Join the Cambridge Art Association for the opening reception of Materiality: Memory in Cloth, juried by Jenine Shereos.

Image credit: Marci Ballou, Nest

Join fellow fiber enthusiasts as we connect and make together while learning more about what Gather has in store.

Opening reception for "Art Evolved: Intertwined," a collaboration between Studio Art Quilt Associates and the National Basketry Organization.

Image credit: Sara Sharp, Winter Shadows, 2018

Discover the illuminating journey of Carole D'Agostino’s career in Puppetry Arts and the important role textiles play in the creation of whimsical characters.

UMass Dartmouth Fibers MFA, Allison Morones will share her thesis work in puppetry with a short puppet performance.

Increase your democracy literacy while you knit or crochet a piece of a collaborative sculpture of the Massachusetts State House, a metaphor for representative democracy

Image: Eve Jacobs-Carnahan with the collaboratively knitted New Hampshire State House, June 2024. Photo: Geoff Forester.

Join us for an online talk with American artist Jenine Shereos, renowned for her innovative blend of textile techniques and natural materials.

Image: Artwork by Jenine Shereos

Increase your democracy literacy while you knit or crochet a piece of a collaborative sculpture of the Massachusetts State House, a metaphor for representative democracy

Image: Eve Jacobs-Carnahan with the collaboratively knitted New Hampshire State House, June 2024. Photo: Geoff Forester.

Come gather with artists Barbara Andrus, Louise Berliner, and Linda Hoffman at Old Frog Pond Farm in Harvard, where Agriculture, Art and Community cross-pollinate and collaborate.

Using a forgotten farm cart as our base we will construct a (travelling?) folly, built from this year’s apple prunings and your fiber scraps.

Rebecca McGee Tuck, fiber artist, sculptor and dedicated ocean activist, leads a marine debris weaving workshop. In this hands-on experience, participants will learn weaving techniques to create their own unique pieces of sustainable fiber art.

Maris VanVlack talks about her fiber art practice as a weaver and multi media maker.

Image: Artwork by Maris VanVlack

UMass Dartmouth’s Visiting Artist Rita Grendze will discuss her work Collective Comfort in a virtual presentation available to the public.

Image: Collective Comfort by Rita Grendze

Opening reception and artist talk for The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction: Visual Artists Re-envision the Container.

Image: Artwork by Michelle Lougee

Join us for a Quilting Bee-style mending event! Quilting Bees have traditionally been used as a place for individuals to come together and affirm their communities. Taking this idea as inspiration, we will we come together to collectively mend and amend a large vintage, tattered, stained, rescued American Flag.

Join Paula B. Richter, Curator-at-Large, for this curator-led tour of Peabody Essex Museum galleries, exclusively tailored for Gather 2025 symposium participants.

Image: Fashion and Design gallery. Peabody Essex Museum. Photo by Kathy Tarantola/PEM

Join Petra Slinkard, Director of Curatorial Affairs and the Nancy B. Putnam Curator of Fashion & Textiles; Dan Lipcan, the Ann C. Pingree Director of the Phillips Library, and Angela Segalla, Director of the Collection Center and Collection Stewardship for special behind-the-scenes tours at the Peabody Essex Museum’s collection storage facility.

Image: Courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum

Increase your democracy literacy while you knit or crochet a piece of a collaborative sculpture of the Massachusetts State House, a metaphor for representative democracy

Image: Eve Jacobs-Carnahan with the collaboratively knitted New Hampshire State House, June 2024. Photo: Geoff Forester.

Increase your democracy literacy while you knit or crochet a piece of a collaborative sculpture of the Massachusetts State House, a metaphor for representative democracy

Image: Eve Jacobs-Carnahan with the collaboratively knitted New Hampshire State House, June 2024. Photo: Geoff Forester.

Join us for a day of natural dyeing. In the morning, learn the basics of Indigo dyeing with Cathy Wilkerson of The Indigo Squirrel.

Maggie Haaland will then teach you the basics of natural dyeing with locally foraged plants, focusing on cultivated daffodils and wild nettles.

Join us in Ipswich for the largest gathering of lacemakers for more than 200 years!

Image: Ipswich lace pillow

The Attleboro Arts Museum will welcome Gather guests to a special meeting of our "Bonneville Dougher Art Lovers Book Club," where we will discuss "The Golden Thread" by Kassia St. Clair.

UMass Dartmouth CVPA and its Fashion Program present a night of fashion followed by a festival of lights created by the Interior Architecture and Design Program.

Image: Work designed by BFA Fashion Alumni, Emily Moniz, ‘24

In this virtual panel presentation, some members from ‘Sick Kid Fiber Club’ will discuss the intersection of disability/chronic illness and their creative practice.

Image: SKFC Banner by Emma MacLean