Exhibition

The Parsons Healthy Materials Lab presents Regeneration of Flax: Linseed, Linen, Shive & Oil at the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries on 5th Avenue in NYC. The exhibition will display the breadth of applications of products from the flax plant and encourage increased regional development of flax fiber in North America. Through the diversity of innovative designs, historic and current, our goal is to reconnect designers with the lifecycle of their materials.

Flax has been used for centuries for ropemaking, as a food source, and for textiles. It is a bio-based replacement for petrochemical-based products. The entire flax plant (Linum Usitatissimum) can be utilized, leading to zero-waste, healthier materials for textiles, finishes, paints, insulation and flooring. Through showcasing photography, material samples, written text, diagrams and artwork, the exhibit will display the flax plant through its life cycle, in various applications, and ultimately its compostability. Currently, fiber flax is primarily grown in Western Europe. Our exhibition will bring discourse to revitalization efforts of flax for linen textile production in North America. Additionally, the exhibition will highlight and display the use of linseed oil and shive byproducts for the built environment.

In response to the current climate crisis, our exhibition and related public programming will contribute to the crucial discussion concerning carbon sequestration, regional economies and the ongoing shift towards healthier, bio-based materials.

Exhibition: September 30th-November 12th, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries 66 5th Avenue, NY 

Opening & Panel Discussion: October 7th, Register Here

Spinning Workshop: October 30th, Register Here, Limited Registration for Students of Parsons 

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Healthy Materials Lab is a design research lab at Parsons School of Design. They are dedicated to a world in which people’s health is placed at the center of all design decisions. They are committed to raising awareness about toxic chemicals in building products and to creating resources for designers and architects to make healthier places for all people to live. With a dedicated team of design researchers, faculty, and student researchers, they work every day to creatively raise awareness of the impacts materials can have on our lives… and equip designers and architects with knowledge to build healthier places for all people to live and understand the lifecycle of their material choices.

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Curated by Annie Chen Ziyao and Jing Pei, the winner of Dorothy Waxman International Textile Design Prize 2023.

"Threads of Connection" is a captivating textile art exhibition that showcases the innovative responses of young artists to contemporary societal issues. Featuring current students and alumni from the MFA Textile program at Parsons School of Design, this exhibition demonstrates how emerging artists use their craft to engage in meaningful dialogue with the world around them.

Visitors will experience a diverse array of textile techniques, including weaving, dyeing, crochet, knitting, felting, embroidery, and cutting-edge biomaterials. Each piece reflects the artists' commitment to sustainability, with many works incorporating natural dyes, recycled plastics, and other eco-friendly materials.

This exhibition not only highlights the technical mastery of these young artists but also their deep awareness of environmental concerns and their ability to address complex social issues through their art. "Threads of Connection" invites viewers to explore the intricate ways in which textile art can weave together creativity, sustainability, and social commentary.

This event also has an exhibition page check here: Exhibition: September 13th - 26th

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Jing Pei is a textile artist known for her innovative approach to embroidery and commitment to sustainability. With a focus on zero-waste techniques, Jing creates exquisite textile pieces that not only highlight the intricate beauty of embroidery but also emphasize environmental consciousness. Her work often explores connections with water purification, showcasing her dedication to merging art with ecological responsibility.

With a passion for fostering artistic collaboration, Jing is organizing a textile art exhibition featuring her work alongside pieces by other talented artists. This event aims to celebrate the beauty and diversity of textile art, providing a platform for artists to share their unique visions.

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During New York Textile Month 2024, four graduate students from the Swedish School of Textiles—spanning both the Bachelor’s and Master’s programs—are proud to present their innovative degree work. This exhibition showcases the intricate craftsmanship and deep knowledge required to create textile pieces in an increasingly digitalized world. As emerging designers, they share a commitment to sustainability, recognizing the vital role it plays in shaping the future of design.

In a time when the digital realm often overshadows the tangible, these textile designers emphasize the importance of staying grounded in our craft and environment.

Their works draw inspiration from their surroundings, telling stories and conveying awareness through textile techniques. Each artist in this exhibition integrates sustainable practices into their creative process, making deliberate choices that reflect a deep respect for the environment and a desire to influence the future of design positively.

