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Deep Cuts: Block Printing Across Cultures
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.
Remixed: Entwined Histories and New Forms
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.
Hammer Projects: Mike Cloud
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
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.
The American Quilt: Cloth and Commerce
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
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
Brand 54th Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper
Brand Library & Art Center and the Brand Associates are pleased to present Brand 54: 54th Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper.
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.
Cowboy Craft: Traditional Art of the West
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
Fashioning Chinese Women: Empire to Modernity traces a century of transformation through more than 70 exquisite ensembles from Shanghai, Hong Kong, and America
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).
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
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.
Stories in Cloth: Communicating Through Textiles
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.
The Summer Show
Palos Verdes Art Center is pleased to announce The Summer Show, a juried all-media exhibition. Tala member Dellis Frank is included.
Liberté éclairant le monde: Liberty Enlightening the World
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.
Cosecha
The works in Consecha all deal with the idea of labor, and specifically the immigrant and working-class labor that is foundational to our economic ecosystem.
All Media 2026
Studio Channel Islands all media juried exhibition.
Includes TALA member Liberty Worth.
What does it mean to draw a line if home is a verb?
Visions Museum of Textile Art is honored to showcase mixed media artist Nereida Dusten
Knot Sorry
Knot Sorry pulls fiber art out of the polite, domestic corner and into the spotlight where it belongs: bold, labor-intensive, intimate, and impossible to ignore.
Textiles as Monuments
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
California Fibers: The Languages of Fiber invites viewers to consider fiber as a form of communication—one that speaks through structure, material, and process.
Presence, Absence, and Loose Connections
A group show with Victoria May, Daniel Wheeler, Jenny Rask, and Nancy Ivanhoe.
Presence, Absence, and Loose Connections
515 Bendix is showing artists Linda Franke, Nancy Ivanhoe, Victoria May, Jenny Rask, Daniel Wheeler.
Haptic Knowing
This show explores touch as a way of thinking and knowledge shaped by texture, resistance, and the intelligence of the hand.
Future Past Tense
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
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.
Textile Alchemy: The Art of Reiko Sudō and NUNO
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
Textiles as Monuments Celebration
Celebrate the summer opening of Textiles as Monuments, an exhibition featuring three contemporary artists—Suchitra Mattai, Jagdeep Raina, and Swapnaa Tamhane—who activate textiles as a powerful medium for memory, storytelling, and historical reimagining.
TALA at TRYST: INDIGO
TRYST is the world’s largest international art fair dedicated exclusively to artist-run spaces, collectives, and independent organizations.
Textile Arts LA is participating with an Indigo themed small works group show of work by TALA members.
Curator Talk: Fashioning Chinese Women
Take a deep dive into how Chinese and Chinese American women’s fashion has acted as a mirror for centuries of sweeping sociopolitical change while remaining an outlet for expression and self-identity at this walkthrough of Fashioning Chinese Women with exhibition co-curator Nicole LaBouff.
P.O.V. (Point of View)
POV (Point of View) is presented in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the United States, reflecting on the nation’s history as a land shaped by immigration and diverse diasporic experiences.
What's My Line?
TAG Gallery presents What’s My Line?, TALA member Barbara Danzi’s whimsical quilts made from stitched lines and linear shapes.
Coming Home: A Gathering of Voices
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.
Bigger Picture - Your Large Scale Perspective
In celebration of its 50th Anniversary, the Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art invited artists to submit large-scale work for Bigger Picture - Your Large Scale Perspective held at Range Projects Gallery in Los Angeles
Resurrection: Beckoning the Crone
Resurrection: Beckoning the Crone brings together mature women artists in an exhibition examining the power and relevance of the Crone in a time of cultural imbalance and ecological strain.
I Speak In Colors: Dellis Frank
See the work of TALA member Dellis Frank at the Los Angeles Makery.
Summer 2026: Part 1
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.
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.
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.
Santa Monica Airport Open Studios
Visit the studios of TALA members Anifaye Korngute and Gwen Samuels along with more than 30 independent fine artists at the Santa Monica Airport Studios 3026.
Resilience
LAUNCH LA is proud to present Resilience, with Los Angeles–based artists Jane Bauman, Deborah Lynn Irmas and Michelle Robinson and their new works steeped in observation, meditation and fortitude.
Frances Trombly: What Holds
Shoshana Wayne Gallery is pleased to present What Holds, a solo exhibition by Miami-based artist Frances Trombly.
layer by layer: Sarah Rosalena
Make Room is proud to present Sarah Rosalena’s exhibition layer by layer: bringing together a new body of handwoven works that shift and collapse spatial dimensionality between landscape and atmosphere.
Timeline of Our Ancestors: Costumes, Textiles & Stories
Dive into Armenian culture at Litavie Art Gallery with vibrant dresses and rich textile stories.
Interlace: Textile Connections in Los Angeles
Interlace: Textile Connections in Los Angeles, brings together 20 Los Angeles-based artists working across weaving, knotting, stitching, felting, basketry, and surface design, and includes a month-long, publicly accessible artist residency.
Quiet Trajectory: A Map of Life
The Green Gallery presents Quiet Trajectory: A Map of Life, a solo exhibition by TALA member Alice EJ Oh.
Connie Rohman Popup Exhibition
TALA member Connie Rohman will be featuring her textile work in a one-day exhibition.
Small works and hand dyed yardage will be available for purchase.
Ryan Belli: Of Two Minds
Marta is pleased to announce Of Two Minds, an exhibition of new functional-sculptural work by Pasadena-based artist and designer Ryan Belli.
HYMNAL
Band of Vices is pleased to announce HYMNAL, a group exhibition presented in collaboration with Residency Art Gallery. Bringing together four artists working across fiber, abstraction, figuration, and ceramics, the exhibition is rooted in a quiet yet powerful sense of reverence, materiality, and presence.
Material Remembrance
Material Remembrance explores the human desire for storytelling through fiber art, featuring work by Cameron Taylor-Brown and Aneesa Shami Zizzo. Both artists create abstracted imagery referencing historic places and personal memory using textile materials, showing deep commitment to their craft and the mastery of technique that speaks to the breadth of their experiences.
Julia Couzens | B E S P O K E O L O G Y
PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is excited to present the dazzling textile works of Julia Couzens.
Sarah Amos | Tipping–Point
PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is excited to present Sarah Amos, a master printmaker who explores the opulent hand and texture of textiles. .
Maria Guzmán Capron: Siluetas Simultáneas
Nazarian / Curcio is pleased to present Siluetas Simultáneas, Maria A. Guzmán Capron’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. This new series expands Guzmán Capron’s ongoing exploration of identity as a site of multiplicity, focusing on the interplay between abstracted and recognizable figures constructed from richly patterned textiles.
EVOLVING MATTER
Matter Studio Gallery presents Evolving Matter, a group exhibition in the former Annenberg Space for Photography.
GUILLERMO BERT: TECHNO-EMPATHY
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.
Surface & Style: A Costume and Textile Tour of Deep Cuts
Explore the textiles and costumes of the exhibition Deep Cuts: Block Printing Across Cultures at a walkthrough led by LACMA curators Erin Maynes and a special guest

