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Members Only Tea Party
Oronoco, MN, January 15, 2024
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Celebrating Fiber Arts
Rochester Art Center, April 2025 – March 2026
Celebrating Fiber Arts is now on display at the Rochester Art Center featuring the rich and diverse world of fiber arts through members work. Framed and scroll-mounted works in the Entry Gallery highlight the beauty and function of fiber in every day life. The atrium focuses on a multi-story fiber river and falls, together with hoops filled with fiber art at each balcony, overlooking the river. The exhibit runs through March of 2026. This exhibit was featured on KTTC Midwest Access: https://www.kttc.com/video/2025/03/31/midwest-access-zumbro-river-fiber-arts-guild-celebrates-50-years/
Learn more: https://www.rochesterartcenter.org/exhibition/celebrations-in-fiber
This exhibit includes both an exhibition of members work and a large fiber art sculpture developed by the members for the Art Center Atrium.
- Exhibit 0pening reception on April 4 from 4:00 to 6:00
- Family Day with related activities for children April 27 from 2-4.
Health at Our Fingertips
Leighton Auditorium, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, April 15, 7:30-8:30 PM
In collaboration with Mayo Chapter Sigma Xi, this public lecture looks at the health benefits of practicing the fiber arts. This event was featured on KTTC Midwest Access: Midwest Access – Fiber Arts: Better Health at our Fingertips (kttc.com)https://www.kttc.com/video/2025/04/07/midwest-access-fiber-arts-better-health-our-fingertips/
Fiber Artists in the Zumbro River Valley
History Center of Olmsted County, May 2025-December 2025
This exhibit at the History Center of Olmsted County features the work and stories of Guild members over the past 50 years. A rotating exhibit and associated Saturday hands on event focuses on a different fiber art each month.
- Exhibit Opening Reception on May 8 from 6:30 to 8:15 and will include interaction with some of the featured artists.
- Rotating Exhibit Focus and Associated Demonstration Day – You may view each of the displays during the whole month whenever the History Center is open.
- May Weaving – Demonstration Day May 17, 12:00-4:00 PM
- June Knitting – Demonstration Day June 14, 12:00-4:00 PM
- July Dyeing and Surface Design – Demonstration Day July 19, 12:00-4:00 PM
- August Spinning – Demonstration Day August 9, 12:00-4:00 PM
- September Creative Sewing – Demonstration Day Sept 20, 12:00-4:00 PM
- October Felting – Demonstration Day October 18, 12:00-4:00 PM
- November Needle Arts – Demonstration Day November 15, 12:00-4:00 PM
- December Quilting – Demonstration Day December 6, 12:00-4:00 PM
Joint meetings with the Minnesota Quilters
We will give a history of the guild at a joint meeting on October 2 at 7:00 PM on zoom and a trunk show on October 4 from 10-noon in Minneapolis.