Online/ Workshop / Weaving

This virtual session explores the relationship between making, thinking, and collaboration in contemporary studio practice. Through a hands-on paper weaving workshop and group discussion, participants will investigate how ideas develop through experimentation, material engagement, and shared creative processes. The session encourages attendees to view the studio as a space where materials, concepts, and people come together to generate new possibilities for creative work.

Presented by Amanda Britton and Johanna Norry, the workshop draws from their ongoing collaborative studio practice and exhibition history. Over the past three years, they have developed a series of exhibitions exploring materiality, process, and collaborative authorship. By sharing elements of their approach, they invite participants to consider the studio as a site of artistic, material, and social exchange, where meaning emerges through dialogue, experimentation, and collective making.

Participants are encouraged to have a variety of paper, photos, thick fabrics, scissors and tape at the ready for the virtual workshop portion.

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Amanda Britton and Johanna Norry are textile artists and Assistant Professors in the Textiles + Surface Design program at Kennesaw State University located in Metro-Atlanta, Georgia. They received their MFAs from the University of Georgia. Featured in juried exhibitions and group shows across the country for the last decade, their collaborative work has been showcased in duo shows, Common Threads and Material Archive, at several galleries across Georgia and in 2027 will be featured at the Appalachian Center for Craft in Tennessee. TextileArtist.org published an interview with Johanna and Amanda in 2024 about their unique collaborative art-making practice.

abrittonstudio.com

@abrittonstudio

johannanorry.com

@johanna.norry

Online/ Talk / Multiple Techniques

For textile designer Františka Benčaťová, textiles are more of a principle, a system of construction, a certain kind of architecture, as well as a vessel for stories, memory, and the present. Textiles are a timeless medium for her, a vision of the future, a platform for experimentation and innovation, a fascinating living organism that subtly and unobtrusively invades our environment. It is close at hand and yet invisible. Textiles are a ritual, a space, and a memory.
In her online lecture TEXTILES IN THE PRESENT: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN TRADITION AND DIGITALITY, you’ll gain insight into her personal observations on textiles. The designer will offer a detailed look at her textile practise, which draws on craft traditions while pushing their boundaries through industrial machinery and programming to reach a new level of innovation. She experiments with her own weaving techniques to process narrow-leaved cattail by hand. She liberates embroidery from its base material and enriches it by sewing on glass beads in collaboration with a digital embroidery machine. She views the simple basket as an archetypal textile object and, through industrial jacquard weaving, creates multiple perspectives on this object—whether as a three-dimensional form directly on the loom or through a surface-level visual illusion. All of her textile approaches are united by curiosity and experimentation across various textile disciplines, a distinctive focus on structure, and an emphasis on the construction and creation of textile objects through innovative methods.

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Františka Benčaťová (1996) is a Slovak textile designer based in Prague and a graduate of the Textile Design Studio at UMPRUM (2023). Her work has been influenced by a study visit to KASK in Ghent (BE) under the supervision of Esther van Schuylenberg, as well as a work placement at Simone Post Studio in Rotterdam (NL).

Her work is characterised by an emphasis on the construction and architecture of textiles, which she uses to experiment with materials at the intersection of traditional craft techniques and industrial processing, combined with digital technologies. The playfulness and curiosity of her work are underscored by an optimistic colour palette, tactile spatial effects and a speculative conceptual approach. The designer enjoys pushing the established boundaries of how textiles are viewed and worked with. She perceives textiles as carriers of stories and emotions, as well as a structural principle for discovering and exploring the possibilities of textiles and their existence in the world (contemporary, imaginary, future). The research process is an important aspect of her work.

She currently works as a textile designer in the automotive industry, where she specializes in industrial jacquard weaving and knitting, with a focus on fibre knowledge, textile technology and innovation.

basketlike.umprum.cz

@frant.iska.b

In person/ Open Studio / Multiple Techniques

Material Transformations

A creative space dedicated to craftsmanship, community, and hands-on making, this partnership brings together artistic exploration and traditional making techniques. Together, the two studios create an environment that encourages creativity, experimentation, and meaningful connections through the handmade process.

