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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.
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
Into the Pluriverse
Into the Pluriverse is a group exhibition inspired by the Zapatista term “pluriverse,” commonly understood as the multitude of realities present in a single moment. Artists Nia Lee, April Bey, and Jessica Taylor Bellamy explore how Afro-indigenous histories and cultures shape, create, and challenge our concept of truth and perception.
Quilts Japan: The 17th Quilt Nihon
Visions Museum of Textile Art is honored to host the 17th Quilt Nihon, making a debut of this internationally recognized exhibition in San Diego. This exhibit features award-winning, innovative works from the biennial competition of the Japanese Handicraft Instructor’s Association (JHIA).
Soft Architectures of the Sea
This exhibition presents Marita Setas Ferro’s textile sculptures as material reflections on marine ecosystems, care, and environmental precarity. Through crochet and knitting, techniques rooted in heritage and slowness, marine forms emerge as soft architectures
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.
California Fibers: The Languages of Fiber
California Fibers: The Languages of Fiber invites viewers to consider fiber as a form of communication—one that speaks through structure, material, and process.
Haptic Knowing
This show explores touch as a way of thinking and knowledge shaped by texture, resistance, and the intelligence of the hand.
A Racket of Banshees: Goddesses and Monsters Re-Imagined
A Racket of Banshees: Goddesses and Monsters Re-Imagined invites viewers into a world of myth, feminist archetypes, and speculative futures. This exhibition features contemporary feminist artists across sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, video, performance, and community workshops.
Future Past Tense
PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is pleased to present Future Past Tense with Esperanza Cortés (New York), Cheryl Derricotte (San Francisco), Karen Hampton (New Mexico), Asa Jackson (North Carolina) and Fay Ku (New York).
Healing with Gold: The Art of Kintsugi on Ceramics & Beyond
Healing with Gold: The Art of Kintsugi on Ceramics & Beyond is an exhibition featuring more than thirty contemporary artworks alongside traditional kintsugi ceramics, exploring how the centuries-old Japanese practice of repairing broken ceramics with lacquer dusted in gold has evolved from a tea ceremony tradition into a global artistic philosophy.
Speak to Me: Emily Silver and Joy Ray
The Middle Room is pleased to present Speak To Me, a two-person exhibition featuring Los Angeles-based artists Joy Ray and TALA member Emily Silver.
Linda Litteral, Remember
Remember is a large-scale community installation by artist Linda Litteral consisting of 460 small house structures, each hung with a hand-knitted banner. Every stitch in every banner represents one person sexually assaulted.
Objective Truths
Roberts Projects is pleased to present Objective Truths, a group exhibition featuring artists from the gallery’s program including Aaron Glasson, Chris Johanson, Suchitra Mattai, Evan Nesbit, Wendy Red Star and Brenna Youngblood.
This Land is Your Land
The Arroyo Arts Collective and Center for the Arts Eagle Rock are excited to announce This Land Is Your Land: Stewarding the Earth Through a Changing Climate, an evocative new group exhibition tackling themes of environmental protection, sustainability, climate adaptation, and the human connection to nature.
Textile Alchemy: The Art of Reiko Sudō and NUNO
The largest retrospective of Sudō’s textiles to date, Textile Alchemy features over 100 limited-edition textiles together with numerous objects, including drawings, sketches, raw materials, tools, mock-ups, and prototypes
PHYLLIS GREEN: Of My Own Making
Of My Own Making brings together 15 years of artwork made by Los Angeles-based artist Phyllis Green, including more than 25 insightful and witty sculptural and performative objects that interact with the body and its environs.
Artifacts from an Unborn Empire
Artifacts from an Unborn Empire gathers artists to reconsider how civilizations are formed and who gets to define them. Through a range of natural and manufactured materials, they play with and challenge the systems, stories, and symbols that shape our sense of power, history, and belonging.
