Keep the World Alive | Resistance to Oppression Weaving is embedded in a history of revolution. Placing faith in our power we reorient towards freedom. We know what we deserve and we know how to love. This knowledge becomes material strength when we practice it together. Against empire, we keep going. Applications for our 2026 season are due this Friday, March 20 at midnight! See link in bio for details.

Materiality | Earthboundness “Material, that is to say unformed or unshaped matter, is the field where authority blocks independent experimentation less than in many other fields, and for this reason it seems well fitted to become the training ground for invention and free speculation.”-Anni Albers, Silk, linen, and wool - Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts Material is a connective realm. It brings limits to expanse, possibilities to form, conceptual to physical, us to earth, use to beauty. To be intimate with materials and familiar with processes is to follow one’s curiosity about the world. The seasons facilitate our relationship to our surroundings; when we follow, we are rewarded with an abundance of life. In reciprocity with material and process, we are also changed. Who do we become when we engage in simple, repeatable tasks? when we transform materials we find in the natural world, we ourselves are transformed. Applications for our 2026 season are due this Friday, March 20! See link in bio for details.

Relationships | Affinity Worldbuilding, weaving a web of people, merging disparate worlds. Everything else is a red herring, time together is elemental. Since all we have is each other, we have everything we need. Building systems of care is as much a creative practice as it is a means of survival. We reject individualism because we thrive in community. Spaces of encounter and conflict are uniquely potent sites for connection and discovery. Applications for our 2026 season are due this Friday, March 20! See link in bio for details.

Serious / not serious Horseplay mischief, whirling indulgence, faff, acting the giddy goat, loitering, having a good time. Nonsense is an opener. Breaking inherited logics requires nonlinear thinking, puttering around and raising hell. Levity, goofing off, lollygagging, and pleasure are respected parts of the process. The trickster questions authority and spins the chaos games we need to destabilize the calcified. Greeting work with a spirit of play and taking nonsense seriously are strategies for making magic. When we honor wild urges we bolster our innate creative power. Applications for our 2026 season are due March 20! See link in bio for details.

For several years Jess Green was a guest artist at Warren Wilson College. She worked with the fiber arts crew doing weaving projects and movement exercises that infused ceremony, slowness, and song into her work with us. This photo was from an invitation Jess gave us to haul looms, spinning wheels and warping reels in truck beds to the nearby site of Black Mountain College to slow-weave, warp, spin at sunrise. We moved as one body, needing each other in lifting looms, wandering quiet and birdsong and following the threads of our attention as we go. I learned a lot about the importance of inconvenience from Jess. I remember the feeling waking up in the middle of night to meet with the group and load up the bulky equipment. Agreeing to the ache of 3 in the morning meet up and hassle of heavy lifting we all gave ourselves to something silently reverent - to witness an ordinary, to make it exquisite with gestures of effort and slowing down together. ‘Feeding the unseen beauty.’ Co-creating magic, honoring the mundane, making slow processes even slower than necessary. ‘Who do we become when we engage ourselves in a series of simple repeatable tasks?’ she’d ask. - Keegan Van Gorder

Failure | Attempting Embracing messiness and bravery, failure is our teacher. There is no hierarchy of what beginners should try, you can go anywhere from anywhere. We iterate, adjust and delight to fail again. The deep knowing that we will never get it right is how we begin. Honoring failure makes real risk possible, and we won’t win the world we want without risk. Following failure, desire, grief, boredom, and slowness we experiment and create in the service of something beautiful. Applications for our 2026 season are due March 20! See link in bio for details.

Ceremony | Ritual Thresholds Ceremony is a space between worlds that changes all worlds. It brings us back into our bodies to honor the cosmic and mundane. We invent ceremonies for what we are moving towards. Honoring the sacred is a radical means of self determination. With reverence and play, we harness the power of ceremony, and celebration to practice embodiment. When we create our own customs and commune through play, we reify our desire as portals. Everything we want leads to something else. Applications for our 2026 season are due March 20! See link in bio for details.

Myth | Remembering Hand work is mythology in practice. Through technique, we channel the ancient lineage of craft. Cloth holds memory. It is a tangible record of time, a riddle-story connected to living cycles . Myth grants us access to the collective heart of the past. Through storytelling, we return to a shared history of struggle, love, and earthly knowledge. Remembering and recordkeeping empower us - by making our own myths, we stake a claim in the now and devote our energies to a living world. Performance by 2025 residents Rakel Stammer & Sludge Thunder while in residence at Tanglehaven.

Shed 1: Slowness | “Real Life Takes Time” We find value in slowness as a means of protest against the daily pressures of capitalism. Observing the passing of each moment, relishing boredom, and playing with pace are strategies for transforming our daily lives into nonlinear sites of expansion. Weaving lends to slowness, and when you make already slow tasks even slower, the experience becomes itself. Slowness is a way of accessing magic and honoring the time that things take. Applications for our 2026 season are due March 20th!

Weavers and artists far and wide - As you may know our call for 2026 applicants is NOW OPEN! Don’t sleep on it - applications are due March 20th! Leading up to that highly anticipated deadline, we want to share more about the undercurrents of our ideology - our 8 hallowed “Sheds.” In the next few weeks we’ll be highlighting them one by one. Join us in evangelizing our open call for entry period and sharing our residency with your friends! Tapestry weaving by 2025 resident Maya Djiji, made while in residence at Tanglehaven.

WEAVERS AND ALL ARTISTS! We’re excited to announce that we are accepting applications for the second season of our collective-run weaving residency ✨Tanglehaven✨ This residency was created to honor Jess Green, a weaver who wove cloth, ways of thinking, and people together. Our tenets include: Slowness, Myth, Ceremony, Failure, Serious/Not Serious, Relationality, Materiality, Keeping the World Alive. If these thought threads resonate with you or remind you of someone, please share it along! We are primarily a weaving residency but are open to artists of different media backgrounds. Thank you to the many supporters and residents who have made Tanglehaven possible. We are continuously humbled by the huge task of stewarding the magical corner of the world that Jess left us, and inviting others into her fold keeps the fire of her memory burning bright. Link in Bio. Application and more in-depth info can be found on our website: Image description: A monochromatic blue photograph of Jess Green weaving is the background to overlaying embroidery style text that reads: “Open Call for 2026 Residents!” Below that in white text it reads: “Three sessions: June 1-30, August 1-30, October 1-30, stipend and housing! Visit tanglehaven.com to apply. Deadline is March 20.” At the bottom of the image there is the tanglehaven logo in a script font with the text “a weaving residency in troy, ny” #weaving #weavingresidency #artresidency #troyny #troy #callforapplicants #fiberarts #weaver #residency

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