Fiber Iterations

Fiber Iterations is the Textile Art Gallery NYC’s new annual juried exhibition series, celebrating the breadth, creativity, and expressive possibilities of contemporary fiber art. Building on the gallery’s year-round commitment to presenting exceptional contemporary art in textile media, the exhibition brings together a compelling selection of artists and approaches from across the field.

Selected from nearly 300 submissions, the exhibition brings together the work of 53 artists. Juror Petra Fallaux described the submissions as “second to none,” recognizing the creativity, craftsmanship, and innovation represented throughout the exhibition.

The selected works range from sculptural and conceptual approaches to pieces rooted in traditional techniques and re-imagined through contemporary practice. Together, they push the boundaries of fiber art while engaging with materiality, sustainability, identity, and storytelling through textile forms. The result is an exhibition that demonstrates the remarkable breadth, innovation, and expressive possibilities of artists working in textile media.

this is not a test

Eileen Wallace, Brian Pinke and Ian Scheffer

Focusing on non-traditional tools, hybrid techniques, and experimental workflows, this exhibition explores how misalignment, malfunction, and misuse - whether material, technical tool or conceptual understanding - become sites of discovery.

Curated by Amanda Britton

SECAC 2026 Juried Exhibition

The 2026 Annual Juried Exhibition will feature over 55 works from current SECAC members, selected by North Carolina Museum of Art curator Maya Brooks. The exhibition will be on display at the Elberson Fine Arts Center at Salem Academy and College from September 1 to October 24, 2026, with a closing reception during the conference on Friday, October 23. 

CO.LAB: Material, Conceptual + Social Intersections in the Studio

This virtual session explores the relationship between making, thinking, and collaboration in contemporary studio practice. Through a hands-on paper weaving workshop and group discussion, participants will investigate how ideas develop through experimentation, material engagement, and shared creative processes. The session encourages attendees to view the studio as a space where materials, concepts, and people come together to generate new possibilities for creative work.

Presented by Amanda Britton and Johanna Norry, the workshop draws from their ongoing collaborative studio practice and exhibition history. Over the past three years, they have developed a series of exhibitions exploring materiality, process, and collaborative authorship. By sharing elements of their approach, they invite participants to consider the studio as a site of artistic, material, and social exchange, where meaning emerges through dialogue, experimentation, and collective making.

UAAC-AAUC Conference 2026

The acquired may signal ownership, inheritance, appropriation, learning, memory, or attachment—and just as often, loss, excess, or disconnection. Objects and information enter our lives through systems of exchange, power, desire and care. What do we choose to keep, what accumulates unintentionally, and what is discarded or forgotten? How do these decisions shape both personal identity and collective histories? This session explores how accumulation functions as an artistic strategy and a lived condition. Participants are considering practices of collecting, hoarding, archiving, sampling, repeating, cataloging, and inheriting, as well as acts of refusal and erasure. Giving attention to how consumption, memory, and place inform material choices and creative processes, and how accumulated matter—physical or immaterial—carries traces of time, labor, and meaning. Accumulation can transform the way we make, remember, and relate to the worlds we inhabit.

Panel: Florence-Ariel Tremblay-Fong, Miranda Elston, Mary Hallam Pearse and Alexandros Skouras