Presented by Miami International Fine Arts (MIFA) in collaboration with FAMA and
Threading the City and its flagship initiative Threading the City.
Presented by Miami International Fine Arts (MIFA) in collaboration with FAMA and Threading the City and its flagship initiative Threading the City.
Presented by Miami International Fine Arts (MIFA) in collaboration with FAMA and Threading the City and its flagship initiative Threading the City.
Presented by Miami International Fine Arts (MIFA) in collaboration with FAMA and
Threading the City and its flagship initiative Threading the City.
MIAMI FIBER TRIENNIAL 2026
Presented by Miami International Fine Arts (MIFA) in collaboration with FAMA and Threading the City and its flagship initiative Threading the City.
MIAMI FIBER TRIENNIAL 2026
Presented by Miami International Fine Arts (MIFA) in collaboration with FAMA and Threading the City and its flagship initiative Threading the City.
MIAMI FIBER TRIENNIAL 2026
Presented by Miami International Fine Arts (MIFA) in collaboration with FAMA and Threading the City and its flagship initiative Threading the City.
The Triennial is a major institutional platform dedicated to contemporary textile, fiber, and expanded material-based practices.
America250 marks 250 years since the founding narratives of the United States—an anniversary that invites not celebration, but critical reflection. Through textile and fiber practices, the Miami Fiber Triennial 2026 examines how the American project has been built, repaired, controlled, protected, and resisted through material systems such as labor, migration, industry, domesticity, extraction, and care.
Textile becomes a lens through which America is read not as a singular history, but as a layered fabric—woven from multiple temporalities, geographies, bodies, and lived experiences.
In addition to exhibitions, the Triennial will feature a Didactic Room, hosting workshops, talks, and educational programs, alongside a curated program of film screenings addressing textile histories, labor, and material culture within the American context.
About MFT 2026
TRIENNIAL INFORMATION
The Miami Fiber Triennial 2026
Juried by Bernice Steinbaum, Encoded Threads: Weaving Memory, Data, and Identity features New York-based artist Emilio Vavarella and Germany-based artist Doro Seror, who explore textiles as carriers of memory and information. Curated by Olga García-Mayoral, Vavarella transforms biological data into woven structures, while Seror uses reclaimed garments and materials to embed memory, labor, and lived experience into textile form.
A group exhibition juried by Dr. Carol Damian and curated by Shirley Moreira, titled Memories Woven into the City, represents artists from America, Venezuela, and France: Aida Tejeda, Alejandrina V Cue Gonzalez, Amy Gelb, Andrea Siervo, Benedicte Blanc-Fontenille, Damian Rojo, Dana Donaty, Debora Rosental, Evelyn Politzer, Hansel Fajardo, Jenelle Esparza, Joan Wheeler, Laura Marsh, Laura Villareal, Liliana Faieta, Lina Linkimer Bedoya, Liz Freeman, Marsi Caraballo González, Maru Ulivi, Milena Arango, Nancy Billings, Patrizia Ferreira, Rebecca White, Sarah Laing, Susanne Sofia Schumacher Schirato, Uma Rani Iyli, and YuJei Yen.
Imprinted Selves, curated by Shirley Moreira, explores printmaking and textiles as sites of identity, vulnerability, repetition, and transformation, including artists William Alonso, Lina Linkimer, Helio Salcedo, and Marilyn Valiente.
Weathered Structures, juried by Sophie Bonet and curated by Pamela Solares, with artists Andrea Jablonski, Anna Biondo, Blake Ballard, Doro Seror, Mark Herrera, Silvana Soriano, and Theda Sandiford, is an outdoor exhibition exploring fiber in dialogue with climate, public space, movement, fragility, and environmental change.
MIFA’s artists-in-residence, Katherine “NECO” Kafruni, Daniela Sánchez Vega, Pilar Tobón, Marilyn Valiente, and Gloria Vélez form part of the Triennial with a curated show by Adriana Zubikarai. A performance room by Ana Sofia Ruiz Cavero presents Embracing the Knot, a durational performance centered on holding and slowly undoing a knotted textile structure.
