TAC hosts and organizes exhibitions and special events featuring local and national textile and fiber artists, experts in the field, community members, and education program participants. Check out what we have coming up below.
100 Knittings
100 Knittings
On View: March 14 - May 17, 2025
Gallery Hours: Thursdays, 12-4pm and Saturdays, 10am-2pm
Opening Reception: Friday, March 14, 6-8pm. This event is free and open to all.
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TAC is pleased to present, 100 Knittings, a collection of recent works by Madison artist Renée Roeder Earley (1959-2025). Each knit piece began with exactly 100 stitches; ultimately, the stitches among the collection total over a million.
These knit “paintings”—as Roeder Earley called them—celebrate the mesmerizing interactions of color and the simple beauty of the stitch. Challenging preconceived notions about fine art and craft, the works bridge the gap between fiber work and painting.
100 Knittings runs concurrently with Quantum Color, an exhibition of fiber artworks by Thomas Romero.
Artist Statement
“I call these pieces Knittings. As in paintings, weavings, or wall hangings. Knitting doesn’t have to be a scarf, a sweater, or a sock. It can simply be. It was a revelation to discover that I could knit paintings, and in doing so, embrace the very thing I love most about knitting—the play of color. I find immense joy in the magical transitions of hues, from light to dark, vivid to pale, contrast to complement—endless explorations and possibilities. What happens when two colors blend and then dissipate? Some colors transform entirely when paired with others, like in a color study or optical illusion. Sometimes the knitting is planned, sometimes it is entirely unplanned, but I am always experimenting, always exploring. Though my pieces may appear meditative, that sense of calm conceals the excitement I feel as I knit along, waiting in anticipation for the right moment to change color. Be patient, I remind myself.
While the sizes of my pieces vary, each one begins the same way. The needle gauge ranges from 0 to 000000, and the cotton thread shifts according to the needle gauge. But every Knitting starts with 100 stitches…
I have been both a fiber artist and a painter my entire life, studying and practicing both arts interchangeably. In this new body of work, I feel my Knittings embody a true fusion of both disciplines, with color at the heart of it all. Although knitting has often been dismissed as mere craft—tied to domesticity and women’s work—I believe that my Knittings hold the same value as the oil paintings that I created earlier in my career. The only difference is the medium: thread rather than paint.”
About the Artist
Renée Roeder Earley (1959-2025) was a painter and fiber artist, originally from Appleton, Wisconsin. She studied painting at Viterbo University in LaCrosse and at the New York Studio School in New York City.
Roeder Earley traveled widely and lived abroad before relocating to Madison in 1990 where she became a staple of the art fair scene in the Midwest. She was well known for her beautiful hand-sewn hats made under the label Hats O Fancy.
An active participant in the local arts community, Roeder Earley designed costumes for the UW Madison Dance Department, Cycropia Dance, and the Children’s Theater of Madison, and collaborated on projects for over 25 years at the Madison Children’s Museum. She was involved in art fair organizing and has been featured in many exhibitions at local galleries. Since retiring from hat making last year, Roeder Earley concentrated on hand drawn animated short films and her Knittings, which have gradually become more complex.
Roeder Earley’s work has been featured at the Chazen Museum of Art, Kohler Art Center, SOFA Chicago, Fanny Garver Gallery, the CityArts Space in Madison, Katie Gingrass Gallery in Milwaukee, Smithsonian Craft Show 2015 and 2016, the American Craft Exhibition in Chicago and countless art fairs and galleries across the United States for more than three decades.
Her Knittings will also be exhibited this spring at the Smithsonian Craft Show 2025 in Washington, D.C.
Exhibitions at the Textile Arts Center are sponsored by Paula and David Kraemer.
If you are interested in information on supporting TAC’s nonprofit mission, and advancing creative expression through fiber art, please contact us.
Quantum Color
Quantum Color
On View: March 14 - May 17, 2025
Gallery Hours: Thursdays, 12-4pm and Saturdays, 10am-2pm
Opening Reception with the artist: Friday, March 14, 6-8pm. This event is free and open to all.
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Quantum Color showcases artworks by Milwaukee-based fiber and materials artist Thomas C. Romero, including his suspended crocheted “structures”; weavings; paper and fiber collagraph mono prints; and large-scale paintings. Romero’s varied fiber art explorations are united by his bold use of color, lively gesture, and unexpected use of materials.
