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.

Two year-long interdisciplinary programs of embroidery workshops with TALA member Shango of Folk Lounge.
Pattern Keepers is the Beginner embroidery class, Working Lore follows immediately after for Intermediate level makers.

Mike Cloud will exhibit works from Painted Clothing (2007–8), a series of collages fashioned from children’s clothing, which comments on the relationship between consumer culture and childhood through visual signifiers such as dragons, fairies, and rainbows.

To Catch a Fish presents over sixty works of craft and art that are either used in fishing or that illuminate the relationship between people and fish. Utilitarian fishing objects include hand-crafted basketry fish traps, scrapers, weights, and nets.

Earthen Comforts: Airing Earth is a courtyard installation led by Liz Gálvez (Office e.g.) that stages mass and fiber as shared infrastructures for collective comfort in the Los Angeles summer.

Craft in America presents Marques Hanalei Marzan, a Honolulu-based visual artist of Native Hawaiian, Japanese, and Filipino descent. Marzan’s work is reflective of his upbringing in Hawai‘i and his travels throughout the Pacific and world, engaging with indigenous communities and responding to their cultural approaches of integrating natural fibers into daily life.

Craft in America presents Cowboy Craft, highlighting the exceptional handcrafted work made by members of the Traditional Cowboy Arts Association.

Fashioning Chinese Women: Empire to Modernity traces a century of transformation through more than 70 exquisite ensembles from Shanghai, Hong Kong, and America

Visions Museum of Textile Art is honored to host the 17th Quilt Nihon, making a debut of this internationally recognized exhibition in San Diego. This exhibit features award-winning, innovative works from the biennial competition of the Japanese Handicraft Instructor’s Association (JHIA).

This exhibition presents Marita Setas Ferro’s textile sculptures as material reflections on marine ecosystems, care, and environmental precarity. Through crochet and knitting, techniques rooted in heritage and slowness, marine forms emerge as soft architectures

Diverted Destruction 19 examines the overlooked waste stream of modern healthcare. Through medical refuse, surgical materials, medication packaging, syringes, wheelchair parts, mobility devices, and other discarded objects associated with treatment and recovery, the exhibition explores the tension between healing and disposability.

This sashiko workshop led by Sanae Suzuki introduces the foundations of Japanese stitching alongside the art of visible mending.

Studio Channel Islands all media juried exhibition.
Includes TALA member Liberty Worth.

Three contemporary artists of South Asian descent—Suchitra Mattai, Jagdeep Raina, and Swapnaa Tamhane—transform textiles of their cultural heritage into memorials for those who have been unrecognized in public displays of historical memory.

California Fibers: The Languages of Fiber invites viewers to consider fiber as a form of communication—one that speaks through structure, material, and process.

515 Bendix is showing artists Linda Franke, Nancy Ivanhoe, Victoria May, Jenny Rask, Daniel Wheeler.

This online course taught by Sara Temme is designed especially for textile enthusiasts, makers, collectors, armchair historians, museum lovers, and anyone who has ever wondered why textiles seem to tell us so much about the people who make them and use them.

This show explores touch as a way of thinking and knowledge shaped by texture, resistance, and the intelligence of the hand.

Debbie McAfee’s rich, textile collage grids depict landscapes in the Joshua Tree National Park.

The Los Angeles Makery presents Common Thread, a dynamic fiber art and mixed media exhibition bringing together the work of more than 24 artists across two floors of the Makery.

Join the Wende for Samizdat Sundays—hands‑on textile workshops inspired by the spirit of creative resistance and DIY culture found in samizdat traditions. Each week offers a different project, connecting archival stories of subversion with contemporary making.

Explore the art of Bojagi patchwork and cyanotype printing with teaching artist, Connie Rohman in this 3 session workshop.

A Racket of Banshees: Goddesses and Monsters Re-Imagined invites viewers into a world of myth, feminist archetypes, and speculative futures. This exhibition features contemporary feminist artists across sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, video, performance, and community workshops.

The Between Darkness and Dawn exhibition juxtaposes narrative works confronting the challenges of modern life with vibrant quilts and abstract paintings that celebrate the promise of a new day.

In this two-day course with Emily Graham, you will weave a twill sampler on a four-shaft floor loom and experiment with color and pattern.

PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is pleased to present Future Past Tense with Esperanza Cortés (New York), Cheryl Derricotte (San Francisco), Karen Hampton (New Mexico), Asa Jackson (North Carolina) and Fay Ku (New York).

Healing with Gold: The Art of Kintsugi on Ceramics & Beyond is an exhibition featuring more than thirty contemporary artworks alongside traditional kintsugi ceramics, exploring how the centuries-old Japanese practice of repairing broken ceramics with lacquer dusted in gold has evolved from a tea ceremony tradition into a global artistic philosophy.

This weekly circle is hosted by Andell Family Sundays outside the W.M. Keck Education Center and is open to all ages and skill levels.

Discover the Polynesian art of tapa making with artist-researchers Hinatea Colombani and Moe Meder from Tahiti.

Join artist Alexis Zoto for a 2-day workshop for an introduction to hand-weaving on a frame loom.

Remember is a large-scale community installation by artist Linda Litteral consisting of 460 small house structures, each hung with a hand-knitted banner. Every stitch in every banner represents one person sexually assaulted.

Voltage of Hope, presents paintings, photography, and mixed media works united by a single question: what does hope feel like when the world feels electric with uncertainty?

Break away from counting knots and following patterns. Enter a whole new world of freestyle crochet with instructor Bonita Johnston in this 2 session workshop

The largest retrospective of Sudō’s textiles to date, Textile Alchemy features over 100 limited-edition textiles together with numerous objects, including drawings, sketches, raw materials, tools, mock-ups, and prototypes

The Other Art Fair combines affordable and original artworks and 160 independent artists with immersive installations, performances, DJs – and a fully stocked bar.

This three-week course with Malavika Rao is designed for complete beginners and anyone looking to build a strong foundation in the craft while exploring creative ways to work with reclaimed materials.

A group show of fiber work from Los Angeles and New York based artists.

Learn the principles of overshot and weave your own geometric overshot fabric with Emily Graham in this 2-day workshop!

Learn the fundamentals of weaving with TALA member Cameron Taylor-Brown as you set up a floor loom, experiment with yarns and basic weaves, and make a scarf, table runner, or wall hanging.

In this 4 session course, artist Malavika Rao invites students into the slow and thoughtful practice of quilting.

In this class with Jada Patterson, we will first create a hand whisk broom to get comfortable with the broom making techniques then we will create a besom style broom, also known as a witches broom.

Join artist Rose Tsang in a two day workshop on beginning sculptural basketry.

Experiment and explore woven design concepts with Cameron Taylor-Brown on Schacht Wolf Pup floor looms in a fully equipped textile studio - with an abundance of beautiful yarn choices.

Join artist Alexis Zoto for a 2-day workshop for an introduction to hand-weaving on a frame loom.

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

In this two-day course with Emily Graham, you will weave a twill sampler on a four-shaft floor loom and experiment with color and pattern.

Learn the fundamentals of weaving with TALA member Cameron Taylor-Brown as you set up a floor loom, experiment with yarns and basic weaves, and make a scarf, table runner, or wall hanging.