Materiality: Memory in Cloth

Juried by Jenine Shereos. About the exhibit | The Cambridge Art Association (CAA) is pleased to invite artists 18 and older, and based in New England, to submit to our Fiber & Textile Call for Art. This exhibit is presented in conjunction with Gather 2025, a celebration of fiber art in New England. While there is not a specific theme for the call, the juror will create a theme based on the artworks submitted.

www.cambridgeart.org/fiber-textile-exhibit/

Patterns on Concrete

This exhibition presents a selection of quilts done by members of the Boston Modern Quilt Guild, some working collectively, to address a range of personal narratives, social issues, and formal explorations. Many of these pieces were created during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring both personal and social tension, change and a slower pace to explore the world.

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Art Evolved: Intertwined

There is a continuum where beauty and function blend and diverge in the hands of the contemporary artist. Even when traditional materials such as thread, fabric, wood, reed, and paper are used, these artists combine skill, imagination, and vision to meld their materials into compelling and beautiful art, which resonates in today’s world. "Art Evolved: Intertwined" is a collaboration between Studio Art Quilt Associates and the National Basketry Organization. After a rigorous jurying process, 59 artists from both organizations were invited to participate in this conversation, which highlights the enduring connections between quilting and basketry, as well as the relationship between beauty and functionality. The exhibition will travel to the Yellowstone Art Museum (MT), Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiber Arts Museum (WA), Lauren Rogers Museum of Art (MS), and Fuller Craft Museum.

fullercraft.org/exhibitions/art-evolved-intertwined/

INTERWOVEN: Textile Artists and Climate Change

Exhibit

INTERWOVEN: Textile Artists and Climate Change, Artists’ Talk in the Gallery

Various exhibiting artists will walk through the gallery with visitors and describe approaches to the materials and themes as members of i3C Artists Group (inspiring Change for the Climate Crisis).

www.i3cartists.com/

The Denim Project

We will be displaying our Denim Project Quilts at the Boston Public Library for the entire month of April. This project highlights sustainability and quilting. Each quilt was made only using recylced/upcycled materials. In particular, each quilt top was required to include denim.

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Puppet Performance

Puppeteer, Carole D’Agostino and UMass Dartmouth Fibers MFA, Allison Morones share their love for puppets! This program will include a discussion on puppet fabrication, special skills and story telling, and 2 puppet performances!

www.hellocarole.com

SNULPTURE

An Exhibit/Installation of five sculptures. Welded steel, fabric, audio and kinetic electronics

www.andyzimmermann.com

Holding Thoughts

Virginia Mahoney’s exhibition, “Holding Thoughts” at Boston Sculptors’ LaunchPad Gallery, presents woven forms made of strips of old paintings and reclaimed food net. Before weaving, the paper strips are written on or stitched with words or passages from her old sketchbooks, an act that feels affirming and almost permanent. This excavation of the past is a contemplative act of remembering, honoring, and preserving, while processing uncertainty, change, and ruminations on present situations, advancing age, and the inevitable. Mahoney tries to hold on to where she has been with these vessel forms that reach out into space in an effort to assert and affirm power, self, mark, and agency. This exhibition is a walk through those pages and her reflections on our world–past and present–with its undulations and uncertainties, hesitations and doubts–and its speculations, expectations and hopes.

www.virginiamahoneyart.com/

Anna Kristina Goransson: Topia

Anna Kristina Goransson’s new work is being exhibited at Boston Sculptors Gallery for the first time. The new work includes felted pieces as well as woven sculptures. Goransson’s work is a colorful utopia, or is it dystopia, of a world beyond humanity.

www.annakristinagoransson.com/

Liberation Textiles: Our Social Fabric

curated by Liz Thach + Camilo Alvarez

Liberation Textiles: Our Social Fabric, an exhibition curated by Elizabeth Thach and Camilø Álvårez

The show is centered around themes of individual freedom and is scheduled to coincide with Concord’s celebration of Patriots Day. It will primarily feature fiber-based visual art.

concordart.org/exhibition/liberation-textiles-our-social-fabric/

Reception

The show is centered around themes of individual freedom and is scheduled to coincide with Concord’s celebration of Patriots Day. It will primarily feature fiber-based visual art.

Knit Democracy Together -- Counting the Votes: the Process, the People, and the Electoral College

Increase your democracy literacy while you knit or crochet a piece of a collaborative sculpture of the Massachusetts State House. It’s a metaphor for representative democracy. At this knitting circle, you’ll deepen your understanding of the electoral process and engage in discussion with other civically minded crafters. Led by artist and former election lawyer Eve Jacobs-Carnahan. Materials provided; bring knitting needles or crochet hooks if you have them. Non-knitters welcome. More info at knitdemocracy.org.