About his suspended crocheted structures, Romero writes, “As the viewer moves through the space, multiple colors and layers are produced, projected, and reflected, ever-changing as you engage with its environment. Like leaves shaking on the trees in a fall breeze, as you move, the colors, shapes, and subjects move and change with you. Never seeing the same interaction unless you stand completely still.”
Quantum Color runs concurrently with 100 Knittings, an exhibition of artworks by Renée Roeder Earley.
About the Artist
Thomas C. Romero is an Interdisciplinary artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Through his work, he bridges the mediums of drawing, painting, printmaking, and large fiber installation through deep meditation and observation. Romero’s practice serves as a broad investigation of how the engagement of color and line can reveal and project information stored deep within the surface or material. Within his structures are a documentation of memories and stories that reveal themselves through his hands, and onto the fibers. Using multiple mediums allows him to extend through these memories and lock them into place onto any surface, weaving each piece together to tell a larger story of shared histories, reflections, and projections.
Exhibitions at the Textile Arts Center are sponsored by Paula and David Kraemer.
If you are interested in information on supporting TAC’s nonprofit mission, and advancing creative expression through fiber art, please contact us.
Quantum Color Artworks for Sale
Red Line, Blue Line, 2024
Mixed Media on Wood
70"x96"
$7,000
Woven Lines #3, 2024 (not on view at TAC)
Handwoven Cotton and Linen, Plain Weaving
33.5”x38.5”
$500
Woven Lines #2, 2024
Handwoven Cotton and Linen, Plain Weaving
33.5”x38.5”
$500
Woven Lines #1, 2024
Handwoven Cotton and Linen, Plain Weaving
33.5”x38.5”
$500
Woven Planes #1, 2024
PVC Plate Collagraph with Oil Paint and Etching Ink Mono Print, Framed
30"x31"
$1,200
Woven Planes #2, 2024
PVC Plate Collagraph with Oil Paint and Etching Ink Mono Print, Framed
30"x31"
$1,200
Gallery Night
Friday, May 16, 5:00 - 9:00 pm
Put TAC Madison on your list of stops for Spring Gallery Night.
See TAC’s current, Quantum Color before it’s gone (this is the closing weekend!) which showcases artworks by Milwaukee-based fiber and materials artist Thomas C. Romero, including his suspended crocheted “structures”; weavings; paper and fiber collagraph mono prints; and large-scale paintings.
The reception at TAC will also include light refreshments.
For a complete listing of all venues participating in MMoCA’s Spring Gallery Night, visit MMoCA.org.
TAC Resale
TAC RESALE
Saturday, June 7, 2025
Join us for TAC’s BIGGEST secondhand supply sale! The TAC RESLAE features fabric, yarn, needlecraft supplies, sewing machines, tools, notions, books, patterns, and SO much more!
MEMBER SALE: 9:00-10:00am - Members of TAC Madison get to shop early. If you’re not a member yet, join today! We will have a member list at the door and will check each person entering.
PUBLIC SALE: 10:00am-2:00pm - The TAC Resale is open to all!
Important Information to know:
Sale location: 2436 Pennsylvania Ave.
Parking: There is street parking on Pennsylvania Ave.
PLEASE, BRING YOUR OWN REUSABLE BAGS!
Credit card and cash accepted
HALF-PRICE SALE: 1:00-2:00pm - 50% off all remaining items!
Convergence
Artworks by Hannah O’Hare Bennett, Cate O’Connell-Richards, Kate Goodvin, Ian Danner, and Eli Song
Convergence
On View: January 31 - March 1, 2025
Gallery Hours: Thursdays, 12-4pm and Saturdays, 10am-2pm
Opening Reception with the artists: Friday, January 31, 5:30-7:30pm. This event is free and open to all.
Butterfly Folding Activity: Saturday, February 8, 10am-12pm. This event is free and open to all. See below for more information about the Butterfly Folding Activity.
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TAC is pleased to present, Convergence, the 2025 iteration of TAC’s annual exhibition showcasing the work of University of Wisconsin-Madison current students and recent alumni working in fiber.
This exhibition, curated by Annmarie Suglio (MFA, UW-Madison, 2023), showcases the wide variety of fiber art creative practices - including a rich mix of materials, techniques, and concepts - that have recently been undertaken by students in the Design Studies and Art Departments.
Convergence is an exhibition providing a meeting place for fiber, textile, and paper works. The artists explore themes of materiality, the passage of time, and sense of self. To convey these timeless themes, selected innovative works employ traditional textile or fiber art techniques, such as hand weaving, sewing, embroidery, felting, and papermaking to address these concerns through a contemporary lens. Convergence brings together 17 excellent artists of diverse backgrounds and areas of study from Madison's community.
