Textile Center

Thank you for supporting Textile Center at 30 – Your home for fiber art! 

Thanks to all who contributed to our Give to the Max Day campaign. As of this afternoon, we raised $27,709! We are grateful for your support!

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Textile Center is Minnesota’s home to fiber art, and we are celebrating our 30th year. For the past three decades, our organization has grown into a national center for fiber art, presenting classes for artists and appreciators of all ages and skill levels, offering multi-workshops with internationally renowned guest teaching artists, showcasing exceptional exhibitions in our galleries that are free and open to the public, operating a first-rate artisan retail shop, and maintaining an impressive library of more than 35,000 books and periodicals.

We want Textile Center to be your home … a place where you can share your passion for fiber art and to find inspiration and encouragement. Thanks to our previous Give to the Max Day campaigns, we are improving our spaces, making them more comfortable and accommodating. Two years ago, you helped us repaint and refresh our spaces and expand our retail shop; last year, you helped us acquire 12 wooden “flip and nest” tables for our classrooms to help cover the costs to retrofit our fluorescent lights with LED fixtures.

This year, we are dedicated our Give to the Max Day campaign to reaise support for:

• $5,000 to install new shelving in our library to accommodate the nearly 500 books dedicated to South Asian textiles donated by Donald Clay Johnson, and, while we are at it, to repaint our library walls.
• $4,000 to purchase new vitrines to enhance our exhibitions, including an exciting exhibition with the National Basketry Organization (NBO) in 2025 and future A Common Thread member exhibitions.

Additional gifts will be directed to our programming, helping us to offer free and reduced tuition for those in need.

Our Board of Directors and Textile Center friends have assembled a match of $6,000 for Give to the Max Day!

Every gift – no matter the size – is appreciated and valued, and our Board and Staff are committed to being good stewards of your investment.

We rely on the generosity of hundreds of people each year who support Textile Center through financial gifts, by volunteering time, and advocating for fiber art in our community.

Textile Center’s mission is to honor textile traditions, promote excellence and innovation, nurture appreciation and inspire widespread appreciation in fiber art. We are grateful for your generosity during this celebration of giving.