Community Day

October 27, 2019

Open to the public from 12 noon-4 pm.

The Mediatheque lecture hall at PNCA will be transformed into a Makers Market with dozens of local vendors, traditional and new textile tools demonstrations, and booths for textile organizations selling work from artists around the world.

  • A bandana with a printed design with a desert landscape with cactus surrounded by an illustrated snake border, by artist Elana Gabrielle
    Elana Gabrielle
  • Amy Baker
  • Quilts for Empowerment
  • Stockpiler Artists

Makers Market Vendors

PNCA/OCAC students and recent grads, Columbia FiberArts Guild members, Stockpiler, and Bautista Weaving.

Textile Demonstrations

Weaving demonstration on Oaxacan loom by Baustista Weaving


Imagining Textile Tools exhibit: featuring the works of Nilu Amali, Bennett Battaile, Megan McKissack, Darcy Neal, Alice Rotsztain, Jeremy Rotsztain and ideas/designs of co-design participants: Zoe Anderson, Annin Barrett, Paula Benjaminson, Lynn Deal, Liliya Dru, Elise Englert, Allison Myers, Emma Prichard, Connor Ray, Samantha Rosenfeld, Dawn Seymour, Katie Shook + Willa, and Lisa Silveira.

Imagining Textile Tools co-design sessions were sponsored by Make+Think+Code and Textile Hive. Thank you!

Textile Organizations

Above the Fray, Quilts for Empowerment, Portland Textile Month and more!