NYTM 2025 Multiple Days Events
京藍 Kyō-ai: Living indigo from Kyoto by Riku Matsuzaki
In person / Exhibition / Dyeing
This exhibition explores Riku Matsuzaki’s revival of Kyoto’s lost indigo through traditional fermentation and dyeing, expressing the unseen world of microbes and the oneness of all life.
Riku Matsuzaki, a Kyoai (Kyoto Indigo) artist, has revived “Kyoai,” a once-lost indigo tradition that disappeared from Kyoto over 100 years ago. Using only water, wood ash, and tade-ai (Japanese indigo), he grows himself organic way, he brings the color back to life through traditional fermentation. His work expresses the unseen world of microorganisms—small particle-like beings—that make the deep blue of indigo possible.
Without fermentation, the liquid is nothing more than brown water. But through it, living microbes—sensitive and ever-changing—transform it into vibrant blue. Matsuzaki engages in a quiet dialogue with them each day, through shifts in scent, texture, and surface movement. “Sometimes they feel soft and gentle, other times intense—just like people, whose moods change from day to day,” he says.
With melted beeswax from native Japanese honeybees and techniques like shibori, Matsuzaki paints and dyes to express this hidden universe of life. Within a single indigo vat lies a microcosm. To him, the microorganisms living in the dye are no different from us living on Earth. “Everything is connected. Everything is one. That’s what I believe.”
At this exhibition, his works will be available for purchase, along with originally designed apparel (some available for pre-order).
No registration required.
Exhibition: Sept 5, 2025 - Oct 5, 2025
Reception: Thursday, Oct 2, 2025, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Riku Matsuzaki is an indigo artist and craftsman who revived “Kyo-ai,” a lost Kyoto indigo dye tradition that had vanished for over 100 years. At age 22, he was struck by the term “Japan Blue” while in New York and chose to pursue dyeing after returning to Japan. He apprenticed under Yukio Yoshioka, the fifth-generation master of a 200-year-old Kyoto dye workshop. After Yoshioka’s passing, Matsuzaki began cultivating indigo on a 350 sqft plot of land using traditional, chemical-free methods. He practices a sustainable cycle where even waste dye is returned to the soil. In 2024, he was named one of Forbes JAPAN’s 30 Culturepreneurs and collaborated with Valextra, a high-end Italian leather brand.
The Pocket Project Plus (plus is a fabric yarn making how-to)
In person / Workshop / Multiple Techniques
Why don't women's clothes have enough pockets? The Pocket Project resolves this scarcity one pocket at a time. Okay, anyone is welcome to get a pocket on anything. Bring something that could use a pocket and Sandye will sew a pocket on for you. There will be a variety of fabric available for the pockets or you can bring your own fabric to use.
Pocketing brings new life to anything that's pocketed , even the word pocket is transformed. This splendid upcycling lessens textile waste. To further lessen the textile waste Sandye will also have scheduled demonstrations on how to make fabric yarn out of t-shirts, sweatpants, pillowcases, basically any unused fabric. You are welcome to bring anything you would like to transform into yarn. You can then use this yarn to make something new and wonderful, such as a rug, or a beach bag.
Saturday, Sept 6 and Sunday, Sept 7 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM (1:00 PM demo)
Saturday, Sept 13 and Sunday, Sept 14 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM (1:00 PM demo)
Saturday, Sept 20 and Sunday, Sept 15 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM (1:00 PM demo)
Saturday, Sept 27 and Sunday, Sept 28 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM (1:00 PM demo)
No registration required
Sandye is a 3rd generation Brooklyn textile entrepreneur and a 2nd generation recycler and composter. She was the fastest sewing machine threader in her home-ec class.
The Pocket Project is Sandye's functional response to why women's apparel doesn't have enough pockets. Her addition of pockets to people's items revitalizes and renews any underused piece with new found function and interest. While pocketing, Sandye found that everyone had a profound pocket comment and/or story. These stories and memories add so much to The Pocket Project.
Sandye also recycles textiles by making fabric yarn from forgotten textiles and using this yarn to craft functional pieces that tell a new story. Transformative recycling, and ultimately the incorporated memories, are integral to all of Sandye's creative textile work.
Fill pockets not landfills.