Saturday, June 13 |11-12:30, MIFA, artist Emilio Vavarella will present a talk, Weaving Together Old and New Media, examining how weaving, DNA, data, identity, nature, and technological processes intersect in contemporary art. The event is free and open to the public. Link
Saturday, July 11 | 11-2, MIFA will host a Family Day: Fiber, Texture, and Storytelling, led by Aurora Molina and Alina Rodríguez-Rojo, founding artists of FAMA, with guided tours, hands-on activities, demonstrations, refreshments, prizes, and intergenerational learning for children of all ages and caregivers. The event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Invisible Sun Foundation.
The Triennial is a major institutional platform dedicated to contemporary textile, fiber, and expanded material-based practices.
America250 marks 250 years since the founding narratives of the United States—an anniversary that invites not celebration, but critical reflection. Through textile and fiber practices, the Miami Fiber Triennial 2026 examines how the American project has been built, repaired, controlled, protected, and resisted through material systems such as labor, migration, industry, domesticity, extraction, and care.
Textile becomes a lens through which America is read not as a singular history, but as a layered fabric—woven from multiple temporalities, geographies, bodies, and lived experiences.
In addition to exhibitions, the Triennial will feature a Didactic Room, hosting workshops, talks, and educational programs, alongside a curated program of film screenings addressing textile histories, labor, and material culture within the American context.
About MFT 2026
TRIENNIAL INFORMATION
The Miami Fiber Triennial 2026
Satellite Programs
Friday, June 5 | 6–9 PM, Red Thread Studios | 283 Catalonia Ave, Coral Gables, FL 33134, Cynthia Passavanti presents Threading Silence: Conditioned to Be Quiet, accompanied by a film screening on quilting and women’s history.
Friday, June 12 | 6–9 PM, P71 | 230 NW 71st St, Miami, FL 33150
Soft Architecture: Textile and the Technologies of Living, curated by Sophie Bonet, examines domesticity as something the body learns to inhabit. Featuring works by Alina Rodríguez-Rojo, Marco Caridad, Rebeca Lopera, Aurora Molina, Evelyn Politzer, Melina Tsalikis, and Marilyn Valiente
The Flag Is Not Still, curated by Marco Caridad, brings outdoor textile interventions by Maritza Caneca and Adriana Zubikarai “Zubi”.
Saturday, June 20 | 6–9 PM, Mundo Arte Gallery | 1746 NE 163rd St, North Miami Beach, FL 33162
Thresholds of Ritual, Pilar Tobón, Ọmọlará Williams McCallister, and Joaquín Ponzzinibio;
So Soft, an interdisciplinary performance and participatory installation by Emily Peters.
Saturday, June 20 | 3:30–5:30 PM, P71 Gallery | 230 NW 71st St, Miami, FL 33150
Returning the Colors to the Sea, also with a participatory outdoor intervention and poetry activation with Marisol Torruella and Nidia Baquero. Link
Saturday, June 27 | 3:30–6:30 PM, P71 Gallery | 230 NW 71st St, Miami, FL 33150
Curator-Led Exhibition Walkthrough by Sophie Bonet.
Thursday, July 9 | 4–6 PM, Red Thread Studios | 283 Catalonia Ave, Coral Gables, FL 33134
Atmosphere with Cynthia Passavanti, a natural dyeing demonstration, and sustainability activation. Link
Thursday, July 9 | 6–9 PM, Outer Space | 2925 Salzedo St., Coral Gables, FL 33134
The Shape They Gave Us by Marco Caridad and Daniel Djuro-Goiricelaya, curated by Amalia Caputo.
Saturday, July 11 | 3–5 PM, Red Thread Studios | 283 Catalonia Ave, Coral Gables, FL 33134, Fiber Workshop with Sarah Leigh: engage participants in fiber-based processes through hands-on experimentation, material exploration, and collective making.
