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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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Cardboard: Infinite Possibilities
Jan
2
to Jan 30

Cardboard: Infinite Possibilities

Wönzimer Gallery presents Cardboard: Infinite Possibilities, a group exhibition featuring an international roster of twelve artists who redefine what is possible with this ubiquitous and unpretentious material. This exhibition celebrates cardboard as a powerful medium for innovation, transformation, and metaphor.

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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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Loom Weaving
Jan
18
to Feb 8

Loom Weaving

Kick off the new year and join teaching artist Connie Rohman for learning to weave on a frame loom. In this 4 - week class, participants will explore the art of loom weaving to learn new, foundational techniques to create your own original woven artworks.

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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)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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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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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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)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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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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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Adult Basket Workshop
Nov
23
to Nov 30

Adult Basket Workshop

  • Center for the Arts Eagle Rock (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Join artist Kelly Dennis Villalba to explore the historic art of basket weaving in celebration of Native American Heritage month.
Through this meditative and communal practice involving color, coiling and sewing, you will engage in a revered tradition passed down through generations while learning the essential creative skills to weave a unique, original artwork.

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SOCAL FIBER FAIR
Nov
22
to Nov 23

SOCAL FIBER FAIR

SoCal Fiber Fair is an event for knitters, crocheters, weavers, embroiderers, and yarn enthusiasts across California to come together for a weekend of fun, friendship, and (of course) lots and lots of fiber! 

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Swing Shift
Nov
15
to Jan 17

Swing Shift

Swing Shift is an interdisciplinary exhibition of contemporary artworks that highlight workers—formal, informal, domestic, industrial, highly visible, paradoxically unseen — and the impact of their labor.

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Lunch & Learn: Women’s Artistry
Nov
13

Lunch & Learn: Women’s Artistry

Join Syona Puliady for an online discussion of Women’s Artistry, a textile rotation featuring striking works from Indonesia. Focusing on hinggi—formal garments from the island of Sumba, Indonesia—Puliady will explore the vibrant imagery, spiritual symbolism, and technical mastery underlying these textiles. Learn how Sumbanese women use weaving to express prosperity, honor the ancestors, and connect with the divine.

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