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.

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. 

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.

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.

bG Gallery announces the return of Spectrum Gestalt 2025, its 11th annual summer group exhibition.
This immersive show features artworks arranged by color in a continuous spectrum, highlighting the collective power of individual artistic expressions.

Shatto Gallery is pleased to present OUR RIVER: Floodplain and Future, the second iteration of our ongoing exploration into the significance of the Los Angeles River. This exhibition brings together a diverse group of artists whose work reflects on the river as both a vital ecological and cultural space, while addressing the challenges it faces in its ongoing transformation.

Shoshana Wayne Gallery is pleased to present Circumstances Held Me To Threads, an exhibition featuring works by Terri Friedman, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Anina Major, Frances Trombly, Gil Yefman, and Michelle Yi Martin.

Nazarian / Curcio is pleased to present Befarmā / After You, a solo exhibition featuring new fiber-based works by Hangama Amiri. This marks the artist’s West Coast debut.

Amiri is an Afghan Canadian artist whose practice combines painting, drawing, and printmaking techniques with textiles, weaving together stories rooted in memories of her homeland and her diasporic experience. Her works explore notions of home, community, gender, and cultural memory, examining quotidian objects and scenes imbued with geopolitical significance.

Inspired by her long history of depiction on textiles, these works explore the Virgin of Guadalupe’s endurance as an iconic cultural symbol fashioned through creative expression.

PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is pleased to present Connective Threads, the spun thread ‘paintings’ of Uma Rani Iyli. Having grown up in India’s traditional caste-based society, Iyli identifies as belonging to the female Indian weaver’s community. She references weaving, stitching and pattern making in her art using remnant thread sourced directly from weaver communities collected during her annual trips to Southern India. Through her use of silk threads and plexiglas tubes, she spins vibrant colors inspired by traditional saris.

PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is excited to present Pilar Agüero-Esparza in her first one-person exhibition with the gallery.
Pilar is recognized for her installations, paintings, and objects reflecting the palette and politics of skin tone, specifically Brown and Black skin. Her paintings are a hybrid of formal, hard-edged geometric abstraction, accentuated by her coded color palette, intersecting with her family’s tradition of huarache-making

The Western Mystique at Dorado 806 Projects is a celebration of women who have shattered boundaries—geographic, creative, and cultural—to redefine what it means to be a “Western artist.”

The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs’ (DCA) Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG) proudly presents Step & Repeat, a group exhibition curated by Nancy Meyer and John Weston. 

Inspired by the historical Pattern and Decoration movement of the mid-1970s and its impact across our region, Step & Repeat highlights 46 Southern California artists who engage with themes of pattern and decoration.

Shoebox Projects proudly presents Women Work Together, a  Women’s History Month exhibit by the San Diego-based Feminist Image Group (FIG). This transformative exhibition explores creative collaboration as a catalyst for change, showcasing thought-provoking works that address critical issues impacting women in today’s world.

Charlie James Gallery is pleased to present Memesis, a solo exhibition of woven works by Los Angeles-based artist Kayla Mattes, who brings a modern sensibility and wit to the traditional art of weaving. Her handwoven tapestries investigate digital forms of expression, drawing from internet memes, symbols, and texts to convey the pervasive anxieties of contemporary life

DUETS invited Los Angeles Art Association artists to collaborate with randomly selected partners, combining their unique talents and perspectives to create innovative, all-media artworks.

In an era marked by division, DUETS celebrates creative collaboration as a catalyst for change, showcasing the transformative power of teamwork. Each pair’s artistic synergy symbolizes the broader social necessity of cooperation and dialogue, fostering empathy and collective progress.

Ritual Expressions: African Adornment from the Permanent Collection is a focused presentation by LACMA of a rich diversity of textiles, clothing, and headwear representing more than 20 cultures.

Hostler Burrows is pleased to announce an exhibition of hand-woven textiles by Taher Asad-Bakhtiari, whose Tribal Weave Project offers a contemporary distillation of the kilim flatweaves and densely-knotted gabbeh rugs that have long defined Iran’s cultural traditions. 

David Zwirner is pleased to announce Spirit Level, a solo exhibition of work by Tau Lewis. Employing various sculptural techniques, Lewis creates colorful, totemic forms that suggest mythical territories beyond our own.

Home Maker Space is an immersive exploration of the most recent work by Korean American artist Ahree Lee. TEXTILE 1.0 combines weaving, video, and electronic textiles to imagine the kind of technology we might have in our homes if technology had evolved differently in the 20th century.

Rooted in the exploration of traditional textile and craft practices, the work of multimedia artist Ramekon O’Arwisters reflects his lived experiences as a Black and Queer man in the United States.
O’Arwisters anchors his complex sculpture and socially engaged work in material and object politics, drawing from cultural, familial, and personal histories. Through combinations of found objects and craft techniques—many associated with domestic spaces, O’Arwisters investigates topics of intimacy, gender, race, and queer identity.

Amanda Maciel Antunes’ I’ve Got To Tell You Something Now, which consists of a film, an object, and an artist book, functions as a portrait of an action of resistance, and an appeal to the intention of memory and stillness.
The artist spent 365 days walking up and down a mountain with a piece of cloth, an audio recorder, a cell phone, a GoPro, sewing thread, and a needle. The journey began on the first day of the Covid-19 mandated lockdown in Los Angeles.
Resembling the daily journey, the 90-foot scroll of fabric will be displayed in the window lobby area of the museum and fabric will be suspended in several parts of the lobby forming waves resembling the hills of the mountains culminating in an area where a monitor will display the filmed journey.

Palos Verdes Art Center / Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts Education is pleased to announce 9 x 9: Contemporary Quilts and Containers, a showcase of artworks by 18 distinguished artists from California’s established fiber art community.
Presenting innovative interpretations of traditional craft forms, these dynamic quilted, woven, plaited, and twined works investigate the purposes and potential of cross-cultural narratives and techniques through diverse media, expanding our understanding of visual culture.

Black in Place holds space for invocation, re-memory, and unbridled Black expression. Countering erasure, it interrogates the living contradictions of existing while Black, invoking ancestral and indigenous wisdom to explore how Black artists cultivate dreaming through making.

PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is thrilled to present the dazzling woven, beaded tapestries of John Paul Morabito in their first one-person exhibition with the gallery.

“This is a retracing of the queer resistance born in urban discos of a prior generation. As social and political forces once again seek to eradicate queer people, I, like those who came before me, reach for the promise of queer futurity.”

PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is excited and honored to feature Los Angeles-based artist Ferne Jacobs in her First Los Angeles gallery exhibition!

At 82 years old, Ferne Jacobs is a ground-breaking pioneer in the International Fiber Art Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. She continues her daily studio practice today, intuitively coiling and twining compelling abstract forms that infer historical provenance beyond their making.