Textile Talismans: Printed Pockets

Textile Talismans: Printed Pockets is a hands-on Saturday Open Studio led by textile and sculpture artist Charlie Dov Schön. Participants will create fabric pouches decorated with diasporic Jewish textile motifs from the age of Rembrandt, reflecting on how pockets and small purses carry cherished, sacred, or sentimental objects across countries and generations.

Schön’s interdisciplinary practice brings together textiles, poetics, ritual, material-culture studies, and grief. Her work explores spiritual objects as collectors of data and scientific practice as a form of prayer. She has exhibited at Boston City Hall, Brandeis’ Kniznick Gallery, Tufts University Art Galleries, the Wellin Museum of Art, and New York Textile Month, and has held residencies at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Open AIR Montana, and Art Farm Nebraska.

When: Saturday, November 21, 2026

Showtimes: 1–4 pm

Tickets: Free with Museum admission

Participation: Drop-in and first come, first served. Advance registration for general museum admission is recommended.

Featured artist: Charlie Dov Schön, a Boston-born textile and sculpture artist based in Somerville, Massachusetts

Activity: Participants will make fabric pouches embellished with diasporic Jewish textile motifs and consider what sentimental objects they might keep close during a journey.

Run time: 3 hours

Venue: Bertucci Education Studio, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Accessibility: Contact the Box Office at 617-278-5156 to request accessible or companion seating or to ask about other accommodations.

Box Office: 617-278-5156, Wednesday–Monday, 10 am–4 pm

Address: 25 Evans Way, Boston, MA 02115

Note: Walk-up, day-of museum tickets are not guaranteed.