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Infinite Forms: Facets, Fabric, and Fiber - Artist Talk with Anette Millington
In person / Talk / Quilting
Join Anette Millington for an artist talk about her work in the exhibition Infinite Forms: Facets, Fabric, and Fiber, at the Museum of Mathematics. In a conversation focused on fabric and fiber, pattern and material, Anette will share her inspirations and methods.
Exploring the psychological depth of decorative language, Anette’s fiber works and prints merge botanical imagery with principles of symmetry. She engages an expansive set of surface design techniques, including woodblock printing, digital print, digital embroidery, digitally designed jacquard woven fabric, and quilting.
In Infinite Forms, fabric and paper become portals into other worlds. Anette Millington shapes quilted and printed textiles into precise tetrahedra, stacking and arranging them into vibrant structures that seem to breathe, twist, or hover in mid-motion. Omer Shalev folds single sheets of paper into impossibly intricate stars, their crisp geometry radiating a quiet, cosmic energy. Each artist begins with simple shapes, yet their work expands those forms into something vast, at once architectural, organic, and dreamlike.
Learn more about the artist: www.anettemillington.com
Artist talk is open to the public and free of charge, with advanced registration.
This event also has an exhibition page, check here: Sept 19th - Nov 2025
Anette Millington explores how visual patterns and textile embellishments convey meaning and communicate. She creates textile sculptures, prints, quilts, and collaborative design projects. As an art and design educator, Anette specializes in reflective pedagogy, materials-based thinking, and interdisciplinary methods. She is the Associate Director of the MFA Textiles Program and Assistant Professor of Fashion Systems and Materiality at Parsons School of Design.
Infinite Forms: Facets, Fabric, and Fiber - Opening Reception
In person / Opening Reception / Quilting
Infinite Forms: Facets, Fabric and Fiber features textile artist Anette Millington and origami artist Omer Shalev in the Composite Gallery at the National Museum of Mathematics. In Infinite Forms, fabric and paper become portals into other worlds. Anette Millington shapes quilted and printed textiles into precise tetrahedra, stacking and arranging them into vibrant structures that seem to breathe, twist, or hover in mid-motion. Omer Shalev folds single sheets of paper into impossibly intricate stars, their crisp geometry radiating a quiet, cosmic energy. Each artist begins with simple shapes, yet their work expands those forms into something vast, at once architectural, organic, and dreamlike.
Millington’s sculptures rise like living columns and unfurl like swirling galaxies, their surfaces alive with patterns that echo both nature and mathematics. Shalev’s folded constellations hang in space, catching light and shadow in a way that feels almost celestial. Together, they invite you to see geometry not as an abstraction, but as something you can touch, walk around, and inhabit – a meeting place between the precision of mathematics and the fluidity of human imagination.
This exhibition is a conversation between two languages of making: the soft, stitched, and layered language of cloth, and the sharp, disciplined folds of paper. In Millington’s hands, pattern becomes a pulse; in Shalev’s, structure becomes starlight. Infinite Forms: Facets, Fabric, and Fiber reveals how symmetry, pattern, and dimension can cross material boundaries to create something more than the sum of its parts: a space where logic and wonder are inseparable, and where the infinite feels close enough to hold.
Open 7 days a week, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
The Museum occasionally closes early, closes for the day, or has limited hours. Please check the Visit page for further details.
This event also has an exhibition page, check here: Sept 19th - Nov 2025
Anette Millington explores how visual patterns and textile embellishments convey meaning and communicate. She creates textile sculptures, prints, quilts, and collaborative design projects. As an art and design educator, Anette specializes in reflective pedagogy, materials-based thinking, and interdisciplinary methods. She is the Associate Director of the MFA Textiles Program and Assistant Professor of Fashion Systems and Materiality at Parsons School of Design.
Japanese Sõkin (cleaning towel) Quilting
Online / Workshop / Quilting
Since 2016 the Dutch artist Maaike Gottschal is making handwoven and hand quilted cleaning towels. She will teach this simple, meaningful, mindful technique and tell about the historical references in many cultures and her experiences with using these textiles in daily life. The artist has made a lot of textiles for her own use, friends, and family since 2016. Years of experience have taught here that living and working with it means loving and caring for it. Users develop a relationship with the textile. Living and working with these textiles give beautiful experiences and create great textile art.
Saturday, Sept 6, 2025: 12:00–1:00 PM
Workshop: Sokin (Japanese cleaning towel) quilting
Link to watch the workshop here
No registration required.
Maaike Gottschal is a multidisciplinary (textile) artist from the Netherlands.
Through her work, Maaike aims to advocate for beauty and poetry in her textiles; beauty has a transformative power of imagination that makes our relationship with textiles personal, powerful and meaningful'
Here appreciation for textiles was passed down through her family. She grew up in a textile family that learned her weaving, spinning, bobbin lace making, embroidery, sewing, and explore many other techniques from an early age. Maaike studied design, art history, jewellery, and visual arts and is working across disciplines and their intersections.
Over the past fifteen years, she studied a wide range of textile techniques with seven teachers around the world, as part of a self-designed program called Textile as Language. Since 2020, she has been creating textiles using locally grown flax. Textile techniques and textile cultures are central to her work and knowledge. Anyone can spin, weave, and create beautiful, meaningful cloth. Her textiles are not technically perfect—rather, they are woven to highlight the human aspect of nowadays art.
Maaike teaches textile masterclasses since 2013 at her company Textielfabrique.