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Knit Democracy Together -- Counting the Votes: the Process, the People, and the Electoral College

Increase your democracy literacy while you knit or crochet a piece of a collaborative sculpture of the Massachusetts State House. It’s a metaphor for representative democracy. At this knitting circle, you’ll deepen your understanding of the electoral process and engage in discussion with other civically minded crafters. Led by artist and former election lawyer Eve Jacobs-Carnahan. Materials provided; bring knitting needles or crochet hooks if you have them. Non-knitters welcome. More info at knitdemocracy.org.

knitdemocracy.org/

A Moveable Feast: Fiber, Found Objects, and Apple Prunings

Come gather with artists Barbara Andrus, Louise Berliner, and Linda Hoffman at Old Frog Pond Farm in Harvard, where Agriculture, Art and Community cross-pollinate and collaborate. Using a forgotten farm cart as our base we will construct a (travelling?) folly*, built from this year’s apple prunings and all the fiber participants can gather. Search your drawers, clean out your closets, look under the bed, grab old clothes, hunt at the dump, or splurge on something glittering and irresistible! Bring scissors, clippers, all kinds of string and rope, crochet hooks, anything you like to work with. What fun we will have as we gather together to create our own fiber flotilla! Bring a lunch. The farm’s own organic apple cider will be provided. Free, but limited to 15 participants, so please reserve your place! RSVP: strongwhitepine@verizon.net. Rain date April 6, 2025

www.oldfrogpondfarm.com

UMass Dartmouth 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Ignition Space - Exhibit

The UMass Dartmouth MFA Thesis Exhibition is a much anticipated and celebrated annual event showcasing the artwork of graduating Master of Fine Arts students from the College of Visual and Performing Arts. In 2025, the exhibition will take place in three locations from Saturday, April 5 to Sunday, April 27, all open to the public free of charge. Gallery Hours: Thursdays & Fridays 4 PM to 8 PM, Saturdays & Sundays 12 PM to 5 PM

www.fallriverartsandculturecoalition.org/space

UMass Dartmouth 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition at The Art and Design Studios

The UMass Dartmouth MFA Thesis Exhibition is a much anticipated and celebrated annual event showcasing the artwork of graduating Master of Fine Arts students from the College of Visual and Performing Arts. In 2025, the exhibition will take place in three locations from Saturday, April 5 to Sunday, April 27, all open to the public free of charge.

www.umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries

Fiber Art exhibition at Western Ave Artist loft gallery

Artwork by Fiber artists at Western Ave studios and lofts will be on display in the Loft Gallery Western Ave during Open Studios. Located in Lowell, Western Ave studios and lofts is a large community of over 300 artists from the Merrimack Valley, Greater Boston and Southern New Hampshire. The first Saturday of each month is open Studios.

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South End Woven / Hand-Weaving Demonstration

Watch weavers make beautiful fabrics on one of the seven looms in the working weavers studio gallery. Making scarves, towels, rugs and other useful items with natural fibers and luxurious materials. Seven weavers are represented with unique styles, colors and tetures.

www.southendwoven.com

Weaving the Wrackline with Rebecca McGee Tuck

Join artist Rebecca McGee Tuck for a marine debris weaving workshop. In this hands-on experience, participants will learn weaving techniques to create their own unique pieces of sustainable fiber art. Each participant will take home their own finished woven artwork that promotes environmental awareness and positive impact. Come join me as we bend the rules of weaving and create a meaningful piece of art as we celebrate Earth Month!

Craftswoman & Collector

Profoundly influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement ideal that we should surround ourselves with beautiful handcrafted objects, Rose Standish Nichols embroidered items she used everyday, bringing color and ornamentation to her domestic spaces. She was also a collector, acquiring historic textiles that informed her work and enlivened her home. Join us for a focused look at highlights of the Nichols House Museum textile collection, featuring items created and collected by Rose Nichols.

nicholshousemuseum.org

Building Woven Landscapes, by Maris  VanVlack

Weaver’s Guild of Boston, afternoon program by Maris VanVlack talks about her Fiberart practice as a weaver and multi media maker.

www.weaversguildofboston.org

UMass Dartmouth 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition at New Bedford Whaling National Historical AHA! Night Meet & Greet

The UMass Dartmouth MFA Thesis Exhibition is a much anticipated and celebrated annual event showcasing the artwork of graduating Master of Fine Arts students from the College of Visual and Performing Arts. In 2025, the exhibition will take place in three locations from Saturday, April 5 to Sunday, April 27, all open to the public free of charge. Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Sunday: 9 AM to 4 PM

www.umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction: Visual Artists Re-envision the Container

An exhibition of fiber work in response to Ursula Le Guin’s Carrier Bag of Fiction (or Art) essay. The theory suggests that the first tool may not have been a sharp and pointy aggressive implement but instead a useful vessel for carrying berries, potatoes or babies.