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Tamar Mogendorff
Recognized for her original soft objects, Tamar Mogendorff is an artist and designer based in Brooklyn, New York. Since founding her studio in 2005, she has created one-of-a-kind textile sculptures, home objects, ceramics, and porcelain works. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and she has collaborated with numerous brands, galleries, and retailers.

tamarmogendorff.com

@tamar.mogendorff

Jann Cheifitz
Jann Cheifitz grew up in South Africa, and worked in an anti-apartheid art collective.
She moved to New York in 1994, where she built "Lucky Fish," a business producing "hand-printed in Brooklyn" textiles and clothing, inspired by the spirit of her artwork. For production she worked in collaboration with small print shops local to Brooklyn, producing artisanal products in small batches.
Her new body of artwork is textile based. The works are embroidered, sewn, patched, quilted, painted, screen-printed or made in clay creating a kaleidoscope of images – life and death cycles, fertility, fecundity, fallow times, soil, loam and compost – degeneration producing regeneration, creation and procreation, the body held with the earth's spirit, with the garden as inspiration.

Jann has participated in numerous group exhibitions, and has held a number of solo shows both locally and Internationally.

soluckyfish.com

@luckyfishjann

Online/ Open Studio / Weaving

Adélaïde Germain opens the doors of her Paris studio for an online visit into architectural weaving. On a hand loom, she works in the spirit of French haute couture, treating swatches of reclaimed matter the way a couturier treats precious fabric. Her pieces are true garments for architecture, gowns that dress walls and let light move through them.

Everything begins with reuse. Eyewear acetate, brass, glass and materials salvaged from events, offcuts and manufacturers become the raw matter of her work, chosen for the way they hold and release light. From these fragments she composes surfaces of high texture, panels, screens and light filters conceived not as decoration but as building material, dividing space and shaping its light and acoustics. Her signature gesture, which she calls sertissage, is born from the meeting of weaving and architecture.

Filmed in her studio at the Manufacture de Belleville and presented in French with English subtitles, the session moves from the raw material to the gesture, then to a reading of her named pieces, including work shown at the Petit Palais in Paris. A live question-and-answer moment closes the event. Germain develops her practice with RÉEMPART, a non-profit turning reclaimed materials into cultural narratives.

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Adélaïde Germain is a Paris-based weaver working at the intersection of textile and architecture. On a hand loom, she creates architectural weavings, panels, screens and light filters conceived as building material rather than decoration, through a gesture she calls sertissage, born from the meeting of weaving and architecture. Reuse is her first creative constraint: eyewear acetate, brass, glass and salvaged materials become surfaces that hold and shape light. Her work has been shown at the Petit Palais in Paris. She develops her practice with RÉEMPART, a non-profit turning reclaimed materials into cultural narratives, which supports her research and productions.

adelaidegermain.com/collections

@circulart.eu

In person / Exhibition / Multiple Techniques

Drawing Room Williamsburg is opening its doors for an informal studio gathering with textile artist Luisa Mantelli as part of New York Textile Month.

For the occasion, Mantelli will bring together finished works alongside pieces still in progress, transforming the space into a studio where exhibition and making can coexist. Visitors will be invited to look closely at the work, see materials and processes in progress, and experience Drawing Room as both a working studio and a place for gathering.

Luisa’s work explores relationships between people and environments through weaving, crochet, embroidery, and other forms of material transformation.

The event is also an invitation to spend time together. Artists, makers, students, and anyone interested in textiles are welcome to come by, see the work, meet others in the community, and hang out at Drawing Room.

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Luísa Mantelli is a Brazilian textile artist based in New York City. She earned her MFA in Textiles from Parsons School of Design in 2025, following earlier studies in architecture and urban planning. She combines studio practice with education as a part-time faculty member at Parsons School of Design, the Program Manager for ProjectArt, and an instructor at Drawing Room. Mantelli’s practice explores the relationships between people and their environments, translating themes of migration, influence, and transformation into sculptural textile forms.

luisamantelli.com

@luisa.mantelli

In person / Workshop/ Block Printing

Reimagine your textiles and clothes with new hand block printed patterns in this hands on workshop.