Two Designers Meld East & West
In person / Exhibition / Multiple Techniques
The love of beautifully hand-crafted textiles is the thread that connects Hatsumi Yoshida and Mary Jaeger, two independent designers who work across international borders. Having exhibited together in Kyoto (2024), they'll reunite this year in Brooklyn for NYTM X. Their collections focus on layering materials, dyeing techniques, hand-stitching and unexpected embellishments. They create innovative wearable and interior works that embody sustainability and eco-consciousness as they navigate the cross-cultural tensions of small-scale artisanal production and global trade. Their unconventional textiles are collected by those who wish to wear and surround themselves - at home, at work, at play - with the extraordinary beauty and energy of the hand-made.
Get inspired by their stories at Exhibition Opening Artist's Talks on Saturday, Sept 6, 2025: 2:00 PM.
Explore and collect their work at Mary's atelier in Williamsburg from Saturday, Sept 6 – Sunday, Sept 14, 2025: 12:00–6:00 PM (other times by appointment).
Get informed about current design issues at two distinct panel discussions on Sunday, Sept 7 & Sunday, Sept 14,2025: 2:00 PM
Experiment with materials at a workshop on Saturday, Sept 13, 2025: 2:00–4:00 PM (check event here)
No registration required
"The core of my work is inspired by my passion for color, texture, pattern, and handcrafted details." — Mary Jaeger
Mary Jaeger's work is about modern elegance and rich traditions. Uncluttered textiles and accessories reflect her aesthetic, melding ancient Eastern and contemporary Western design. Drawing on years spent in Japan and other areas of Asia and Europe, she creates timeless collections of hand-dyed textiles for wearable accessories and interiors that seamlessly move between seasons, places, and occasions.
“I want my clothing to enhance the self-expression of those who wear them” — Hatsumi Yoshida
Hatsumi Yoshida is committed to the creative activity of making clothing and accessories. Her unique textiles and bold, supple designs create a one-of-a-kind presence, drawing admirers from both men and women alike. Hatsumi’s work has been exhibited across Japan, New York and Jakarta, captivating audiences and inviting them to discover a new version of themselves, conscious of sustainable materials and upcycling.
Salt Water Remembers - AIR16 Final Exhibition
In-Person / Exhibition Opening / Multiple Techniques
Join us on September 11 to celebrate the opening of AIR 16's Final Exhibition, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm, at Textile Arts Center (505 Carroll Street, NY, 11215).
On view: September 11 - 24, 2025
Salt Water Remembers features works by the 16th cycle of Textile Arts Center’s Artist In Residence program, curated by TAC + AIR16.
“What we hold close: fiber, pigment, plants, and scraps.
We gather our work into a living vessel, a constellation of materials and gestures that trace what remains. Salt Water Remembers invites us to see through obscurity, to feel in the dark, to move through the silence where history slips away.
This exhibition unfolds as a meditation on memory, inheritance, and the unseen systems that shape and hold us. Stitched constellations, sculpted roots, and ephemeral installations- we illuminate the cycles of decay/renewal, displacement/belonging, concealment/presence.
Our work is shaped by what the world casts off: fruit skins, dyed scraps, artifacts of daily use. These materials trace lineage, loss, and possibility. From corn husks to mycelial threads, each piece resists erasure. What has been overlooked is honored. What has been detached is re-stitched into form.
These works emerge in a moment when the world itself feels precarious, shifting, splintering, circling back. We find ourselves once again in the midst of upheaval. Wars rage, ideologies harden, and the shadows of empire and division creep forward. Historic patterns repeat, in our memory, and in our embodied reality. In light of these forces, we offer remembrance, resilience, and repair. Networks of care thrive beneath the surface, unseen but alive.
We consider the body as archive, language as residue, and nature as collaborator. We reimagine textiles as sites of ritual, landscapes, maps, and tools for bearing witness to gestures both intimate and galactic. Some works consider displacement and the weight of colonial frameworks. Others meander to magic, sensing the invisible through alchemy and intuition. There is grief here, and also reverence. A tenderness in how loss is held and transformed. Each of us offers a different form of storytelling, rooted in lived experience, imagination, in personal myth and communal memory.” - by AIR 16
TAC AIR16: Quinci Baker, Fay Ku, Josué Morales Urbina, Leo Pontius, Malaika Temba, Mark Fleuridor, Faviola Lopez-Romani, Rose Malenfant.
