The Trent House in collaboration with the Trenton Puerto Rican Community & Friends organization and others is organizing a program of free demonstrations, workshops, presentations, and an exhibition during March 2026 on the theme of Fabric, Stories, & Memory. Most events will be at the William Trent House Museum
Free parking is available off William Trent Place behind the Museum property. Fabric, Stories, & Memory will celebrate the long history of our city, state, and nation of embracing, preserving, and building on the material culture of the many groups who have enriched our country.
Visitors can view the exhibition in the historic house of garments and
other textiles from Latino, Liberian, and Ukrainian cultures as well as contemporary fabric art from March 8 through March 28. Fabric artists will offer hands-on workshops using fabric to create personal memory books or a collective artwork. A technique for creating two- and three dimensional pieces from wool will be demonstrated and three illustrated talks describing traditional and modern ways fabric is used to tell and remember stories will be given.
The Fabric, Stories, & Memory schedule of events includes:
• Sunday, March 1, 2026, at 2 pm: “Talk: The Stories Fabrics Tell: An Illustrated History”
with Leslie Bramlett
• Saturday, March 7, 2026, at 3 pm: Fabric, Stories, & Memory exhibition opening
reception
• Sunday, March 8, 2026, at 1 pm: “Needle Felting: Demonstrating the Technique” with
Jen Lichtmann
• Saturday, March 14, 2026, from 2 to 4 pm: “Bi-lingual Workshop: Creating a Collective
Storytelling Textile” with Gabrielle Vasquez (registration required)
• Saturday, March 21, 2026, at 2 pm: “Bi-lingual Zoom Talk: Diasporican Queens: A
Community Celebration of Fabric Artistry” with Gabrielle Vasquez
Sunday, March 22, 2026, from 2 to 4 pm: “Workshop: Making a Take-Home Memory
Book” with Beverly Keese-Kelley (registration required – families welcome)
• Saturday, March 28, 2026, at 2 pm: “Talk: Telling Our Families’ Stories – Heirloom
Quilts” with members of Princeton Sankofa Stitchers
The exhibition in the historic house will be open for visitors Wednesdays through Sundays from
1:00 to 4:30 pm from Sunday, March 8th, through Saturday, March 28th.
Information on the Fabric, Stories, & Memory program is available on the Trent House website at:
https://www.williamtrenthouse.org/upcoming.html