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opening reception and artist talk

A celebration of the exhibit featuring brief artist talks by featured artists

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Mend/Amend with Winnie van der Rijn

Join me for a Quilting Bee style mending event! Quilting Bees have traditionally been used as a place for individuals to come together and affirm their communities. Taking this idea as inspiration we will we come together to collectively mend and amend a large vintage, tattered, stained, rescued American Flag. As we stitch we will take the opportunity to talk about ideas of freedom, as well as our concerns, fears, hopes and dreams for the country.

Gallery Talk with NEQM Collections Manager

NEQM Collections Manager Laura Lane offers a gallery talk in the exhibition, Showing Off: Selections from the Permanent Collection. Some of the most elaborately pieced and embroidered masterpieces from our renowned quilt collection will be on view in the NEQM’s Nancy Donahue Gallery. Showing Off is on view, April 1 through June 21, 2025.

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UMass Dartmouth 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition at The Ignition Space - Reception

The UMass Dartmouth MFA Thesis Exhibition will hold a reception from 3-5 pm with Welcome remarks at 4 pm for the much anticipated and celebrated annual event showcasing the artwork of graduating Master of Fine Arts students from the College of Visual and Performing Arts. In 2025, the exhibition will take place in three locations from Saturday, April 5 to Sunday, April 27, all open to the public free of charge.

www.umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries

South End Woven / Hand-Weaving Demonstration

Watch weavers make beautiful fabrics on one of the seven looms in the working weavers studio gallery. Making scarves, towels, rugs and other useful items with natural fibers and luxurious materials. Seven weavers are represented with unique styles, colors and tetures.

www.southendwoven.com

A discussion of Sculptural Fiber practices

Join artists Kristina Goransson (felting), Virginia Mahoney (Weaving) and Andy Zimmerman (stretched Dacron) for a lively discussion of the role of fiber in 3 very different sculptural practices. What role does fiber play and why do we return to it? Moderated by Michelle Lougee. Talk begins at 3:15, light refreshments and conversation to follow.

www.bostonsculptors.com/

Artisans Asylum Fiber Arts Social Night and Maker Gathering

Step into a world of fiber and creativity at Artisans Asylum Fiber Arts Shop Night! Whether you’re a textile pro or just fiber-curious, this is your chance to explore our incredible workshop and the tools that bring ideas to life—domestic and industrial sewing machines, spinning wheels, tabletop looms, sergers, a shoe sewing machine, and even a machine that bonds fabric with sound waves! Watch live demos, meet fellow makers, and get inspired by the endless possibilities. Drop by, meet the community, and see how Artisans Asylum can help bring your fiber arts dreams to life!

www.eventbrite.com/e/free-fiber-arts-shop-night-tickets-1230958914249?aff=oddtdtcreator

Celebrating Fiber at Peabody Essex Museum

Join Paula B. Richter, Curator-at-Large, for this curator-led tour of Peabody Essex Museum galleries, exclusively tailored for Gather 2025 symposium participants. The tour includes selected highlights of the museum’s fiber/textile/fashion collection, both historic and contemporary, in the Fashion & Design Gallery; Asian Export Art Gallery; Maritime Gallery; and PEM’s award-winning Native American and American art installation, On this Ground: Being and Belonging in America. Note: This tour takes place on two levels. The first floor level is wheelchair accessible; a portion of the tour on the upper level is only accessible via a staircase with 3 steps. Museum staff will accompany all tours for this event. Please contact the museum for details.

my.pem.org/22411/23025

Easter Egg-stravaganza: Needle Felted eggs

Join us for a delightful session of needle felting, where you’ll transform plain egg shapes into vibrant, textured wonders using a rainbow of colored wool. Led by our skilled instructor, this class is perfect for those seeking a hands-on, crafty experience. Explore various felting techniques, experiment with colors, and create your own unique Easter eggs that will stand out in any basket. Get ready for an eggstra special treat - we’re hosting an Egg Theme Pun Contest during the class with a surprise prize for the punniest participant! It’s your chance to crack up the room with eggstraordinary wordplay and maybe even win a prize that will leave you eggstatic! Unlock your creativity in a relaxed and festive setting, and leave with charming, felted Easter eggs that are fun to make and fantastic seasonal decor. Reserve your spot now and let the crafting adventure begin!