Textile Arts Center (TAC) is a NYC-based resource facility dedicated to raising awareness and understanding of textiles through creative educational programs for children and adults. At TAC, we unite and empower the textile community and advocate for the handmade by providing accessible, skills-based classes that reinvigorate engagement with traditional crafts.
Nusantara: Six Centuries of Indonesian Textiles
In person / Exhibition / Weaving
"Nusantara: Six Centuries of Indonesian Textiles" presents one of Southeast Asia’s most significant artistic accomplishments: woven textiles. Exploring the ancient interisland links found in this culturally diverse maritime region, the exhibition features a wide array of textiles from the 14th to the 20th century drawn from the Yale University Art Gallery’s exceptional holdings—from the batiks of Java to the ikat of Sumba, and from ceremonial cloths and ritual weavings to clothing, shrouds, and architectural hangings. Especially remarkable are several early textiles that are intricately patterned with tie-dyed designs, while select three-dimensional objects, such as sculptures, headgear, and combs, are also included to provide context. Nusantara—from the original name for the Indonesian archipelago—offers a broad overview of the rich imagery and technical mastery of this remarkable art form.
Gallery days and hours:
Tuesday–Friday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Thursday 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Saturday–Sunday 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
"Nusantara" celebrates the elaborate textile heritage of Indonesia and explores the ancient interisland links found in this vast maritime region from the 14th to the 20th century. Presenting more than 100 examples of unparalleled craftsmanship and artistic innovation, the exhibition offers a singular opportunity to dive deep into the cultural and historical significance of one of the finest collections of Indonesian textiles in the Western Hemisphere—from the batiks of Java to the ikat of Sumba, and from ceremonial cloths and ritual weavings to clothing, shrouds, and architectural hangings.
artgallery.yale.edu/exhibitions/exhibition/nusantara-six-centuries-indonesian-textiles
Fiber in Focus: Textile and Fiber Art at TI Art Studios
In person / Open Studio / Multiple Techniques
"Fiber in Focus," a three-day open studio event at TI Art Studios, will showcase textile and fiber art. Located in an expansive studio building at the edge of Brooklyn's Red Hook and Gowanus neighborhoods, the event offers an opportunity to explore the vibrant world of working fiber artists.
This event provides a unique chance to delve into the diverse and intricate world of fiber art by visiting the individual studios of six dedicated artists, each with a distinct approach and a variety of mediums.
- Natale Adgnot is a sculptor who uses mixed media, including fabrics, horsehair, and thermoplastics, to create fiber and textile sculptures.
- Nicholas Cueva's work is a multifaceted exploration of fabrics in the context of visual information and compression, expanding on the texture and pattern of different weaves.
- Sandra Giunta, inspired by the natural world, creates felted and stitched sculptural pieces with wool and other natural fibers to highlight interconnectedness and biiophilia.
- Kathie Halfin weaves sustainable materials such as sisal, flax, and hand-spun paper to create tactile sculptures rooted in weaving and basket-making traditions.
- Elise Putnam draws on fabric using crayon, dye, collage, appliqué, and embroidery to create exaggerated self-portraits that reflect familiar characterizations of women, such as fairy tale characters and art historical figures.
- Melissa Zexter combines traditional embroidery skills with photography, sewing directly onto her unique photographs. Through her manipulation of the image’s surface, the photographs become unique, non-reproducible objects.
Visitors are invited to witness works in progress and gain insight into the creative process, from initial concept to detailed execution. This event is a chance to engage directly with the artists, discuss their unique practices, and learn firsthand about the dedication and skill involved in their craft.
Dates and Hours:
Friday, Sept 12, 2025: 6:00–8:00 PM
Saturday & Sunday, Sept 13–14, 2025: 12:00–5:00 PM
No registration required
TI Art Studios presents a vibrant collective of six textile artists, all working within our dynamic community of many resident artists. As exhibitors for New York Textile Month, we're excited to offer visitors a unique opportunity to step directly into our working studios. You'll witness a diverse range of fiber art come to life, from the intricate textures sewing and weaving to the delicate stitches of embroidery and the fluid forms of wet felting. Our unique approaches to fiber mediums reflect the rich tapestry of artistic talent fostered at TI Art Studios, offering a compelling and immersive experience for all attendees.