For a third year in a row, Cynthia Director Studio is hosting an upcycling blockprinting workshop for New York Textile Month.

In this hands on workshop, there will be a demo about blockprinting, then participants will learn how to block print onto fabric and clothes. All of the blocks we use are sourced from India & we will be using water-based screen printing inks. This workshop includes a piece of fabric to print on.

Please bring your own shirts, fabric, napkins, tea towls, and clothes.

This workshop is offered in the morning or afternoon (both sessions are the same), or make an artistic day retreat and sign up for both sessions.

Saturday, September 19, 2026

• 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM

• 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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Cynthia Director is a fashion and home textile designer, artist and educator based in New York City and New Delhi. She has lived and worked as an international designer in India for over a decade. Her love of color, craft, travel and blockprints is inspired by her time in India. Cynthia is an assistant adjunct professor at FIT and a visiting professor at several design schools in India. She consults with home textile design businesses in the US and India, and has a home decor textile line of craft based products. She received her MA in sustainable textiles from University of the Arts London: Chelsea, and her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design.

cynthiadirectorstudio.com

@cynthiadirectorstudio

In person / Workshop / Stamping

As part of our back-to-school Open streets event, GGripo Art and Design will host a t-shirt decorating workshop for kids.

No registration required!

Representing more than 380 businesses in the vibrant neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill, and Cobble Hill, the Atlantic Avenue Business Improvement District (AABID) is dedicated to promoting the long-term economic development of Atlantic Avenue from Fourth Avenue to the Waterfront.

atlanticavebid.org

@atlanticavebk

In person / Tour / Textile Industry

Join New York Fibershed for another Carbon Farm Tour! Experience this hands-on, educational event exploring how textile sourcing can positively impact climate change and regional economies.

What to expect
• Farm Tour & Alpaca Visit:
Take a guided tour of Faraway Farm Alpacas and see sustainable farming practices in action! See their compost system and learn about soil amendment. Get up close to the alpacas and explore their role in regenerative agriculture.

• Meet Industry Innovators:
Connect with leaders from the agriculture, design, and manufacturing industries who are driving the shift toward regenerative, climate-beneficial models in the regional textile sector.

• Climate Beneficial™ Verified Textile Displays:
Discover how textiles can help the climate and explore Climate Beneficial™ Verified textile products.

• Carbon Farming Talk:
Hear from New York Fibershed's Carbon Farm Planner about regenerative soil protocols.

• Expert Q&A Panel - Engage in a lively discussion with experts on topics such as:

• Carbon sequestration practices on the farm

• How farm management influences fiber quality

• Regional fiber cultivation, processing, and manufacturing

• Building a farm-to-product supply chain focused on slow growth and bio regionalism

• Organizing cooperative economic models to uplift small businesses

• Strategies for growing a socially and environmentally equitable textile industry.

Refreshments:
Light fare and beverages provided by Marbled.

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New York Fibershed is a nonprofit organization dedicated to connecting and strengthening the fiber and textile communities across New York State. We are a community of farmers, processors, artisans, makers, designers, educators, and advocates working together to build a more circular and climate beneficial textile system.
We believe that what we wear, what we make, and how we connect to the land matters. Through educational programming, industry development, and collaborative projects, we strengthen the connections between soil, fiber, and community while supporting regenerative agriculture, local economies, and regional textile production.

newyorkfibershed.org

@nyfibershed

In person/ Workshop / Textile Collage

Celebrating New York Textile Month, we are excited to host an innovative workshop of fashion sketching with a twist.

Exploring textile possibilities using collage techniques with image, paper, acrylics, markers and fabric. Paula Rennis will guide you to the process.

Sunday September 20th, 3-5pm

1 class - $48.00 [2 hours]

​A 2-hour workshop at the artist's studio at 18th St & 4th Ave. Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Upon registration you will receive the address.

