ARTS 14C invites applications for The Fabric of a Nation, a Special Project Residency for textile, fashion, and fiber artists, launching May 22 and culminating in a public exhibition opening June 25, 2026, in recognition of the 250th Anniversary of the United States.

This residency challenges artists to work with – and against – national symbolism. Selected artists will create new work using Art Pantry 14C’s extensive collection of donated red, white, and blue fabrics – in a broad array of woven, knit, natural, and synthetic compositions – sourced from a Netflix film production. The materials span a wide range of textures, weights, and finishes, unified only by their association with the colors of the U.S. flag.

Artists must incorporate these materials into their projects and respond, in any tone or register, to the U.S. Semiquincentennial. Projects may be patriotic, critical, political, jaded, hopeful, ironic, reverent, condemnatory, or conflicted – or all of the above. There is no expectation of celebration, nor any requirement that projects take a critical stance. ARTS 14C invites artists to approach this moment with complexity, imagination, and a willingness to rethink what has been inherited.