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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The American Swedish Institute is one of the leading museums and cultural centers in Minnesota offering transformative arts and culture experiences centered around learning, reflection, and collaboration. Explore our historic Turnblad Mansion, Minnesota’s only castle—a must-see gem on the National Register of Historic Places.

Discover Nordic art and craft and immerse yourself in our museum exhibitions and collections of Swedish American culture and history. Learn about our variety of art, handcrafts, food, language programs, and more through workshops and events for all ages.

Your experience won’t be complete without browsing our unique items in our museum gift shop and dining at ASI’s award-winning restaurant FIKA Café featuring a seasonally inspired New Nordic menu.

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Experience the first permanent gallery Spotlight exhibition at the CAT, highlighting the beauty and wonder of the handmade.

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The Cafesjian Art Trust Museum (the CAT) is a Twin Cities gem inspiring creativity, curiosity and connection through art.

Featuring one exhibition at a time in our 2000-square-foot gallery space, we offer visitors the chance to encounter outstanding modern and contemporary art on a personal level.

We offer a dynamic range of programs for people at every stage of life. We are free to visit and welcome everyone.

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Handwork: Embodied Material, curated by Minnesota artist Soph Munic, centers MN’s LGBTQIA+ artists in collaboration with Embodied Material, a collective of queer textile artists who engage in study and critical thinking about artwork and identity through textile practices.

Artist Reception: Thursday, November 5, 5:30 – 7 pm.

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Handwork: A Common Thread celebrates the history, breadth, and depth of fiber art practices of Textile Center’s members and guilds.

The only exhibit of its kind in the nation — non-juried and open call until capacity is reached — A Common Thread supports our mission to inspire widespread participation in fiber art and to grow awareness of the central role of fiber arts in community building.

Artist Reception Thursday, August 6, 5:30 – 7 pm.

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Handwork: TWO-SPIRIT STORIES showcases the work of Minnesota’s emerging Two-Spirit Native artists.

In a celebration of traditional and contemporary handwork, these artists are affirming Indigenous and queer identity using themes of ceremony, community, and ancestral tradition. Penny Kagigebi (White Earth Ojibwe), First Peoples Fund Fellow, serves Curator for Community Collaboration for the exhibit.

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Handwork: Mni Sóta – Traditions & Innovations showcases MN’s Indigenous textile history while highlighting works that recognize, promote, and celebrate the work of distinguished Native artists in Minnesota with long standing engagement and commitment to textile-based practices.

These accomplished artists are constantly evolving traditional practices with contemporary innovations. Delina White (Leech Lake Ojibwe), McKnight and Jerome Hill Fellow, serves as advisor and curator.

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Handwork: Unbound, curated in partnership with Choice, Inc., Interact Center, and Fresh Eye Arts, showcases fiber artists with disability identities who challenge artistic conventions through non-traditional learning modalities.

The fiber art works selected are profoundly innovative and meaningful as visual autobiographies, through their chosen materials, techniques, and imagery.

Artist reception: March 19, 5 – 7 pm, 2026, at Textile Center.

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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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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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