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Sangre de Nopal/Blood of the Nopal: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara is pleased to present Sangre de Nopal/Blood of the Nopal:Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Contemporary Art featuring Tanya Aguiñiga, Wendy Cabrera Rubio and Mauricio Guillén with Clemente Castor and Antonio Ponce, Tania Candiani, Dario Canul (Tlacolulokos), Porfirio Gutiérrez, Edgar Jahir Trujillo, Candice Lin, Andy Medina, Jou Morales, Rufina Nava Flores, Sandy Rodriguez, Sarah Rosalena, and Dyani White Hawk.
The conversations and the artworks presented here center the aesthetics, history, and global impact of the Zapotec peoples’ cultivation of cochineal—a scale insect that lives exclusively on the nopal cactus (Opuntia cacti) and is the source of a red dye derived from its body. The beauty of cochineal hue has captivated people for centuries, not only in Mexico, but around the world.

Diane von Furstenberg: Woman Before Fashion
Explore the remarkable life and work of fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg. This North American debut exhibition—coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Diane von Furstenberg’s iconic wrap dress—includes a selection of over sixty pieces drawn from the DVF archives along with ephemera, fabric swatches, media pieces, and information on her philanthropic work.

Black in Place
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.

9 x 9: Contemporary Quilts & Containers
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.

Ahree Lee: Home Maker Space
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.

Ramekon O’Arwisters: HOUSE OF
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
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.

Tau Lewis: Spirit Level
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.

Tribal Weave Project
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.

Ritual Expressions: African Adornment from the Permanent Collection
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.

Memesis
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

Step & Repeat
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.

The Western Mystique
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.”

Pilar Agüero-Esparza: Darker than the deepest sea… weaker than the palest blue
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

Uma Rani Iyli: Connective Threads
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.

Hands Head and Heart
The Ojai Valley Museum presents a collective vision from 15 artists, both emerging and established, whose fiber work is inspired by the Ojai Valley. In their hands, fiber becomes a language of resilience, play, sustainability, and healing.
Baskets, nets and quilts once purely functional, now emerge as intricate narratives of human experience. Each piece is a conversation rooted in the landscape of Ojai...it's ecology, its challenges, its enduring spirit woven into tangible form. From the natural world to the rubbish bin, artists gather and transform material adding to the meaning.
Fiber processes require a slow mediative rhythm to make, creating a visual battery of time as each stitch or knot accumulates. These skills are centuries old, practiced by cultures around the world. These same rhythms bind us to our ancestors, to each other and to the earth. Hands that create, heads that imagine, hearts that feel...this is the essence of our unique community.
Exhibition curated by Carol Shaw-Sutton.
Artists:
Annette Heully
Carol Shaw-Sutton
Carrie Burckle
Charlotte Schmid-Maybach
Eliot Spaulding
Jmy James Kidd
Michael Rohde
Minga Opazo
Molly Haynes
Julie Easton
Pat Edwards
Rosemary Hall
Ruth Katzenstein Souza
Sally England
Wendy Osher
Opening Reception:
Friday, March 21st from 5-7 pm (free)
Admission:
Suggested Donation $5 adults, $1 children 6-18
Hours:
Thursday - Sunday, 10am - 4pm
Third Fridays, 10am - 7pm
More information0 am - 7 pm

Fashioning an Icon
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.

Layered Narratives: Quilted Stories of Gender and Race
"Layered Narratives: Quilted Stories of Gender and Race at the 1876 Centennial" explores gender and racial politics at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition through the medium of centennial quilts from Mingei’s permanent collection.

Women Work Together
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.

Duets
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.

Material World
Curator Booke Hodge has brought together a group of artists for Modernism Week in Palm Springs.

John Paul Morabito: Take Me To Heaven
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.”

Ferne Jacobs: A Poetry of Thread
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.

Winter Show
Michael Koch, Artist and Textile Arts LA member has been invited to show his recent work at The Pool House Gallery.

