violence, incarceration, domestic violence, and substance abuse.

Landdd

https://landdd.org

We are Javier Reyes of rrres and Lillian Hardy of Heavy Set. In August 2022, we formed Landdd— a design and creative production studio in Portland, OR. We take on a research-based approach naturally shaped by the confluence of our own studio practices as artists in Oaxaca de Juárez and the Pacific Northwest. We offer private commissions for commercial clients and residential interiors, and produce seasonal collections of objects, textiles and campaigns centered around narratives of our respective cultures. From working closely with master artisans across Mexico, leading creative teams with commercial agencies, organizing community events, and one-on-one projects with designers, our work is fundamentally rooted in a collaborative ethos.

 classes  events  gallery  workshops

Lane Hunter

Lane Hunter, a Portland native, stumbled into a college folk dance audition and ended up dancing across the globe, earning a BFA in Dance from Brigham Young University. He fell head first into choreography and his work has been seen as far away as Beijing, China. Lane tripped into Kim Robard’s Dance in Colorado, slipped into Renaissance Cruises, and toppled into music videos for Blues Travelers and Michael Jackson. He tumbled across the stage and films of BodyVox, creating numerous original works before leaping into his own where he continues to demonstrate his innate ability to land firmly on his feet.

 costume design  performance

LeBrie Rich

www.penfelt.com

LeBrie Rich has been exploring the visual possibilities and emotional resonance of felted wool since 2004. She is best known for updating the traditional crafts of felting and embroidery by creating highly detailed soft-sculptural replicas of familiar packaged food items, such as Jif peanut butter and Spam. Venues that have shown her work include the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Project Space in New York, NY; Portland Art Museum and Blackfish Gallery in Portland, OR; and Albus Gallery in Fukuoka, Japan. She has been awarded artist residencies at the Rauschenberg Residency (2013, 2015), Ucross Foundation (2018), and Kayamori House (2012) in the mountains outside of Nara, Japan.

Rich loves to teach people to access their creativity through felting. In 2021 she taught the art of felting to a total of 800 students from across the world, both through online and in-person classes. Her felt sculptures, collages, wearable fiber creations, and workshops for youth have been written about in the New York Times, Hand/Eye Magazine, Make, the Oregonian, and Portland Monthly.

 felting  textile art  wool  workshops

Lehuauakea

lehuauakea.com

Lehuauakea is a māhū mixed-Native Hawaiian interdisciplinary artist and kapa maker from Pāpaʻikou on Moku O Keawe, the Big Island of Hawaiʻi. Lehua’s Kānaka Maoli family descends from several lineages connected to Maui, Kauaʻi, Kohala, and Hāmākua where their family resides to this day.

Through a range of traditional Kanaka Maoli craft-based media, their art serves as a means of exploring cultural and biological ecologies, Indigenous identity, and contemporary environmental degradation. With a particular focus on the labor-intensive making of ʻohe kāpala (carved bamboo printing tools), kapa (bark cloth), and natural pigments, Lehua is able to breathe new life into patterns and traditions practiced for generations. Through these acts of resilience that help forge deeper relationships with ʻāina, this mode of Indigenous storytelling is carried well into the future.

They have participated in several solo and group shows around the Pacific Ocean, and recently opened their first curatorial research project, DISplace, at the Five Oaks Museum in Portland, Oregon. The artist is currently based between New Mexico and Pāpaʻikou after earning their Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting with a minor in Art + Ecology at Pacific Northwest College of Art.

 environment  textile art  textile history  textile traditions

Limei Lai

Www.limeilai.com

Limei Lai enjoys working with paint, fabric and clay. She is curious about how memories and experience work with objects to create cultural value and aesthetic value in spaces, thus addressing and commenting past and present to encourage good changes. Her interactive community engagement installation focuses on creating spaces and voices for intergenerational communication. Art as an experience not only visually critiques, questions, reflects, but also celebrates. Limei is the artist member at Blackfish Gallery. She was the founder and curator of Playground Gallery and the vice-president of Oregon Chinese Artist Association. Her works were shown in Local 14 Art Show, The Arts Center at Corvallis, Ashland Fiber Arts Collective, Newport Visual Arts Center, Paragon Gallery, Lansu Garden, The Place, PNCA, Red E Cafe Gallery, Playground Gallery. Her murals were in north Portland and Chinatown Portland.

