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An interdisciplinary approach to the study of clothing and textiles.
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10/23/2026- two years into developing a regenerative production method serving the landscaping, environmental restoration, and textile communities 🌱 -- ✨️our hope is that we can use the same pellicle that offers a #plasticfree solution for garden or wildflower meadow installation for making actual fashion items here in Oregon Check out footage from the latest #oregoncoast trip to @sitkacenter! 🌲 🔬By adding a layer on top of the existing layer we applied abput 6 weeks ago, we are looking to see if the layers will fuse even after intense sun curing, and looking to see if a second application should be considered the gold standard approach.... 🪻the first application weakened the grass severely, but now we want to see what happens next 🧪 as we refine the outdoor #productionmethod for #biocellulose #regenerativetextiles that we are developing alongside the guidance and support of @psu_textilearts and @psuplantsci researchanddevelopment thanks to the consistent support from @hmkpnw @portlandtextilemonth @textilehive @portal_beverage_lab @portalteaco
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We are thrilled to moderate “Resilience in Textiles: Artists and Educators in Conversation,” a virtual panel this Wednesday, October 21, from 5–6:30 p.m. Pacific. Join us online from wherever you are! The conversation brings together emerging artists Freda Xinyue Xia @fredaxia , Vidushi Parashar @vidushi_p12 , and PSU MFA student Tare Gausman @tare0zero , alongside educators Preeti Gopinath @preethigopinathnyc, founding director of the MFA Textiles program at Parsons School of Design @parsonstextilesmf, and Alison Heryer, who leads PSU’s Textile Arts program @psu_textilearts. Our connection with Preeti began through Andrea, and our relationship with the Parsons MFA Textiles program dates to 2022. We’ve also collaborated closely with PSU’s Textile Arts program since the 2019 Portland Textile Month. These relationships have created meaningful opportunities for artistic exchange and helped build connections across our festival and community. It’s a pleasure to share space with these talented emerging artists and educators we greatly admire. Together, we’ll discuss material exploration, how to build educational programs that support experimentation and artistic growth, and how this year’s theme, Layers of Resilience, takes shape through making, community, teaching, and exchange. We hope you’ll join the conversation! Register through www.textilex.org to attend online.
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PTXM is in Full Swing! From inner worlds to the outer world, there’s plenty to see and do this week! Negotiated Skin is an installation-based textile and biomaterial project by New York-based artist Freda Xinyue Xia @fredaxia exploring the idea that resilience is not a single strong surface, but a layered condition. In Liminal, the grammar of thoughts, artist Vidushi Parashar @vidushi_p12 gives form and voice through knotted textile sculpture to an experience that cannot be seen, only felt. If you’re wanting to make the most of the autumn sunshine, Color on the Farm starts with a tour of Acania Farm’s agriculture trials and concludes with making natural dye baths from local and reused plant materials. @sofia.rose3 As always, check our event listings on textilex.org for a full rundown of everything happening during Portland TextileX Month: Layers of Resilience! #textiles #layersofresiliencePTXM2026 #portlandtextilecommunity #craft #thingstodoinportland
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We are just a few days out from the @psu_artanddesign GRAND OPENING and EVERYONE IS INVITED!! Tuesday, October 13th! A little peek at some of the folks helping us celebrate: @rowdyairbrush, @quinntheqlown, @dragtomboy, @tinasnowle, @dj_susan_saranwrap @cobradogs @rosaschurrosor @outletpdx, @secretroompdx Plus a preview of what our @psu_pov and @psugd_comma has planned! And this is just SOME of what’s happening! Our programs, studios, faculty + students are opening their doors and bringing all four floors to life with art, design, music, printing, performances, making things + meeting people! Hosting something for the Grand Opening? Share a peek at what you’re planning + tag @psu_artanddesign so we can help spread the word! There’s SO MUCH happening and we want folks to see it all! TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13! Opening remarks at 4 PM! Ribbon cutting at 4:45! Building-wide party from 5–8! PSU Art Building 1981 SW Broadway · Portland FREE + open to everyone! Come explore our new home! Bring your friends! We can’t wait to celebrate with you! Full lineup: psu.gd/grandopening
