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Material Curiosity by Design: Evelyn & Jerome Ackerman
Material Curiosity by Design explores the prolific careers of midcentury designers Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman in dialogue with select works by three contemporary artists.
Global Threads: India’s Textile Revolution
The Bowers Museum presents Global Threads: India’s Textile Revolution featuring pieces from the world-renowned collection of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), and several important international loans. This exhibition explores how over thousands of years India’s artisans have created, perfected and innovated printed and painted multicolored cotton fabrics to fashion the body, honor divinities, and beautify palaces and homes.
After Consumption, the Remnants Ask
Kim Dong-kyu’s work, now showing at The Green Gallery, is composed of remnants generated through everyday acts of consumption and the accumulation of disposable materials.
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Griselda Rosas
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is pleased to announce Griselda Rosas: Veni, Vidi, Vici, the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.
Phoenix Rising
Phoenix Rising by artist and curator A. Laura Brody is now on view at the Adams Square Mini Park Gas Station in Glendale. The installation is a room-sized robe made from discarded, unwanted clothing donations left over from the LA wildfires.
A Stitch & Glitch in Time
𝘼 𝙎𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙘𝙝 & 𝙂𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙘𝙝 𝙞𝙣 𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚, at Cal State Northridge, brings together thirteen Los Angeles–based artists whose textile practices explore technology, fashion, and collective histories. Rooted in LA’s long legacy of textile production—industrial and artistic alike—the works reflect how cloth can carry deeply personal stories while revealing broader economic, social, and historical forces.
Moments of Being
Shoshana Wayne presents Moments of Being featuring the work of Anina Major. Major engages with Bahamian plaiting as a contemporary practice.
Bearing Witness
MOAH announces Bearing Witness, a twenty-five-year survey of Sharon Kagan’s practice exploring knitting as an allegory for human interconnectedness and intergenerational trauma across drawing, painting, installation, and performance.
The Precarious Life of the Parol
MOAH announces The Precarious Life of the Parol, Diane Briones Williams’s textile sculptures and installations celebrating Filipinx heritage while tracing the complex, often obscured colonial history of the parol, a traditional star lantern.
FROM STRAND TO SCULPTURE: Contemporary Japanese Basketry
The Gamble House presents From Strand to Sculpture: Contemporary Japanese Basketry, an exhibition of bamboo art crafted by highly skilled and specialized Japanese artists.
Conversation Pit
Join Able ARTS Work Gallery in an exploration of the softer side of art and material in Conversation Pit.
Handwork: The Material Intelligence of Touch
Textile Arts LA presents Handwork: The Material Intelligence of Touch, an exhibition that honors the human hand as both a tool and a form of thought. Featuring work by 59 Los Angeles fiber artists and makers from Textile Arts LA, the exhibition is part of Craft in America’s Handwork 2026 initiative.
Under Pressure: Loretta Bozung & Emberly Modine
Under Pressure is dual exhibition that brings together the sculptural fiber works of Loretta Bozung and the flowing paintings of Emberly Modine to embody the resilience and power found at the intersection of survival and adaptation.
Ken Gun Min - Strange Days of a Quiet Sun
Nazarian / Curcio is pleased to present Strange Days of a Quiet Sun, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Korean-born, Los Angeles–based artist Ken Gun Min.
Process and Desire
Process and Desire brings together three artists, Jorge Luis, Ruth Katzenstein- Souza, and Patricia Yossen, whose practices are grounded in craft, material dialogue, and the pleasure of making.
Under One Roof
Under One Roof, is a group exhibition at the Santa Monica Airport Arts Center, Studio 3026, curated by Peter Frank.
The exhibition features artists who maintain studios at the Santa Monica Airport Arts Center, including TALA member Gwen Samuels.
START UP ART FAIR
For 3 days, 150 independent artists take over the Kinney Hotel, turning every room into a one-of-a-kind art experience!
SHE PERSISTS: 12 Ventura Women Artists
She Persists honors women artists of Ventura County whose creative practices have spanned two decades or more.
Deborah Weir: Mixed Media Fiber Art
Hellada Art Center presents the fiber art of TALA member Deborah Weir.
ArtNight at the Gamble House
Roam the halls of the Gamble House and find inspiration in our current exhibition, From Strand to Sculpture: Contemporary Japanese Basketry, before creating your own woven work of art.
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.
Intersections of the Unknown
Linda King Studio presents “Intersections of the Unknown”, a group show with Kay Whitney, Steve DeGroodt, and TALA member Victoria May.
Jen P. Harris | Tomboy
PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is pleased to present the loom-paintings of Jen P. Harris in their first exhibition with the gallery.
Squall Line - Larissa Lockshin
Nazarian / Curcio is pleased to present Squall Line, a solo exhibition of new works by New York–based artist Larissa Lockshin.
Cardboard: Infinite Possibilities
Wönzimer Gallery presents Cardboard: Infinite Possibilities, a group exhibition featuring an international roster of twelve artists who redefine what is possible with this ubiquitous and unpretentious material. This exhibition celebrates cardboard as a powerful medium for innovation, transformation, and metaphor.
Woori: United by Art
Mary Little has work included in 우리 Woori: United by Art, a group exhibition at EK Gallery in Los Angeles’ Koreatown, co-curated by Sung-Hee Son and Paul Art Lee.
GUILLERMO BERT: LONGING & BELONGING
William Turner Gallery is pleased to announce an upcoming solo exhibition, Longing & Belonging, featuring work by the artist Guillermo Bert -- marking the gallery's first presentation of his work.
Swing Shift
Swing Shift is an interdisciplinary exhibition of contemporary artworks that highlight workers—formal, informal, domestic, industrial, highly visible, paradoxically unseen — and the impact of their labor.
