Looking for fun, interactive gifts? New - creative kits for kids and adults!

Choose from a variety of fiber arts, including felting, crochet, weaving, rug hooking, and more.

$10 - $29.95 (Textile Center Members, $9 - $26.96)

December brings two incredible programs co-sponsored by the Textile Center to the MMAA Project Space! Programs are open to and encouraged for all audiences, and coincide with the current exhibition Repetition & Ritual: New Sculpture in Fiber.

TONIGHT!  6 - 8 pm

Art Class: Drawing with Wool (Karen Searle)

Get an introduction to the art of needle felting with Repetition & Ritual artist Karen Searle. This easy-to-learn technique allows you to draw using wool yarns and and fibers to create an image on fabric. Create an image from your own imagination or follow a simple pattern. Make a small sample and get many ideas for future projects. Registration is required. Call 651.222.6080 to reserve your spot. Class limited to 15 people. Suitable for all ages. Materials fee of $5 payable to instructor on day of class.

Thursday December 19, 6:30 - 8 pm

Artist Talk: Erica Spitzer Rasmussen

Local fiber artist and Textile Center Board Member Erica Spitzer Rasmussen creates mixed media and handmade paper garments. She received her BFA (1990) and MFA (1997) from the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis), which included coursework in Mexico and Greece. Her current work explores issues of identity and corporeality, often utilizing clothing as a metaphor for one's skin. Rasmussen teaches studio arts as an Associate Professor at Metropolitan State University (St. Paul, MN) and is Director of the Gordon Parks Gallery. Rasmussen will address her painstaking, time-consuming attempts to make talismanic objects about and for the body. This event is free, open to the public, and does not require registration.

 651.222.6080  / www.mmaa.org 

@ Textile Center auditorium

Every kind of weaving and spinning tool and accessory imaginable will be for sale. Find brand name looms and spinning wheels, shuttles, drop spindles, books, bins of all kinds of fleece, knitting yarn, and a lot more in like-new condition and 50% off retail prices. Everything must go. For more info, visit www.weaversguildmn.org   
Want $100 to spend at the sale? To have a chance to win, just click Join on WGM's Facebook event "Incredible Weaving and Spinning Sale."