Textile Museum of Canada Appoints Urmi Desai as Executive Director
The Board of Directors of the Textile Museum of Canada is pleased to announce the appointment of Urmi Desai as Executive Director following her successful tenure in the interim role.
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Building Our Own Runways — A Conversation with Sage Paul
Sovereignty Style is a series highlighting Indigenous artists and designers using fashion to express themselves, their cultures, and their stories on their own terms. Curated by transdiciplinary artist and curator…
Aria XYX in Conversation with Maya Wilson-Sánchez
The following article is an interview between Aria XYX, an artist from El Salvador working with ceramic, textiles, and other media, and Maya Wilson-Sánchez, an Andean curator, art historian, and…
Gabriel Mendoza in Conversation with Julie McIsaac
Gabriel Mendoza, an artist and weaver from Teotitlán del Valle, Mexico, started weaving at just 11 years old. For him, weaving “wasn’t so much a choice, as it was simply…
Meeting Points – Where Cloth, Culture and Community Converge
The following article features excerpts from an interview with Samuel Nnorom, an award winning visual artist based in Nsukka, Nigeria. Samuel holds an MFA in sculpture from the University of…
Textile Museum of Canada Announces Reopening Date
Dear Members, Visitors, Builders, Supporters and Funders, The Board of Directors of the Textile Museum of Canada is pleased to announce the Museum will reopen to the public on Thursday, October 30th,…
Walking the Runway Between Worlds: A Conversation with Christian Allaire
Sovereignty Style is a series highlighting Indigenous artists and designers using fashion to express themselves, their cultures, and their stories on their own terms. Curated by transdiciplinary artist and curator…
In Memory of Margaret Ballantyne
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Margaret Ballantyne, a cherished member of the Textile Museum of Canada community and a lifelong champion of textile arts. Margaret was an…
Printed Textiles from Kinngait Studios at the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Maine
Senior Curator and Manager of Collection Roxane Shaughnessy traveled to Brunswick, Maine, in May 2025 for the opening of Printed Textiles of Kinngait Studios at the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum. Below, she shares…
11 Questions with Jason Baerg
Sovereignty Style is a series highlighting Indigenous artists and designers using fashion to express themselves, their cultures, and their stories on their own terms. Curated by transdiciplinary artist and curator…