This event also has an exhibition page check here: Exhibition: September 17th - 30th

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The artists for this show are four graduate students from the Swedish School of Textiles: Boukje Kemper Hedda Lundström, Josephine d'Avis and Marije Dijkstra.

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Visionary Projects presents Fortnight, a 2-week exhibition in collaboration with Haus Incubator, global fashion innovation agency. The show happens in the heart of Chelsea where art & fashion merge for a Fortnight.

The Haus Incubator event will be held at a stunning 3700 sq ft gallery in Chelsea, Manhattan. The venue is centrally located, easily accessible, and neighboring other showrooms and trade shows, providing an ideal setting for HAUS INCUBATOR. They will incorporate modern and functional design elements to create an engaging atmosphere, including a lounge area featuring a contemporary artist to foster a comfortable and inspiring environment.

Artwork curation and opening night by Visionary Projects.

​Featuring Artists:
Agathe Bouton, Alex Wolkowicz, Bridgette Duran, Caroline Zimbalist, Emily Croteau, Fernanda Uribe, Lærke Lillelund, Marie Heléne Boone, Martina Dietrich, Roberto Godinez

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Visionary Projects is a global art platform with an active community. We serve as a space for discovery, inspiration and connection. Our mission is to make the contemporary art world more accessible and approachable while working with some of today’s top emerging artists. Through art curation, membership and bespoke events we are able to bring this to life.

Haus Incubator aims to revolutionize the tradeshow and showroom experience by creating a dynamic platform for mission driven independent brands with a strong DNA to connect with industry leaders. Their mission is to provide a curated space where independent brands can showcase their innovative perspectives, foster meaningful connections, and shift industry trends.

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For Textile Month, Padina will be presenting a surreal collection of art and fashion, produced with groundbreaking textiles that redefine sustainable design. Her initiatives integrate traditional craft into technology, modernizing existing tools and techniques to develop new sustainable systems in textile production.

Through her practice, she has developed many proprietary tools and systems the most notable being a spindle that spins LDPE (aka garbage bags) into a range of monofilament yarns that can be used for domestic or industrial textile production.

The plastics used in this process are sourced from street waste bins. This 0-waste process produces minimal secondary pollution and is more energy efficient than the industrial alternatives. This versatile yarn can be knit, crocheted, laced, woven, braided, and even sewn in a variety of garments, accessories, or framed art.

Inspired by early anatomical, botanical, and entomology imagery; used to build a narrative that explores the impact of plastic pollution on the human body and the environment. Padina's mission is to establish new industry standards, create with purpose, and harness the power of design to contribute to a bright, sustainable, and impactful future.

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Padina Bondar is a fashion designer, textile artist, and all-around maker with a passion for beauty and sustainability. In an average week, her work consists of diving waist-deep in recycling bins, felting human hair, dumpster diving, sterilizing tampon applicators, building electronics, designing tools, spinning, weaving, knitting, lacemaking, or simply drawing. She renders “waste” with beauty and value, giving it new life and stopping it from ending up in landfills and oceans. Some notable materials in her portfolio include tampons, cardboard, human hair, straws, wrappers, food waste, and more. Subscribe your trash is her treasure! Join her on her mission to save the planet and change the fashion industry, one plastic bottle at a time.

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Mending, combining and re-configuring found and vintage textile scraps, Sue creates abstract compositions, essentially painting with fabrics. Her process is slow, deliberate, and instinctual, born of a deep love of fabrics and rooted in the traditions of quilting and mending that she learned as a child. Transforming and repurposing these common, everyday materials she asks the viewer to pause and take a closer look, to consider the histories of these fabrics and the new stories they are telling.

Various Mediums Inc. is a proud member of 1% for the Planet.

Join them in the in the shop to celebrate and view New Work by Sue Allbert of Various Mediums Inc. Refreshments will be served.

This event also has an exhibition page, check here: Exhibition: September 8th - November 6th

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Established over ten years ago, M.PATMOS designs modern wardrobe staples and sophisticated, textural knitwear meant to be passed down to future generations. Focused on high quality and minimizing our environmental impact, they’ve worked with small family owned factories and workshops for many years, merging sustainable artisan hand crafted techniques and technology to create beautiful designs in luxurious, natural fibers. They opened their shop in the fall of 2018 in Brooklyn, New York where they focus on bringing the best from like minded independent designers.