Olga de Amaral
Lisson Gallery Los Angeles is honored to present a focused survey of works by renowned Colombian artist Olga de Amaral, marking her first solo exhibition in the city in almost a decade.
Sabrina Gschwandtner: Absinthe, Smoke, Sugar, Choice
Shoshana Wayne Gallery is pleased to present Absinthe, Smoke, Sugar, Choice, an exhibition by Sabrina Gschwandtner.
Working with black-and-white 35mm film, etching ink on film, thread, and video, she presents twelve film quilts.
John Paul Morabito | Our Lady of the Bathhouse
PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is thrilled to present Our Lady of the Bathhouse, beaded jacquard tapestries by John Paul Morabito.
Creative Currents: From Beirut to Los Angeles
Aneesa Shami Zizzo will have two pieces on view in Creative Currents: From Beirut to Los Angeles. Curated by Laila Abdul-Hadi Jadallah, this exhibition showcases work by Lebanese and Arab American artists, including Huguette Caland, Seta Manoukian - Ani Pema Drolma, and Rania Matar.
Lesley Kice Nishigawara: Pattern Shift
Stroll Garden presents a solo exhibition of new work by Lesley Kice Nishigawara. Featuring textiles and works on paper, the exhibition follows Nishigawara’s use of the grid as a generative structure—expanded and reimagined through weaving, drawing, and collage.
Barbara Belle Sloan: Woodblock Prints and Collages
Join Textile Arts LA member Barbara Sloan for her exhibit of Woodblock Prints and Collages
Split Ends
OCC Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion is proud to present, “Split Ends”.
The exhibition is an amazing amalgamation of artists working in fibers, fabric, and sewing, including many of our Textile Arts LA members and community.
Suchitra Mattai | Fables, Guineps and the Sweetness of Unknowing
Roberts Projects is pleased to present Fables, Guineps and the Sweetness of Unknowing, an exhibition of recent works on paper by Suchitra Mattai and her second solo presentation with the gallery. Created with Mattai’s singular approach to collage that blends different traditions of craft and cultural references, the exhibition adopts the literary form of the fable as its organizing structure to consider the enduring resonance of moral tales today.
BETH ABARAVICH - LIP / SCHTICK
TALA member Beth Abaravich is showing her work at Offus in the Bendix Building
Bisa Butler: Hold Me Close
In Hold Me Close, Bisa Butler presents a powerful new series of quilted portraits that speak to the urgency of empathy, the weight of history, and the need for tenderness in times of crisis.
Ramekon O’Arwisters: SCHISM
SCHISM, Ramekon O’Arwisters’ first one-person exhibition at PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY in DTLA
Navigating the Heart in 2025
Sovern hosts an intimate conversation, moderated by Marissa Magdalena Sykes, Director of Arts Education at Angels Gate Cultural Center, with artists Calethia DeConto, Rosalyn Myles, and Ana Rodriguez.
Christina Forrer
Parker Gallery is proud to present a new exhibition with Christina Forrer. The show will bring together new weavings and works on paper, installed atop an artist-designed wallpaper.
California Fibers: Texture and Form
Coastline College Art Gallery presents California Fibers: Texture and Form, curated by Guusje Sanders, features the work of twenty-two members of California Fibers.
Joyce Dallal: Landscapes and Territories
Joyce Dallal: Artist Residency and Exhibition at the El Camino College Art Gallery.
The back room of the gallery will be transformed into the artist’s studio.
Intertwine
The University Art Gallery at Cal State Univ. Dominguez Hills is proud to present Intertwine, a group exhibition featuring new and recent works by Los Angeles-based artists Vita Kari, Kim Schoenstadt, Julie Spielman, Irene Georgia Tsatsos, Jemima Wyman, and Alexis Zoto.
FABULOUS FIBER
FABULOUS FIBER is a dazzling celebration of textile artistry, where tradition meets innovation in a vibrant display of texture, color, and creativity. This immersive exhibition brings together contemporary works crafted with both time-honored and cutting-edge techniques, from quilting and tufting to felting, embroidery, weaving, beading, crochet, basketry, and beyond.
How We Go
Vielmetter Los Angeles is excited to present How We Go, an exhibition of new works by Gio Swaby, marking the artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles.
Originally from The Bahamas and currently based in Toronto, Swaby is known for her intricate textile portraits of Black women and femmes in her community.
TALA at TRYST: small works
We asked our Textile Arts LA membership to submit small works for a group show at TRYST, a 3-day popup alternative art fair sponsored by the Torrance Art Museum. This is a showcase of our diverse membership and the fiber-based work that we make.
Old Broads: Hot! Hot! Hot!
The Old Broads present a summer themed group show in two galleries in Claremont: Studio C and Bunny Gunner.
The Old Broads are a group of female & female-identifying, visual artists, over the age of 50, living and working in the greater Los Angeles area.
The Space Between: Texture Studies by Denja Harris
“The Space Between: Texture Studies by Denja Harris explores the tension between control and surrender, seeking meaning in the space between what is and what is becoming. Through large-scale yarn paintings, soft sculptures, and video, Harris investigates how texture, form, color, and pattern evoke sensory and emotional responses. Each piece invites viewers to engage with the interplay of softness and structure and to find significance within the undefined spaces.
Considering Summer 2025
Considering Summer 2025 with Jonathan Bout, Demetri Broxton, Carrie Burckle, Julia Couzens, Molly Haynes, Wakana Kimura, Jeana Eve Klein, Suhn Lee, Corey Pemberton, Felandus Thames, Tristan Esmino, Jamie Vasta.