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COVER Connect New York
In person / Fair / Weaving
COVER Connect New York is an annual trade show for high-end rug brands, curated and hosted by COVER magazine, held in central Manhattan. The show is a firm favourite on the calendars of buyers, gallerists, retailers and design studios and the 2025 edition will feature a lineup of forty-five international rug and carpet companies, demonstrating the most creative, artisan-made weaving on the market today. The exhibitors have been carefully selected to complement one another, and to ensure a wide variety of production and styles will be available, under one roof.
The nine newcomers for 2025 are Kaleen, Ölker Rugs, Couristan, Via Star Rugs, The New England Collection, Service Buddy, Sattar Rugs, Pacific Collection and Outalux. Returning brands include Rug & Kilim, Tamarian, Samad Rugs, French Accents, Kirkit Rugs, Lapchi, Paulig, New Moon, Knots Rugs, Jaipur Rugs, Sumaq Alpaca, Creative Matters, Zollanvari, Battilossi, Momeni, Sergio Mannino and Wool & Silk.
The show promotes the extraordinary and timeless potential of woven flooring, from the traditional Persian or Turkish rug to ultra-modern art pieces and everything between. Expect to find beautiful handcrafted rugs from around the world.
Saturday, Sept 13, 2025: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sunday, Sept 14, 2025: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Monday, Sept 15, 2025: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Since the first edition in 2021 COVER Connect New York has expanded with steady momentum, increasing the breadth of products offered by attracting more top-level dynamic exhibitors. The show is curated and hosted by COVER magazine—a quarterly, international magazine at the heart of the world of contemporary handmade rugs. COVER celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2025 and the special anniversary issue will be available at the fifth edition of COVER Connect New York.
Threaded Paths: Global Stories - Exhibition
In person / Exhibition / Multiple Techniques
From Needle to Narrative: Threaded Paths Weaves Over 50 Journeys into One Global Story brings together over 50 small narrative textiles from makers around the world. Each piece captures a personal journey through stitches, patterns, and textures, reflecting themes of identity, migration, and shared memory. Crafted by participants of all skill levels, the works merge traditional and contemporary techniques, forming a collective tapestry of diverse voices. Conceived by artist and costume designer Valerie Ramshur, Associate Professor at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, the exhibition—hosted by 3RD ETHOS Gallery—is both archive and artwork, mapping human connection through the language of fiber.
No registration required.
Opening Reception Friday 09/19 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Exhibition Dates 09/16 – 09/28 Daily Hours 2:00 – 10:00 PM
Threaded Paths is a global collaborative textile project by artist and costume designer Valerie Ramshur, inviting makers worldwide to stitch personal stories into a vibrant collective archive. Each piece—crafted by participants of all skill levels—celebrates cultural identity, shared history, memory, and migration. Traditional and contemporary techniques intertwine, reflecting the diversity of voices and experiences. Ramshur, Associate Professor at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, explores storytelling through garments, trade routes, and material culture. Together, these works create a living tapestry that connects communities across borders through the shared language of textiles.
ENUNDO (Circles of Motion)
In person / Exhibition / Weaving , Entwining & Spin silk
ENUNDO (Circles of Motion) is a collaborative exhibition honoring the legacy of Kyoto-based textile master Akihiko Izukura and expanding his philosophy through contemporary expression.
Co-organized by NYC-based fiber artist Nobuko Tsuruta and Remnant & Co. Japan (Toyoko Motojima, Mika Ichikawa), the exhibition features fiber installations, wearable art, and a short film. At its center is ENUNDO, a meditative documentary by Kazuki Fujimoto that follows the creation of a monumental silk sphere spun by 10,000 silkworms, embodying Izukura’s zero-waste principles and deep reverence for nature.
Tsuruta, profoundly influenced by Izukura’s vision, incorporates his remaining silk threads and fabrics into her freeform weavings and garments. During the opening reception, performers will wear these one-of-a-kind pieces in an intuitive performance that brings the works to life in space—breathing, moving, and responding to the moment.
Workshops led by Remnant & Co. will offer participants the opportunity to create silk scarves using naturally dyed mawata (hand-pulled silk), inviting a tactile dialogue with the material. Garments made from Izukura’s rare textiles will also be available to try on and purchase.
ENUNDO offers a rare chance to encounter silk as a living medium and to experience the timeless spiritual essence of Japanese craft across generations.
