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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.
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.
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.
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
Frances Trombly: What Holds
Shoshana Wayne Gallery is pleased to present What Holds, a solo exhibition by Miami-based artist Frances Trombly.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. .
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.
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.
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
the moon, the womb, and they remember
the moon, the womb, and they remember considers memory as a distributed condition rather than a fixed record, something that circulates through matter, bodies, labor, and sites across time.
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.
Deborah Weir: Mixed Media Fiber Art
Hellada Art Center presents the fiber art of TALA member Deborah Weir.
Spirit of the West
The City of Santa Clarita is pleased to present its latest art exhibition, Spirit of the West, on view in the First Floor Gallery at City Hall.
Included are two works by TALA member Nicki Voss.
Pep Talk: Emily Silver
Eastern Star Gallery, located at the Archer School of Girls, hosts a solo exhibition by TALA member Emily Silver.
SHE PERSISTS: 12 Ventura Women Artists
She Persists honors women artists of Ventura County whose creative practices have spanned two decades or more.
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!
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.
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.
COMMON THREADS: THE FABRIC OF OUR COMMUNITY
Ace Gallery presents Common Threads: works that explore connection—connections between people, cultures, materials, and ideas.