Price includes all supplies. Limited space to 12 spots.​

Any questions please reach out to paularennis@m2viscom.com

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Argentinean by nature New Yorker by heart, I came to the US on a Fulbright Scholarship for a master's at Pratt Institute and studied
painting at The Art Students League of NY.

My imagination runs full speed looking at fashion magazines searching tor uniqueness, color and patterns, but only seeing outfits without personality. Nothing speaks to me. So I re-fashion the fashion magazines one page at a time. Once I find a pose that attracts me I create the outfits and accessories that I would love to see, adding some humor too dressing them with my "textiles" of acrylic, markers, paper, tape and fabric.

mariapaularennis.com

@mariapaularennis

Online/ Talk / Dyeing

Rethinking Textiles in an Age of Waste: A Study of Japanese Traditional and Contemporary Textiles, based on a year of field research in Japan.

This talk presents research and findings from Larissa Zemke's Master's thesis, Rethinking Textiles in an Age of Waste: A Study of Japanese Traditional and Contemporary Textiles, developed through a year of field research in Japan (2019–2020). Using a research-creation methodology, the project examines how traditional Japanese textile practices and philosophies offer lessons for textile sustainability today, with a focus on translating those insights into the activewear industry.

Drawing on archival research, interviews with artisans, and hands-on material experimentation, the talk explores how Japan's textile heritage, from bast fiber cultivation to traditional dye and weaving practices, informs more circular, less wasteful approaches to material design. Larissa shares how these findings shaped tangible design proposals, illustrating how traditional knowledge can inform contemporary innovation in fast-moving, high-waste sectors like activewear.

Attendees will gain insight into Japan's textile traditions as a living case study for sustainability, practical frameworks for applying historical practices to modern material challenges, and a window into research-creation as a methodology bridging academic research and design practice.

This talk is ideal for designers, brands, and researchers seeking grounded, culturally rich approaches to rethinking material use and waste in the fashion industry.

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Larissa Zemke is a textile expert and material innovator focused on sustainability, natural fibers, and circular practices. Her international career across New York, Paris, Vienna, Kyoto, and Montreal spans print and embroidery, knitwear, leatherwork, dyeing, visual merchandising, and product management. She has contributed to an open-source textbook on corporate social responsibility published by SUNY, and is currently co-authoring a fashion-sector edition of the book.

Larissa holds a Bachelor's degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology and a Master's in Design from Concordia University (2023), rooted in a year of field research in Japan on sustainable fiber systems. She aims to advance innovation across the global apparel industry.

Larissa Zemke's consulting practice supports brands and institutions in advancing circular, responsible material practices through slow fashion frameworks and design with care. Her work has been shared through exhibitions, talks, workshops, and publications at leading design schools in New York, Montreal, and London. Recent collaborations include developing a biodegradable insulated jacket with Quebec industry partners and research conducted with Harvard's Innovation Lab.

She is also building a personal platform dedicated to slow fashion and sustainability. Larissa is open to interdisciplinary collaborations driving circular innovation across the global fashion industry.

cargocollective.com/larissazemke

@japanecofashiontextiles

In person / Exhibition / Dyeing

Soil to Surface highlights the creations of small-scale women farmers, women’s cooperatives, and internationally recognized designers from Türkiye, alongside the work of School of Art and Design students, faculty, and alumni at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). Proposing an alternative framework where farmers, craftspeople, and designers operate on equal ground, the exhibition sees the FIT community actively reimagining these materials for contemporary design through technical experimentation and innovative thinking.

Agricultural waste and local textile materials are repositioned in a contemporary context, allowing multiple narratives to emerge across time and geographies, while creating new paths for creative businesses to be local, sustainable, and value-driven.
Central to this process are women farmers and women’s cooperatives in Türkiye, whose knowledge, labor, creativity, and lived experience have transformed agricultural byproducts into new material possibilities. Their relationship with the land has been cultivated across generations. Working with pomegranate peels, walnut husks, nettle leaves, onion skins, bay leaves, and barley straw, they transform these materials into plant-based dyes, paperlike surfaces, and handcrafted embellishments. By integrating agricultural production with artistic practice, Soil to Surface challenges conventional hierarchies and suggests a more inclusive and socially just model for creative collaboration.