Sometimes A Wind Blows
Wonzimer is proud to present Sometimes A Wind Blows, a group exhibition exploring the diverse possibilities of textile art.
Each artist showcases a wide range of techniques and media, from embroidery, weaving, painting, printing, and knitting to experimental manipulations of linen, velvet, or silk. Bringing together legacy artists with new generations of artists, this show explores the enduring appeal of textile art, as both tangibly luxurious and mysterious.

Material World
Freehand Gallery is featuring new work from: Jim Bassler, Kay Chapman, Deborah Cross, Jill Heir, Marie Kare, Victoria May, Brian Murphy, Sally Prangley, Rat Boi, Michael Rohde, Iris Schneider, Stephen Sidelinger, Joy Stocksdale, Nicki Voss, Debby Weiss, Sarah Winston.

Jeremy Frey: Unbound
Karma presents Unbound, Jeremy Frey’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles.
Jeremy Frey is the foremost contemporary practitioner of Wabanaki basketry, a tradition that dates back more than 13,000 years and is the oldest continuously practiced art form in the area now known as Maine.

Measure Twice Cut Once
Over 50 artists fill the walls and floors of the gallery with fun and unusual works. Our curation aimed to stretch the public’s understanding of collage as something beyond busy compositions that look like conspiracy boards that are only missing red string. The artists exhibiting approach collage with the same finesse and intention all pop surrealists do.

Over Under Over: Work from California Fibers
Over Under Over features the work of twenty-two members of California Fibers, including: Sandy Abrams, Charlotte Bird, Ashley V. Blalock, Carrie Burckle, Marilyn McKenzie Chaffee, Doshi, Polly Jacobs Giacchina, Susan Henry, Lydia Tjioe Hall, Annette Heully, Brittany Kiertzner, Brecia Kralovic-Logan, Kathy Nida, Carol Nilsen, Liz Oliver, Marty Ornish, Michael F. Rohde, Rebecca Smith, Cameron Taylor-Brown, Elise Vazelakis, Debby Weiss and Peggy Wiedemann.

KEYSTONE OPEN STUDIOS
Keystone Art Space Open Studios is a unique experience for art lovers and collectors of all levels to engage and connect with emerging and established artists in Los Angeles. Keystone artists welcome visitors into their workspaces to get a behind-the-scenes look into the creative process and purchase works directly from the artist.

Whiplash: Art in the Ever-Changing Now
Santa Monica Cultural Affairs, in collaboration with Art at the Airport, is proud to announce the opening of WHIPLASH: Art In The Ever-Changing Now, a groundbreaking exhibition that explores the profound and dynamic shifts shaping our world today. Curated by Rebecca Youssef, Alexandra Dillon, and April Banks, this exhibition offers a reflective exploration of our times, showcasing the ways contemporary artists interpret and respond to the rapid transformations that affect societal norms, cultural identities, environmental crises, and political divisions.

Intimate Wilderness: Charlotte Bird
Visions Museum of Textile Art presents Intimate Wilderness, work by Charlotte Bird.
Charlotte Bird has been a full-time studio artist for over thirty years. Her lifelong love affair with textiles has produced contemporary wall quilts, three dimensional sculptures, and artist’s books. She dyes and prints most of her own fabrics.

SCIART25 25th Anniversary Exhibition
SCIART25 explores the rich creative community which has enabled Studio Channel Islands to flourish over the last quarter century. The exhibition is a celebration of a selection of the internationally renowned artists whose work has been presented at Studio Channel Islands and a reflection upon the role that artists have played in shaping the organization over the past twenty-five years.

Conscious Tether: Art and the Internet in Los Angeles
Conscious Tether: Art and the Internet in Los Angeles is a group exhibition of contemporary artists considering what it means to live with and through the internet.

