PRINCETON NJ Announcement

Trenton, NJ (For immediate release) — 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, 15 Market Street in Trenton, New Jersey, located across William Trent Place from the Hughes Justice Complex. 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.

The William Trent House Museum is a National Historic Landmark in the Crossroads of the American Revolution National Heritage Area and on the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail. The Museum is dedicated to sharing the authentic history of the house, property, and people with our communities, connecting the past with today and tomorrow. Owned by the City of Trenton, it is operated by the Trent House Association, which is supported by the generosity of its donors; by grants from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, the New Jersey Cultural Trust, the New Jersey Historic Trust, the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission with funding from the New Jersey Historical Commission, and the Bunbury Fund and the New Jersey Arts & Culture Renewal Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation; and by contributions from NJM Insurance Group and Orion General Contractors. For more information, visit www.williamtrenthouse.org.