he Allure of Matter: Material Art from China brings together works from the past four decades in which conscious material choice has become a symbol of the artists’ expression. On view through January 5, 2020.
The Getty Research Institute will have an exhibition featuring work from the Bauhaus in their Galleries I and II in celebration for the 100th anniversary!
AnniAlbers, guest curatored by member Cameron Taylor-Brown - a double dose of fabulousness.
Visions Art Museum: Contemporary Quilts & Textiles is hosting four shows through October 6: Defining Moments: Stitched Perspectives on Being a Woman; Collage: Intersections; If Walls Could Talk; and Crazy Good.
Dress Rehearsal showcases numerous and unexpected ways a dress can be depicted and interpreted. Using out-of-the-ordinary mediums expressed through sculpture, installation, painting, photography, and collage, this exhibition celebrates both the imagination of the artists and the theatrical nature for which the show is named. Curated by Kate Stern. Be sure to see Artist and Textile Arts | LA member Gwen Samuels’ work.
Out of Darkness is an exhibit of bold, colorful art quilts and textiles that follow the theme of emerging from a period of darkness. The three artists of the Bent Needle Collective – Carol Nilsen, Deborah Weir, and Susan Willen – have created a collection of pieces that play with their own personal journeys and talents, but that all flow into one universal story of recovery, optimism, and hope for the future.
Outside Us, curated by Arezoo Bharthania features artists Arezoo Bharthania, Dawn Ertl, Kimberly Morris, and Diane Williams.
These artists will organize and teach a series of workshops on topics ranging from traditional, domestic, and repair tasks to movement, breathing, and sound. While the act of repair is within their own artistic practices, they have also sought the support of their community, asking other artists, repairers, and activists to share their knowledge.
Patrick Dougherty’s site-specific willow installation are intricately woven and assembled from hundreds of harvested willow saplings on-site to create monumental, earthly sculptures.
ILGWU LAUNCHES campaign to make transparent fast fashions appropriation of silhouettes and cultural motifs. The motifs travel the globe, while the people of these countries like Syrian refugees are not welcome to cross borders as they attempt to flee violence.
Sewing Rebellion is hosting events in multiple So Cal locations. Click through for more details.
Countless layers of Kraft and recycled paper are torn, stacked, and sewn into shapes that might be the memories of nests, sea creatures, and flowers.
Beyond/Within, a two-person exhibition featuring the sculptures of Samuelle Richardson and the textile paintings of Joy Ray, opens Saturday, September 7 at LAUNCH LA.
Erin Trefey: As a descendant of textile designers, cobblers, and educators, her work suggests personal archeology. The warp and weft of fabric act as an inherent drawing and serves as a catalyst for her constructions.
Showcasing small format works on the theme of Materiality & Method.
Pattern : Code reactivates the innate connections between weaving and computing, and examines the interrelationships between technology, craft, and women’s labor. From Textile Arts LA Member Ahree Lee!
Writing for Artists. A powerhouse line-up including Lynell George, Carolina Miranda, and Lindsay Preston Zappas, moderated by Harry Gamboa Jr.
Members Only Private tour of the collections, including a behind-the-scenes of the textile archives!
Tim Eads is bringing his popular class to Los Angeles, exclusively with Textile Arts LA!
Learn the fundamentals of weaving as you set up the loom, experiment with yarns and basic weaves, and make a scarf, table runner, or wall hanging.
Give your tired leather goods new life by creating something repurposed and ready to be loved! Andrea Morgenstern will teach how to hand-saddlestitch a coin pouch, clutch, zippered pouch or card holder out of recycled leather.
You do not want to miss this “only in Los Angeles” exhibit, featuring Betye Saar’s oeuvre of early sketchbooks up through a new sculptural installation.
“This will be the first exhibition at a California museum to address her entire career and the first anywhere to focus on her sketchbooks.”
Our friends at ReWeave LA are hosting a trunk show, featuring their new apparelline and home goods. Link through for details.
A lively discussion on how artists and designers approach material, and how they manipulate, re-imagine, and transcend its use and possibilities.
Artist talk with curator Andi Campognone
Opening reception for RAW: Craft, Commodity, and Capitalism; Finding the Center: Works by Echiko Ohira; and Cynthia Minet: Jacked.
Day 2 of Materiality & Method will include short and long form workshops! Some classes now listed at the jump, with more to come!
Ohira’s work is founded upon the use of repurposed paper, with her love of the material springing from her childhood in Japan and its vast paper traditions.
Are you interested in serving the Sewing Rebellion as a FAUX FRAU by sharing your sewing skills?
RAW features nine contemporary artists who work with a range of commodities as artistic material to explore the historical and contemporary effects of global capitalism. Works in the exhibition will include sculptural pieces and installations created from cotton, sugar, copper, salt, porcelain, water, and other materials.
Outside Us, curated by Arezoo Bharthania features artists Arezoo Bharthania, Dawn Ertl, Kimberly Morris, and Diane Williams.
Pattern : Code reactivates the innate connections between weaving and computing, and examines the interrelationships between technology, craft, and women’s labor. From Textile Arts LA Member Ahree Lee!
Susan Kim of My Dear Tejas is hosting a mending workshop at Heath LA. Inspired by a trusted pair of Levi’s — her work “uniform” that she has been mending over the years — the goal of the workshop will guide you through the basics of mending, reviving and celebrating the items in your closet that are as worn as they are loved. From Susan Kim:
Learn Band Weaving on Inkle and / or Rigid Heddle Looms with Anna Zinsmeister, offered through the Southern California Handweavers’ Guild.
Members Only Private tour of the collections, including a behind-the-scenes of the textile archives!
Please join us at the opening reception of our first juried exhibition! Textile Arts LA Members will be showcasing small format works on the theme of Materiality & Method.
Beyond/Within, a two-person exhibition featuring the sculptures of Samuelle Richardson and the textile paintings of Joy Ray, opens Saturday, September 7 at LAUNCH LA.
Anni Albers has been called “an artist who changed weaving and a weaver who changed art.” At Craft in America
Vats of indigo (blue), osage orange (bright yellow), and several other dyes, depending on availability, but most likely logwood, madder, or cochineal, will be available for dyeing.
Cameron Taylor-Brown leads an educator workshop focusing on Anni Albers
This six-session workshop will cover various surface design techniques, including block printing and shibori folding. Taught by member Connie Rohman.
“Screen-like images and textures combine with Rich’s bold palette and painterly surfaces on sewn fabric elements that take the form of aprons.”
We realize Phoenix is not Los Angeles, but these textiles are a knockout! “During this time, weavers saw examples of the design system of Hispanic textiles and acquired new materials such as aniline dyes and Germantown yarns that touched off their experiments with color and design. “
