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Diane von Furstenberg: Woman Before Fashion
Explore the remarkable life and work of fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg. This North American debut exhibition—coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Diane von Furstenberg’s iconic wrap dress—includes a selection of over sixty pieces drawn from the DVF archives along with ephemera, fabric swatches, media pieces, and information on her philanthropic work.

Learn to Weave
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.

Ritual Expressions: African Adornment from the Permanent Collection
Ritual Expressions: African Adornment from the Permanent Collection is a focused presentation by LACMA of a rich diversity of textiles, clothing, and headwear representing more than 20 cultures.

Step & Repeat
The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs’ (DCA) Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG) proudly presents Step & Repeat, a group exhibition curated by Nancy Meyer and John Weston.
Inspired by the historical Pattern and Decoration movement of the mid-1970s and its impact across our region, Step & Repeat highlights 46 Southern California artists who engage with themes of pattern and decoration.

Elements of Weaving: Color
Explore color - hue, value and intensity – and how color interacts with yarns and woven structures. In this THREE DAY session, dive into color theory (using yarns, not paint! ) create several color palettes and weave your favorite palette in a scarf, table runner or wall hanging.
Taught by TALA member Cameron Taylor-Brown.

Gelatin Plate Printing on Fabric
Join teaching artist Connie Rohman for this textile arts workshop! In this class, participants will explore this colorful and spontaneous way to create original designs on fabric.

Elements of Weaving: Pattern
Create a blended warp where color and texture are supporting players to pattern. Learn weave notation, explore a variety of woven structures, and weave your favorites in a scarf, table runner or wall hanging.
Taught by TALA member Cameron Taylor-Brown.

Patchwork Mending with Vintage Japanese Fabrics
Come mend with BORO BORO!
They’ll be hosting a casual mending hour at Nellita's Craft! No formal instruction, just two hours of mending time for you to work on your own projects!

Family Workshop: Pattern and Code
Craft Contemporary exhibiting artist Ahree Lee leads an inventive all-ages workshop combining electronic circuits and weaving! Learn simple weaving techniques, and create your own custom weaving, on a pocket-sized loom that is yours to keep.

Handmade Artist Book Workshop with Amanda Maciel Antunes
Tap into your memory, personal insight, and intuition to design and create a handmade book that symbolically balances form and content. Blending traditional and contemporary practice, Amanda Maciel Antunes introduces you to the genre of artists’ books that are as diverse in style and direction as they are in technique.

Felting Loom Collaging
Join textile artist Emily Silver for an immersive two-day workshop exploring the art of collage through innovative needle-felting techniques.

Sashiko Stitching
Dip your toes in the classic Japanese art of sashiko. A once very popular style of visible mending in rural northern Japan as early as 400 years ago. Sashiko is done with a basic running stitch yielding beautiful geometric patterns.

Working With Vintage Photographs And Stitching
Join TALA member Eliza Day-Green in a workshop bringing the past to life!
Do you love vintage photographs? Have you wondered how you could incorporate them into your art practice? In this weekend workshop you will learn all the steps to create a unique piece of artwork.

Hangama Amiri: Befarmā / After You
Nazarian / Curcio is pleased to present Befarmā / After You, a solo exhibition featuring new fiber-based works by Hangama Amiri. This marks the artist’s West Coast debut.
Amiri is an Afghan Canadian artist whose practice combines painting, drawing, and printmaking techniques with textiles, weaving together stories rooted in memories of her homeland and her diasporic experience. Her works explore notions of home, community, gender, and cultural memory, examining quotidian objects and scenes imbued with geopolitical significance.

Improvisational Tapestry Weaving
Tapestry Weaving on a Frame Loom with Casey Baden will cover the basics of weft-faced tapestry techniques, cartoon drawing, and setting up a frame loom.
The frame loom is a simple, portable tool which can be used to make wall hangings or small textile squares to be pieced together into a larger project. This is the perfect class for the very beginner weaver and seasoned weavers looking to have a bit of fun.

Elements of Weaving: Fiber
Explore the rich diversity of fibers and their properties as you weave with cotton, linen, wool, mohair, alpaca, silk and more! Plus we'll mix wools and cotton in one textile to create our own version of Nuno BORO cloth "from riches to rags and back again."
Taught by TALA member Cameron Taylor-Brown.

Artist Talk with Molly Haynes
A fun and interactive artist lecture by the talented Molly Haynes at LA Tactile Lab.

Fashion Waste to Textile Art
Designed with a focus on sustainable practices, this workshop with Svetlana Shigroff will teach participants how to transform post-industrial fashion waste into functional and decorative loop-pile tapestries.

Pasadena Bead & Design Show
Shop and buy direct from artisans and tradespeople at excellent prices --beads, art clothing, jewelry, gemstones, textiles, findings, embellishments.

Textiles of the World Sale
Nangokudou Antiques is showcasing and selling textiles at MorYork Gallery.
There will be a few hundred pieces from all over the world, with prices ranging from a few dollars to a few thousand dollars. They range in date from antique to modern and stand alone panels/embroideries to bolts/yardage of material.