 embroidery  needle work  sewing  textile art

Lisa Cox

https://www.iamlisacox.com/

Lisa’s fiber art translates the wonders of nature— like mushrooms, moss, lichen, and other cool things that grow in the wild—into intricate, tactile art pieces. She brings her vision to life using techniques such as crochet, weaving, latch hook, and felting then combining these different techniques into one art piece. Lately, she’s been exploring the concept to resist conventional notions of refinement, and instead, embrace more rawness in her fiber art process. Her pieces have been showcased in numerous galleries, events, and publications, including Wovenutopia magazine. This year, she brought her fiber art to the stage, collaborating on a dance performance, and is excited to see where further creative collaborations might take her.

 fiber  nature

Liz Borowski

www.lizborowski.com

Liz Borowski is an artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. With a BFA from the University of Arizona, her work has been featured in exhibitions throughout the Pacific Northwest. She has taught felting classes at Naked Sheep & Twisted yarn stores. Teaching beginning watercolor classes in her home studio in NE Portland, Liz says her creative process is akin to a magical practice - "When I paint, I get out of the way and let the work flow through me. The alchemy of mark-making and mapping generates a search for meaning, a tool for learning, and a way to find my place in the world. Each painting is made of layers of watercolor, gouache and wax pastels. The final step to my paintings is stitching embroidery thread. I find the application of mending the painting to be healing, and a reflective process that speaks to a time-honored hand arts tradition.”

 embroidery  felting  gouache  painting  watercolor

Loo Bain

loobain.wordpress.com

Loo is a multimedia artist investigating ideas of history, material, earth science, and self. She has received artist grants, most recently the Oregon Arts Commission, shown nationally in galleries, acquired private commissions, and participated in artist residencies including Arrowmont, Pine Meadow Ranch, Playa, the Icelandic Textile Center and most recently Portland State University. She has assisted and collaborated with many artists, including Michael Rackowitz, Lead Pencil Projects, Pepone Osario, Lisa Yuskavage and Ebony Patterson. She loves living in Portland where she continues to make and show work.⁠

 residency  textile art  weaving

Maira Yooseidy Ramos Trujillo

https://www.behance.net/mairaramos9

Colombian textile artist, historian, woman and apprentice, temporarily living in the United States, with more than 5 years of experience in embroidery. Currently third semester course of the Master of Embroidery applied to art and design (BAAD) in Mexico City.

Maren Jensen

marenjensen.net

Maren Jensen is an artist living and working in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. Working with concepts of mutual concrete and un- concreteness, the conceptual vs. impactful realities of an idea, and wading through imperceptibility, she uses tapestry weaving, ceramics, drawing and text to study these themes. She recently received a grant from RACC, has been in residence at Dirt Palace in Providence, RI, A-Z West in Joshua Tree, CA and will be attending the MassMOCA residency this fall.

 textile art  weaving

Marjorie Skinner

https://www.portlandfashion2000s.com/

Marjorie Skinner is an independent curator and former fashion editor for the Portland Mercury.

 curator  fashion  writer

Maude May

www.maudemay.art

Maude May has been making art since childhood -stitching preprinted samplers, fabricating elaborate collaged drawings and more. With advanced degrees in ceramics, textiles and photography, her passions have led her in many directions: pastry chef, art director, miniature golf course designer, and photo stylist. Maude shares her enthusiasm and knowledge, and has taught textile-focused classes at Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Menucha, Art & Soul, Earthues and in her studio. Her current art practice centers around collage – layering images utilizing hand stitching and photography. She collects discarded snapshots, scans of her own photographic art and more. Images are ink jet printed directly onto either linen or cotton and, then along with both used and new fabrics and discarded papers, are assembled to tell a new visual story. Layers of hand & machine stitching bind everything together. Maude creates are to rediscover the mysteries of people, memories, words, landscapes and possessions from her past, and the lives of others, that were once deemed precious and have been forgotten or left behind.

 ceramics  collage  photography  textile

Megan Mesloh

http://mmesloh.com

Megan Mesloh is a textile artist and educator living in Hood River, Oregon. She has taught craft curriculum for ten years, with a focus on plant foraging, natural dyes, and weaving. She received a BFA in Textiles from Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2014. Through place-based exploration (foraging plants specific to a region, terrain or season) and a deep curiosity for the natural world, Megan has built a relationship with dye plants and natural fibers as a way to re-connect to where things come from and how they are made.

 natural dyes  plants  weaving

Megita Denton

ablefarmspdx.com

Intermedia artist that deeply intertwines my agricultural/land-based background. My focus is sustainability in ecological systems by utilizing all practices of – film at https://vimeo.com/megdenton, contemporary furniture, paintings, sculptures, sound, textiles, print media, welding, performance art, design, resilient landscapes, woodworking, murals with Art Seed PDX, photography, site specific public works, Nature based forms called ‘bio-anchors’ and often large formats to fit my big moods of passion. A true multidisciplinary artist.