No Registration Required
Exhibition Hours
Tuesday, Sept 16 – Thursday, Sept 18: 12:00–6:00 PM
Friday, Sept 19: No regular gallery hours. Opening reception with a short live performance, 6:00–8:00 PM only
Saturday, Sept 20: 12:00–6:00 PM
Sunday, Sept 21: Closed
Monday, Sept 22: 12:00–4:00 PM
Nobuko Tsuruta
A Japanese fiber artist based in New York, she creates installations, experimental fashion, and performances using traditional and innovative techniques. Originally from Kamakura, she is a certified SAORI weaving instructor who connects communities through workshops and explores fiber as a living, expressive medium.
Remnant&Co.
On the sudden announcement of the retirement of Akihiko Izukura, a natural dyeing and weaving artist in the summer of 2021, Remnant & Co. continues to plan and organize exhibitions related to Izukura's creations, unique exhibits and events that convey his ideas and philosophy, workshops, and educational activities for SDGs education in Japan and abroad.
Cut & Miss: From Binary Draft to Woven Textile
In person / Exhibition / Weaving
This exhibition showcases the journey of Textile/Surface Design students, from foundational weaving techniques to cutting-edge digital applications. Cut & Miss features a diverse range of projects, highlighting the evolution of skills and creative expression across introductory and advanced levels. Traditional hand woven samples are displayed alongside fabric developed through digital weaving and manufactured at an American textile mill. Process sketches, drafts, and digital images display the marriage of design and technical skill required to create woven fabrics.
The exhibition includes a loom with scheduled weaving demonstrations by students and faculty. This interactive feature offers a live glimpse into the craft and provides an opportunity for visitors to connect with the Textile Surface Design department.
September 18 – October 12, 2025
Open daily: 9:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Weekends: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Weaving days: TBA
No registration required
The Textile/Surface Design Department, at the Fashion Institute of Technology, prepares students for professional excellence in textile design through a blend of technical and conceptual skills. A premier public institution in New York City, FIT fosters creativity, career focus, and a global perspective and educates its students to embrace inclusiveness, sustainability, and a sense of community.
Infinite Forms: Facets, Fabric, and Fiber
In person / Exhibition / Quilting
Infinite Forms: Facets, Fabric and Fiber features textile artist Anette Millington and origami artist Omer Shalev in the Composite Gallery at the National Museum of Mathematics. In Infinite Forms, fabric and paper become portals into other worlds. Anette Millington shapes quilted and printed textiles into precise tetrahedra, stacking and arranging them into vibrant structures that seem to breathe, twist, or hover in mid-motion. Omer Shalev folds single sheets of paper into impossibly intricate stars, their crisp geometry radiating a quiet, cosmic energy. Each artist begins with simple shapes, yet their work expands those forms into something vast, at once architectural, organic, and dreamlike.
Millington’s sculptures rise like living columns and unfurl like swirling galaxies, their surfaces alive with patterns that echo both nature and mathematics. Shalev’s folded constellations hang in space, catching light and shadow in a way that feels almost celestial. Together, they invite you to see geometry not as an abstraction, but as something you can touch, walk around, and inhabit – a meeting place between the precision of mathematics and the fluidity of human imagination.
This exhibition is a conversation between two languages of making: the soft, stitched, and layered language of cloth, and the sharp, disciplined folds of paper. In Millington’s hands, pattern becomes a pulse; in Shalev’s, structure becomes starlight. Infinite Forms: Facets, Fabric, and Fiber reveals how symmetry, pattern, and dimension can cross material boundaries to create something more than the sum of its parts: a space where logic and wonder are inseparable, and where the infinite feels close enough to hold.
Open 7 days a week, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
The Museum occasionally closes early, closes for the day, or has limited hours. Please check the Visit page for further details.
Anette Millington explores how visual patterns and textile embellishments convey meaning and communicate. She creates textile sculptures, prints, quilts, and collaborative design projects. As an art and design educator, Anette specializes in reflective pedagogy, materials-based thinking, and interdisciplinary methods. She is the Associate Director of the MFA Textiles Program and Assistant Professor of Fashion Systems and Materiality at Parsons School of Design.
NOT-A-NORMAL FALL SHOW I
In person/ Fair / Multiple Techniques
Not-A-Normal Show returns this fall with its most ambitious edition yet. Hosted by Normal NYC at Canyon Essex in the Lower East Side, the three-floor cultural marketplace will bring together 300+ vendors and 10,000+ attendees across vintage, design, fashion, home, and art. Spanning two weekends — September 19–21 and 26–28, 2025 — the show transforms 40,000 sq ft into an immersive experience that blends retail, culture, and community. Visitors can expect curated shopping, food and beverage partners, and new programming designed to connect makers, collectors, and design enthusiasts in a dynamic, communal setting.
