Chicago Textile Week is a new venture devoted to exploring and celebrating all things textiles in the Chicagoland area. The purpose is to highlight the vast and innovative work happening in textiles spanning interiors, architecture, fine arts, craft, and fashion. Encounter artists, workshops, galleries, lectures, local businesses, and schools via programs specially designed for or concurrently with Chicago Textile Week.

Visit LMRM, a venture housed in a shared studio space, provides two floor looms for rent to artists with weaving practices. Started by Chicago-based artist, arts facilitator, and poet, Hope Wang, LMRM stems from the desire to see a fiber art studio where people have a touch point to access quality equipment and community connection with minimal barriers.

Wang will also talk about her practice in the context of digital weaving. She uses hand-weaving, screen-printing, painting, and photography to reproduce architectural “scars” and patterns from common construction materials. Through her work, she grieves over personal loss and designs elaborate inside jokes with herself, making meticulous material illusions that play with the viewer’s perception.

Photo by Dakota Sillyman

Photo by Dakota Sillyman

Photo by Dakota Sillyman