Lea Feinstein: chrysalis
TALA member Lea Feinstein pushes the sculptural potential of Tyvek --cutting, sewing, pleating, and weaving new and recycled works.
She transforms them into vibrant new forms.
The exhibition is curated by Lorraine Heitzman.
Opening reception:
Saturday, September 28, 5-9 pm
During the reception at 6pm, a live performance will feature twenty enthusiastic models walking the runway in unique sculptural garments.
Gallery Hours:
Daily, Noon - 5pm

Ventura County Handweavers & Spinners Guild
The Ventura County Handweavers & Spinners Guild are exhibiting members’ work in the Logan Gallery at the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts.

The Other Art Fair LA
The Other Art Fair: we combine affordable and original artworks by 140 independent artists with immersive installations, performances, DJs – and a fully stocked bar.

Ann Weber: Let the Sunshine In
Palos Verdes Art Center / Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts Education is pleased to announce Ann Weber: Let the Sunshine In, a solo exhibition of monumental, sensuous, and anthropomorphic sculpture – made from discarded cardboard boxes. On view will be works from the last 15 years, including new standing and wall sculptures making enthusiastic color choices.

Demetri Broxton: Ancestral Echoes
Patricia Sweetow Gallery is thrilled to present Demetri Broxton: Ancestral Echoes.
“My new body of work centers upon ancestors whose names and stories I don’t fully know. Most of them are soldiers who served in WWI. They fought to support a country that would continue to deny them full citizenship and equal rights.” -– Demetri Broxton

SHARON BARNES: Improvisations of a Polyrhythmic Being
Patricia Sweetow Gallery is thrilled to present Sharon Barnes: Improvisations of a Polyrhythmic Being.
With roots in the music industry as a songwriter, Sharon Barnes lyrical, non-objective paintings hold in their making and materials social and political stories of ancestral remembrance and fierce self-determination.

Patrick Tagoe-Turkson: Whispers of Renewal
“Through my use of found materials, I explore themes such as consumerism, environmental and cultural sustainability, identity and heritage, socio-economic issues in Ghana, ocean pollution, migration, memory, transformation, and reclamation.”
- Patrick Tagoe - Turkson

Barbara Belle Sloan
Artist and TALA member Barbara Belle Sloan is having an exhibit of her recent woodblock prints, off-loom weavings, and textile collages.

Blue Gold: The Art and Science of Indigo
Blue Gold: The Art and Science of Indigo presents indigo through stunning objects of creative expression and the astonishing study of a chemical reaction.

signifying the impossible song
signifying the impossible song explores the material culture of objects and the protected knowledges they hold. Encompassing mixed-media artworks, found objects, assemblage, photography, sculpture and painting, the exhibition points to the collective unravelling and structural failings of political systems. There are multiple forces in effect – integration and disintegration, defiance and displacement – the cyclical rhythm suggesting the human project as an ongoing process of fabrication and refabrication.

Soft Art
Join us for an extraordinary texture, color, and creativity exploration at our unique exhibition focusing on art made from textiles, yarns, and various fibers – a celebration of the tactile and visually captivating world of textile art!

Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees
The Lancaster Museum of Art and History presents Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees, as part of the Getty PST ART: Art & Science Collide initiative. The exhibition sheds light on the threatened Joshua tree and the fragile Mojave Desert ecosystem that sustains it.

CHANNING HANSEN: Cosmic Fabric
Marc Selwyn Fine Art is pleased to present Cosmic Fabric, an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles based artist Channing Hansen.
Hansen’s artistic process is fundamentally based on his materials, as he immerses himself in the complex journey of how raw fleece becomes knitted yarn.
Hansen derives his knitted patterns from complex digital algorithms which draw on systems and phenomena found in nature and the cosmos. These algorithms allow Hansen to achieve “purposeful randomness,” as the computer generates and determines pattern, color, and dimension.

FIELD TRIP to the Broad Art Museum
Field Trip with Textile Arts | LA Peeps!
We have arranged a Self-guided Group tour of the acclaimed exhibit Mickalene Thomas: All About Love