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To Catch a Fish
May
2
to Nov 1

To Catch a Fish

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.

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Into the Pluriverse
Jun
25
to Oct 8

Into the Pluriverse

Into the Pluriverse is a group exhibition inspired by the Zapatista term “pluriverse,” commonly understood as the multitude of realities present in a single moment. Artists Nia Lee, April Bey, and Jessica Taylor Bellamy explore how Afro-indigenous histories and cultures shape, create, and challenge our concept of truth and perception.

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Quilts Japan: The 17th Quilt Nihon
Jun
27
to Oct 10

Quilts Japan: The 17th Quilt Nihon

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).

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Soft Architectures of the Sea
Jun
27
to Oct 10

Soft Architectures of the Sea

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

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A Racket of Banshees: Goddesses and Monsters Re-Imagined
Sep
8
to Nov 14

A Racket of Banshees: Goddesses and Monsters Re-Imagined

  • Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Chaffee College (map)
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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.

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Healing with Gold: The Art of Kintsugi on Ceramics & Beyond
Sep
12
to Oct 18

Healing with Gold: The Art of Kintsugi on Ceramics & Beyond

  • Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (map)
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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.

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Objective Truths
Sep
19
to Oct 24

Objective Truths

Roberts Projects is pleased to present Objective Truths, a group exhibition featuring artists from the gallery’s program including Aaron Glasson, Chris Johanson, Suchitra Mattai, Evan Nesbit, Wendy Red Star and Brenna Youngblood.

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This Land is Your Land
Sep
19
to Oct 15

This Land is Your Land

The Arroyo Arts Collective and Center for the Arts Eagle Rock are excited to announce This Land Is Your Land: Stewarding the Earth Through a Changing Climate, an evocative new group exhibition tackling themes of environmental protection, sustainability, climate adaptation, and the human connection to nature.

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Artifacts from an Unborn Empire
Sep
26
to Dec 31

Artifacts from an Unborn Empire

Artifacts from an Unborn Empire gathers artists to reconsider how civilizations are formed and who gets to define them. Through a range of natural and manufactured materials, they play with and challenge the systems, stories, and symbols that shape our sense of power, history, and belonging.

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Diverted Destruction
Jun
28
to Sep 12

Diverted Destruction

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.

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Entwine: Marquez Hanalei Marzan
Jun
13
to Sep 26

Entwine: Marquez Hanalei Marzan

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.

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 Reveal-Reveal
Jun
6
to Jun 20

Reveal-Reveal

Across painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and mixed media, the works in Reveal–Reveal unfold through acts of excavation and resistance. Layers are peeled back—narratively, emotionally, materially, psychologically—allowing moments of recognition to surface gradually rather than all at once.

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Unraveling Narratives
Jun
6
to Jul 25

Unraveling Narratives

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.

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