NYTM 2026 CALENDAR
work by Elodie Blanchard
Woven Together Fashion Show
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.
Textile Tactics: Crafting Culture
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.
Sade Mims is a New York City–based artist and designer working at the intersection of fashion, art, and cultural storytelling. With over a decade of experience in creative and fashion direction, her practice is defined by a refined visual language, a sharp instinct for forecasting, and an ability to translate ideas into cohesive, resonant worlds.
Naima Dobbs (a.k.a. Nailoh) is a New York based musician, textile artist, and educator born and raised in Atlanta, GA. Her artistic practice intertwines electronic music, textile art, and video design in a multimedia offering she dubs Synthetwine. Her debut EP, Smile, was released in Dec 2025. She is the founder of knitwear brand, Nailoh Knits (est. 2020).
Mahima “Palika” Sirikulthada is a designer and multidisciplinary artist whose practice is compelled by fit: an ongoing exploration of how we perceive, navigate, and anchor our bodies within the world. Raised within communities where art is woven into the everyday, she carries a deep respect for making as inheritance, as resistance, and as ritual. This foundation informs works rooted in continuous exploration: learning, questioning, and allowing space for growth. For Sirikulthada, creation is both personal and political: a means of archiving lived experiences while imagining new ones. Her work moves fluidly between fashion, sculpture, and textile-based practices, grounded in materiality and the intimate relationship between body, form, and environment. She hopes to inspire through art that is deeply researched, and embedded in care, craft, and honest storytelling.
Chyna Cassell is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, event producer, and cultural programmer. In 2021, she received a bachelor's in Global Studies from The New School. Chyna was an artist-in-residence at Casa Na Ilha Artist Residency in Ilhabela, Brazil (2021), and at Hangar Center for Artistic Research in Lisbon, Portugal (2024). She partners with several Brooklyn Public Library branches to facilitate programs including the Reel to Real short film screening series at the Library for Arts & Culture. Her work appears in IMPULSE Magazine, Omenana African Speculative Fiction Magazine, The African Film Festival Archives, Afapinen, and The Shallow Tales Review.
Talking Textile Conference: Success Stories
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.
The program:
10:00 AM - 10:10 AM Ragna Froda NYTM Highlights
10:10 AM - 10:15 AM Lidewij Edelkoort and Philip Fimmano Introduction
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM Shradha Kochar
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM Sugandha Gupta
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM Aradhita Parasrampuria
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM Mitch Frank: Following the Path Backwards
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM Sabrina Stadlober: Soil to Soil — A Cycle of Connection Between Humans, Animals and Landscape
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM Kamilla Kuszon and Astrid Brondgaard Jensen: Our journey studying wool
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM Carolyn Smith
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM Royce Epstein from Mohawk Group presents Dorothy Waxman International Textile Prize 2026 Winner
The webinar is free and open to all.
clockwise: Shradha Kochhar; Mitch Frank; Sabrina Stadlober; Sugandha Gupta; Aradhita Parasrampuria; Kamilla Kuszon and Astrid Brondgaard Jensen (photo by Rigetta Klint); Carolyn Smith
Mitch Frank, a clothing and fabric maker and an educator at The University of Wisconsin-Madison. He teaches in the Textiles and Fashion Design program. A lifelong environmentalist, he works in craft because craft prioritizes materials and materials come from the environment. His work looks at native ecologies, appropriate technology, and environmental justice.
Sabrina Stadlober is a fashion, textile, and product designer based in Austria. Her work is defined by a conceptual, research-led approach that brings ethics and aesthetics into dialogue. During her Master’s degree in Textiles at Polimoda, in theFrom Farm to Fabric to Fashion program, she developed a deep appreciation for alpaca wool.This interest became the foundation for the long-term projectSoil to Soil, a fully circular collection developed in collaboration with Austrian alpaca breeders.Sabrina’s practice spans textiles and wearable design, with a focus on natural materials and responsible craft as forms of creative expression. In addition to developing her own slow collection, she teaches fashion and natural fibers.