The exhibition opens on Thursday, September 24 and is on view at the FIT Art and Design Gallery through November 1, 2026.

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The Art and Design Gallery at FIT showcases the work of students, faculty, and distinguished alumni, as well as invited guest artists and collaborators. It is a window into the College and a window out. The exhibition spaces serve as a place to foster learning and innovation.

fitnyc.edu/life-at-fit/campus/gallery

@fit_artdesigngallery

In person/ Exhibition / Embroidery

Breathing Patterns is an exhibition of hand-embroidered wall works and accompanying scent compositions that explore geometry as a living, embodied system. Created through slow, repetitive hand needlework, the embroidered forms draw on geometric patterning as a language of structure, care, and endurance. Each stitch accumulates time, marking the quiet labor of the hand while transforming rigid systems into intimate, tactile surfaces.

The geometric patterns suggest order and repetition, yet they are never mechanical. Slight irregularities—inevitable in handwork—introduce breath, vulnerability, and presence. These deviations become central to the work, emphasizing the body behind the pattern and the feminist lineage of needlework as both domestic labor and creative resistance.

Scent functions as an invisible counterpart to the stitch. Developed in dialogue with the embroidered forms, the fragrances move through space as thread moves through cloth—activating memory, emotion, and physical awareness. Rather than illustrating the visual works, scent extends them, allowing the patterns to be felt as atmosphere and duration.

Together, embroidery and fragrance invite a slower mode of attention. Breathing Patterns proposes making and sensing as acts of care, where repetition becomes meditative and geometry becomes intimate—measured not only by the eye, but by the body in time and breath.

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Anna Novakov is an interdisciplinary artist working across textile, scent, and installation. Rooted in traditions of hand needlework, her practice draws on Serbian cultural heritage and the labor of domestic craft to explore memory, lineage, and embodied knowledge. She integrates olfactory elements to extend the sensory experience beyond the visual, creating immersive environments that engage touch, smell, and sound. Her work often examines themes of diaspora, transformation, and intimacy, positioning the handmade as both material and method. Through repetition and subtle variation, Novakov constructs poetic spaces where personal and collective histories quietly converge.

annanovakov.work

@mala_igla

Online/ Talk / Processing & Spinning

Mitch Frank will present alongside two University of Wisconsin–Madison undergraduate researchers on the varied potential of North American fiber plants. The talk will explore growing, gathering, and processing plants for textile fiber, as well as opportunities to make use of other plant materials and processing byproducts.

Frank will discuss his ongoing research into native North American plants that produce bast fiber with qualities similar to flax and hemp, including approaches to cultivation, responsible gathering, and processing fiber for yarn and textiles. Undergraduate researchers will present two related material studies that look beyond the production of conventional fiber. One project explores the use of woody hurds and shive left after fiber processing to create biocomposite materials. The other investigates native fiber plants as alternative cellulose feedstocks for regenerated fibers.

Together, these projects consider how fiber plants might provide multiple useful material streams and how greater use of perennial and naturally occurring species could expand the range of plants considered for textile and material production.

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Blue Star Line is a project by educator and designer Mitch Frank. “Line” is a trade term for the long fibers that can be harvested from the stems of some plants. Line fiber is used to make strong yarn for weaving and knitting.

bluestarline.co

@bluestarline.co

Online/ Talk / Multiple Techniques

OUR ANNUAL TALKING TEXTILES WEBINAR

Moderated by Philip Fimmano & Li Edelkoort

Recent graduates have harnessed their creativity to take on the design and art worlds, quickly establishing their independent practices as integral parts of the cultural community. Fibre and fabrics therefore become important tools to transform society through conscious thinking, aesthetic activism and ecological awareness. As the industry’s young leaders, their hopeful quest is human-centred, reaching new audiences through touch and tactility, appealing to the senses at a time when we need it most. Success stories that illustrate the foundational value of design education and the true power of textiles.

