NYTM 2026 CALENDAR
work by Elodie Blanchard
Scandinavia House - Workshop
An interactive session for makers and thinkers to collaborate, connect, and spark new ideas.
Pollack x Tatter Weaving Workshop
In person / Workshop / Weaving
Spend an evening with Pollack and Tatter exploring the world of weaving over wine and cheese. Try your hand at a variety of looms, experiment with different fibers and techniques, and discover the unique creative possibilities each loom offers.
More open studio than structured class, this evening is all about making, experimenting, and connecting with fellow fiber enthusiasts. Whether you're weaving for the first time or looking to explore something new, come by, get inspired, and weave at your own pace.
Pollack is a boutique design company that specializes in unique and innovative textiles by using a large, varied toolbox of artistry, fiber contents, yarns and weaving techniques.
Tatter is a library and arts nonprofit exploring cloth to tell human stories and cultivate cross cultural understanding.
The Art of Batik: Exploring Wax-Resist Textiles
In person / Workshop / Dyeing
Drishti Jaggi is hosting The Art of Batik: Exploring Wax-Resist Textiles, an immersive workshop that introduces participants to the traditional art of batik and its contemporary possibilities. Through a hands-on exploration of wax-resist techniques, participants will learn how wax and dye interact to create layered patterns, textures, and unique textile surfaces.
The workshop invites participants to discover the process of designing on fabric through experimentation with wax application, color layering, and resist methods. Drawing inspiration from the rich cultural history of batik, the session encourages participants to explore their own creative expressions while gaining an understanding of this time-honored textile practice.
Participants will have the opportunity to experiment with different tools, materials, and approaches to create their own batik-inspired textile pieces. The workshop is designed for all skill levels and welcomes anyone interested in textiles, surface design, and sustainable craft practices.
Through this creative experience, Drishti Jaggi aims to celebrate the beauty of textile traditions while encouraging mindful making, material exploration, and a deeper appreciation for the stories woven into cloth.
Registration link coming soon!
Drishti Jaggi is a New York–based textile artist and designer whose practice bridges sustainability with traditional craftsmanship. Her work explores the cultural significance of textiles through the use of natural fibers, natural dyes, and handcraft techniques. Alongside her studio practice, Drishti leads community workshops that promote creative reuse, textile education, and accessible making. She is dedicated to fostering inclusive and sustainable design practices that connect people through the shared language of textiles, craft, and community.
CO.LAB: Material, Conceptual + Social Intersections in the Studio
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.
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.
Open Streets Reads
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.
Upcycling with Blockprinting
In person / Workshop/ Block Printing
Reimagine your textiles and clothes with new hand block printed patterns in this hand son 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.
Sunday, September 20, 2026
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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.
Re Fashion
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
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.
From Farm to Fabric: Indigo Cultivation in the Lowcountry
Online/Workshop / Textile Industry
Join Heather Powers, President of the International Center for Indigo Culture and SCAD alumna (Fibers BFA, 1998), and Professor Jessica Smith as they guide Fibers students through cultivating and processing Indigofera suffruticosa at the BACK40, SCAD's sustainable urban farm.
This virtual program is designed to educate consumers, artists, and farmers about the importance of this irreplaceable regional agricultural and cultural resource. It explores indigo's history in the Lowcountry, the coastal region from north of Charleston, South Carolina, through Savannah, Georgia, to Jacksonville, Florida. Once a major colonial cash crop and source of the region's iconic deep blue dye, indigo is now being revived by Gullah Geechee farmers and artisans to preserve cultural heritage, sustain family lands, and produce natural, non-toxic dyes.
Over two days, the SCAD Fibers department and Heather Powers demonstrate cultivating and processing indigo leaves into dyestuff, covering harvest, fermentation, filtration, drying, and storage.
Day One - Thursday, September 24, 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Examines indigo's significance as both cash crop and art form, including tools and methods used by enslaved people, many from West African indigo-dyeing traditions, and how contemporary artists and farmers carry the practice forward today. As students harvest plants, Heather will demonstrate a fresh-leaf vat using freshly picked leaves.
Day Two - Friday, September 25, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Covers pigment extraction, an all-day process open to tune in and out of, culminating in filtration of the extracted indigo for drying and storage.
All stages will be recorded and shared with registered participants afterward.
Jessica Smith is an artist and designer based in Savannah, Georgia. Her studio practice investigates the social and political role of textiles in Western culture, with a focus on authentic material production, from natural dye to 3D printing. She is a fibers professor at SCAD and co-author of Overshot (UGA Press, 2020).
Heather Powers career in textiles began with a BFA in Fibers (SCAD). Her creative practice (weaving & natural dyeing) informs her projects as a collection consultant and appraiser across design, research, and education. In 2021, she earned an MA in Historical Craft and directs the International Center for Indigo Culture.
Surface to Form
In person/ Workshop / Multiple Techniques
Surface to Form: Print Paint & Sew, Textile Sculpture, Object or Decor
A two-part workshop led by Jann Cheifitz and Tamar Mogendorff exploring the transformation of surface pattern into soft dimensional relief and textile sculpture.
Beginning with printmaking and painted imagery, participants will experiment with layering, shaping, padding, and stitching to transform two-dimensional surfaces into tactile sculptural forms. Working intuitively, we will explore the relationship between image and object, color and form, creating unique textile pieces that exist between painting, sculpture, and textile.
No prior experience is necessary. Basic hand-sewing skills are helpful.
Saturday, September 26 11:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Tuesday, September 29 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
There's more happening at this venue! Check other events:
Material Transformations Open Studio -textilemonth.nyc/calendar-2026/material-transformations
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.
3D printing Lace Lab
Online/ Workshop / 3D Printing
3D printing Lace Lab explores the future of textile craftsmanship through experimental lace structures. This online workshop invites participants to discover how 3D printing machine works and how 3D printing technology can be applied to textiles.
Using Adobe Illustrator, I will demonstrate the complete process of creating a simple 3D-printed lace sample—from digital modeling to preparing the slicer file and printing it on a 3D printing machine. Participants will see how a 3D-printed lace sample is created from start to finish. If you have Adobe Illustrator, you’re welcome to follow along and create your own 3D printing file during the workshop.
Next, the workshop explores how 3D-printed components can be integrated with embroidery, knitting, and crochet through a series of samples, and how different materials influence texture, flexibility, and structure. Participants will gain insight into the design workflow, from digital modeling to combining 3D printing with traditional textile techniques.
RSVP link coming soon
Kaixin Zhou's work explores the relationship between structural lace and the modern woman. She is constantly seeking ways to combine tradition with contemporary design. Through her work, she aims to reshape the image of women.
Woman image changes, moving from vulnerability and sacrifice to seeking self-wholeness. Using my work to show the rational, powerful and beautiful side of women. I use lace to represent woman, so I rebuild lace, I combine new technology 3D printing with traditional textile technologies( like crochet, knitting and embroidery) to create a new style lace. They are structural and a little bit hard while maintaining a sense of delicacy. They embody the strength and resilience of modern women.