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Opening on Friday, October 16th, at PSU! @psu_textilearts @psu_artanddesign Negotiated Skin is an installation-based textile and biomaterial project by New York-based artist Freda Xinyue Xia. @fredaxia The project brings together translucent protein-based biomaterial membranes, hand-reeled silk, wool, natural fibers, wearable structures, and suspended sculptural forms. Moving between skin, garment, and environment, the installation explores the body as a changing boundary shaped by vulnerability, protection, repair, and transformation. The work begins with the idea that resilience is not a single strong surface, but a layered condition. Through repeated material processes, including layering, drying, stretching, stitching, reinforcement, and repair, the biomaterial membranes become records of pressure, softness, failure, and adaptation. Their translucent surfaces hold contour-like fiber lines, organic traces, and skin-like textures that suggest both fragility and strength. Presented as an immersive installation, Negotiated Skin invites viewers to encounter textile as a living system. The work asks how materials can remember touch, how bodies carry repair, and how layered forms of care can become structures of resilience. In relation to the 2026 theme Layers of Resilience, the project offers a quiet but powerful reflection on transformation and collective care. Artwork from this exhibit is visible from the street at any time, at 1981 SW Broadway, with interior viewing available Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. #textiles #layersofresiliencePTXM2026 #portlandtextilecommunity #craft #thingstodoinportland
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After a vibrant kickoff weekend, we dive into our first full week of Portland TextileX Month with explorations of color and form, as well as multiple opportunities for community connections. Scroll through to see everything on the schedule for the week ahead! Resist/Exist and Between the Threads both examine ways of communicating personal and cultural histories through the medium of batik, while Remend/Remember is an exhibit that looks at how rescued and reworked textiles can be a vehicle for the transmission of cross-cultural values. If PTXM’s opening celebration whet your appetite for more textile-community gatherings, come to artist Ruby Webb’s clock party! complete with clock-themed garments to view and try on, a musical performance, and time-themed desserts, or join Northwest Designer Craftartists for a Textile Hang at Living Room Wines. We look forward to seeing you in community! #textiles #layersofresiliencePTXM2026 #portlandtextilecommunity #craft #thingstodoinportland
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Week Two @psu_artanddesign LET’S DO THIS! Kicking this post off with our overstuffed corndog, who made the move from the old building with us. NO CORNDOG LEFT BEHIND! A few moments from all four floors as I opened up doors and popped into classes this morning. We also had our first fire drill, so there’s a little all-school gathering outside in the mix too! I saw colleagues from painting, fashion + printmaking, along with so many sweet graphic design faces. SUCH a game changer to have our whole school under one roof. All these people and all this making happening in one spot! And NEXT TUESDAY we get to share it with all of YOU! Our big GRAND OPENING is October 13, and everyone is invited. Come explore all four floors and meet the people bringing this place to life! 4–8 PM! Opening remarks at 4! Ribbon cutting at 4:45! Building-wide party from 5–8! Art, design, music, printing, performances + making things. Bring your friends! 💛 Details at psu.gd/grandopening
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Opening on October 16th, at Portland State University’s Textile Arts facilities in the Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design: Liminal, the grammar of thoughts, an exhibition by Vidushi Parashar! @vidushi_p12 @psu_textilearts Our thoughts possess the power to either constrict or liberate us. They can leave us feeling tangled within ourselves, or they can create space for clarity and freedom. To give form to this invisible aspect of human experience, artist Vidushi Parashar represents each individual thought as a single tube. At its most fundamental level, the tube can be understood as a line, and the line as a thread, the smallest unit from which a larger textile structure is built. |+ | = X Not every thought is harmonious, and when we have contradictory thoughts, they begin to intersect = knots. These knots become metaphors for our internal conflicts, moments when contradictory thoughts, fears, and expectations collide. The sensation of feeling “knotted” within does not emerge from a single thought, but from the accumulation and entanglement of many. Through knotted textile sculpture, Parashar gives form and voice to a feeling that cannot be seen, only felt. By externalizing something so personal, the work puts the viewer at ease. To solve bigger knots, we need help. Parashar uses inflatables to evoke a sense of community and encourage people to seek help when they need it. Using inflatable tubes, the audience interacts with the knot, which is initially static. When two people give power to the large knot through two tubes and two activation points, something magical happens: the knot is resolved. This leaves participants feeling empowered, encourages connection, and reaffirms the importance of play. Artwork from this exhibit is visible from the street at any time, with interior viewing available Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. #textiles #layersofresiliencePTXM2026 #portlandtextilecommunity #craft #thingstodoinportland
