Join Swedish textile artist and educator Kerstin in weaving a weft-facing repp band, a technique where the weft is given more space and a pattern is built up over time, much like a drawing or picture.

Using their band weaving loom and materials, students will develop skills in this intermediate-level class.

Suitable for ages 12+. Students provide their own materials and should be comfortable warping their small rigid heddle loom ahead of class; please see the full materials list link.

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Enjoy the relaxing art of needle felting while making a textile as pretty as a painting.

Using a piece of felt as the canvas and wool roving as the paint, students will work alongside textile artist Kayla Ann to create a 2-D folk-inspired floral bouquet in wool.

Suitable for ages 16+, the class fee includes a kit that has the tools and materials for one student.

Kits will be available for pick up at the American Swedish Institute starting January 22 or can be shipped for an additional $10 fee.

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Create a sweet felted chickadee inspired by Minnesota’s north woods in this afternoon-long class.

Students will follow step-by-step instructions to transform hand-dyed wool from the instructor’s own sheep into a small felted chickadee.

Class fee includes a kit. Each kit has the tools and materials for one student, including a needle felting base, felting needles, and wool roving.

Kits will be available for pick up at the American Swedish Institute or can be shipped for an additional $10 fee.

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Virtual class: Saturday, January 17 – Sunday, January 18, 10 am – 12 pm CST

Join Swedish textile artist and educator Kerstin to design and begin weaving a repp band, a style where warp threads tightly cover the weft threads.

Students will practice creating a pattern, warping, and starting to weave a repp band over two online sessions using their own small, rigid-heddle band weaving loom and materials.

Suitable for ages 12+.

Students provide their own materials, details in the link.

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This is a live virtual class.

Create a festive ornament using needle felting techniques alongside teaching artist Kayla Ann!

This fun project utilizes cookie cutters to create a felted ornament with clean lines, even shape, and adorable details. This class is ideal for beginners.

Kits are included in the fee and include wool and felting tools for one student (cookie cutters not provided). Kits will be available for pick up starting 12/4, or can be shipped for $10. Registration closes on 11/24.

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Five decades ago, the most influential craft exhibition ever staged, OBJECTS: USA, toured America. New York-based gallery R & Company revived the exhibition in 2020 and 2024, ultimately resulting in a traveling version that pairs work by artists from the original exhibition with those of contemporary makers.

America has changed a great deal over the past fifty years, yet the creative capacities of individual makers remain one of America’s most inspiring cultural wellsprings.

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Woven in Wool: Resilience in Coast Salish Weaving showcases both historical and contemporary woven items, including blankets, tunics, hoods, and skirts.

Journey through the seasonal cycle of weaving, from gathering materials and spinning wool to dyeing with natural ingredients and weaving intricate designs. Along the way, learn firsthand from weavers and gain insight into the deep cultural and scientific knowledge embedded in every strand.

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Free Public Flameworking demo with Shane Fero, master of the medium for 50+ years!

Live in person at the Sonoran Glass School in Tucson, AZ and Live Streaming via YouTube @sonoranglassart.

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Art talk and hot glass demonstration with Kazuki Takizawa.

Free and open to the public. Also live streaming on YouTube @sonoranglassart

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Hot Glass Blowing and sculpting Demo with Karen Willenbrink and Jasen Johnsen, in person in Tucson at the Sonoran Glass School and Live Streaming via YouTube @sonoranglassart.

January 30 2026 from 5-7pm Mountain time.

Join us for this free public demonstration event!

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Live Hot Glass Blowing Demonstration with Jason Christian, in person at the Sonoran Glass School and Live Streamed via YouTube. @sonoranglassart

Join us from 5 to 7 pm Mountain time in Tucson AZ!

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This special edition of Scholastic Art will explore the art and craft that have defined the United States since its birth. We’ll examine major themes, symbols, and artistic movements that have responded to and inspired American history.

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Textile Center is kicking off the year celebrating Minnesota artists with the 2025 McKnight Fiber Artist Fellowship Exhibition, featuring new work by the 2025 fellowship recipients Christine Novotny of Grand Marais, a weaver and dyer, and Shannon Lucas Westrum of Bemidji, a basketry and mixed media artist.

Artist talks and reception for the artists: March 19, 5 – 7 pm, 2026, at Textile Center.

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Ballroom culture imagined through 19th-century Pre-Raphaelite paintings is central in Jamie Vasta’s exhibition, House of Roses.

Known for her contemporary figurative works made entirely of bombastic bits of glitter and a little glue, Vasta reimagines art history with a queer lens.

The glitter portraits draw inspiration from the bearing, and metaphor in Pre-Raphaelite paintings. Rousing and restaged with queer identities in full bloom, Vasta’s fictive family are gorgeous, tattooed and costumed

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Begun in 2018 and completed in 2020, John Paul Morabito unveils their series of religious tapestries with a subtle but explicit intervention, cloaking 15th- and 16th-century Renaissance paintings of Madonna and Child in flamboyant colors of drag—a Queer allegory turning sacred to Camp.

Morabito remediates devotional paintings by artists such as DaVinci and Botticelli with accentuated day-glow colors and a stigmata presentation shimmering with gold beaded fringe.

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