Normal NYC is a multi-service creative company founded by Lale Boz in 2020. Rooted in sustainability and community, Normal spans interior design, estate sales, and large-scale cultural events. Its flagship project, the Not-A-Normal Show, has become one of New York’s most influential marketplaces, bringing together over 300 vendors and 10,000 attendees each season across vintage, design, fashion, and home. With past shows staged inside the iconic Barneys building, Normal now expands into Canyon Essex and beyond, reimagining retail as an immersive cultural experience and championing independent makers, circular design, and meaningful community connections.
TOAST Renewed by Meta Struycken
In person / Open Studio / Embroidery
Join TOAST to celebrate the launch of TOAST Renewed by, a limited-edition series of one-of-a-kind garments, transformed by guest artists through traditional textile handcrafts, honouring both their past and their potential future.
From Sat 20 September to Sun 19 October, the pop-up at TOAST Brooklyn will present the first collaboration in the series, TOAST Renewed by Meta Struycken. The 8-piece capsule collection, made using returned or damaged TOAST items and fabric off-cuts, is complete with meticulous hand-stitching, quilting, darning, appliqué and embroidery methods. The collection is rooted in care, time, and the value of craft. Each piece has been thoughtfully restored demonstrating how mending, not discarding, is a creative act.
Meta Struycken is a Dutch textile artist who has worked for decades as a fashion designer, forecaster, and editor-in-chief of a fashion publication. Now focusing on independent, bespoke and studio-led projects, last year, she exhibited her concept STITCH! at gallery EENWERK in Amsterdam. The installation consists of 95 miniature garments (approx. 35 cm), adorned with contemporary interpretations of simple mending techniques that, for centuries, were used in most households to repair or repurpose clothing. She is currently working on a DIY inspiration book.
Opening Hours
Monday: 11am - 6pm
Tuesday: 11am - 6pm
Wednesday: 11am - 6pm
Thursday: 11am - 6pm
Friday: 11am - 6pm
Saturday: 11am - 6pm
Sunday: 11am - 6pm
No registration required.
TOAST aspires to a slower, more thoughtful way of life.
Established in 1997 in Wales, TOAST began with nightwear and loungewear, inspired by nature and the surrounding landscape. The collections were designed with a relaxed sense of ease and made with quality materials in long lasting silhouettes.
Today, our approach remains true to our beginnings – creating simple, modern and functional pieces intended to last for years to come.
https://us.toa.st/?loc=US&preselectedCountry=true?country=US&locale=en
Reed Anderson: FLAGWORKS Exhibition
In person / Exhibition / Sewing
Gallery 1923 presents the exhibition FLAGWORKS, featuring artist Reed Anderson.
An amalgam of vibrant popular culture and minimalist aesthetic, Anderson explores the language of flags as both personal and cultural symbol; semaphores whose colours celebrate a collective unity and contradict the polemic nature of flag as emblem of “us and them”.
Sewn from new and recycled rip-stop nylon familiar to spinnaker sails, kites, burgees and sports banners, Anderson engages with the formalism of painting as a sewn object. Rather than displayed outside, the work is exhibited indoors and takes a more formal
role of shrine or celebratory alter, the colours engaging our senses and reflecting in the light.
Banners join this exhibition and diverge from the singularity of the flags, embodying a temporal quality akin to film or a musical score. In addition, the banners are not fixed and can be "played" in various hanging arrangements in space. They require the viewer to navigate around them to fully experience the work. The choreography of the viewer is as important as the artwork, creating a species of dance that maintains a connection to the temporal.
Anderson will also show a selection of studies made during the Summer while at his family retreat in Canada.
No registration required
Opening: 09/19/2025, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Open 09/20/2025 12:00 - 6:00 PM
Exhibition Dates: Open until 09//30/2024 by appointment
Reed Anderson was born in NYC and received a BFA in printmaking from the San Francisco Institute of Art after first studying painting at the Cleveland Institute of Art. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and later received an MFA in Studio Arts from Stanford University.
Anderson has exhibited nationally and internationally for over 25 years, and his work is included in the permanent collections of institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), the AKG collection (Buffalo, NY), and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (Austria), among others.