Exploratory endeavors of environment, collaborations, and expressing interconnectedness fuels my work and relation to others, the natural and spiritual arenas- in pursuit of positive change and consciousness.  I am building on the elevation of my Indigenous cultural perspective and using detritus to evoke a powerful sense of nostalgia that emits joy, contemplation, connection, and inspiration.

With a bedded foundation in the PNW soil from artistic, agricultural, and culinary roots - I have been circling with vibrations from these and filtering them through my lens. Land is the mesa from which I push and pull my art from. So, sit down at the table with me and let’s move art together…

 film  painting  print  sculpture  textiles

Michael Cepress

https://www.michaelcepress.com

In a world thirsty for authenticity and the heartfelt goodness of humanity often only found in art of the past, it is the music and art of Michael Cepress that brings those pleasures into the modern moment.  A musician, a storyteller and poet, a craftsman, a designer and cultural curator: this is an artist who understands the infinite potential for good that emerges when art forms come together as one, joining us hand-in-hand in support of the greater good.

Born and raised in Wausau, Wisconsin, Cepress found the call to the arts at an early age, as his mother says “he was born with a red crayon in his hand.”  A childhood of creative discoveries led him to learn to draw and sew at an early age, at the very same time he was learning to play boogie boogie piano and getting introduced to the roots of American music and early rock’n’roll.  A card-carrying member of the Roy Orbison Fan Club by age eight, and soon forming his own bands, Cepress was on stage by 13, finding his way to use the spotlight and stage to share his gifts. While in high school  in Wausau, and eventually art school at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, he found focus and a groove exploring his passion for the visual arts by day, and the rock’n’roll stage by night with his early bands The Red Ball Express, The Sons of Mary and The Shakin’ 78s.  Making their way around bars and clubs, state fairs and festivals, weddings and funerals throughout Wisconsin and the upper midwest, it was these performances that came to guide Cepress and his fellow musicians into notoriety.  This early life that danced between the visual and performing arts came to set the pace for the life that Cepress continues to live today.

It was also in these early years that Cepress discovered the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s, and from an early age came to feel as though he himself is a member of this generation that he is far too young to have ever actually lived.  His endless quest to know the essence of the time led him to deeply study the music, the art, the style, the values and the people of this time, and to carry them with him in his own practice as an artist.

Now as he matures as a musician in the world created through his songs, the visions of the counterculture ‘60s never faded or failed. They just got smarter, and maybe sweeter, and now come alive again through the re-imaginings that he offers for the 21st century. Cepress combines the music of the past with the spirit of the present on these tracks, wisely avoiding the musty recreations of nostalgia or – even more importantly – winking meta-commentaries. His songs are loving and living examples of the sounds and spirits of the late-1960s. His influences are wide-ranging, riding the cosmic axis that connects Gram Parsons to Jefferson Airplane to Bill Withers. But, as important as those influences are, they never overwhelm his unique vision. Cepress’s voice and guitar anchor warm arrangements that evoke the era in both its multicolored splendor and its muted earth-tone intimacy.  The visual imagery isn’t accidental. Cepress’s career has taken him through textile arts, fashion design, education and exhibit curation, but music – specifically this music – has remained at the center of his creative practice. A lifelong fan and student of the soundscapes of the late 1960s, he now creates songs that draw together these golden threads.

Right in step with his music, a deep passion for the cultural impact clothing and fashion can make has led Cepress to focus on the design of his own fashion label and costumes for theatre and stage performance.  Upon receiving his Masters of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Washington in 2006, Cepress pursued his expertise in menswear and fine tailoring, and formed his own fashion label which produced seasonal collections and one of a kind wearable art pieces from 2005 to 2017, and has seen recognition in exhibitions around the world.  Cepress has exhibited his works and lectured nationally and internationally as an authority on the historical importance of fashion as an art form, with his own hands as a skilled tailor and craftsman leading the charge.  His successes and prowess as a designer have carried Cepress into higher education, where taught as an instructor at the University of Washington's School of Art for 12 years.  There he created curricula on multiple facets of Fashion Design, Wearable Art, Fiber Arts and Textiles, and the cultural history of style and clothing.