Los Angeles Sets a Table
Los Angeles Sets a Table is part of LA Design Weekend. Thoughtforms Studio and Cathy Callahan have assembled an amazing line up of artists and designers to create and collaborate on pieces made especially for the show.
Stitching Multiverse
A group show of fiber work from Los Angeles and New York based artists.
Interweave
Thomas Cooper Studio presents INTERWEAVE, an exhibition of 8 incredible woman textile artists, in collaboration with Textile Arts LA.
Pattern Parade
Pattern Parade, a group show curated by Cassie McGettigan and Emily Mast, is part exhibition, part shop, part working design studio, and part printmaking playground.
Kaloust Guedel: Where Time Bends Softly
Where Time Bends Softly delves into the juxtaposition of past and present, fostering a dialogue that challenges conventional perceptions of time and artistic evolution through the works of Kaloust Guedel.
Uhengaparaoa, Taonga Tuku Iho: Ancestral Gifts and Contemporary Māori Art
Inspired by the legacy of Uhengaparaoa, a renowned Whakatōhea weaver who traveled to the East Coast of Aotearoa New Zealand to share her weaving knowledge, Uhengaparaoa, Taonga Tuku Iho brings ancient and modern Māori art into dialogue.
Shipibo-Konibo Kene Art
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.
The Other Art Fair LA
The Other Art Fair combines affordable and original artworks and 160 independent artists with immersive installations, performances, DJs – and a fully stocked bar.
Voltage of Hope
Voltage of Hope, presents paintings, photography, and mixed media works united by a single question: what does hope feel like when the world feels electric with uncertainty?
Interwoven: Three Artists’ Journeys in Paper and Cloth
Three artists begin with paper and cloth before branching off into different directions. Although their paths differ, all share a belief in the versatility these simple materials offer in making powerful art. This is a one-day pop-up exhibition.
Between Darkness and Dawn
The Between Darkness and Dawn exhibition juxtaposes narrative works confronting the challenges of modern life with vibrant quilts and abstract paintings that celebrate the promise of a new day.
Common Thread
The Los Angeles Makery presents Common Thread, a dynamic fiber art and mixed media exhibition bringing together the work of more than 24 artists across two floors of the Makery.
Between Earth and Sky
Debbie McAfee’s rich, textile collage grids depict landscapes in the Joshua Tree National Park.
Presence, Absence, and Loose Connections
515 Bendix is showing artists Linda Franke, Nancy Ivanhoe, Victoria May, Jenny Rask, Daniel Wheeler.
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.
Knot Sorry
Knot Sorry pulls fiber art out of the polite, domestic corner and into the spotlight where it belongs: bold, labor-intensive, intimate, and impossible to ignore.
TALA at TRYST: INDIGO
TRYST is the world’s largest international art fair dedicated exclusively to artist-run spaces, collectives, and independent organizations.
Textile Arts LA is participating with an Indigo themed small works group show of work by TALA members.
What does it mean to draw a line if home is a verb?
Visions Museum of Textile Art is honored to showcase mixed media artist Nereida Dusten
All Media 2026
Studio Channel Islands all media juried exhibition.
Includes TALA member Liberty Worth.
Cosecha
The works in Consecha all deal with the idea of labor, and specifically the immigrant and working-class labor that is foundational to our economic ecosystem.
Liberté éclairant le monde: Liberty Enlightening the World
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.
The Summer Show
Palos Verdes Art Center is pleased to announce The Summer Show, a juried all-media exhibition. Tala member Dellis Frank is included.
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.
Stories in Cloth: Communicating Through Textiles
Stories in Cloth: Communicating Through Textiles explores how textiles from around the world and throughout history have been used to communicate stories, identity, and shared experience.
Diverted Destruction
Diverted Destruction 19 examines the overlooked waste stream of modern healthcare. Through medical refuse, surgical materials, medication packaging, syringes, wheelchair parts, mobility devices, and other discarded objects associated with treatment and recovery, the exhibition explores the tension between healing and disposability.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