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The Beautiful Forevers is curated by Margaret Lanzetta

Artists: Steve DeFrank, Tamara Gonzales, Joyce Kozloff, Holly Miller, Margaret Lanzetta, and Sarah G. Sharp

The Beautiful Forevers, an exhibition of contemporary painting in dialogue with historic global textiles, opens on Saturday Sept 7th from 3 -6 pm. A conversation between the artists and Leesa Hubbell, textile designer and batik expert, will be held Saturday Sept 21st at 3 pm. The Beautiful Forevers presents a visual and conceptual dialogue between six artists and textiles drawn from artist Margaret Lanzetta’s extensive collection. This collection began with the acquisition of a blue and white cotton weaving in Luxor, Egypt in 1978. Her diverse collection now includes Guatemalan huipils, African bark cloths, Malaysian songkets, and Indian tie-dyed and block printed fabrics, etc. The title, The Beautiful Forevers, is excerpted from the 2012 non-fiction book by Katherine Boo, chronicling the lives of slum dwellers in Mumbai. These slum dwellers, like many textile artisans, toil anonymously; rarely credited for their work or talents. Yet, like textile artisans, they create works that are beautiful forever. Each artist has an affinity to a significant aspect of textiles: color: Steve DeFrank, symbolism: Tamara Gonzales, politics: Joyce Kozloff, pattern: Margaret Lanzetta, materiality: Holly Miller, and thread: Sarah G. Sharpe.

Opening Sat Sept 7, 3 - 6 pm

Regular Opening Hours 1- 6 pm

Sunday Sept 8

Friday Sept 13

Sat Sept 14

Sunday Sept 15

Friday Sept 20

Sat Sept 21 Panel Talk 3 pm with Leesa Hubbell

Closing: Sunday Sept 22

This event also has an exhibition page check here: Exhibition: September 8th - 22nd

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@lanzetta_studio

In Margaret Lazentta's work, she investigate cross currents of world decorative traditions in relation to contemporary cultural, political, and environmental narratives. She combines the structure of patterned textiles with painting, silkscreening and digital technology to create tactile, layered works that explore conflicting references with centuries-old decorative motifs.

The Beautiful Forevers exhibition presents a dialogue between historical global textiles from the collection of Margaret Lanzetta and six contemporary artists. Artists include Steve DeFrank, Tamara Gonzales, Joyce Kozloff, Holly Miller, Margaret Lanzetta, and Sarah G. Sharp

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‘1/2 Flex' is a three-day exhibition, September 6-8, hosted by Rag Rug Study Group (RRSG) that includes fresh-off-the-loom rag rugs by New York-based artists Mariah Smith and Mae Colburn and invited guest artist, Francesca Martinazzi from Italy. All three use scraps of worn, surplus and discarded fabric to create complex, meaningful compositions that refer to this medium’s domestic function while examining its aesthetic and narrative possibilities. The exhibition title, combining the terms 1.5-bedroom and 2-bedroom flex, refers to the flexible, improvised nature of NYC apartment living. If an apartment can be transformed from a 1-bedroom to a 2-bedroom, why can’t a 1.5-bedroom become a gallery? For this exhibition, RRSG is transforming Smith’s bedroom into an exhibition space to create a viewing environment and discursive context specific to this ‘flexible medium’ of rag rugs. ‘Flexible medium’ is Martinazzi’s interpretation of the title, ‘1/2 Flex,’ translated from English to Italian to English. She points out that this interpretation also evokes Anni Albers’ phrase, ‘pliable plane’.

Register to attend the opening party and / or visit the gallery during open hours.* We will send you an email with address and details.

*During open hours, we invite visitors to bring reworked textiles in all techniques to be documented for RRSG’s digital archive.