In 2014, Cepress was invited to dress the Seattle Symphony Orchestra for their performances in the Spring for Music Festival at Carnegie Hall. Here the orchestra could be seen wearing hand-dyed silk creations by Cepress as they staged their Grammy-award winning performances of works by composer John Luther Adams.  He has also worked as a costume designer with legendary theatre director Robert Wilson, and worked in collaboration with Wilson for performances at The Watermill Center on Long Island, New York.  These artistic accomplishments of Cepress have been lauded in the Huffington Post, OUT Magazine, Surface Design Journal, FiberArts Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, and a host of books and exhibition catalogs on the subject of Wearable Art and Fashion Design.

In 2015, Cepress became Guest Curator at the Bellevue Arts Museum, and debuted a multi-floor museum exhibition titled "Counter-Couture," featuring over 150 authentic garments from the American counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s.  This exhibition stands not only as a testament to the deep power and impact of a movement, but also expresses the soulful devotion Cepress has to an entire cultural ethos he works to preserve and uplift.  A true torch-carrier and messenger of the goodness of the past, his work as a curator and storyteller brings it all into the modern moment, shining light on how we can move forward through the values of authentic peace and love he sings about.  The songs, colors, garments, and poetry he shares all become one multifaceted faceted jewel that project these timeless messages for the masses.

In Summer 2016 Cepress was a guest instructor at the Penland School of Crafts, and in May 2016 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in his hometown of Wausau, Wisconsin.

In 2017 Counter-Couture was reimagined and showcased at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, where it saw attention and acclaim in a range of publications including VOGUE, Womenswear Daily, The New Yorker, The New York Times, NY Magazine and more.

Now based in Seattle, Washington, Cepress continues his path as a musician and artist.  In search of the truth and essence found within the changing landscape of American culture, Cepress has spent the last 4 years traveling over 70,000 miles solo across the United States playing music, gathering stories, writing songs, and continuing his work to know and express what sits at the heart of us all.  What results is the soulful and incandescent life of an artist who calls us to join him and be free. 

Michelle Freedman

https://stitchwellandprosper.com

Michelle Freedman is a Portland, Oregon based designer, teacher, and maker. Her recent quilt designs have been published in Quiltmaker, Fons & Porter’s Quick + Easy Quilts, and McCall’s Quilting and have been featured in the Quilting Daily Quilted Jacket Workshop and the cover of Sew News magazine. On weekdays she designs quilts and works as the marketing, graphic design, and website manager for Maywood Studio. When she isn’t sewing or drawing, you can find her tending to her dye garden or writing that mystery novel she hopes to publish one day. Michelle has a BFA in Fashion Design from Parsons School of Design. She co-authored the Book How the West Was Worn which accompanied an exhibit of the same name at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage. She loves to combine her love of fashion and textile history in her quilt designs. Find her online at stitchwellandprosper.com

 interior design  quilting  textile art

Mo Geiger

www.mogeiger.com

Mo Geiger is an artist. Her work includes sculpture, performance, and experimentation, with a focus on interdisciplinary processes. Trained as a theatrical designer and technician, she values tactile learning in collaborative environments. Living material histories, scavenge, discard, and transformation connect all of her artwork and research. She develops projects using context-specific perspectives, which consider active and potentially overlooked elements wherever she is.

Mo’s artwork, research, and designs have appeared in public spaces, local organizations, galleries, theaters, and museums. In each of her projects, she uses de-centralized collective methods to make space for art in unconventional places. Recently, she received an MFA in Art and Social Practice from Portland State University, where she honed skills in collaboration and site-awareness. She makes work within a personal art practice and as a member of the south-central Pennsylvania performance collective Valley Traction.

 community  textile art  textile history  textile reuse

Morgan Rice

morgansrice.com

Morgan Rice is a Portland-based artist and writer whose work explores the interplay between ecology, identity, and social construct. Rice graduated from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2024 with an MFA in Visual Studies, after a circuitous trajectory through theater production, outdoor group facilitation, and an undergraduate degree in Political Science. Each of these past lives find convergence in her current art practice, which frequently considers the parallels and clashes between performance, nature, and political history. Born and raised in Tacoma, Washington, Rice’s work is heavily influenced by the ecologies and historical personalities of the pacific northwest.

