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fiber & identity: the maker's voice
Fiber & Identity: The Maker's Voice exhibition presents the personal stories, heritage, and creative voices of 74 Potomac Fiber Arts Guild artists. Located in the Workhouse Arts Center's Vulcan Gallery in Lorton, Virginia, the exhibition is part of Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026, a nationwide semi-quincentennial initiative honoring handmade work in American history and contemporary life.
Come and see Debra's featured Know Us, Not Our Race embroidery, on view from August 15 through October 17. Her embroidery challenges racial stereotypes and invites viewers to reflect on their own cultural experiences. Join Debra at the closing reception on October 17 from 2 to 4 p.m. to learn more about her art. She would love to see you there!
textiles 101 gallery at the textile museum
Located in Foggy Bottom of Washington, D.C., The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum opened a permanent interactive gallery called, Textiles 101.
The Textiles 101 Gallery enables visitors to explore how fiber, color and structure influence how textiles are made and allows visitors to enter the mind of designers to discover the creative choices that influence textile design. Visitors can touch different fibers in raw and processed forms, practice various weaving techniques, examine completed fabrics, watch videos of artists at work and digitally design a new textile themselves.
Artist Debra Lee created the eight-foot by 18-inch banner shown in the photo to illustrate the structure of looped stitches including knitting, crochet, simple looping and macrame for the Textiles 101 Gallery. Watch the video below by Pamela Kaplan and Maria Helena Carey to hear about Debra's choices for the banner's design and see the steps involved to create it.
Photo by Andrea Fus.
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