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.
Studios
Jim Lommasson
Studios
Maude May
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.
Studios
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.