Textiles

Our community has been thinking about spaces they move through like hallways, studios, classrooms and gardens that have been historically considered places of labor and learning to exist as places where we live, breathe, learn together, teach each other, weave, knit, print, dye, grow plants, harvest, felt, embroider, rest, sleep, deal with traumas, make friends, find comfort, paint, draw, experiment, inspire and challenge each other, build tools, hack equipment, invent technologies, research, dream, dig, write poetry, put things in repeat, formulate colors and communicate. How do we reimagine and renew where and how we gather in care and collaboration to make a space for people to form community and nourish ideas?

EVENTS

Unconventional Loom: Community Weaving Project
Saturday 10/8, 10am–4pm
Providence Canal Walk, railing adjacent to College Street Pedestrian Bridge (North Main street side of bridge)

Join us to collaborate on creating an outdoor weaving.

Regenerative Earth Collective
Saturday 10/8, 11am–2pm
The Plot @ 4 Defoe Place

Enjoy garden tours, tea from garden plants and plant pressing.

Collaborative Community 48ft print
Saturday 10/8, 1–3pm
College Building, Print Studio, room 212

Join us to collaborate on silkscreen fabric print.

How we “live” in College Building
Friday 10/7, 3–5pm
Saturday 10/8, 10am–4pm
College Building, Textile studios and classrooms 211, 212, 312, 319, 331, 446, 542, 510

Installation by various students.

12517
Friday 10/7, 3–5pm
Saturday 10/8, 10am–4pm
College Building, 5th floor central stairwell

Installation by Natalie Tyson, RISD/Brown Dual Degree 25 TX.

I Put a Screen Between Us to Face Loss Less Profoundly
Friday 10/7, 3–5pm
Saturday 10/8, 10am–4pm
College Building, Benefit Street entrance, 4th floor lobby

Installation by Dina Khorchid MFA TX 23.

You Can Touch with Your Eyes
Friday 10/7, 3–5pm
Saturday 10/8, 10am–4pm
College Building, lobby window facing College Street

Installation by Alexandra Soiseth MFA TX 23.

I Was(n’t) Okay
Saturday 10/8, 10am–4pm
College Building, room 217

Installation by Julie-Louise Zeitoun MFA TX 23.

Textile Projects: image projection
Friday 10/7, 3–9pm
Saturday 10/8, 10am–4pm
College Building, window facing N Main Street

Inherent Vice: Hidden Narratives
Friday 10/7, 12–7pm
Saturday 10/8, 10am–5pm
RISD Museum

View student work on display at the RISD Museum, inspired by deaccessioned garments from the museum collection and the prompt “hidden stories.” See the accompanying Inherent Vice short film in the lobby of 20 Washington Place.

Open Studio events do not require pre-registration.

MAP

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Providence Canal Walk
Along College Street at the east side of the Providence River

• Unconventional Loom: Community Weaving Project
• Railing adjacent to College Street Pedestrian Bridge (North Main street side of bridge)
• Saturday 10/8, 10am–4pm

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The Plot @ Defoe Place
4 Defoe Place

• Regenerative Earth Collective
• Garden plot
• Saturday 10/8, 11am–2pm

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College Building
2 College Street

• Collaborative Community 48ft print
• Print Studio, room 212 
• Saturday 10/8, 1–3pm

• How we “live” in College Building
• Textile studios and rooms 211, 212, 312, 319, 331, 446, 542, 510 
• Friday 10/7, 3–5pm
• Saturday 10/8, 10am–4pm

• 12517
• Central stairwell, 5th floor
• Friday 10/7, 3–5pm
• Saturday 10/8, 10am–4pm

• I Put a Screen Between Us to Face Loss Less Profoundly
• 4th floor lobby, Benefit Street entrance, corner of College Street
• Friday 10/7, 3–5pm
• Saturday 10/8, 10am–4pm

• You Can Touch with Your Eyes
• Window facing College Street, corner of N Main
• Friday 10/7, 3–5pm
• Saturday 10/8, 10am–4pm

• I Was(n’t) Okay
• Room 217 (2nd Floor Dye Lab)
• Saturday 10/8, 10am–4pm

• Textile Projects: Image projection
• Window facing N Main Street, corner of College Street
• Friday 10/7, 3–9pm
• Saturday 10/8, 10am–4pm

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RISD Museum
20 N Main Street

• Inherent Vice: Hidden Narratives
• Costume & Textiles gallery, 6th floor 
• Friday 10/7, 12–7pm
• Saturday 10/8, 10am–5pm

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20 Washington Place

• Inherent Vice: Hidden Narratives short film
• Lobby
• Friday 10/7, 3:30–5:30pm
• Saturday 10/8, 10am–4pm