Participating Artists:
Hannah O’Hare Bennett
Autumn Brown
Danielle Burke
Ian Danner
Jackelin Espinosa Moyoti
Kate Flake
Kate Goodvin
Roberto Mata
Nika McKagen
Mariah Moneda
Cate O’Connell-Richards
Maia Rauh
Noa Rickey
Lars Shimabukuo
Eli Song
Carolyn Spears
Kelsey Vickman
Exhibitions at the Textile Arts Center are sponsored by Paula and David Kraemer and Lake Ridge Bank.
If you are interested in information on supporting TAC’s nonprofit mission, and advancing creative expression through fiber art, please contact us.
Butterfly Folding Activity: Saturday, February 8, 10am-12pm.
Learn to fold paper butterflies that will be added to Moneda’s growing sculpture at TAC.
For her artwork Messengers for the Living, artist Mariah Moneda invites the community to join her in creating folded paper butterflies—a symbol in Filipino folklore for transformation, rebirth, and the eternal cycle of life and death—as an act to pause and consider the reoccurring cycle of change that comes with life.
Participants are invited to learn how to fold butterflies from upcycled newsprint, photos, and posters from the Madison area. The butterflies will then be added to a growing sculpture in TAC’s Convergence exhibition, as an honorarium to our community’s past, and a message for today. This event is free and open to all.
Convergence Artworks for Sale
Cate O’Connell-Richards
Pelt of The Wilder Mann, 2016
Hand weaving and knot work; Manila rope, cordage, polyrope, beeswax, natural found materials
$1250
Hannah O’Hare Bennett
Landscape Form, 2022
Handmade paper
$5000
Cate O’Connell-Richards
Mopped, 2021
Brass, wood, leather, the artist’s bedsheets
$900
Ian Danner
7-Foot Ceiling, 2021
Wet and needle felted wool
$450
Ian Danner
Portal, 2021
Wet and needle felted wool
$450
Lars Shimabukuro
In the Garden (for Millie, Mitsu, and Katsu), 2021
Hand-built ceramic, cast paper
$2000
Kate Goodvin
Two Calla Lilies, 2024
Screenprinted and appliquéd textiles on cotton
$1200
Maia Rauh
Lattice of Light, 2024
Woven; Raffia, paper yarn, wool, cloth strips, wood, fiber dye
$1000
Carolyn Spears
Breaking Apart, 2024
Handmade paper
$900
Stories to Tell: Narratives in Fiber
Artworks (from left to right) by Gail M. Willert, Elizabeth Shaw Neviaser, Pat Kroth, Misty M. Cole, and Rain Foster
Stories to Tell: Narratives in Fiber
On View: November 1 through December 14, 2024
Gallery Hours: Thursdays, 12-4pm and Saturdays 10am-2pm; CLOSED NOVEMBER 30
Opening Reception with the artists: Friday, November 1, 5:30-7:30pm. The reception will also include live music from Madison acoustic duo, Host of Sparrows. This event is free and open to all.
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Stories to Tell: Narratives in Fiber features the work of seventeen artists who explore personal, cultural, and political narratives. The artists included in the exhibition consider contemporary issues of identity, gender, family, environmental concerns, wellbeing, and grief through fiber, a medium with deep, multicultural roots.
For this juried exhibition, TAC sought innovative work made with fiber and/or constructed using textile or fiber techniques informed by a story or narrative that held significance for the artist. Selected works include quilts and weavings, works of paper and felt, three-dimensional multi-media sculptures, and more. Artworks are at once autobiographical and socially critical, and are evocative of common concerns to which visitors will connect.
Participating Artists:
Pat Bishop
Misty M. Cole
Linda Farrelly
Lori Fleury
Candy Flynn
Rain Foster
Pat Kroth
Carlee Latimer
Sally Miles
Phoebe Saunders
Elizabeth Shaw Neviaser
Cherie St. Cyr
Gina Studelska
Connie Toebe
Elizabeth Tuttle
Ani Weaver
Gail M. Willert
Exhibitions at TAC are generously supported by Paula and David Kraemer, Lake Ridge Bank, and Dane Arts with additional funds from the Endres Mfg. Company Foundation; The Evjue Foundation, Inc., charitable arm of The Capital Times; the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation; and the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation.
If you are interested in information on supporting TAC’s nonprofit mission, and advancing creative expression through fiber art, please contact us.
