Opening Celebration

You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry

July 15, 2026
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

A multicolored tufted wall hanging resembling a rorschach test and featuring four mirrored holes within the organic shape of the tufting, exposing the wall behind the artwork.
Caroline Achaintre. Seeker, 2024. Hand-tufted wool, 65 3/4 x 98 3/8 inches. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist and Art: Concept, Paris.

Be among the first to experience FWM’s next exhibition that examines how contemporary practitioners are transforming and challenging the traditional language of tapestry.

You Stretched Diagonally Across It is originally organized by Dallas Contemporary and curated by independent curator Su Wu. The Fabric Workshop and Museum has reimagined this iteration to bring together 32 works by 24 artists exploring tapestries as a conceptual and aesthetic space where questions of authenticity, labor, surface, and structure come to the fore.

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Event Information

July 15, 2026
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

The Fabric Workshop and Museum
1214 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107

Second and Eighth Floor Galleries

FREE | Advance reservation encouraged

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Support

Support for You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry is provided by the Coby Foundation, and Katie Adams Schaeffer and Tony Schaeffer.

Major support of FWM is provided by the Marion Boulton “Kippy” Stroud Foundation. Additional support is provided by Cynthia Stroud, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, the Joy of Giving Something, Katie Adams Schaeffer and Tony Schaeffer, AG Foundation, E. Belinda and Ferrill D. Roll, John Alchin and C. Halford Marryatt, Sarah Jackson, the Locks Foundation, Nike, and the Board of Directors and Members of The Fabric Workshop and Museum.

In Dallas, the exhibition was generously supported by PACE Gallery, KHAITE, Janelle and Alden Pinnell, Shelby Wagner and Niven Morgan, Kasey and Todd Lemkin, Catalina Gonzalez Jorba, Dr. Rodger Kobes and Michael Keller, Ann and John McReynolds, and Jill Parker and Rod Sager.