Saturday, July 25 | 11:00 AM–1:00 PM, P71 Gallery | 230 NW 71st St, Miami, FL 33150
Family Day: Fiber, Texture, and Storytelling, led by FAMA artists with guided tours, hands-on activities, demonstrations, refreshments, prizes, and intergenerational learning for children of all ages and caregivers. The event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Invisible Sun Foundation.
The Triennial is a major institutional platform dedicated to contemporary textile, fiber, and expanded material-based practices.
America250 marks 250 years since the founding narratives of the United States—an anniversary that invites not celebration, but critical reflection. Through textile and fiber practices, the Miami Fiber Triennial 2026 examines how the American project has been built, repaired, controlled, protected, and resisted through material systems such as labor, migration, industry, domesticity, extraction, and care.
Textile becomes a lens through which America is read not as a singular history, but as a layered fabric—woven from multiple temporalities, geographies, bodies, and lived experiences.
In addition to exhibitions, the Triennial will feature a Didactic Room, hosting workshops, talks, and educational programs, alongside a curated program of film screenings addressing textile histories, labor, and material culture within the American context.
About MFT 2026
Partners and Sponsors
“Sponsored in part by the State of Florida through the Division of Arts and Culture and the National Endowment for the Arts.”
“With the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.”
Supported by the Knight Art + Tech Expansion Fund in Miami
The Triennial is a major institutional platform dedicated to contemporary textile, fiber, and expanded material-based practices.
America250 marks 250 years since the founding narratives of the United States—an anniversary that invites not celebration, but critical reflection. Through textile and fiber practices, the Miami Fiber Triennial 2026 examines how the American project has been built, repaired, controlled, protected, and resisted through material systems such as labor, migration, industry, domesticity, extraction, and care.
Textile becomes a lens through which America is read not as a singular history, but as a layered fabric—woven from multiple temporalities, geographies, bodies, and lived experiences.
In addition to exhibitions, the Triennial will feature a Didactic Room, hosting workshops, talks, and educational programs, alongside a curated program of film screenings addressing textile histories, labor, and material culture within the American context.
About MFT 2026
TRIENNIAL INFORMATION
The Triennial is a major institutional platform dedicated to contemporary textile, fiber, and expanded material-based practices across interior, collective, and exterior spaces.
In recognition of America250, the program emphasizes the many cultural influences, stories, and artistic lineages that have shaped textile practices across generations.
Official Opening Night
Miami Fiber Triennial 2026
Thursday, June 11, 2026
6:00–9:00 PM
Miami International Fine Arts
5900 NW 74th Ave
Miami, FL 33166
Hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday, and 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM on Saturdays. Closed on Sundays
Main exhibitions on view: June 11–July 24, 2026
Opening Night
Satellite Location: Friday, June 12 | 6–9 PM
P71| 230 NW 71st St, Miami, FL 33150
Opening Night
Satellite Location: Saturday, June 20 | 6–9 PM
Mundo Arte Gallery
1746 NE 163rd St, North Miami Beach, FL 33162
About MFT 2026
The Triennial is a major institutional platform dedicated to contemporary textile, fiber, and expanded material-based practices across interior, collective, and exterior spaces.
America250 marks 250 years since the founding narratives of the United States—an anniversary that invites not celebration, but critical reflection. Through textile and fiber practices, the Miami Fiber Triennial 2026 examines how the American project has been built, repaired, controlled, protected, and resisted through material systems such as labor, migration, industry, domesticity, extraction, and care.
Textile becomes a lens through which America is read not as a singular history, but as a layered fabric—woven from multiple temporalities, geographies, bodies, and lived experiences.
In addition to exhibitions, the Triennial will feature a Didactic Room, hosting workshops, talks, and educational programs, alongside a curated program of film screenings addressing textile histories, labor, and material culture within the American context.
The Triennial is a major institutional platform dedicated to contemporary textile, fiber, and expanded material-based practices.