Naomi Parrott Halpern

https://www.instagram.com/papernaomi/

From working closely with master artisans across Mexico, leading creative teams with commercial agencies, organizing community events, and one-on-one projects with designers, our work is fundamentally rooted in a collaborative ethos.

 paper  sculpture

Nereida Apaza

http://www.galeriadelpaseo.com/nereida-apaza

Nereida Apaza is a Peruvian artist who has incorporated embroidery in several of her pieces as a language that uses tradition to tell contemporary social narratives and critiques

Niky Kuzma

www.instagram.com/dirtysunshinepa

Niky moved to Portland to study Craft and Design at PNCA in August 2019, and finished her MFA in June 2021. She designs workshops to share her passion and belief that hand work positively impacts the maker and everyone should have an access point to the techniques. She identifies as differently abled resulting from a brain injury and experiences life through the lens of a low income individual. These are her motivators for designing free and inclusive workshops to invite a broader audience that may have felt discouraged to learn craft techniques due to cost or ability. Niky believes that we can create a stronger community through the act of making together in the same way our ancestors had. She wants to encourage folks to reconnect with their hands to discover an outlet for exploration, creativity, and a space for connecting with those who share our world.

 sculpture  textile art  weaving

Opulent Fibers

www.kristykun.com

Opulent Fibers is a studio operated by felt artist Kristi Kún. Kristy Kún is a studio artist working in hand made wool felt with an innovative approach to construction methods, material combinations, and craftsmanship. Kristy believes strongly in collaboration and community building through Craft and has hosted local and international instructors, each experts their practicing form of textile art, and has presented at free community events, demonstrating techniques and sharing her passion for wool.

 felting  wool  workshops

Orquidia Violeta

orquidiavioleta.com

Orquidia Violeta is a Salvadoran-American textile artist. Growing up in a dirt-floored farmhouse in Central America. Orquidia crossed the US border as a six-year-old refugee and went on to earn an Associate of the Arts degree from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. Living in Oregon, Orquidia continues to challenge herself as a salvage textile artist, exploring new methods and mediums, such as machine and hand embroidery, knitting, weaving, appliqué, soft-sculpture, fiber-collage, drawing, painting and eco-fabric dyeing to tell colorful stories on the diversity of people.

 cooperative  embroidery  fashion  sculpture  textile art  wearable art

Otherly

www.instagram.com/__otherly__

Julia Bond is a multi-disciplined creative currently based in Portland, OR. She is a contemporary dancer and a part of the FreshVibe Dance Crew. She has worked for brands like Amazon, Under Armour, and is currently employed at Adidas. Julia brings her Cincinnati roots with her as she utilizes her skills in styling, garment construction, and design to bring projects to life. She seeks to visualize the black experience through various mediums and outlets. OTHERLY is a platform she created to investigate the complexities of blackness through color. OTHERLY exists to provide a space for art to not only educate but to inspire social justice. Julia loves collaboration and working with other creatives to make dope work.

Pablo V. Cazares

PabloVCazares.com

Pablo V. Cazares is an interdisciplinary artist in Portland, Oregon. His work has been shown at the Parallax Art Center, Afru Gallery, Portland State University’s MK Gallery, and Western Oregon University's Cannon Gallery. In 2023, he was nominated for the International Sculpture Center's Outstanding Student Work Award, awarded the McGlasson Prize for Textile Arts, and received a jury commendation from the Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize. In 2023, he was also awarded the Visionary Award at InventOregon for his work with kombucha biotextiles. He was awarded an artist’s residency at the Lookout Arts Quarry in April 2022. Community work features largely in his practice. In 2021 he created The t4t Art Collective to provide transgender artists an opportunity to show work and build community which he now curates and facilitates. In 2021 he also became a mentor-designer for high school students through the SHIFT Project with Arts for Learning NW (formerly Young Audiences). Pablo holds a B.S. in Art Practice from Portland State University, as well as an associates degree in Apparel Design. Contact him at PabloVCazares@gmail.com

 textile art

Peggy Biskar

Peggy Biskar is a contemporary artist living and working in Manzanita. Trained as a painter, she now interprets her perspective through pieced textiles.