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A look behind the "curtain" - a fashion and textile tour of PEM’s James B. and Mary Lou Hawkes Collection Center

Join Petra Slinkard, Director of Curatorial Affairs and the Nancy B. Putnam Curator of Fashion & Textiles; Dan Lipcan, the Ann C. Pingree Director of the Phillips Library, and Angela Segalla, Director of the Collection Center and Collection Stewardship for special behind-the-scenes tours for Gather 2025 symposium participants at the museum’s collection storage facility. These custom tours will include viewing of selected highlights from the museum’s fashion and textiles collection in storage and the Phillips Library’s rich holding of rare books, manuscripts, and other materials related to textiles, fashion, and fiber. Note: This tour takes place on two levels. The first floor level is wheelchair accessible; a portion of the tour on the upper level is only accessible via a staircase with 3 steps. Museum staff will accompany all tours for this event. Please contact the museum for details.

my.pem.org/22411/23026

Knit Democracy Together -- Representing All Voices: Alternatives to Gerrymandering and Winner-Take-All Primaries

Increase your democracy literacy while you knit or crochet a piece of a collaborative sculpture of the Massachusetts State House. It’s a metaphor for representative democracy. At this knitting circle, you’ll deepen your understanding of the electoral process and engage in discussion with other civically minded crafters. Led by artist and former election lawyer Eve Jacobs-Carnahan. Materials provided; bring knitting needles or crochet hooks if you have them. Non-knitters welcome. More info at knitdemocracy.org.

knitdemocracy.org

Knit Democracy Together -- Representing All Voices: Alternatives to Gerrymandering and Winner-Take-All Primaries

Increase your democracy literacy while you knit or crochet a piece of a collaborative sculpture of the Massachusetts State House. It’s a metaphor for representative democracy. At this knitting circle, you’ll deepen your understanding of the electoral process and engage in discussion with other civically minded crafters. Led by artist and former election lawyer Eve Jacobs-Carnahan. Materials provided; bring knitting needles or crochet hooks if you have them. Non-knitters welcome. More info at knitdemocracy.org.

knitdemocracy.org

Bonneville Dougher Art Lovers Book Club

The Attleboro Arts Museum will welcome Gather guests to a special meeting of our "Bonneville Dougher Art Lovers Book Club." Free and open to all Reservations are required: office@attleboroartsmuseum.org or 508-222-2644 x10 Book: "The Golden Thread" by Kassia St. Clair From colorful 30,000-year-old threads found in a Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes that sparked the Industrial Revolution, this book weaves a story of human ingenuity. Visit: www.kassiastclair.com/books to learn more. Guest Speaker: Renée Harding, Professor of Fashion Design and Program Area Chair, Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Renée Harding has worked at Roytex, designing private label men’s activewear and sportswear for Pierre Cardin, Bill Blass and various merchants. She also worked at Bernard Chaus Sport in the Missy Knits division. Renée holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, Apparel Design and MFA from Academy of Art University, Fashion Design.

Indigo dying workshop

Learn the basics of Indigo dyeing by exploring a variety of techniques. You will create a set of 4 hand-dyed cotton napkins. These make excellent gifts! Traditional shibori, resist, and pole-dyeing techniques will be included with hands-on help. The fee includes all materials needed. Please bring a bagged lunch. This event will happen rain or shine. NO PREVIOUS SKILLS NECESSARY. Come have fun, get messy, explore and see what you can do! $125.00 per person, We have multiple sliding scale seats reserved. Note: Indigo stains WILL. NOT. COME. OUT. Please dress accordingly.

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"Weaving threads of lace history"

This will be promoted as the largest gathering of lacemakers in Ipswich for over 200 years. The day will include the following: - A display and presentation of Ipswich lace-related items from the collection of the Ipswich Museum by Curator Katherine Chaison - A presentation by NELG member Mary Mangan of the Ipswich mobile exhibit, which was funded by a grant from IOLI - A display of contemporary lace made by NELG members - On-going lace making demonstrations of bobbin lace (including Ipswich of course!), needle lace and tatting - Opportunities for visitors to make lace on one of the “try me” pillows

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Light & Fashion

UMass Dartmouth CVPA and its Fashion Program present a night of fashion followed by a festival of lights, created by the Interior Architecture and Design Program.

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"Darn It"

Join a fun group of people who want to learn to repair a piece of clothing or textile, whether it is a rip or a stain it can can be beautiful again.