Shradha Kochhar, an artist with a focus in fibre, based in Brooklyn, New York. Best known for her home spun and hand knitted ‘khadi’ sculptures using ‘kala cotton’ - an inherently organic cotton strain indigenous to India, her work is at an intersection of material memory, tactile histories and intergenerational dialogue. Focusing on generating a physical archive of personal and collective south asian narratives linked to women’s work, invisible labor and grief, the work is large scale and exists as sculpture beyond whispers over generations.
photo by Rigetta Klint
photo by My Lambertsen
Kamilla Kuszon and Astrid Brøndgaard Jensen, textile designers and Feltmaker apprentices based in Denmark. During their Bachelor's degree in Textile Design at the Swedish School of Textiles, with a specialization in weaving, they began their work with wool, initially experimenting with fulling different woven wool bindings to create shape and texture.
Today they are doing a three-year apprenticeship as Feltmakers, deepening their knowledge in felting and working directly from fiber to form. Their work is driven by a fascination with raw wool in natural colors, textures, and organic behavior. Rather than controlling the material, they collaborate with it, allowing its inherent qualities to shape each piece.
Sugandha Gupta, Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Materiality at Parsons School of Design. She is an award winning multi-sensory artist and designer. Her textiles, sculptures and garments invite wider audiences to interact with her work through touch, sound, smell, sight and their embodied strengths. Her research interests lie at the intersections of disability, environmental and embodied justice. Her work has been showcased at The American Crafts Council, Smithsonian Craft Show, The UN Headquarters, New York Textile Month, Guggenheim Museum, The Visions Museum of Textile Art and Hunterdon Art Museum among others. Recently, her two commissioned looks have been permanently acquired and showcased as part of the current ‘Costume Art’ show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Aradhita Parasrampuria, materials designer and founder of Cellsense. She leads a team developing sustainable embellishments and beaded fabrics from algae and cellulose, offering alternatives to plastics in fashion, jewelry, and beauty. Trained at Parsons School of Design, Aradhita’s experience spans material science at Slow Factory Labs and design roles at Tory Burch and threeASFOUR. Cellsense has successfully completed pilots with four brands and continues to collaborate with partners on new biomaterial applications. Their work has been featured by WGSN, Vogue, and Forbes. Outside of work, Aradhita enjoys volunteering at Genspace.
Carolyn Smith, a weaver, designer, and textile advocate based in Pennsylvania. Her experience in the Farm to Fabric to Fashion Masters at Polimoda sparked a personal love of craft, with a specific love of weaving. Her collection Trousseau became her own personal archive of connection to craft, the sea, and making with her hands. She now works on vintage looms at Tuscarora Mills within Family Heirloom Weavers, weaving heritage fabrics from natural fibers like hemp, linen, and cotton. She is committed to continuing America's weaving legacy through natural materials and teaches craft workshops to help others find their own connection to textiles.
Growing, Gathering, and Generating: Pathways and Possibilities for Native North American Fiber Plants
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.
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.
Haute Texture — Weaving Light in the Studio
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.
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.
From Soil to Spool: A Tour of FIT's Rooftop Natural Dye Garden and Weaving and Knitting Labs
Visit FIT's 9th-floor rooftop Natural Dye Garden, home to more than 25 dye plant species, then tour the weaving and knitting labs and view Farm to Fabric, the curated work of TDM senior capstone students. September 17, 5:30–6:30pm at FIT, Chelsea.
Material Transformations
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.
No registration required!
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Surface to Form Workshop - textilemonth.nyc/calendar-2026/surface-to-form
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.
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.
Interior textiles Today: A New York Perspective
In Person / Talk / Textile Technique
INTERIOR TEXTILES TODAY: A NEW YORK PERSPECTIVE brings together designers, educators, and industry voices to ask a simple but pointed question: what does it actually take to build and sustain an interior textile practice in this city right now?
Presented by New York Textile Month, FIT's Surface Design program, and Textile Eye, the evening will center on inspiring presentations and open discussion about where New York's interior design landscape stands today.
Whether you're a working designer, a student, or simply curious about the forces shaping the rooms we live in, join us for an evening built around one central question: what does it mean, and what does it take, to make interior textiles in New York today?
