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Deep Cuts: Block Printing Across Cultures
Nov
9
to Sep 13

Deep Cuts: Block Printing Across Cultures

  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art (map)
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Deep Cuts: Block Printing Across Cultures explores the world's oldest and most versatile method of making multiple images. More than 150 works from Asia, Europe, and the Americas present the medium as both a means of creative expression and a vehicle for mass production that enabled images and ideas to circulate widely.

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Global Threads: India’s Textile Revolution
Dec
13
to Apr 5

Global Threads: India’s Textile Revolution

The Bowers Museum presents Global Threads: India’s Textile Revolution featuring pieces from the world-renowned collection of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), and several important international loans. This exhibition explores how over thousands of years India’s artisans have created, perfected and innovated printed and painted multicolored cotton fabrics to fashion the body, honor divinities, and beautify palaces and homes.

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Phoenix Rising
Jan
12
to Mar 20

Phoenix Rising

Phoenix Rising by artist and curator A. Laura Brody is now on view at the Adams Square Mini Park Gas Station in Glendale. The installation is a room-sized robe made from discarded, unwanted clothing donations left over from the LA wildfires.

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A Stitch & Glitch in Time
Jan
20
to Mar 12

A Stitch & Glitch in Time

𝘼 𝙎𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙘𝙝 & 𝙂𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙘𝙝 𝙞𝙣 𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚, at Cal State Northridge, brings together thirteen Los Angeles–based artists whose textile practices explore technology, fashion, and collective histories. Rooted in LA’s long legacy of textile production—industrial and artistic alike—the works reflect how cloth can carry deeply personal stories while revealing broader economic, social, and historical forces.

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Bearing Witness
Jan
31
to Apr 19

Bearing Witness

  • MOAH, Museum of Art and History (map)
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MOAH announces Bearing Witness, a twenty-five-year survey of Sharon Kagan’s practice exploring knitting as an allegory for human interconnectedness and intergenerational trauma across drawing, painting, installation, and performance.

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The Precarious Life of the Parol
Jan
31
to Apr 19

The Precarious Life of the Parol

  • MOAH, Museum of Art and History (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

MOAH announces The Precarious Life of the Parol, Diane Briones Williams’s textile sculptures and installations celebrating Filipinx heritage while tracing the complex, often obscured colonial history of the parol, a traditional star lantern.

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Handwork: The Material Intelligence of Touch
Feb
10
to Mar 19

Handwork: The Material Intelligence of Touch

  • College of the Desert, Walter N. Marks Center for the Arts Gallery (map)
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Textile Arts LA presents Handwork: The Material Intelligence of Touch, an exhibition that honors the human hand as both a tool and a form of thought. Featuring work by 59 Los Angeles fiber artists and makers from Textile Arts LA, the exhibition is part of Craft in America’s Handwork 2026 initiative.

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FOUNDATIONS OF WEAVING
Mar
14

FOUNDATIONS OF WEAVING

Weaving on a handloom is joyful, grounding, and contemplative—an ideal antidote to the hustle of our modern lives. If you’re seeking a way to reconnect with your inner self and slow down, this gentle and inspiring workshop led by Kate Kilmurray is the perfect place to begin.

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WEAVING DESIGN + TEXTURE
Apr
11

WEAVING DESIGN + TEXTURE

This is a sequel workshop to the Foundations of Weaving with Kate Kilmurray showcasing the next steps in developing your weaving work on a small loom. In this two-hour workshop we’ll move beyond plain weave to explore a variety of techniques, including making and weaving with sock loops, split-loop weaving, floaters, and double-strand weaving.

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Material Remembrance
Apr
11
to May 2

Material Remembrance

Material Remembrance explores the human desire for storytelling through fiber art, featuring work by Cameron Taylor-Brown and Aneesa Shami Zizzo. Both artists create abstracted imagery referencing historic places and personal memory using textile materials, showing deep commitment to their craft and the mastery of technique that speaks to the breadth of their experiences.

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(re)Membering: Textile Society of America Colloquium
Apr
16

(re)Membering: Textile Society of America Colloquium

The Textile Society of America announces its Spring 2026 Colloquium, “(re)Membering,” to be held at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California. The Colloquium will be presented in a hybrid format and will include a keynote address, a plenary presentation, and a panel discussion featuring contemporary artists, scholars, and cultural practitioners.

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Stitching your Story
May
2

Stitching your Story

Join Textile Arts LA Artists and Craft Contemporary in this workshop led by Folk Lounge founder Shagho.
You’ll craft a Hero’s Journey Scroll—inspired by  The Epic of Gilgamesh—as a living record of your personal mythology. You’ll archive your own magic through the quiet rituals of drawing and embroidery.

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Explicit Embroidery
Feb
12

Explicit Embroidery

Valentines Day around the corner and you wanna take time to celebrate love with your friends instead??? Come on over to StitchSpace LA’s special “Galentines Day” Explicit Embroidery and make something silly and/or angsty in the name of love.

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NOMAD FESTIVALS  of the EASTERN GRASSLANDS OF TIBET:  Their Textiles, Costumes & Horse Trappings
Feb
7

NOMAD FESTIVALS of the EASTERN GRASSLANDS OF TIBET: Their Textiles, Costumes & Horse Trappings

Cheri Hunter, longtime photographer and traveler, traversed the Tibetan grasslands in 2006, photographing the colorful festivals and rituals, several of which have since disappeared. This virtual program will emphasize both the costumes, jewelry and pile trappings in use throughout the Eastern Grasslands, as well as in monastery and shaman rituals, and horse competitions, where all of the participants, including the horses, are dressed in their finest.

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