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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.

Learn to Weave
Learn the fundamentals of weaving with TALA member Cameron Taylor-Brown as you set up a floor loom, experiment with yarns and basic weaves, and make a scarf, table runner, or wall hanging.

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.”

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

Hand Sewn Collage
We are so excited to share that Debra Weiss is teaching a 2 session slow stitching class at Stitch Salon this month. (Sewing by hand).
Improvisational collage and stitch in 2 parts.

Pasadena Bead & Design Show
Shop and buy direct from artisans and tradespeople at excellent prices --beads, art clothing, jewelry, gemstones, textiles, findings, embellishments.

Elements of Weaving: Fiber
Explore the rich diversity of fibers and their properties as you weave with cotton, linen, wool, mohair, alpaca, silk and more! Plus we'll mix wools and cotton in one textile to create our own version of Nuno BORO cloth "from riches to rags and back again."
Taught by TALA member Cameron Taylor-Brown.

Working With Vintage Photographs And Stitching
Join TALA member Eliza Day-Green in a workshop bringing the past to life!
Do you love vintage photographs? Have you wondered how you could incorporate them into your art practice? In this weekend workshop you will learn all the steps to create a unique piece of artwork.

Felting Loom Collaging
Join textile artist Emily Silver for an immersive two-day workshop exploring the art of collage through innovative needle-felting techniques.

Elements of Weaving: Color
Explore color - hue, value and intensity – and how color interacts with yarns and woven structures. In this THREE DAY session, dive into color theory (using yarns, not paint! ) create several color palettes and weave your favorite palette in a scarf, table runner or wall hanging.
Taught by TALA member Cameron Taylor-Brown.

Elements of Weaving: Pattern
Create a blended warp where color and texture are supporting players to pattern. Learn weave notation, explore a variety of woven structures, and weave your favorites in a scarf, table runner or wall hanging.
Taught by TALA member Cameron Taylor-Brown.

Spring 2025 Textile Slam!
Join Textile Arts LA for our Spring 2025 Textile Slam! Artists, designers, authors, curators, and students will share quick insights into their work, process, and intentions.
Slam! is an informal, community-oriented opportunity to be impressed or intrigued, to see something new or to celebrate the work of familiar friends. The Spring SLAM’s broad theme is FASHION.

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.

LA Tactile Lab Open House
Discover LA Tactile Lab: Your New Home for Fiber Arts and Material Exploration!
LA Tactile Lab will be having an Open House where people can come check out the space, try a few tools at the demo stations, and discuss the upcoming programming with co-founders Emily Silver and Svetlana Shigroff, and workshop faculty.

Elements of Weaving: Texture
Explore tactile possibilities with a variety of fibers, yarns and weave structures with TALA member Cameron Taylor-Brown. Create several textures and weave your favorites in a scarf, table runner, or wall hanging.

Textile Arts in 2 Parts
Join teaching artist Connie Rohman for a two-part textile arts workshop! Take one workshop or take both to create a large format needle book.

Reimagining Paper: Paper Weaving with with Anne M Bray
Utilizing a variety of paper-based materials, participants will learn to make woven structures and explore the possibilities of woven surface designs in this fun and accessible class! This workshop is part of the Reimagining Paper series co-presented with Textile Arts LA.

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.

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.

FALL TEXTILE SLAM: Strut Your Stuff
Join Textile Arts LA for our next Textile Slam! Strut Your Stuff
Join us for an exhilarating afternoon at our Fall Textile Slam as we celebrate creativity and innovation in the world of textile arts. Our talented team members will be presenting their current projects and we invite you to experience a fun fashion show showcasing members' wearable works.

Fabric Collage Workshop with Connie Rohman
Discover the art of fabric collage with teaching artist Connie Rohman. Using hand-dyed and vintage fabrics, you will design and stitch an original artwork while exploring composition, texture and color theory.

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.

ARTISANS & FRIENDS Boutique
Come join a gathering of eight friends who are collectors & creators to show, sell or trade creations and items with each other and our guests. We convene in Judy’s back yard. Judy's home is in historic Country Club Park in Mid City LA, near Arlington & Olympic with easy free street parking so come & bring your friends!

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

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.

Elements of Weaving: Pattern
Create a blended warp where color and texture are supporting players to pattern. Learn weave notation, explore a variety of woven structures, and weave your favorites in a scarf, table runner or wall hanging. Taught by Cameron Taylor-Brown on Wolf Pup floor looms in her fully equipped Los Angeles weaving studio.

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.

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.

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.

Silk Scarf Painting Workshop with Beth Abaravich
Now you can learn how to make beautiful permanent designs on silk fabric with TALA member Beth Abaravich. Utilizing the time honored technique of gutta resist and silk dyes, students will create unique pieces of wearable art.

Elements of Weaving: Color
Explore color - hue, value and intensity – and how color interacts with yarns and woven structures. In this three day session, dive into color theory (using yarns, not paint! ) create several color palettes and weave your favorite palette in a scarf, table runner or wall hanging. Taught by Cameron Taylor-Brown on Wolf Pup floor looms in her fully equipped Los Angeles weaving studio.

Iroquois Embroidery & Raised Beadwork with Brittany Kiertzner
Delve into the rich traditions of Iroquois symbols through embroidery and raised beadwork techniques. Participants will be introduced to the cultural significance and history behind traditional intricate motifs and learn how to incorporate them into their creations. Kiertzner’s expertise and passion for preserving and sharing these artistic practices will provide students with a deep appreciation for the artistry and heritage of the Iroquois people.


Liberty Worth - Nuances
“All of the materials for this body of work were intercepted as an alternative to landfill - the base fabrics, fabric swatch samples, discarded face masks (which I retrieved and sterilized), old clothing even the thread is “expired” and was headed for the trash.
I am intrigued by the purpose and beauty that can be found in things that were discarded. In the nuance of the spaces between usefulness and waste.” - Liberty Worth

‘Soliloquy’ Open Call Exhibition
The Bridge Arts Foundation proudly announces the third edition of its Open Call Exhibition Program, which is designed to provide support for emerging artists. In its 3rd edition, the Soliloquy Open Call Exhibition features 19 talented artists.