Patternmaking 101 is for any sewer who wants to learn the fundamentals of creating a sewing pattern that they can use in the future

Watch weavers make beautiful fabrics on one of the seven looms in the working weavers studio gallery.

Image: Scarf by Laurie Carlson Steger

Join us to explore an installation of fiber and textile art from the Danforth Art Museum’s Permanent Collection. Discover the various ways artists use different fibers and methods to make their art work, and then make a fabric sculpture in the Art Studio.

Join artists Kristina Goransson (felting), Virginia Mahoney (Weaving) and Andy Zimmerman (stretched Dacron) for a lively discussion of the role of fiber in three very different sculptural practices

Join us for the opening reception of Weaving an Address. Curated by artist Marla MacLeod, this outdoor/indoor public and gallery art exhibition features site-specific work by prominent Black artists combining sculpture, fiber art, installation and live performance inspired by little-known experiences of historical Black inhabitants of Concord and its Walden Woods.

Image: Monica's Mexican Folklorico, detail, Marla McLeod

Join us for an afternoon of creating with our community! Bring any project and materials you would like (hand sewing, mending, knitting, crocheting, any fiber or textile project you would like to bring with you) and “stitch” in the galleries with Concord Art friends.

Image: Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts (founder of Concord Art), Women Sewing for Belgian Refugees, 1915.

Step into a world of fiber and creativity at Artisans Asylum Fiber Arts Shop Night.

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

UMass Dartmouth Alumna, Eco artist and textile designer, Robyn Borges, will offer a Botanical Print Demo at the UMass Dartmouth, Art and Design Studio

Join us for a delightful session of needle felting, where you'll transform plain egg shapes into vibrant, textured wonders using a rainbow of colored wool.

The fiber artists of Princeton Sankofa Stitchers Modern Quilt Guild have honor the legacy of Black quilter and folk artist Harriet Powers (1837 to 1910).

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

Manship Artists Residency and Rockport Public Library will present a free, hour-long book talk
with Elena M. Sarni, author of Trailblazing Women Printmakers: Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios and
the Folly Cove Designers.

Tony(a) Lemos works at the intersection of art and herbalism. She will speak on our connection to plants through art during this online artist talk.

This workshop will give you the opportunity to develop your weaving ideas by adding an endless array of design possibilities to your plain weave.

Artists in Liberty’s Reach discuss their process and inspiration.

Image: Oracle of Nature, Merill Comeau

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

Inspired by historical and current protest posters, banners, and bedsheet paintings, the Cambridge Wildife Arts hosts a series of sessions that welcome members of the public to sit around a table and stitch a single embroidered and/or appliquéd banner meant for use in vigils, protests, and parades.

Image: Photo by John Englart CC-BY-SA-2.0

The Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts will be partnering with Surface Design Association (SDA) to host artist demos and a panel discussion with Northeast fiber artists Laura Tanzer, Anna Kristina Goransson, and Sarah Haskell as part of Gather 2025.

Join Edie Bresler, artist, educator, speaker and writer as they discuss their approach to combining photography and hand stitching.

Image: Anonymous 1855,2021, Edie Bresler

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

Learn the basics of Indigo dyeing by exploring a variety of techniques with The Indigo Squirrel (aka Cathy Wilkerson).

Notable fiber artists Caron Tabb and Sam Fields will discuss their art practices in a lively conversation moderated by Merill Comeau.

Image: Memory Vessel #2, Caron Tabb

Meet the artists of the UMass Dartmouth MFA Thesis Exhibition, a much anticipated and celebrated annual event showcasing the artwork of graduating Master of Fine Arts students from the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Image: Home by Anis Beigzadeh

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

Join a fun group of people who want to learn to repair a piece of clothing or textile, whether it is a rip or a stain it can can be beautiful again.

The MassArt Fibers students present an exhibition of their work in the both the North and South Crackatorium galleries to celebrate the work of graduating seniors and showcase the work of fibers sophomores and juniors.

Image Credit: Francesca Santiago

Join Liz Thach, Curator of Liberation Textiles: Our Social Fabric, and Gather organizers and fiber artists Merill Comeau and Jodi Colella for an engaging and participatory event that will highlight the vibrancy, breadth, and challenges of fiber as a social justice medium.

Image: Elizabeth Thach, Mind/contemplative Life, 2024, crocheted wool, 42 x 59 inches, courtesy of the artist

Immerse yourself in the art and history of Sashiko, a traditional Japanese stitching technique rooted in practicality and beauty. Learn Sashiko's origins and its cultural significance as a form of mending, storytelling, and creative expression. Then, roll up your sleeves for a hands-on workshop where you’ll learn to master this timeless technique.

Join us for an evening at the Danforth to celebrate the closure of Gather 2025!

Image credit: Merill Comeau, Women's Work is Never Done

In this workshop, participants will learn how to alter clothes to make their pockets larger. They will also be taught how to add pockets to garments that are missing them. We will figure out how to source functional pockets from damaged or recycled clothes and add them to other items, as well as how to design, cut, and install new pockets from a fabric of your choosing. Together, we will discuss the cultural, personal, and political significance of pockets.