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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.
FABULOUS FIBER
FABULOUS FIBER is a dazzling celebration of textile artistry, where tradition meets innovation in a vibrant display of texture, color, and creativity. This immersive exhibition brings together contemporary works crafted with both time-honored and cutting-edge techniques, from quilting and tufting to felting, embroidery, weaving, beading, crochet, basketry, and beyond.
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.
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.
Lesley Kice Nishigawara: Pattern Shift
Stroll Garden presents a solo exhibition of new work by Lesley Kice Nishigawara. Featuring textiles and works on paper, the exhibition follows Nishigawara’s use of the grid as a generative structure—expanded and reimagined through weaving, drawing, and collage.
John Paul Morabito | Our Lady of the Bathhouse
PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is thrilled to present Our Lady of the Bathhouse, beaded jacquard tapestries by John Paul Morabito.
Sabrina Gschwandtner: Absinthe, Smoke, Sugar, Choice
Shoshana Wayne Gallery is pleased to present Absinthe, Smoke, Sugar, Choice, an exhibition by Sabrina Gschwandtner.
Working with black-and-white 35mm film, etching ink on film, thread, and video, she presents twelve film quilts.
Olga de Amaral
Lisson Gallery Los Angeles is honored to present a focused survey of works by renowned Colombian artist Olga de Amaral, marking her first solo exhibition in the city in almost a decade.
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.
GUILLERMO BERT: LONGING & BELONGING
William Turner Gallery is pleased to announce an upcoming solo exhibition, Longing & Belonging, featuring work by the artist Guillermo Bert -- marking the gallery's first presentation of his work.
Woori: United by Art
Mary Little has work included in 우리 Woori: United by Art, a group exhibition at EK Gallery in Los Angeles’ Koreatown, co-curated by Sung-Hee Son and Paul Art Lee.
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.
Barbara Belle Sloan: Woodblock Prints and Collages
Join Textile Arts LA member Barbara Sloan for her exhibit of Woodblock Prints and Collages
BETH ABARAVICH - LIP / SCHTICK
TALA member Beth Abaravich is showing her work at Offus in the Bendix Building
Bisa Butler: Hold Me Close
In Hold Me Close, Bisa Butler presents a powerful new series of quilted portraits that speak to the urgency of empathy, the weight of history, and the need for tenderness in times of crisis.
Ramekon O’Arwisters: SCHISM
SCHISM, Ramekon O’Arwisters’ first one-person exhibition at PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY in DTLA
Navigating the Heart in 2025
Sovern hosts an intimate conversation, moderated by Marissa Magdalena Sykes, Director of Arts Education at Angels Gate Cultural Center, with artists Calethia DeConto, Rosalyn Myles, and Ana Rodriguez.
Christina Forrer
Parker Gallery is proud to present a new exhibition with Christina Forrer. The show will bring together new weavings and works on paper, installed atop an artist-designed wallpaper.
California Fibers: Texture and Form
Coastline College Art Gallery presents California Fibers: Texture and Form, curated by Guusje Sanders, features the work of twenty-two members of California Fibers.
Joyce Dallal: Landscapes and Territories
Joyce Dallal: Artist Residency and Exhibition at the El Camino College Art Gallery.
The back room of the gallery will be transformed into the artist’s studio.
Intertwine
The University Art Gallery at Cal State Univ. Dominguez Hills is proud to present Intertwine, a group exhibition featuring new and recent works by Los Angeles-based artists Vita Kari, Kim Schoenstadt, Julie Spielman, Irene Georgia Tsatsos, Jemima Wyman, and Alexis Zoto.
How We Go
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.
TALA at TRYST: small works
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.
Old Broads: Hot! Hot! Hot!
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.
The Space Between: Texture Studies by Denja Harris
“The Space Between: Texture Studies by Denja Harris explores the tension between control and surrender, seeking meaning in the space between what is and what is becoming. Through large-scale yarn paintings, soft sculptures, and video, Harris investigates how texture, form, color, and pattern evoke sensory and emotional responses. Each piece invites viewers to engage with the interplay of softness and structure and to find significance within the undefined spaces.
Considering Summer 2025
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.
Spectrum Gestalt 2025
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.
OUR RIVER: Floodplain and Future
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.
Circumstances Held Me To Threads
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.
Ventana Huichola
This exhibition features a dynamic, site-specific installation of "Tsikuris" or God's Eyes, sacred spiritual objects crafted from brightly colored yarn.
Hangama Amiri: Befarmā / After You
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.”
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.
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.
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
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.

