Arts Collaborative Medford invites you to a gathering to usher in the start of its 2025 gallery season featuring the textile-based exhibition “The Threads That Tie Us.” The nine participating Greater Boston artists pull and snag from their environments to create new stories, ones that reconstruct history and reclaim the language of fabric. Each piece in the exhibition speaks to an experience and a journey. Viewers are invited into the fold to engage with their own histories and discover the ties that connect us as humans. Embroidery, quilting, tufting — it is all a discourse to communicate our woven histories. Participating artists are Sophie Weston Chien, Samantha Fields, Anna Fubini, Rania Abdalla Kadafour, Alex Kalil, Valarie Portier, Allison Rabin, Lois Russell and Christine Willis. The exhibition will be on view from January 17 through March 28.