Speakers:

Shradha Kochhar

Mitch Frank

Sabrina Stadlober

Sugandha Gupta

Aradhita Parasrampuria

Kamilla Kuszon

Astrid Brondgaard Jensen

Carolyn Smith

We will also be announcing the winner of Dorothy Waxman International Textile Design Prize 2026!

The webinar is free and open to all.

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clockwise: Shradha Kochhar; Mitch Frank; Sabrina Stadlober; Sugandha Gupta; Aradhita Parasrampuria; Kamilla Kuszon and Astrid Brondgaard Jensen (photo by Rigetta Klint); Carolyn Smith

Online/ Talk / Knitting

The Garment that Remembers: what our clothes know, and who tells their stories

Every garment carries a history: the hand that made it, the origin of its yarn, each repair and each new owner. For most of fashion's history that history has been lost the moment a piece leaves the maker. This live talk asks what changes when a garment is designed to remember.
Working live from her studio on the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia, designer and researcher Angelina Russo builds a poncho from vintage and deadstock yarns on vintage knitting machines, in a practice rooted in Italian textile heritage from the Sannio region. Because each piece cannot be replicated exactly, you watch its record assemble, stage by stage, as the poncho comes together.
Alongside the making, you read a garment of your own. Using a card provided online, you sort its fibres into natural and synthetic, look for proof that the fibre is what the label claims, and set down what you expect of the piece, how long you will keep it and how often you will wear it. The card then stays with the garment and waits, in a pocket or a drawer, for the day a decision about its future is due. That small act, a record that travels with a garment, is the everyday form of what the emerging Digital Product Passport is reaching towards.

What you'll leave with:

A card to keep with one of your own garments, written now and answered later
A way of reading any piece you own for the record it carries, and the record it has lost
A route to follow when a forgotten garment asks to be kept, repaired, passed on or recovered

This is a live session, presented before dawn from the other side of the world, with time for questions.

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Angelina Russo is a designer and researcher, and the founder of Fleurieu Made, a circular knitwear studio on the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia. Working from vintage and deadstock yarns on vintage knitting machines, in a practice rooted in her Italian textile heritage, she makes one-off pieces meant to be carried for years. Alongside the studio she develops the FM Circular Fashion IQ Index, which makes circular practice visible and verifiable. Angelina researches how garments might carry their own records of origin, repair and afterlife, returning fashion's memory to the makers and wearers it belongs to.

fleurieumade.com

@fleurieumade

In person / Open Studio / Weaving

Intertwine Arts wants to celebrate the creativity, beauty, adaptability, and fun of disability-based clothing design with a fashion show at the Positive Exposure Gallery. Disabled models are paired with disabled and non-disabled designers to create a piece unique to them, which will then stroll down the runway! The runway show will be the closing finale of Intertwine Arts’ annual Woven Together exhibition, which celebrates the artistry of disabled individuals with a display of fiber artworks created over the year in weekly weaving workshops.

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Woven Together Exhibition - textilemonth.nyc/calendar-2026/woven-together-exhibition

The artists represented are artists with disabilities from Intertwine Arts’ programs across four New York City boroughs of Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the Bronx. The disabilities experienced range from cognitive disabilities, to physical disabilities, to neurodivergence, to chronic illness, and more. All are burgeoning weavers and fiber artists, primarily exploring the woven medium. Their talents also extend into embroidery, crochet, sewing, and beyond.

intertwinearts.org

@intertwinearts

In Person / Talk / Textile Industry

Join us at the Library for Arts & Culture for a hybrid exhibition and panel discussion, highlighting three textile artists and designers whose work shapes and drives culture. Curated and moderated by Chyna Cassell, the program will feature works from Sade Mims of Edas, Naima Dobbs of Nailoh Knits, and fashion designer, Mahima “Palika” Sirikulthada.

The program will open with guests engaging with selected exhibited works throughout the space, followed by a presentation of Mahima’s "i can’t cross my legs, can you?" fashion film. Chyna will moderate the panel, which will focus on the artists’ respective practices and methods, and the cultural context surrounding their works. The evening will conclude with a brief mingling session with beverages and light refreshments.

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