America250 marks 250 years since the founding narratives of the United States—an anniversary that invites not celebration, but critical reflection. Through textile and fiber practices, the Miami Fiber Triennial 2026 examines how the American project has been built, repaired, controlled, protected, and resisted through material systems such as labor, migration, industry, domesticity, extraction, and care.
Textile becomes a lens through which America is read not as a singular history, but as a layered fabric—woven from multiple temporalities, geographies, bodies, and lived experiences.
In addition to exhibitions, the Triennial will feature a Didactic Room, hosting workshops, talks, and educational programs, alongside a curated program of film screenings addressing textile histories, labor, and material culture within the American context.
About MFT 2026
Evaluation Criteria
Applications will be evaluated based on:
Conceptual strength and relevance
Engagement with textile and fiber as a critical language
Artistic coherence
Spatial awareness
Professional readiness and feasibility
Interior / Intimacy
The personal, domestic, and bodily scale of textile as memory, protection, labor, and care.
Curatorial Frame
Collective / Urban Fabric
Threading the City as a shared civic surface, where multiple voices converge into a collective narrative shaped by movement, exchange, and coexistence.
Exterior / Living Systems
The landscape as an active collaborator, where textile engages ecology, time, environmental responsibility, and non-human agency.
Together, these scales position textile as a critical, spatial, and embodied language operating across intimacy, architecture, ecology, and the urban experience.
Evaluation Criteria
Applications will be evaluated based on:
Conceptual strength and relevance
Engagement with textile and fiber as a critical language
Artistic coherence
Spatial awareness
Professional readiness and feasibility
Interior / Intimacy
The personal, domestic, and bodily scale of textile as memory, protection, labor, and care.
Curatorial Frame
Collective / Urban Fabric
Threading the City as a shared civic surface, where multiple voices converge into a collective narrative shaped by movement, exchange, and coexistence.
Exterior / Living Systems
The landscape as an active collaborator, where textile engages ecology, time, environmental responsibility, and non-human agency.
Together, these scales position textile as a critical, spatial, and embodied language operating across intimacy, architecture, ecology, and the urban experience.
Confirmed Solo Exhibitions
By Invitation
Patricia Calero — Suspended Time
Curated by Katherine Chacón
Using industrial seatbelts as material, Calero creates abstract and kinetic works that reflect on impact, protection, and duration. Her practice transforms systems of safety and restraint into tension-filled compositions in which time appears suspended.
Mayra Alpízar — Textile, Intimate Matter
Curated by Katherine Chacón
An exploration of textile as a tactile and emotional extension of the body. Alpízar’s work foregrounds intimacy, gesture, and material memory, positioning fiber as a site of vulnerability, presence, and embodied knowledge.
How to apply
All applications must be submitted online via Google Forms.
Incomplete or late applications will not be considered.
Applicants will be asked to provide:
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Basic contact information
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A short artist statement and project proposal
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A brief biography or CV
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Up to 5 images of relevant work (with captions)
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For time-based or performative proposals: video links (Vimeo or YouTube)
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Installation requirements and technical notes
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A brief statement addressing the relationship of the proposal to America250
Each Open Call requires a separate application form and corresponding fee. Fees are non-refundable and support jury honoraria, administrative coordination, and the Triennial's sustainability.
Artists may apply to more than one Open Call. Each application requires a separate fee.
Open Calls
MIFA invites artists working in textile, fiber, and expanded material practices to apply to the following Open Calls:
01 — Solo Exhibition (Room D)
America250: From a Single View
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Exhibition Type: Solo Exhibition
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Medium: Textile, fiber, installation, mixed media
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Application Fee: $60 USD
Description
This Open Call seeks one artist to present a cohesive solo exhibition that understands textile not as surface, but as a system—a structure tied to labor, protection, control, repetition, and resistance.
The selected artist will engage material histories embedded in everyday fibers—industrial, repurposed, or hybrid—and expand textile language into spatial, conceptual, and political territory.