 textile art

Preethi Gopinath

www.instagram.com/preethigopinathnyc

Preethi Gopinath is an educator, textile designer, product development, and marketing professional with extensive international experience in the area of creative design for home and apparel textiles, CAD (including texture mapping), styling, production, sourcing, merchandising, entrepreneurship, and research with over 20 years of international experience in the textiles industry. She graduated from the National Institute of Design in India where she focused on weaving, printing, embroidery, and garment design. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in textile development, design, marketing and technology at the Fashion Institute of Technology, as well as fashion design, business, and management at George Brown College in Toronto. Gopinath has written for TheSweet Home.com, and has worked on product and design for Carini Lang, NYC; Springs Global, Canada; and Hua Fang USA. Gopinath’s research explores traditional Gyaser weaving techniques, particularly handloom, silk brocade weaving of Benares, India.

 textile design

R.A.W. Textiles

rawtextiles.com

R A W Textiles is a production dye studio in Portland, Oregon, that specializes in natural dyed, shibori, and rusted textiles.

 natural dyes  workshops

Rankin Renwick

http://www.odoka.org

Founder and janitor of the Oregon Department of Kick Ass

Rankin Renwick is an artist by nature, not by stress of research. They put scholars to rout by embracing nature's teaching problems that have fretted trained minds. Working in experimental and poetic documentary forms, their iconoclastic work embodies their interest in landscape and transformation, and relationships between bodies and landscapes, and all sorts of borders.

They have been a singular voice in the experimental cinema for over 20 years. Eschewing an allegiance to any one medium or form, Renwick builds authentic moving image works revealing an insatiable curiosity and unflinching engagement with the world around them. Often focusing their lens on nature, freedom and the locales of their adopted home, the Pacific Northwest, Renwick uses avant-garde formal elements to explore radical politics and environmental issues. An artist who often self-distributes, their screening history reads as a map of independent cinema worldwide. They have screened work in hundreds of venues internationally, institutional and not, including The Museum of Modern Art, Light Industry, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Art Basel, Oberhausen, The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Centre Pompidou, Bread and Puppet Theater and True/False Film Festival, among many others.

Rankin Olivia Metolius Renwick is a non-binary artist of Scottish and German descent, born on the traditional and unceded territory of the Illiniwek in what is now known as Chicago, Illinois.  They live and work as an uninvited guest on the traditional territory of the Chinookan peoples, now known as Portland, Oregon.

 film

Roberta May Wong

Roberta May Wong is a conceptual/installation artist from Portland, Oregon. For 15 years, Roberta Wong operated and curated the art gallery at the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center (IFCC). Initially serving as IFCC’s gallery coordinator from 1985 to 1988, she returned in 1991 to curate the IFCC’s 10th Anniversary Retrospective Exhibition featuring African American artists like Philemon Reid and Adrienne Cruz. From 1995 to 2003, Wong became the gallery director, producing the annual Kwanzaa exhibition and celebration, and launching the IFCC Community Artist Award and Residency program. More recently, Wong collaborated with artist Horatio Law for the "Descendent Threads" exhibition at the Portland Chinatown Museum, where she continues to volunteer. Her past exhibitions also include "Rwong Ideas" at the IFCC Silver Anniversary, "Beyond Talk: Redrawing Race" with The Wing Luke Asian Museum, and group shows at venues like Evergreen State College and Portland State University. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sculpture from Portland State University, 1983.

Rose Caughie

Rose Caughie was the Collections Manage and Exhibits Designer at Textile Hive in 2024. Rose's background encompasses museum work, textile collection care, exhibition setup, and curation, endowing her with a rich expertise for her current role. She has contributed to projects at notable institutions such as Portland State University's Textile Database, Oregon Historical Society, Gresham Historical Society, and Parallax Art Center, to name a few. Committed to the study and preservation of textile and dress history, Rose holds a BA in art history from Portland State University (PSU), where she achieved the distinction of being published three times before her graduation. She is now advancing her education by pursuing a certification in textile collections care and management from California State University, Long Beach (CSULB).

