FIBER OF BEING
Submission Deadline: 11:59pm EST, August 11
Exhibition on view: September 25 to November 2 2025
Notifications: Early September 2025
Location: Culture Lab LIC, 5-25 46th Ave, Queens, NY 11101
Curator: Caitlin McCormack
TSGNY Coordinator: Fannie Lee flee689@gmail.com
Each applicant can submit up to three artworks, completed within the last 5 years. There is no size restriction. All fiber-based and fiber-inspired works are encouraged to apply.
A juried textile art group show collaboratively organized by Textile Study Group of New York (TSGNY) and Culture Lab LIC.
Culture Lab LIC does not take a commission on any art sold. As such, artists should price art to reflect no gallery commission.
“Fiber of Being” invites artists to explore the enduring significance of fiber art in contemporary life. This exhibition explores how textiles, with their rich histories of handcraft and cultural storytelling, continue to be profoundly relevant—bridging the physical and the virtual, the traditional and the contemporary. How does fiber art assert material presence in an increasingly immaterial world? Fiber is not just a medium but a metaphor for the interconnected threads of existence, weaving together the past, present, and the future.
This exhibition seeks artworks asserting the importance of touch, material intelligence, and embodies “making” in an age of hyper-connectivity and digital abstraction.
NOTE: SHIPPING FOR TSGNY Members only
Artists applying to this show will be responsible for delivering (hand deliver or via delivery service) artwork to/from the gallery, ready to be displayed. There is NO option to ship work directly to Culture Lab LIC.
Current TSGNY members who are unable to hand deliver work should contact rachael_dorr@yahoo.com for assistance.
Caitlin McCormack
Caitlin McCormack is a Philadelphia-based artist who utilizes textiles to explore queerness, isolation, loss, and existential dread through an uncanny, occasionally humorous lens. Their sculptures contemplate societal reluctance to view gendered craft as art and regard crochet as a behavioral response to apocalyptic conditions. Drawing inspiration from folklore, medieval botanical imagery, institutional osteological displays, science fiction and cinematic body horror, each object is an artifact of a memory, tethered to a surface and made viewable from a distance.
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Culture Lab LIC is a 501(c)(3) formed to be the arts and culture umbrella for Western Queens. We present art of all genres while supporting New York artists and other nonprofits by providing space, resources and a sense of community. Operating out of a 12,000 square foot converted warehouse, Culture Lab LIC hosts two fine art galleries, an 80 seat theater, classroom space, an 18,000 square foot outdoor venue, and a robust residency program. Culture Lab LIC is dedicated to upholding, equity, diversity and inclusion across all our platforms.