Proposals are encouraged to explore:
- Textile as an infrastructure or mechanism - Abstraction rooted in material history - Repetition, tension, and time - Expanded textile practices beyond decoration
In relation to America250, proposals should critically engage with questions of labor, protection, migration, infrastructure, repetition, and resistance within the American context—historical or contemporary.
Collectives may apply, provided the proposal functions as a unified conceptual and spatial project and demonstrates a sustained history of collaboration.
Open Calls
MIFA invites artists working in textile, fiber, and expanded material practices to apply to the following Open Calls:
01 — Solo Exhibition (Room D)
America250: From a Single View
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Exhibition Type: Solo Exhibition
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Medium: Textile, fiber, installation, mixed media
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Application Fee: $60 USD
Description
This Open Call seeks one artist to present a cohesive solo exhibition that understands textile not as surface, but as a system—a structure tied to labor, protection, control, repetition, and resistance.
The selected artist will engage material histories embedded in everyday fibers—industrial, repurposed, or hybrid—and expand textile language into spatial, conceptual, and political territory.
Proposals are encouraged to explore:
- Textile as an infrastructure or mechanism - Abstraction rooted in material history - Repetition, tension, and time - Expanded textile practices beyond decoration
In relation to America250, proposals should critically engage with questions of labor, protection, migration, infrastructure, repetition, and resistance within the American context—historical or contemporary.
Collectives may apply, provided the proposal functions as a unified conceptual and spatial project and demonstrates a sustained history of collaboration.
How to apply
All applications must be submitted online via Google Forms.
Incomplete or late applications will not be considered.
Applicants will be asked to provide:
-
Basic contact information
-
A short artist statement and project proposal
-
A brief biography or CV
-
Up to 5 images of relevant work (with captions)
-
For time-based or performative proposals: video links (Vimeo or YouTube)
-
Installation requirements and technical notes
-
A brief statement addressing the relationship of the proposal to America250
Each Open Call requires a separate application form and corresponding fee.
02 — Group Exhibition (Room E)
Threading the City: America250
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Exhibition Type: Group Exhibition
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Medium: Textile, fiber, video, performance (wall-based), mixed media
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Application Fee: $30 USD
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Open to FAMA members only
Technical Parameters
Please note:
Only wall-based works are accepted
No sculptural or freestanding installations
Works must be suitable for standard gallery wall installation
Description
In alignment with America250, Threading the City foregrounds textile as a shared surface—one that carries layered histories of migration, labor, tradition, and adaptation within the American context.
The exhibition prioritizes works that engage fiber as narrative, abstraction, or cultural memory within a collective framework, emphasizing the city as a woven space shaped by multiple voices and material histories.
02 — Group Exhibition (Room E)
Threading the City: America250
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Exhibition Type: Group Exhibition
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Medium: Textile, fiber, video, performance (wall-based), mixed media
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Application Fee: $30 USD
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Open to FAMA members only
Technical Parameters
Please note:
Only wall-based works are accepted
No sculptural or freestanding installations
Works must be suitable for standard gallery wall installation
Description
In alignment with America250, Threading the City foregrounds textile as a shared surface—one that carries layered histories of migration, labor, tradition, and adaptation within the American context.
The exhibition prioritizes works that engage fiber as narrative, abstraction, or cultural memory within a collective framework, emphasizing the city as a woven space shaped by multiple voices and material histories.
03 — Exterior Interventions
America250: An External View
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Exhibition Type: Exterior Interventions
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Location: Trees, gardens, and landscaped areas at MIFA
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Medium: Textile, fiber, natural, or hybrid materials
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Application Fee: $20 USD
Description
This Open Call invites artists to create textile- and fiber-based interventions specifically designed for trees and garden spaces. Textile is approached as a gesture of coexistence, care, and attentiveness—responding to living systems rather than dominating them.
Works may wrap, hang, rest, or suspend from branches and garden structures, engaging wind, light, shade, humidity, and time.