Program
6:00 PM: Doors open
6:30 PM: Event start time
6:30 PM - 6:40 PM: Welcome Susanne Goetz Chair | Textile/Surface Design and Ragna Froda Director New York Textile Month
6:40 PM - 6:55 PM: Presentation Saana Baker (FIT alumna), Textile Eye
6:55PM - 7:05 PM: Presentation Lori Weitzner
7:05 PM - 7:15 PM: Presentation William Storms(TSD alumnus)
7:15 PM - 8:00 PM: Panel discussion, moderated by Saana Baker
8:00 PM: Event wrap up
Saana Barker - Textile Eye
Saana Baker is a textile designer, consultant, and Editor-in-Chief of The Textile Eye, an independent quarterly report devoted to high-end textiles and surface design. She studied textile design at FIT before holding design leadership roles at Schumacher and Barbara Barry and consulting on collections for Jiun Ho, Kravet, Clarence House, Crypton, and McGuire Furniture. She founded The Textile Eye to provide in-depth international fair coverage, trend analysis, and industry interviews. Baker is also a frequent speaker, a Trend Spotter for Home Accents Today, and has appeared in Business of Home, Arch Digest Pro, Aspire Design and Home, and HUE.
William Storms
William Storms (b.1991) is a Brooklyn-based artist and textile designer exploring handweaving and material development. A graduate of FIT, he studied at ENSCI–Les Ateliers in Paris before developing Jacquard fabrics as a designer at US Textile Mills, like Sunbrella and Crypton. Through his namesake studio, he creates custom fabrics, sculptural woven works, and site specific installations in collaboration with the A&D community.
Lori Weitzner
Lori Weitzner, Principal Designer of Weitzner limited is internationally known for her contributions to the world of textiles, wallcoverings, rugs, passementerie, stone and tile, bedding, and other products for interiors and gifting. Her work is in the permanent collections of such museums as the Cooper- Hewitt in New York and The Victoria Albert in London as well as a special exhibition about color during the Venice Biennale 2022. She is the recipient of more than thirty five prestigious design awards and her work is featured regularly in such media as Elle Décor, Architectural Digest, and The New York Times. She has authored her first book, Ode to Color: The Ten Essential Palettes for Living and Design, published by HarperCollins, and lectures around the world on the effects of color on our well being. Including an extensive partnership with Google XI.
Brian Delp
Brian Delp is a consumer goods and retail strategist with executive leadership experience across global, product-driven organizations, including President at Himatsingka America and CEO at New Sega Home. He has operated across the full consumer ecosystem, holding leadership roles spanning manufacturers, importers, brand portfolios, and retail-facing organizations. In parallel, he teaches leadership, marketing, product strategy, and design research at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons School of Design. He serves as Vice President of the Board of the Home Fashion Products Association and President of the HFPA Foundation, and contributes as a writer, speaker, and advisor across the retail and consumer landscape. He holds a B.A. in Business Administration from Elon University and an MBA from the Cornell SC Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Fashion Boutique Pop - up at Lumas Gallery Soho
In Person/ Pop up / Hand painted
Lukas Gallery Soho is hosting a one-day Boutique Pop-up with Fashion Designer and Artist Martina Dietrich. A curated selection of MARTINA DIETRICH COUTURE ONE - OF - A - KIND hand painted couture styles are available to add to your personal collection. Each couture creation is expertly hand-crafted with stylish elegance to enhance the wearer's personality. Martina Dietrich has developed a signature visual presence that stands out within the fashion landscape.
Martina Dietrich will be at the gallery to personally present her collection and assist you in selecting the perfect piece to add to your wardrobe."
Martina Dietrich Couture Is An Assemblage Of One-Of-A-Kind Hand Crafted Pieces That Are Timeless, Seasonless, And Trend-Free, Designed To Create A Sustainable And Authentic Wardrobe. Each Statement Piece Supports Your Individuality, Allowing You To Shine With Your Unique Bauty.
Being Human, Being Unique, Being One-Of-A-Kind – Enjoy Wearing One-Of-A-Kind!
Being Conscious And Kind To Our Environment And To Ourseves Leads To A Redefinition Of Fashion. “More With Less” Describes It Perfectly. More Quality, More Sustainability With Less Waste, Less Pollution.
Wearing One-Of-A-Kind Mdc’S Is The Highest Level Of Being Sustainable In Fashion.
The Assemblage Enfolds:
Martina Dietrich Couture One-Of-A-Kind Pieces Are Made From Collected Fabrics Around The World. Martina Dietrich Couture Re•Creations Are One-Of-A-Kind Pieces Made From Existing/Vintage Garments Upcycled Through Different Hand Crafted Techniques Such As Tie Dye, Hand Painted, Embroidery, Appliqué And Print. Martina Dietrich Zero-Waste Accessories One-Of-A-Kind Pieces Are Made Out Of Fabric Scraps From Previous Creations.