Opening Party on Friday, September 6, 6-8pm

Open Hours on Saturday, September 7, 12-6pm

Open Hours on Sunday, September 8, 12-6pm

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Rag Rug Study Group is a research project that facilitates dialogue about textiles produced using worn, surplus, and discarded materials. They advocate an expansive definition of ‘rag rug’ that includes reworked textiles in all techniques including weaving, knitting, quilting, embroidery, crochet, mending, and sewing. They have a mailing list, host in-person events, and manage an online archive of the work they study. Rag Rug Study Group is a collaboration between New York-based artists and researchers Mariah Smith and Mae Colburn.

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Tempest gallery presents the exhibition Welcome Stranger.

“The study & practice of craft is [] a form of material resistance against ethnic cleansing, genocide and occupation.”-Jenna Hamed

“The stranger, on the other hand, can also easily become and already is each one of us, as we exist as both subjects to ourselves and objects to others in the world.” -Laurel V. McLaughlin, “As Strangers And Refugees: Olu Oguibe’s Performing Monument” in Monument Lab.

For September 2024 NY Textile Month, a group of artists will present new work on layette pincushions. Titled Welcome Stranger, the group show will focus on amuletic craft and Palestinian steadfastness.

The current genocide and displacement of Palestinians stands in discussion with the hopeful beauty and labor inherent in these objects. We see layette pincushions as a punctum of resourcefulness, resilience, and evidence of a gifting culture amongst a community that supported each other through the serious mortal threat that childbearing and birth could be. Currently, giving birth in Gaza is more dangerous than it was for the Victorian women sewing layette pincushions in the 1800s. 

The threads tying Victorian layette pincushions to Palestinian resistance are imaginary, but we are interested in the way material culture and especially amuletic or emotionally charged objects can widen our lens with which to see current events.

Research on the themes in Welcome Stranger by Lauren Bradshaw & Jenna Hamed will accompany the exhibition.

Please visit to see works by Taesha Aurora, Amir Badawi, Lauren Bradshaw, Katherine Earle, Francisco echo Eraso, Gigi Gruenburg, Jenna Hamed, Clare Hu, Vandana Jain, Ayqa Khan, Amalya Megerman, Theo Trotter, Defne Tutus and Natasha Vega.

This event also has an exhibition page check here: Exhibition: September 6th - 28th

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At TEMPEST, we want to talk about art in a maelstrom. We invite artists to be unafraid to broach difficult conversations and address colonial structures of violence through their practice in textiles, sculpture and installation. Through our programming and events, we aim to create community and a space for gathering, presenting work and building relationships in Ridgewood Queens.

We are open to scheduled visits outside of regular hours, please direct message us on instagram @tempest.gallery

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NORTH SOUTH EAST WEST Peter Knapp unites the world with his Fashion photography is curated by Joji Mita.

Hideo Yamakuchi Presents Textile Art in Tribute to Peter Knapp’s North South East West Exhibition.

Peter Knapp is the legendary Swiss artistic director and influential photographer who unintentionally but indelibly inspired Japan’s media landscape with his pioneering fashion photography. In 1959, Hélène Lazareff, founder and editor-in-chief of French Elle, entrusted Knapp with the artistic direction of the magazine. Knapp’s innovative approach to applied fashion photography captivated the public and left a lasting impression in Japan, leading to the launch of an an / Elle JAPON in March 1970 by Heibon Shuppan, Co., Ltd. (now Magazine House, Ltd.), as a licensed extension of Elle in Paris. 

Growing up in a renowned textile weaving family, Hideo Yamakuchi developed a passion for fashion and photography inspired by an an / Elle JAPON. The image chosen for his tapestry features the work of KENZO, aka designer Kenzo Takada, who, like Yamakuchi, is an alumnus of Bunka Fashion College. This intergenerational connection underlies their collaboration.

As Peter Knapp pioneered applied fashion photography, Yamakuchi invented photo-weaving, integrating personal “memories” into his textiles using unique weaving techniques. Traditionally, tapestries are limited to themes like religious paintings or picturesque landscapes. By merging this craft with digital technology, Yamakuchi enables weaving personal memories into his textiles. 

Yamakuchi’s artistic theme, “encounter daily memories through woven memory,” is a tribute to Peter Knapp’s remarkable contributions to applied fashion photography.

