2024 MCKNIGHT FIBER ARTIST FELLOWSHIP EXHIBITION
Ceremony Blankets • Rick Kagigebi
February 21 – August 21, 2025
Gallery hours Tuesday-Thursday 11am-4pm
Gizhiigin Arts Incubator
Mahnomen MN

Plan to visit this special exhibition if you’re heading north this summer. Go, just go, and see the phenomenal blankets in Rick’s first exhibition on the White Earth Reservation.

Facilitating 2024 McKnight Fellow Rick Kagigebi’s solo exhibition at Gizhiigin Arts Incubator has been a highlight of my past decade at Textile Center. In my role as director for the McKnight Fellowships for Fiber Artists, getting to know Rick and his work has been an absolute joy and privilege. Throughout his fellowship year, I looked forward to showing his blankets at Textile Center – to honor his work, share it widely, and be a tiny part of his legacy as a maker.

Rick, a blanket maker (Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe) is a blanket-maker whose appliquéd mural blankets, created as ceremonial gifts, are shaped by every aspect — from the sketch to the fabric selections, sewing, and tying — to hold storytelling significance.

For more information or to read more about this event, please visit: https://textilecenter.substack.com/p/rick-kagigebis-blanket-stories-exhibition?fbclid=IwY2xjawLPgZ9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFETTg3WGd0WkRNN1YwTWRrAR7NzJlxHeewVvEoWsyPgci9b_qD3zcxDhK2MSCYnxgsVIdGdG4ldwbGH3eTHQ_aem_FZFBgDfMQdmArpCYwQAnug