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This is your HUGE and LOUD and EVERYONE IS INVITED invitation to celebrate the public opening of @psu_artanddesign’s new home on October 13th!! All of our programs are opening their doors and bringing the building to life! Joining in on the fun are alums and community friends: @secretroompdx @misplacedscreenprinting @outletpdx @rowdyairbrush @tinasnowle @dragtomboy @quinntheqlown @cobradogs, DJ Susan Saran-wrap and MORE! Four floors of art, design, music, printing, performances, making things, and meeting people. Come explore! Bring your friends! OCTOBER 13! 4–8 PM! Opening remarks at 4! Ribbon cutting at 4:45! Building-wide party from 5–8! More peeks at what’s happening coming your way as we count down. It’s gonna be FUN, Portland! Promo design by @psugdrodeo @tiffttnguyen @ben.tignor @tdonham09 @wulfinsheepscoding
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#soiltest results are in, and we can say the process is safe to try at home! The Decentralized #cottageindustry production method for this #biocellulose leather/paper #textile can be: 1) grow the kombucha for the drink as well as the S.C.o.B.Y. pellicle 2) fuse the pellicle into the product outdoors or indoors. if outdoors you can use it as a grass killer to prepare a new garden bed or clean up a weedy hotmess 3) sew the product or use it however you want! note: there is an odor, and we are finding individual folx will either get used to it or not, so just be aware! hugs and #radicallove -L thanks to all the moral, structural, and intellectual support! @psuplantsci @psu_textilearts @portlandtextilemonth @textilehive @imperfecta.xyz @pinkhammillinery @sitkacenter @hmkpnw @thehotelzags @portalteaco @straynge.skin.lab @evievart @jakolby_wan_kenobi @pdx.plantgirl @oregondeq @azureportland @limeilai81981 @osu_foodinnovationcenter @portal_beverage_lab @normalcoffeeclub @helenyung @artisticintelligencelab @thesundrysocial @anitazterracitaz @bombusandbloom @freedom_lvrfilms @sew_punk420 @cbbg.baskets @jennybach @los_hongos_cafe @mokrahn @inkstoryteller @s_mullooly
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👢made with #biocellulose brewery byproduct from @hmkpnw , this booleg boochlamp is finally ready to share with you all! After 1 full year of testing by using it for 5-10 hours daily, we are glad to report it did not burst into flames, melt, or lose its shape! It is as good today as it was when we started using it. We enjoy its otherworldly molten glow starting early evening when the room corner needs light, and leave it on as the sun sets, and well into reading time. In the morning, it is perfect for waking up during a dark hour as we enter #cozyseason To make it, simply fold/wrap your biocellulose around a flat or cylindrical mold and let it dry stuck to itself - it will eventually come off the mold. You can even easily brew your own kombucha to get the biotextile, making this something you can do at home! This one was made last year @psu_textilearts during work in preparation for @portlandtextilemonth which is an engaging, educational, and super fun festival that celebrates textiles and textile arts in #portland #oregon This year, check out the #portlandtextilemonth launch @skylabarchitecture on Thursday, Oct 1, 2026 starting at 530pm ---if you see me and want to know more, i will be happy to share more about how to DIY the lamp yourself See you all there! 🌸 - L
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°✧° IT’S TODAY. THE NEW ART BUILDING IS OPEN. °✧° Okay y’all.
TODAY IS THE DAY AND ITS HAPPENING RIGHHHHTTT NOW! The Jordan Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design is opening the doors to our brand-new home, and YOU are invited to come wander around, snoop through the studios, peek into the labs, meet some humans, and see what everyone’s been making. ✰ WHAT: New Building Open House
✰ WHEN: TODAY — FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
✰ TIME: 11AM–3PM
✰ WHERE: 1981 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97201 COME SEE THE NEW PLACE.
WANDER THE FLOORS.
CHECK OUT THE STUDIOS + LABS.
SAY HI.
SEE WHAT WE’RE MAKING.
GET A LITTLE LOST.
FIND YOUR WAY AGAIN.
YOU KNOW. ART SCHOOL STUFF. OH, AND ONE MORE THING: THE @psugd_comma COOKOUT IS HAPPENING IN THE FIRST-FLOOR WORK YARD! YOU LITERALLY CAN’T MISS IT. ✷ Art
✷ Art History
✷ Graphic Design
✷ Studios + Labs
✷ Faculty + Students
✷ A SHINY NEW HOME FOR ALL OF IT
✷ FREE + OPEN TO EVERYONE So if you’ve been thinking “hmm, I should probably go see that new building sometime…” SOMETIME IS TODAY. °✧° COME HANG. WE’LL SEE YOU THERE. °✧° ✰ ✷ ✰ Promos brought to you by @psugdrodeo design team
@reitrandesign
@blossom__vue
@wulfinsheepscoding #portlandstateuniversity
#schnitzerschoolofartarthistoryanddesign
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