Shu-Ju Wang

shujuwangartist.com

Born and raised in Taiwan, Shu-Ju Wang is a painter and book artist now based in Portland. Through careful research and community outreach, her art practice is a path to gain deeper understanding of the world and our relationship to each other—the land, the water, and all the beings that call this place home—our experiences and transformations form a complex tapestry of shared interests and conflicts. While her work is largely focused on the radical and sometimes catastrophic shifts of our lives, she find tenderness in our efforts to continue life on this planet, hope in our willingness to work together, and humor in our flaws.

 textile art

Stashia Cabral

www.stashiacabral.weebly.com

Stashia Cabral is a visual and performance artist from Portland, Oregon. She works in movement and visual media such as installation, sculpture, and painting, she has a passion for ready made and assemblages. Her performance pieces range from burlesque to belly dance, to butoh and more and feature beautifully handmade costumes and props. Quirks and oddities are her happy place. Stashia has shown work at galleries and cafes locally, and performed at venues ranging from cafes and theaters to big stages, like the Northwest World Reggae Festival. Stashia received her MFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art.

 painting  sculpture  textile art

Studio Abioto

https://www.studioabioto.com/midnight-seed

Midnight Seed is a muse, a consummate lover, an oracle, a mystic, and a mother of five goddesses.  Her tools are culinary arts, wordsmithing, spirit law, and storyteller.  For over thirty years, she practiced human rights law throughout the byways and highways of Mississippi.   She is a culinary evolutionary storyteller "Green Lady"  and she has brought her southern roots to vegan and vegan sun foods from the south to the northwest.  Combining writing, theatre, law, and spirit; she has been led in the spirit to create "Holy Mojo", a spiritual interactive theatre, "Legal Oracle", a  publishing company engaged in the interpretation of world issues from a cultural metaphysical perspective as it impacts people of color, " O'zeal Inspirational Spa", a spirit healing modality, "Midnight Seed" a  mystical apothecary and  "Green Lady" a  living light food vegan cafe.  She is a queen mother of five women who have brought their extraordinary qualities to the earth and for this, she is most grateful.   She is a consummate lover of life evolving and bursting boundaries of preconceived dogma and for that, she is most blessed.

 digital art  film  photography  plant fibers  textile art

Susana Navarro Hospinal

Susana Navarro Hospinal is an art historian, researcher, and independent curator who specializes in the art of modern Peruvian textiles and embroidery. She has published articles on communication strategy in cultural and artistic institutions and currently works with several contemporary visual artists on curatorial projects for private organizations. Her curatorial approach seeks to highlight cultural narratives and traditional techniques in a contemporary context. She has been invited by Textile Hive to curate this special exhibit.

Tali Weinberg

www.taliweinberg.com

In Weinberg’s most recent weaving and sculpture, she explores connections between life-sustaining circulatory systems both internal and external to the human body—from lungs and arteries to forests and watersheds. Transforming tourniquets into tree rings; coiling color-coded climate data around medical tubing; and weaving trees out of plastic into lung-like forms, Tali responds to intertwined climate and health crises. Weinberg’s work is held in public and private collections and is exhibited internationally including at the Griffith Art Museum, 21C Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, University of Colorado Art Museum, Georgia Museum of Art, Center for Craft, and Form & Concept gallery. She has been featured in the New York Times, onEarth Magazine, Surface Design Journal, Fiber Art Now, and Ecotone. Honors include a Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Serenbe Fellowship, Windgate Fellowship to Vermont Studio Center, Lia Cook Jacquard Residency, SciArt Bridge Residency for cross-disciplinary collaboration, and a virtual residency at New York’s Museum of Art and Design, among others. She has taught at California College of the Arts (CCA) and Penland School of Craft and is currently a 2022 Illinois Artist Fellow.

 environment  textile art  weaving

Terumi Saito

www.terumisaito.com

The Japanese textile tradition dates back to the Yayoi period (300 BCE - 300 CE) where the primitive yet ubiquitous backstrap loom weaving method was employed in the Japanese regions. In her own art practice, Terumi Saito explores the spiritual and existential by way of employing these traditional and ancient techniques; techniques which involve rudimentary modes of textile production including the mechanisms constructed only from sticks and yarn. Despite this, her complex textile work still involves particular care and detail in every part of the extensive process including weaving, dyeing, and coiling.

From 2019 to 2021, Saito traveled to Peru, Guatemala and Japan conducting research in these countries' respective indigenous textile traditions whose weaving and natural dyeing techniques she employs in her practice today. The synthesis of this research now embodies an art process which aims to not only produce a contemporary hybrid craft derived from these traditions but to also preserve and honor its extraordinary significance.