In the context of America250, these interventions reflect on the relationship between American expansion, land use, extraction, and ecological responsibility—proposing textile as a counter-gesture of care, repair, and coexistence.
Key considerations:
Non-invasive and non-damaging installation
Respect for living organisms
Natural, recycled, or biodegradable materials are encouraged
Temporary and time-based works welcome
No nails, staples, or permanent attachments permitted
03 — Exterior Interventions
America250: An External View
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Exhibition Type: Exterior Interventions
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Location: Trees, gardens, and landscaped areas at MIFA
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Medium: Textile, fiber, natural, or hybrid materials
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Application Fee: $20 USD
Description
This Open Call invites artists to create textile- and fiber-based interventions specifically designed for trees and garden spaces. Textile is approached as a gesture of coexistence, care, and attentiveness—responding to living systems rather than dominating them.
Works may wrap, hang, rest, or suspend from branches and garden structures, engaging wind, light, shade, humidity, and time.
In the context of America250, these interventions reflect on the relationship between American expansion, land use, extraction, and ecological responsibility—proposing textile as a counter-gesture of care, repair, and coexistence.
Key considerations:
Non-invasive and non-damaging installation
Respect for living organisms
Natural, recycled, or biodegradable materials are encouraged
Temporary and time-based works welcome
No nails, staples, or permanent attachments permitted
04 — Activations
Performances, Workshops & Public Programs
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Application Fee: $10 USD
Description
This Open Call invites artists, educators, and collectives to propose performances, workshops, and participatory activations that expand the Miami Fiber Triennial beyond the exhibition space.
Proposals may include:
Textile-based performances
Community workshops
Participatory actions
Artist talks or demonstrations
Experimental or time-based activations
Projects should engage textile as a social, embodied, and pedagogical tool, and may respond to themes of America250, labor, migration, care, and material knowledge.
Selected activations may take place in the Triennial’s Didactic Room, conceived as a space for learning, dialogue, and embodied knowledge exchange.
04 — Activations
Performances, Workshops & Public Programs
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Application Fee: $20 USD
Description
This Open Call invites artists, educators, and collectives to propose performances, workshops, and participatory activations that expand the Miami Fiber Triennial beyond the exhibition space.
Proposals may include:
Textile-based performances
Community workshops
Participatory actions
Artist talks or demonstrations
Experimental or time-based activations
Projects should engage textile as a social, embodied, and pedagogical tool, and may respond to themes of America250, labor, migration, care, and material knowledge.
Selected activations may take place in the Triennial’s Didactic Room, conceived as a space for learning, dialogue, and embodied knowledge exchange.
Transparency and Conflict of Interest
Jury members recuse themselves in cases of conflict of interest
Selection is based solely on merit
Application fees do not influence outcomes
Due to volume, individual feedback cannot be provided
Important Dates
Open Call Launch/ March 1, 2026
Application Deadline/ March 31, 2026
Jury Review Period/ April 1–15, 2026
Selected Artists Announced/ April 20, 2026
Triennial Opening/ Thursday, June 11, 2026
Closing/ July 24, 2026
Venue
Jury Panel
All applications will be reviewed by a professional jury composed of curators, artists, and cultural leaders with extensive experience in contemporary textile and fiber practices:
Pit Brant -
Artist and Educator
Curatorial Panel
Katherine Chacón
Marco Caridad
Shirley Moreira
Olga Garcia-Mayoral
Maria Alcala Barcelo
Monica Czukerberg -
Artist and Educator
Bernice Steinbaum -
Gallerist
Transparency and Conflict of Interest
Jury members recuse themselves in cases of conflict of interest
Selection is based solely on merit
Application fees do not influence outcomes
Due to volume, individual feedback cannot be provided
Important Dates
Open Call Launch/ March 1, 2026
Application Deadline/ March 31, 2026
Jury Review Period/ April 1–15, 2026
Selected Artists Announced/ April 20, 2026
Triennial Opening/ Thursday, June 11, 2026
Closing/ July 24, 2026
Venue
