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Deep Cuts: Block Printing Across Cultures
Nov
9
to Sep 13

Deep Cuts: Block Printing Across Cultures

  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art (map)
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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.

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Global Threads: India’s Textile Revolution
Dec
13
to Apr 5

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.

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Phoenix Rising
Jan
12
to Apr 10

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.

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Bearing Witness
Jan
31
to Apr 19

Bearing Witness

  • MOAH, Museum of Art and History (map)
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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.

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The Precarious Life of the Parol
Jan
31
to Apr 19

The Precarious Life of the Parol

  • MOAH, Museum of Art and History (map)
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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.

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Maria Guzmán Capron: Siluetas Simultáneas
Apr
11
to May 16

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.

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Material Remembrance
Apr
11
to May 2

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.

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Handwork: The Material Intelligence of Touch
Feb
10
to Mar 19

Handwork: The Material Intelligence of Touch

  • College of the Desert, Walter N. Marks Center for the Arts Gallery (map)
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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.

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A Stitch & Glitch in Time
Jan
20
to Mar 12

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.

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Cardboard: Infinite Possibilities
Jan
2
to Jan 30

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.

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Swing Shift
Nov
15
to Jan 17

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.

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Creative Currents: From Beirut to Los Angeles
Oct
25
to Oct 26

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.

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Split Ends
Sep
29
to Nov 20

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.

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Suchitra Mattai | Fables, Guineps and the Sweetness of Unknowing
Sep
27
to Nov 15

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.

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