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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American Craft Fest is the summer’s best opportunity to discover craft from across the region.

Participate in fun hands-on activities for all ages led by local arts partners, shop handmade work by early career artists, and enjoy food and beverages from local vendors.

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Located on the North Shore of Lake Superior, North House Folk School enriches lives and builds community by teaching traditional northern crafts. Founded in Grand Marais, Minnesota in 1997, North House hosts classes in over 18 teaching themes, from basketry to blacksmithing and timber framing to fiber arts.

As a folk school, North House emphasizes learning for the sake of learning in a non-competitive, supportive environment; over 90% of courses are open to complete beginners. Since its inception, North House has been a welcoming community hub, hosting a variety of events, public programming, and youth programs throughout every month of the year.

In addition to courses and events, North House also enriches the development of the next generation of craft artisans through an Artisan Development Program and Craft Education Internship. No matter the program, each experience at North House serves to inspire the hands, the heart, and the mind.

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Textile Center is unique as a national center for fiber art, with a mission to honor textile traditions, promote excellence and innovation, nurture appreciation, and inspire widespread participation in fiber arts.

The Center’s resources include exceptional fiber art exhibitions that are free and open to the public, an artisan shop, a secondhand fiber art supplies shop, the region’s only accessible professional-grade dye lab, a natural dye plant garden, and one of the nation’s largest circulating textile libraries open to the public.

Textile Center produces more than 200 classes a year for all ages and skill levels through its youth, adult, older adult, and outreach programs. A dynamic hub of fiber activity for more than 30 years, Textile Center brings people together in community to learn, create, share, and be inspired by fiber art.

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The American Craft Council (ACC) is a national nonprofit fostering connection through the handmade. Building upon a 80+ year legacy of tradition and innovation, ACC is part of a growing coalition of organizations, makers, and advocates leading a movement that supports craft-centered livelihoods and ways of living. Together, we can build a future where objects matter, makers thrive, and craft connects. Learn more and take part at craftcouncil.org.

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