An annual celebration of learning, resources and community for fiber with newly expanded programming. This year’s keynote: Tammy White, Wing and a Prayer Farm, on her natural dye and climate change collaboration with international artist Cecilia Vicuña at The Guggenheim Museum.

Fiber Flurry will be held this year at the Arts Council Headquarters at 31 South Main Street in Perry, on April 27th. This year’s festival will offer an expanded learning schedule, beginning at 1pm on Friday, April 26 with a Fiber Artists Forum and a slate of Friday evening workshops.

For the first time, Fiber Flurry includes a juried fiber arts exhibition and skein competition with award opportunities for excellence in fiber. This exhibit will showcase fiber art pieces from local artists curated around the council’s 2024 theme of “Different.” Art and handmade fiber art from the following three categories will be accepted: “Handmade Useful,” showcasing traditional artisanal useful goods and wearables; “For Art’s Sake”, focusing on fine art execution of fiber as a medium for expression and a fine art category for work in non-fiber mediums celebrating wool and agrarian subjects. Photographers, painters, sculptors and all artists working in traditional media are encouraged to submit.