upcoming events
To read more about an event, please click on the image to its left.
Most of these events are in Southern California. When something looks too amazing not to share, even if it’s out of the area, we’ll include it.
Non-Binary Code
Ben Cuevas’ solo exhibition featuring a new series exploring identity, gender, textile-based media and coded meaning.
Influences/Influencers: California Fibers
Opening Reception Saturday, September 9 from 3 to 7 pm, showcasing the breadth of the influential and innovative work created by members of California Fibers.
Arthur Simms and the Skin of Disparate Objects
The artist transforms collections and inspirations into poetic assemblages wrapped in hemp at Karma Gallery in Los Angeles.
Sympoeisis: Making With
Save the Date for Sympoeisis: Making With, exploring local fiber and ecosystems. Opening Reception Saturday, Feb 25 at 2pm
Truth Telling: Voices of First People
Truth-Telling is a multidisciplinary cross-section of well-known Native artists from across the US and Canada, featuring the works of eight contemporary Indigenous artists: Christi Belcourt, the late T. C. Cannon, Nicholas Galanin Yéil Ya-Tseen, Hock E Aye VI Edgar Heap of Birds, Margaret Jacobs, Rose B. Simpson, Duane Slick and Benjamin West. Their visual truth-telling presents a counter-hegemonic view of Native people.
Shaped by the Loom
Shaped by the Loom places Indigenous aesthetics and ways of knowing at the center of Navajo textile production, highlighting the localized and land-based knowledge systems that guide the process behind the finished product. Rather than reifying the object, this perspective foregrounds the active and generative practices that shape and animate this art form.
I Can't I Won't I Will I Do
Debra Disman is a Los Angeles-based artist known for her work inspired by the book, both as a solo practitioner and in the public sphere of community engagement. As a maker and teaching artist she creates work and projects which push the body and boundaries of the book into new media and materials, inviting altered ways of viewing the world and how we inhabit it.
Trade Fare Social
Works in Trade Fare Social address present-day challenges of the Student Debt Crisis, Bodily Autonomy, Sustainability, and Economic Systems.
Ink, Paper, Stone: Six Women Artists and the Language of Lithography
Featuring prints from six critically acclaimed artists who visited Los Angeles in the 1960s to explore the art of lithography: Ruth Asawa, Gego, Eleanore Mikus, Louise Nevelson, Irene Siegel and Hedda Sterne.
Virtually Woven: Crossing Boundaries
Annual NBO conference - save the date. Please note times are approximate, as they have not yet been posted. Link through image (left) for more details).
Shirley Tse: Lompoc Stories
Calfiornia-based artist Shirley Tse announces her sixth solo show with Shoshana Wayne Gallery. Opening reception June 18th from 2-5 pm.
Philth Haus: Lylex 1.0
PHILTH HAUS: LYLEX 1.0 — A Mycelial Exhibition By Artist In Residence at Women’s Center for Creative Work.
Cornelia Parker
Cornelia Parker’s work engages with important issues of our time, be it violence, ecology or human rights.
International Apparel Management
Dr. Helen Trejo, who some of you will remember from a talk she shared with our So Cal Fibershed chapter, has invited us to share news of an upcoming info session for the new International Apparel Management program at Cal Poly Pomona.