Weaving an Address Opening Reception

The opening reception for The Umbrella’s Spring exhibition will take place on April 14th from 6-8pm in the Allie Kussin Gallery at The Umbrella. We will be launching our Art Ramble on this same date. The plans (subject to change) currently include an artist panel/talk about the Gallery exhibit. Light refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public!

Modern Quilt Jeans

In conjuction with Boston Public Library - Central Library at Copley Square display quilts made of jeans

Weaving an Address

This exhibition acknowledges and intimately explores the work and lives of the Black people who inhabited Walden Woods prior to and after the American Revolution. Through the artistic vision and perspective of modern Black artists a series or works are placed along the path etched out in honor of Henry David Thoreau by The Walden Woods Project in Walden Woods, Concord, MA. The exhibition has two parts: an indoor textile show and an outdoor installation show along the Thoreau Path in the woods. Both pieces will speak to each other to give audiences and even broader and more contextualized look at the history of Black Americans in Concord.

PATTERNMAKING 101: SKIRT PATTERNS

Patternmaking 101 is for any sewer who wants to learn the fundamentals of creating a sewing pattern that they can use in the future.

www.eventbrite.com/e/patternmaking-101-skirt-patterns-tickets-1000948081657?aff=oddtdtcreator

QUILTING 101: QUILTING BASICS AND MORE

Get ready to thread your needle and learn to sew a quilt -- from selecting the fabric to cutting, piecing, pressing, quilting, and binding.

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Gather Closing Party and Networking Event

Informal Networking with Thank You Words

Sashiko Stitches - Japanese Mending

Immerse yourself in the art and history of Sashiko, a traditional Japanese stitching technique rooted in practicality and beauty. Learn Sashiko’s origins and its cultural significance as a form of mending, storytelling, and creative expression. Then, roll up your sleeves for a hands-on workshop to try this timeless technique.

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Weave a designer scarf

Join us for a hands-on workshop and craft your very own unique scarf on a rigid heddle loom. Using the clasped weft technique, you’ll create stunning, staggered color blocks for a unique, textural masterpiece.

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LA+D Gather: A Fiber Arts Maker Event

Join Michelle Lougee and Joetta Maue for a community building Fiber Arts maker event as part of Gather Fiber Symposium 2025. Our project is simple and sustainable- a fabric scrap stuffie! This is an inclusive event to foster community and engagement at Lesley and beyond. All are welcome! Materials provided!

Building Woven Landscapes" by Maris VanVlack

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Artist talk: Caron Tabb + Sam Fields

Notable fiber artists Caron Tabb and Sam Fields will discuss their art practices in a lively conversation moderated by Merill Comeau.

Contradictions of Freedom

This exhibit features artists from Sisters in Stitches Joined by the Cloth, since 1997, New England’s only quilt guild dedicated to preserving the art, history, culture, and traditions of African American quilt making. "Contradictions of Freedom" acknowledges the roles of BIPOC peoples in our nation’s history, that have not been celebrated and historically acknowledged in our school’s American history curriculum. These women artists are deeply rooted in the very fibers of American History with ancestral ties dating back to the lead up to the American Revolution.

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Quilts 250 Stitching in the Spirit of Democracy

200 plus Quilts on Display, Antique, Traditional, Contemporary, The Spirit of 1775, Quilts of Protest Quilts in Bloom, featuring quilts paired with floral arrangements Quality boutique Children activities Special Lecture March 22 5pm American Quilts: The Art and Story of a nation by Gerald Roy of the Pilgrim/Roy Collection and Jennifer Swope, Curator of Textiles at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

www.quiltersconnection.org/Quilts250.html

Printed and Stitched in Time: Stories of Undaunted Women

Fiber and mixed media artist Sandra Mayo presents "Printed and Stitched in Time: Stories of Undaunted Women" at The Vilna Shul. This fiber art exhibition explores the intertwined stories of Sara Rus and Ruth Paradeis, two Jewish women who survived the Holocaust only to face the disappearance of their children decades later during Argentina’s military dictatorship. Through her CJP/JArts Community Creative Fellowship, Sandra has researched the forces that sustain us in times of profound social trauma. Using Genograms—symbolic relational diagrams—as her visual language, she has developed new symbols for human rights and resilience, incorporating monoprints, screenprints, and embroidery on delicate yet durable materials. This work not only honors Sara’s and Ruth’s determination but also invites you to reflect on the small yet powerful connections and choices that help us endure and move forward. What rituals, relationships, and moments of meaning sustain us in difficult times?