A national center for fiber art, Textile Center’s mission is to honor textile traditions, promote excellence and innovation, nurture appreciation, and inspire widespread participation in fiber art.

Textile Center’s facility features fiber art galleries with rotating exhibitions, an artisan shop which supports working artists, a 300-seat auditorium, classrooms, and the Textile Center Pat O’Connor Library, one of the nation’s largest circulating textile libraries open to the public. Also included is the Ellen Erede Wells Dye Lab, the natural dye plant garden A Garden to Dye For, and staff offices. The flagship exhibition space, the Joan Mondale Gallery, is named after Joan “Joan of Art” Mondale. The wife of Vice President Walter Mondale was a major proponent of craft as art, and her and her family’s support was critical to Textile Center becoming the national center for fiber art that it is today!