Upcoming Events
PTXM 2026 Panel Discussion:
Material Resiliency Panel
OCTOBER 26th | 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Jordan Schnitzer School
of Art + Art History + Design
1981 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97201
Room 260
What makes a textile material resilient—and resilient for whom? Join panelists Mac Bishop, Shay Carrillo, and Karen Lee for a timely conversation about how material choices shape the performance, durability, environmental impact, circularity, and long-term viability of textile products and systems. Timed in connection with the Functional Fabric Fair, the panel will consider how material research moves from concept to scalable products and where meaningful opportunities for innovation are emerging.
PTXM Exhibition:
Negotiated Skin
OCTOBER 15th - OCTOBER 30th
9:00am - 5:00pm
1981 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97201
Floor 3 | South Corridor
Negotiated Skin is an installation-based textile and biomaterial project by New York-based artist Freda Xinyue Xia. The project brings together translucent protein-based biomaterial membranes, hand-reeled silk, wool, natural fibers, wearable structures, and suspended sculptural forms.
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For more information register at this link:
https://www.textilex.org/event/negotiated-skin/
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PTXM Exhibition:
Liminal,the grammar of thoughts
OCTOBER 15th - OCTOBER 30th
Open 9:00am - 5pm
1981 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97201
Floor 3 | South Corridor
Our thoughts possess the power to either constrict or liberate us. They can leave us feeling tangled within ourselves, or they can create space for clarity and freedom. To give form to this invisible aspect of human experience, artist Vidushi Parashar represents each individual thought as a single tube.
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For more information register at this link:
https://www.textilex.org/event/liminal-the-grammar-of-thoughts/​​​​​​​
Student Exhibition:
TareWare
OCTOBER 1st - OCTOBER 23rd
Open 9am - 5pm
1981 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97201
Floor 3 | North Corridor
For the grand opening of Portland State University's new art building Tare presents TAREWARE, a collection of soft-goods made from repurposed textiles to nurture intersectional identities and the earth. Reflecting Portland State University's values in eco-consciousness, Tare is working toward 100% zero-waste practices.
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Learn more about Tare's work at Tare0.com
Student Exhibition:
Sarah McCully-Posner
PNW DNA
OCTOBER 1st - OCTOBER 23rd
Open 9am - 5pm
1981 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97201
Floor 3 | West Corridor
Sarah McCully-Posner is a handweaver based in Portland, Oregon. Lately she has been designing and weaving brocades with a nod to Oregon joy through color play and shimmer. PNW DNA is an exploration of the ways growing up in Oregon has shaped her identity and world view.
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You can learn more about Sarah's work at:
Nazanin Hedayat Munroe:
Dress as Identity in the Early Modern Islamic World
NOVEMBER 19th | 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Jordan Schnitzer School
of Art + Art History + Design
1981 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97201
Join us for a talk with Dr. Nazanin Hedayat Munroe, Mary Ausplund Tooze Endowed Visiting Professor of Islamic + Ancient Art!
From luxury silks to patched wool, dress across the early modern Islamic world communicated the inner and outer states of its wearers through a shared language of regional and religious codes. In this lecture, Dr. Munroe examines how clothing and textiles expressed social status, political allegiance, spiritual devotion, and personal taste.