齊藤輝美

静岡県生まれ。2016年多摩美術大学グラフィックデザイン学科卒業。2020年パーソンズ美術大学大学院テキスタイル専攻修士課程修了。大学院在学時にペルー、グアテマラにて染織技術の研究調査を行う。腰機織りや草木染めなどの技法を使った自身の作品を通して伝統的な手仕事のものづくりを伝えると共に伝統と異文化を融合したハイブリッドクラフトアートを創作している。現在はニューヨークを拠点にアーティスト、デザイナーとしてファイバーアート、ペインティング、グラフィックデザインと多岐にわたる分野で制作活動に従事している。

 textile art  textile history  textile traditions  weaving

That Year Forever

www.thatyearforever.com

THAT YEAR is a creative studio and clothing label, developing products, events, design, direction and digital and physical media.

 fashion

Tiny Pricks Project

www.instagram.com/tinypricksproject

Tiny Pricks is a public art project created and curated by Diana Weymar. Contributors from around the world are stitching Donald Trump’s words into textiles, creating the material record of his presidency and of the movement against it. Tiny Pricks Project holds a creative space in a tumultuous political climate. The collection counterbalances the impermanence of Twitter and other social media, and Trump’s statements as president through the use of textiles that embody warmth, craft, permanence, civility, and a shared history. The daintiness and integrity of each piece stand in stark contrast to his presidency.

 embroidery  textile art

Tricia Langman

www.tricialangman.com

Tricia Langman has over eighteen years experience designing for prestigious fashion companies worldwide, including Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Halston, Kashiyama, Donna Karan, Nicole Miller, Anthropology, Banana Republic and Target. Projects include work featured at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of New York City, and a hand-painted designer gown for Celine Dion for her performance at the Grammy Awards ceremony of her Oscar winning song “My Heart Will Go On”. Founder and design director of the successful international Textile Print design studio Spoogi, while concurrently adjunct lecturer at the Art Institute of Portland.

 sustainability  textile design

Vanessa Koch

Vanessa Koch is an artist and arts organizer in Portland, Oregon. Their zines and paintings have been featured in exhibitions up and down the west coast.

Vo Vo

http://vovovovo.weebly.com/

Vo Vo (they/them) explores support strategies and models of community care within a post-traumatic social landscape, focusing on the resilience of BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+ and disabled communities. They are editor of an internationally renowned publication, speaker, educator, curator, artist and musician who has exhibited and toured in Australia, Germany, Indonesia, The Netherlands, Singapore, Croatia, Mexico, Finland, Denmark, New Zealand, Vietnam, Sweden, Malaysia, and the States. In their transdisciplinary art, they work in textiles, embroidery, audio, video, weaving, and furniture building. Their installations seek to interrogate power dynamics, structural oppression, challenge histories and realities of imperialism, white supremacy and colonization.

 community  performance  social justice  visual art

Wafa Ghnaim

https://www.tatreezandtea.com/wafa

Wafa Ghnaim is a Palestinian researcher, author and educator who began learning embroidery from her mother, award-winning artist Feryal Abbasi-Ghnaim, when she was two years old. Her first book, “Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora” (2018), documents the traditional patterns and stories passed on to her by her mother. Wafa has since become a leading educator in SWANA dress history and embroidery techniques, as the first-ever Palestinian embroidery instructor at the Smithsonian Museum, Curator for the Museum of the Palestinian People in Washington, D.C., and most recently, Senior Research Fellow for The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wafa continues her mother’s educational legacy through The Tatreez Institute (Tatreez & Tea), a global arts education initiative she began in 2016 teaching courses in Palestinian embroidery and lecturing at leading institutions, museums and universities around the world. Wafa has since been featured in major media outlets, including Vogue Magazine, which named her and her mother “the world’s leading guardians of tatreez”. Her curatorial debut "TATREEZ INHERITANCE" (2023) at the Museum of the Palestinian People in Washington DC highlights traditional Palestinian dresses circulating North America and the importance of reclamation in the diaspora. Wafa released her second publication “THOBNA” (2023) that celebrates Palestinian embroidery as a powerful form of resistance art over the past century.

Wildland Roots

www.wildlandroots.com

Mythic Mummery & Place-based Art.
Moni J. Sears (they/she) has lived in Portland, Oregon / on Multnomah Chinook land since 1999, but was born in Aotearoa New Zealand, within the traditional lands of the Ngāi Tahu Māori.

Following a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and several years involvement with film and theatre arts, Moni started a mask-making company (Goblin Art, 1995-2015) which sold original work at markets and galleries in Oregon, Washington and Louisiana, and created custom pieces for film, television and other media in the US and Canada. Moni became interested in earth-based arts and nature education in 2011, and in 2020 decided to combine both mask-making and nature skills into Wildland Roots.

 natural fibers  textile art  workshops