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.

Remixing transforms the familiar into something new. Remixed: Entwined Histories and New Forms explores this visual strategy in art that “remixes” both physical objects and immaterial legacies.

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.

This exhibition shows the Chilean-born artist Guillermo Bert bringing technology and empathy in novel and powerful ways. He uses three principal tools, all of them uncommon in most art production: QR codes, 3-D imaging, and laser engraving.

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.

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.

The American Quilt: Cloth and Commerce explores how the materials, dyes, and techniques used in quiltmaking reflect centuries of economic shifts and technological innovation. Featuring over 40 quilts and coverlets

Let’s Get It On: The Wearable Art of Betye Saar explores the central role of costume design in Saar’s early career, as well as throughout her life as both a mother and an artist

Shoshana Wayne Gallery is pleased to present What Holds, a solo exhibition by Miami-based artist Frances Trombly.

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.

This summer Studio Channel Islands marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence with an exhibition of contemporary fiber art. The exhibition will feature a diverse range of artists whose work redefines fiber through merging traditional techniques like weaving, crochet, and embroidery with modern themes of identity, sustainability, and activism.

Brand Library & Art Center and the Brand Associates are pleased to present Brand 54: 54th Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper.

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

In Coming Home: A Gathering of Voices, Evita Tezeno debuts a new series of collage paintings rooted in memories of her hometown of Port Arthur, Texas.

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

Join us for Family Day at the Wende Museum to make punk patches inspired by the Wende Museum’s counter-cultural collections.

Stories in Cloth: Communicating Through Textiles explores how textiles from around the world and throughout history have been used to communicate stories, identity, and shared experience.

Let's Make a Quilt is an adult evening summer camp with TALA member Liberty Worth.

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

Add to our weaving wall, leave a message on our wishing tree, and try your hand at weaving, with your very own loom to take home. 

Join artist Liv Aanrud for a three-session weekly machine tufting class this summer, designed to introduce students to both the technical foundations and creative possibilities of this versatile textile medium.

Join Craft Contemporary weekly on Fridays throughout the summer for open-ended studio hours focused on using the materials we have on hand to make and to mend.

Join artist Liv Aanrud for this class and tuft the world you want to see!

Palos Verdes Art Center is pleased to announce The Summer Show, a juried all-media exhibition. Tala member Dellis Frank is included.

PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is pleased to present Part 1 of two summer exhibitions.
Summer 2026: Part 1 includes artists Uma Rani Iyli, Cornelia Schulz, Linda Sormin, and David Tomb.

On July 18–19, 2026, the American Craft Council will launch National Craft Open Studios Weekend—a first-of-its-kind, nationwide celebration inviting the public into the creative spaces of craft artists across the country. This two-day event will offer guests a rare glimpse into the processes, tools, and inspiration that shape how handmade works are made, and provide artists critical support in their sales season.

To Do · A Mending Project is a social practice created by artists Michelle Montjoy, Anna O’Cain, and Siobhán Arnold which taps into the restorative power of repair. Join us for a mending and sewing workshop.

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

Visions Museum of Textile Art is honored to showcase mixed media artist Nereida Dusten

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.

A group show with Victoria May, Daniel Wheeler, Jenny Rask, and Nancy Ivanhoe.

In this workshop with Dee Clements, participants will learn and apply basket-weaving techniques to create three-dimensional forms, structures, and vessels.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.