Fifteen members of the San Diego Creative Weavers' Guild share their work in this exhibit, ranging from garments and wearable accessories to wall art and fiber sculpture.
Check out the Guild and their Sheep to Shawl project at the Ventura Fair!
Laura Sansone is a textile designer, activist, and consultant. She is the creator of Textile Lab and is currently an Assistant Professor of Textiles at Parsons School of Design. She has developed initiatives that bring NY designers and farmers together with the goal of creating products that have social and environmental value.
So Cal Handweavers Guild’s weaving and fiber festival, featuring vendors offering a range of tools, supplies, and books for weaving, spinning, knitting, and other fiber arts, as well as handcrafted items.
Join Merlin Sheldrake, biologist and author of the bestselling book Entangled Life, for an illuminating conversation with CIIS professor of Ecology and Religion Elizabeth Allison. Merlin shares the ways these extraordinary organisms, and our relationships with them, change our understanding of the planet on which we live, and the ways that we think, feel, and behave.
Artist and advocate-activist Porfirio Gutierrez is offering an in-depth master class in textile weaving. In this five-day workshop students will explore how to warp, how to design and select colors, and how to transfer their designs from the page to the loom.
Please save the date for a conversation about Sympoeisis with the curators. We’ll announce the time soon!
Guest curator and fiber artist Jennifer Kim Sohn looks for a way to make the unfathomable figure of refugees around our world more tangible by marking a displaced person with panels of hand-sewn stitches.
Join author and Native Literature Professor Emeritus Stan Rushworth and ecologist and activist-scholar Melissa K. Nelson for a unique conversation exploring ideas from Indigenous voices at the center of conversations about the current climate crisis.
Enjoy a talk with Julie Beeler about her Mushroom Color Atlas and discover the stunning and diverse range of colors derived from the kaleidoscopic fungi kingdom. Hear about her process, learn how to forage and identify dye mushrooms and discover how to transform the color into dyes, pigments, paints and inks.
In conjunction with our exhibit, Sympoeisis, artist, gleaner, mender Ruth Katzenstein Souza will guide us in a layered discussion-mending circle as we explore the stories in and of our clothing. Class size limited.
Sign Ups Open! Please join us for a guided, three-month project to naturally dye local fiber from foraged materials and kitchen scraps.
Save the Date! The inaugural Groundwork: So Cal Fibershed Symposium will bring together ranchers and farmers, designers, advocates, academics, and change-makers for a day of project presentations and networking.
Save-the-Date! This intimate exhibit is designed as a journey through local ecosystems and craft traditions, drawing connections between soil, plant, animal, work, hand, and body. Featuring Slow and Local Clothing Projects.
Shaped by the Loom: Weaving Worlds in the American Southwest will be the first online and gallery exhibition to showcase the American Museum of Natural History’s (AMNH) collection of Indigenous textiles from the greater American Southwest.
As the 50th anniversary of the book Small is Beautiful, 2023 is our opportunity to advance solutions to today's social, economic, and environmental challenges that build on Schumacher’s original vision. To meet this calling, the Schumacher Center is convening a monthly series featuring New Economic thinkers, builders and activists from a range of fields. February's theme is Making Reparations: Seeding a Just Future.
The Redbud Resource Group is offering their Land Acknowledgments session in mid Jan.
Leave rigid rules and patterns behind and tap into your own tuition to make a beautiful, one of a kind quilt block.
Contemporary Perspectives in Fiber Arts features the work of twenty-five members of California Fibers. Works express a wide variety of themes interpreted in diverse textile materials and processes – a hallmark of contemporary fiber art. Opening reception is January 7 from 2-4 PM.
Join Kiss the Ground for a bespoke soil to table meal with a story that goes beyond sustainability, and awakens us to the possibility of an agriculture that can restore our human health and regenerate our earth.
Demonstrations, Raffle, Silent Auction, Many Fabulous Vendors
Celebrate the art of quilting. Officially recognized as Quilt Week in the city of Santa Clara, PIQF is proud to announce its thirty-first year!
The San Diego Weavers Guild will host their annual fiber festival this coming weekend.
Save the Date for June, to celebrate contemporary and traditional Native art forms at the Autry Museum of the American West’s thirty-first annual American Indian Arts Marketplace.
We’ve been invited to participate in the Huntington’s Fiber Days Festival, on May 21st. We’ll be hosting a table, showcasing our newly launched Regional Fiber Sourcebook, and showing off some of the 2021 Slow and Local Clothing projects!
Transform layers of color and shapes into poppy, playful patterns and take home your very own creation -a hand-printed market bag!
Save the Date: Saturday, April 23rd. Screen printing workshop, natural dyeing demos, local fibers, art, and the launch of So Cal’s first Regional Fiber Sourcebook! Details >>