Spring 2025 Textile Slam!
Join Textile Arts LA for our Spring 2025 Textile Slam! Artists, designers, authors, curators, and students will share quick insights into their work, process, and intentions.
Slam! is an informal, community-oriented opportunity to be impressed or intrigued, to see something new or to celebrate the work of familiar friends. The Spring SLAM’s broad theme is FASHION.

Memory Walk as Practice with Amanda Maciel Antunes
Bring an object or a clothing item that matters to you and join exhibiting artist Amanda Maciel Antunes for a slow, accessible walk around Craft Contemporary that encourages connection during these challenging times.

Hand Sewn Collage
We are so excited to share that Debra Weiss is teaching a 2 session slow stitching class at Stitch Salon this month. (Sewing by hand).
Improvisational collage and stitch in 2 parts.

Layered Leporello Book Arts Workshop with Victoria May
Victoria May will teach you how to use the modular folded structure of the Leporello format to create an accordion book with layers, windows, and pop-ups.

Woven Circuits Workshop
Craft Contemporary exhibiting artist Ahree Lee leads an inventive workshop combining electronic circuits and weaving! Participants will craft a woven circuit using traditional weaving techniques with conductive thread and LEDs to create an e-textile. No prior experience with either weaving or electronics is required.

Pilar Agüero-Esparza: Darker than the deepest sea… weaker than the palest blue
PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is excited to present Pilar Agüero-Esparza in her first one-person exhibition with the gallery.
Pilar is recognized for her installations, paintings, and objects reflecting the palette and politics of skin tone, specifically Brown and Black skin. Her paintings are a hybrid of formal, hard-edged geometric abstraction, accentuated by her coded color palette, intersecting with her family’s tradition of huarache-making

Uma Rani Iyli: Connective Threads
PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is pleased to present Connective Threads, the spun thread ‘paintings’ of Uma Rani Iyli. Having grown up in India’s traditional caste-based society, Iyli identifies as belonging to the female Indian weaver’s community. She references weaving, stitching and pattern making in her art using remnant thread sourced directly from weaver communities collected during her annual trips to Southern India. Through her use of silk threads and plexiglas tubes, she spins vibrant colors inspired by traditional saris.

Stitched Patch Workshop with Aubrey Longley-Cook
Make your mark by designing and stitching a custom patch with Aubrey Longley-Cook! In this workshop, you’ll learn how to use expressive stitching to create a unique accessory that reflects your style. From designing your patch to finishing the edges, this session covers everything you need to bring your ideas to life with thread and needlework.

The Western Mystique
The Western Mystique at Dorado 806 Projects is a celebration of women who have shattered boundaries—geographic, creative, and cultural—to redefine what it means to be a “Western artist.”

Beginning Embroidery
Remainders Creative Reuse has partnered with Pasadena Parks and Recreation to offer an 8 week embroidery class at Washington Park Community House on Mondays in March and April taught by Denise Millard.
Learn six essential stitches in this beginner workshop.

Soft Surrealism
Soft Surrealism, an installation by Mandy Palasik and situated in the Adams Square Mini Park Gas Station, is an abstract sculpture composed of biomorphic inflatables that magnetically connect to form amoeba-like creations.

Mending Time with Vintage Japanese Fabrics
Come mend with BORO BORO!
They’ll be hosting a casual mending hour at Nellita's Craft! No formal instruction, just two hours of mending time for you to work on your own projects!

Women Work Together
Shoebox Projects proudly presents Women Work Together, a Women’s History Month exhibit by the San Diego-based Feminist Image Group (FIG). This transformative exhibition explores creative collaboration as a catalyst for change, showcasing thought-provoking works that address critical issues impacting women in today’s world.

Memesis
Charlie James Gallery is pleased to present Memesis, a solo exhibition of woven works by Los Angeles-based artist Kayla Mattes, who brings a modern sensibility and wit to the traditional art of weaving. Her handwoven tapestries investigate digital forms of expression, drawing from internet memes, symbols, and texts to convey the pervasive anxieties of contemporary life

Duets
DUETS invited Los Angeles Art Association artists to collaborate with randomly selected partners, combining their unique talents and perspectives to create innovative, all-media artworks.
In an era marked by division, DUETS celebrates creative collaboration as a catalyst for change, showcasing the transformative power of teamwork. Each pair’s artistic synergy symbolizes the broader social necessity of cooperation and dialogue, fostering empathy and collective progress.

Wear & Repair Workshop: Adapt Your Style, Master Mending Basics
Join Slow Fashion Stylist Isa Spies and Sustainable Designer Kenzie Curran for an afternoon of guided personal styling and hands-on mending.

LA Tactile Lab Open House
Discover LA Tactile Lab: Your New Home for Fiber Arts and Material Exploration!
LA Tactile Lab will be having an Open House where people can come check out the space, try a few tools at the demo stations, and discuss the upcoming programming with co-founders Emily Silver and Svetlana Shigroff, and workshop faculty.