This event also has an exhibition page, check here: Exhibition: September 6th - October 6th

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Born in 1962 in Yonezawa City, Yamagata Prefecture, Hideo Yamakuchi is the third generation in his family’s weaving business. After graduating from Bunka Fashion College in 1988, he blended traditional weaving techniques with digital technology in 1990 and launched his artistic career in 1992.

Yamakuchi is an artist who portrays images through textiles, with “memory” as the central theme of his works. He likens the weaving process with warp and weft threads to the mechanism of memory in the brain, weaving his own photographs into textiles. In 1997, his book “Weaving Memories” attracted the attention of Jack Lenor Larsen. President of the American Craft Museum (now the Museum of Art & Design) in the U.S., leading to a solo exhibition at the Larsen Foundation’s Long House Foundation Gallery.

His works are part of the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Art & Design, and other museums. Yamakuchi has also produced numerous public works in Japan, including an official tapestry portrait of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand and a portrait of the Otocho of Sensoji Temple.

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"Tentacular Threads” is curated by Kathie Halfin, the exhibition "Tentacular Threads" delves into the intricate relationship between hybridity, the experience of everyday, and the process of making to explore how desperate elements converge to create new narratives and experiences. Featuring artists Natale Adgnot, Frid Branham, Rina AC Dweck, Kathie Halfin, Yudit Katz, Elizabeth Tolson, the show investigates the concept of tentacular thinking—a term coined by scholar Donna Haraway to describe a holistic approach to consciousness. Tentacularity acknowledges the multiplicity of converging and expanding threads of sentience that co-exist together, much like tentacles that allow organisms to sense, feel, and interact with their environment.

These artists explore "Tentacularity" through diverse materials and tactile experiences to connect with one another and the world around us, re-imagining the possibilities and forms of fiber art. Adgnot contrasts objective facts with cognitive biases through sculptures inspired by bird-related idioms and includes materials such as horse hair and thermoplastic to mark chapters of her life. Branham highlights the marks and flows in our environment left by nature and community through the practices of crocheting and drawing. Dweck's hair sculptures are intertwined with juxtapositions, braiding together organic and synthetic materials to reflect everyday diversity, while Halfin's woven sculptures re-establish a connection with diverse life forms through activation of human senses. Katz’s weavings evoke the architecture of the human body, inviting contemporary connections in fiber art, and Tolson creates ceramic looms threaded with delicate textiles to explore themes of fertility and motherhood. 

The exhibition celebrates diverse forms of making, with artists communicating their hand-woven, sewn, braided, and crocheted narratives through haptic labor. Utilizing materials such as paper, raffia, human and animal hair, clay, discarded items, and found objects, they build bonds with their everyday surroundings. Through their work, these artists collectively emphasize the interconnectedness of lived experiences, natural environment and cultural narratives, creating a rich tapestry of sensory and conceptual engagement that bridges gaps in understanding of contemporary fiber art.

Opening event: September 5th 5-8pm

Closing event: September 19th 6-8 pm

This event also has an exhibition page check here: Exhibition: September 5th - 19th

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Kathie Halfin was born in Crimea, Ukraine and raised in Israel. She is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and educator working in fiber media, installation and performance art. Halfin earned her Masters with honors in Fine Arts from the School Of Visual Arts, (NY) and Bachelors from Shenkar College in Israel. Halfin presented her work in group exhibitions at the Bronx Museum AIM Biennial (NY), The Immigrant Artist Biennial, (NY), AIR Gallery (NY), NARS Foundation (NY), and Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, NY. Halfin had a solo show at the Ely Center Of Contemporary Art, New Heaven, (CT).

Halfin presented her performances at the Immigrant Artist Biennial: Contact Zone, Itinerant Performance Festival in Smack Mellon ( NY), Knockdown Center: Sunday Series, (NY), Art In Odd Places Performance Festival, (NY) among others.

Halfin has been an Artist-in-Residence at The Icelandic Textile Center and SIM Residency in Iceland . She was an AIM fellow at the Bronx Museum Of Art (NY) and received a full Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. Halfin had two months of full Educational Fellowship at Wassaic Project Residency (NY) and was an artist in residency at A-Z West (CA) and Cha North Residency (NY).