Fiber of Being - Exhibition
In person / Exhibition / Multiple techniques
An exhibition by Culture Lab LIC in collaboration with the Textile Study Group of New York. “The Fiber of Being” explores the enduring significance of fiber art in contemporary life. This exhibition explores how textiles, with their rich histories of handcraft and cultural storytelling, continue to be profoundly relevant—bridging the physical and the virtual, the traditional and the contemporary. How does fiber art assert material presence in an increasingly immaterial world? Fiber is not just a medium but a metaphor for the interconnected threads of existence, weaving together the past, present, and the future. Curated by Caitlin McCormack.
Opening Reception September 25th 2025 6-9pm.
Exhibition on view: September 25 to November 2 2025
ART GALLERY is open Thursday & Friday, 5-9pm, and Saturday & Sunday, 2-9pm.
No Registration Required
Culture Lab LIC is a 501(c)(3) formed to be the arts and culture umbrella for Western Queens. We present local, national, and international art of all genres, while supporting New York artists and other nonprofits by providing space, resources and a sense of community.
Textile Study Group of New York is a 501(c)(3) formed to educate and promote a wider appreciation of fiber art among the larger art community and the public in general. We are an inclusive and diverse group of artists, teachers, curators, writers, and appreciators.
NOT-A-NORMAL FALL SHOW II
In person/ Fair / Multiple Techniques
Not-A-Normal Show returns this fall with its most ambitious edition yet. Hosted by Normal NYC at Canyon Essex in the Lower East Side, the three-floor cultural marketplace will bring together 300+ vendors and 10,000+ attendees across vintage, design, fashion, home, and art. Spanning two weekends — September 19–21 and 26–28, 2025 — the show transforms 40,000 sq ft into an immersive experience that blends retail, culture, and community. Visitors can expect curated shopping, food and beverage partners, and new programming designed to connect makers, collectors, and design enthusiasts in a dynamic, communal setting.
Normal NYC is a multi-service creative company founded by Lale Boz in 2020. Rooted in sustainability and community, Normal spans interior design, estate sales, and large-scale cultural events. Its flagship project, the Not-A-Normal Show, has become one of New York’s most influential marketplaces, bringing together over 300 vendors and 10,000 attendees each season across vintage, design, fashion, and home. With past shows staged inside the iconic Barneys building, Normal now expands into Canyon Essex and beyond, reimagining retail as an immersive cultural experience and championing independent makers, circular design, and meaningful community connections.
Syncretism
In person / Exhibition / Multiple Techniques
This exhibition begins from the understanding that movement and migration are inherent to life and that with movement comes exchange, transformation, and the possibility of new forms. How can we leave room to interact with, learn from, and be transformed by beings, traditions, and cultures different from ourselves without being appropriative and extractive? What becomes possible when we embrace polyphony over purity?
Here, boundaries are porous, materials metamorphose, and differences are embedded in webs of relationships. Traditions, materials, and textile techniques not usually combined sit side by side, converse, and reshape one another in the process.
In a world shaped by both forced and chosen movement, Syncretism invites reflection on the shared human impulse to create meaning in motion, and on the radical potential of blending, rather than separating, ways of being.
September 30 - October 2 Open by appointment 11 AM-6 PM, please email 24 hours ahead.
October 3 Opening Reception 6-9 PM
October 4 - 6 Programming / Artist Talks TBA
Romilly Rinck is a visual artist, material researcher, and educator based in New York, NY. Working in sculpture and installation, she explores embodied materialities through traditional textile techniques and experimental material processes. Romilly received her MFA in Textiles from Parsons School of Design (2023) and her BA in History of Art and Material Studies from University College London (2015). She has been an artist-in-residence at the NARS Foundation and LMCC's Arts Center Residency in New York. She is currently a part-time faculty member at Parsons School of Design.
Jasmin Risk is a NY-based interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator. Their work has been exhibited and performed at Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery (NY), The Zetland Basement (UK), Recession Art (Brooklyn), Dixon Place (NY), Dye House 451 (UK), The Glasshouse (NY), and Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn), among others. Risk’s work is featured in numerous publications, including Girls Get Busy Zine and Luma Quarterly. Risk earned their BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons in 2016, and their MFA in Textiles at Parsons in 2023. Risk is a recipient of the 2022 MFA Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) scholarship.