Interwoven: TAC Members Show
Artworks (from left to right) by Tina Rea, Lea Feinstein, Ruth Vander Horck, Paul Fricken, and Sally Miles
Interwoven
On View: September 13 through October 19, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, September 13, 5-8pm
Gallery Hours: Thursdays, 12-4pm and Saturdays 10am-2pm
Interwoven showcases the wide variety of fiber art practices of TAC’s creative member community. The exhibition honors and celebrates TAC’s supporters and gives every TAC member an opportunity to exhibit one of their recent fiber artworks. Works exhibited utilize a variety of fiber art techniques and materials, including quilting, machine and hand sewing, applique, weaving, knitting, embroidery, punch needle, felting, hand dyeing, crochet, and more.
Participating Interwoven Artists:
Karen Becker
Emmy Berning
Devin Biggs
Marci Birkes
Cheryl Callis
Misty Cole
Courtney Cosgriff
Tanya Cunningham
Deborah Daniel
Jeannette Deloya
Kim Donovan
Kaitlin Esche-Lyon
Jennifer Falkowski
Linda Farrelly
Lea Feinstein
Marcia Finger
Rain Foster
Natalia Frank
Sarah French
Paul Fricken
Kristi Gersbach
Cathie Gillette
Sylvia Gleiter
Jane Grogan
Becky Hiller
Lynne Hodgman
Lynn Horvatin
Wendy Fern Hutton
Angela Johnson
Deborah Kades
Dvorah Kaufman
Janet Kelly
Jody Larson
Daniel Lippitt
dlmanowske
Peg McNinch
Janis Merkle
Terri Messinides
Sally Miles
Gigi Mosconi
Margaret O’Connor
Richard Peterson
Marty Petillo
Carolyn Pieper Benforado
Hannah Pinkerton
CynthiaQuinn
Tina Rea
Bird Ross
Phoebe Saunders
Rachel Schindler
Sharon Sharp
Judy Sidran
Nadia Smith
Martha Sullivan
Rebecca Swank
Ruth Vander Horck
Sara von Tresckow
Ani Weaver
Constance Willett
Interwoven artworks available for sale may be purchased online here.
Exhibitions at TAC are generously supported by Paula and David Kraemer, Lake Ridge Bank, and Dane Arts with additional funds from the Endres Mfg. Company Foundation; The Evjue Foundation, Inc., charitable arm of The Capital Times; the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation; and the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation.
If you are interested in information on supporting TAC’s nonprofit mission, and advancing creative expression through fiber art, please contact us.
From Fiber to Hand
Works (from left to right) by Kate Forer, Hannah O’Hare Bennett, Annmarie Suglio, Edward Xiong, and Kate Morrick.
From Fiber to Hand
May 2 through June 13, 2024
TAC was pleased to present From Fiber to Hand, a group exhibition of current students and recent MFA alumni of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Spring 2024. This exhibition, curated by Veronica Pham, explored personal narratives and material processes through the use of fiber, textiles, and paper. An opening reception was held on Friday, May 3 in conjunction with Madison’s city-wide Gallery Night event.
Featured Artists:
Esther Cho
Kate Forer
Heather Kohlmeier
Kate Morrick
Sam Northcut
Hannah O’Hare Bennett
Veronica Pham
Maia Rauh
Noa Rickey
Ava Schueller
Annmarie Suglio
Edward Xiong
Exhibitions at TAC are generously supported by Paula and David Kraemer, Lake Ridge Bank, and Dane Arts with additional funds from the Endres Mfg. Company Foundation; The Evjue Foundation, Inc., charitable arm of The Capital Times; the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation; and the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation.
If you are interested in information on supporting TAC’s nonprofit mission, and advancing creative expression through fiber art, please contact us.
Soft Opening
Sunday, October 29 • 1:00 - 5:00 pm
“Soft Opening” is the inaugural exhibition and open house for TAC Madison. Join us for a group show of nine local artists, working in a diverse range of fiber art mediums. The event will also include a hands-on art making activity, a weaving demonstration, live music, and refreshments.
Featured artists:
Maria Amalia
Jennifer Angelo
Yeonhee Cheong
Maday Delgado
Leah Evans
Marianne Fairbanks
Robyn George
Mary Hark
Bird Ross
Weaving demonstration: Maia Rauh
Hands-on fiber art activity: Bird Ross
Live Music: Host of Sparrows
Supported in part by a contribution from Dane Arts.