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…
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, 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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Textile Museum of Canada houses more than 15,000 textiles and related objects, spanning thousands of years and more than 200 regions. Each month, we’ll highlight a different object (or…
