What is Fiber Art?
Our in-person reception is BACK and with it is our featured artist Jane Tardo of New Orleans. Please join us at 5:30 for fun, frivolity, and FIBER ART with our entire cast of vendors, makers, and artists.
Maker Market
Featuring 25 different makers, artists, and creatives this will be our biggest market ever! We heard you- more booths, more variety, more fiber- and this year we brought it. We’ve doubled our outdoor mobile market and made space we didn’t know we had. Complete our Market Crawl card for a chance to win fabulous prizes and Meet Our Makers throughout Saturday with a full schedule of meet and greets.
Identify and Create Tartan: Learning Lunch
Part 2 of our Tartan Series. Please join us on Thursday for an incredible workshop on how to identify tartan patterns and how to create them. Leading tartan historian and weaver Mr. Peter MacDonald of Scotland will be showing us how to describe patterns, identify their distinctive markings, and recreate them on his traditional balanced loom. This digital presentation is presented by the University of Mississippi Museum. Join us in person to ask questions and learn together over lunch (provided with registration) or Zoom in from wherever you are.
Lunch is provided for this event. Please register HERE.
This event is free and open to the public.
History of Tartan: Learning Lunch
The history of tartan, its importance, uses and significance. Learn with tartan expert and historian Peter MacDonald through this online and in person event. Please join us in person at the Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library as we learn from one of the leading tartan educators in the world. This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library.
Lunch will be provided for in person attendees. Please register HERE.
If you wish to Zoom in from home, you may register for a free digital ticket HERE.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Lauren Cardenas
Lauren Cardenas is a Latinx print artist from Texas and art professor at the University of Mississippi. Her current work focuses on everyday objects and we are delighted to have her join our 2022 campaign Fiber is Every Day. Cardenas has worked with fiber not only as a medium but as a subject through her work with the Black Rock Press Redfield Fellowship and as editor of PIECRUST magazine. Cardenas brings new energy to our 2022 Oxford Fiber Festival. This discussion is free and open to the public; presented in part by the University of Mississippi Museum and the Mississippi Arts Commission.
Combat Quilter
Join Staff Sargent Andrew Lee the “Combat Quilter” for a discussion on quilting and his connection to military service. Lee is a 20-year veteran and through his work with Quilts of Valor has completed more than 100 quilts for other members of service. “It never ceases to amaze me of the emotion I see during a presentation; even those in the audience are affected,” says Lee. This program is open to the public and hosted in part by the University of Mississippi Museum and Mississippi Arts Commission as part of the 12th annual Oxford Fiber Festival.
Staff Sargent Andrew Lee with his quilt entitled “Shock and Awe”
January 22 from 10-12 pm
University Museum, Oxford, MS
Opening Reception
Join us for our opening panel. We will have a great discussion on the Fiber Arts from five very different makers. You will not want to miss our annual reception!
Show And Tell
After our Friday market closes, we will host our annual Show And Tell. Wear, adorn, or bring your projects from 2021 and tell everyone all about them. We can’t wait to see you!
In Person Market
Please join us for the return of our In-Person Market from Friday, January 21 through Saturday, January 22. We are delighted to bring back the yarns, fibers, fabrics, tools, baskets, quilts, and more that you have grown to love over the years. It is an honor to present our 12th Annual Oxford Fiber Festival at the Powerhouse Community Arts Center.
*Please note: For the health and safety of everyone, masks will be required throughout the building.
Storytime and Craft
In partnership with the Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library, the 12th Annual Oxford Fiber Arts Festival is proud to announce our Kick Off Celebration will begin with Storytime!
Please join Program Director Stacey Sanford and Youth Specialist Sami Thompson-Fyke for a fiber themed Storytime and Craft. Afterward, pick up the first of two Take and Make crafts presented as part of the festival.
Storytime is from 10:30-11. The Take and Make Fiber kits will be available at the front desk.
Registration Opens
Class registration opens on November 1! In-person and online classes will require registration.