"Art Washes Away from the Soul the Dust of Everyday Life" by Laurie Schafer

It's coming this summer to the Textile Center! Artwear Symposium, June 2 - 8, 2010. Workshops, seminars, keynote address, runway show, trunk show and more!

Read all about it!

The Textile Center offices will be closed on December 24 at 3 pm and reopen on January 4 at 9:00 am.

Shop and Gallery is open:
December 24, 10-3
December 25, Closed
December 26, 10-5
December 28, 29 & 30, 10 - 5
December 31, Closed
January 1, Closed
January 2, 10 -5
January 4, Resumes regular hours.

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Over 150 participants enjoyed a fun-filled evening that included great food and drinks, a private opening of the Intimate Apparel gallery show, as well as sophisticated jazz from pianist Dan Chouinard and vocalist Debbie Duncan. The event was enhanced by the presence of Walter and Joan Mondale and hosted by William Mondale with his daughter Charlotte. A runway show of exotic artwear by artists Maggie Dayton, Carolyn Halliday, Brittany Hughes, Lauren Koehne, Nancy MacKenzie, and Margaret Mousley rounded out a sparkling and scintillating evening at the Textile Center.

Hot Art Cool Jazz is a principal fundraiser for the Textile Center Joan Mondale Gallery, and the generous contributions of our participants raised $9,000 toward a goal of $15,000 goal. We are approaching our goal, and every contribution brings us closer to funding the marvelous gallery exhibitions that educate and inspire us all. Please help us reach our goal! Send a check or click on http://www.textilecentermn.org/contribute.asp to help keep a full schedule of exhibitions at the Joan Mondale Gallery. Every dollar makes a difference!

Special thanks to Steve Bye for photography. We would also like to thank our generous sponsors: Northwestern Foods, Park Midway Bank and Wellington Management.

"This weekend, I'm rather embarrassed to admit, I paid my first-ever visit to the Textile Center in Minneapolis. Just as Open Book is a center for all things literary, the Textile Center is a hub for all activity that involves thread, yarn and fabric. That includes weaving, quilting, knitting, sewing, needlework, lace making, basketry and beading."

Marianne Combs from MPR visited the Textile Center. Read all about it on the MPR State of the Arts blog.

The Intimate Apparel Exhibit: Reviving an undercover cover-up
"Intimate Apparel" is an unusual, provocative exhibit of artists’ merkins.

Curator Linda Gass created this exhibit because she thought it would be fun and fascinating to use the merkin, an obscure historical object, as a format for making art. She invited artists from around the world to participate and the resulting collection of works is wildly diverse.

The exhibit debuted in June 2007 at the Pi Gallery in Kansas City, MO, and was part of the 2007 Surface Design Association conference

The exhibit is traveling to the Textile Center in Minneapolis, MN (Sept. 18 – Oct. 24, 2009) and the University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (Jan. 30 - March 14, 2010)

Read more about merkins here:Intimate Apparel

Our 2008-2009 Annual Report is available online. See what we have been up to!

Inspired by Living History: Textiles of India Exhibition? Textile Center is happy to bring you an opportunity to see the textiles of india in person.

India Tour Brochure

You heard it here first!

We are getting ready for our 2010 Symposium, which will be focused on Artwear. Here are some highlights:

• A gallery show will be held in conjunction with the symposium. See the Call for Entry for Inside Out here.
  
  
• We have already booked Jacqueline Rice & Uosis Juodvalkis, Laurie Schafer, Sandra Erickson and Carolyn Kallenborn to teach pre and post conference workshops on digital fabric design, draping, and much more.
  
• We are working on details for a trunk show and runway show to be held during the event, seminars, networking and more!

More details will be coming soon.

Are you an Artwear Enthusiast or Designer? Do you love to teach? We want you!
We are looking for seminar presenters for the Symposium Weekend. Get all the details here and please pass it on to anyone you know who might be interested.

Modernizing a Classic... Painted Poppies by Faye Hoch

Best of Show - Faye Hoch
First Place - Betsy Shannon
Juror's Choice - Karen Wallach
Honorable Mention - Karen Larsen
People's Choice - Tina Hughes

You can see a gallery of selected quilts at Project Patchwork Gallery

The event at IKEA was one heck of a party! The room was packed with people and the quilts looked amazing. We sold several pieces that evening and the rest of the quilts will be for sale online through our website. Keep an eye out for the new art quilt shop which will be live by the end of next week!

In the Community Gallery:
St Paul Needleworkers
Exquisite works of art showcasing dozens of embroidery and hand-stitching techniques.

In the Library Gallery (opens March 3):
"Creative Life on the Mississippi" by the Minnesota Contemporary Quilters
This is the last stop for this traveling show, which has been on the road for the last 2 years. See it now!

In the Joan Mondale Gallery (opens March 6):
Web & Flow
National Basketry Exhibition
Amazing and intricate works featuring basketry techniques in sometimes new and unexpected ways.

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