To view the full Gallery, please go to the Gallery menu bar
The mission of non-profit Textile Study Group of New York Inc. is to educate and promote a wider appreciation of fiber art among the larger art community and the public in general and to inspire and support artists who share a mutual commitment to fiber as a medium for artistic expression.
……………...
NEXT MEETING
October 21st, 2026 – 7pm
Lesley Dill
Lesley Dill is an American artist working at the intersection of language and fine art in sculpture, printmaking, installation and performance, exploring the power of words to cloak and reveal the psyche.
She has had over one hundred solo exhibitions. Her artworks are in the collections of many major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2017 she was named a fellow of The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and is a Joan Mitchell Foundation Creating A Living Legacy artist and grant recipient. Her opera, Divide Light, based on the poems of Emily Dickinson, was performed in San Jose in 2008. In 2018 the opera was re-staged in New York City and captured in an award-winning film by Ed Robbins. Dill was the recipient of the Emily Dickinson Museum’s 2019 ‘Tell it Slant’ Award.
Pre-Meeting begins at 6pm
Rachael Dorr and Fannie Lee
Rachael Dorr
Rachael is a Bronxville, NY–based artist whose practice transforms discarded everyday textiles through intricate, meditative, and rhythmic machine quilting. Her work has received multiple awards and has been featured in many national exhibitions. Pieces are held in the permanent collections of the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn, MI, and the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, NE, as well as in numerous private collections. She is a member of the Manhattan Quilters Guild and the New York Textile Study Group, where she serves as their Exhibitions Coordinator.
Fannie Lee
Fannie is a first generation Asian American with a heritage of women in her family sewing and mending as well as working in clothing factories. Her journey to fiber arts and weaving began as a child making doll clothes. A lifelong desire for making, the current tapestry weaving is a continuation of many stages of constant use of the hands to create. She went to college and graduate school to study weaving, worked in the fashion industry, shifted to collage while raising her children and finally back to weaving full time in recent years.
Register for our Member Chat
〰️
Register for our Member Chat 〰️
October 28th 3–5pm EST
Click here to Register
The Monthly Member Zoom Chat is always the last Wednesday of the month.
FOLLOW US
Judy Langille, President / Ann Golob, Treasurer / Lauren Colbert, Secretary / Robyn Daniel, Membership
Amritha Arasu / Amy Supton / Qiqing Lin / Ellen Ford
Nancy Koenigsberg, Founder