Erika Hill, Unnamed #1
The mission of the Santa Barbara Fiber Arts Guild is to preserve and promote fiber arts by educating the public through demonstrations, lectures, workshops, exhibits, publications, and other educational activities.
We welcome you to join us on the first Saturday of each month for a social and educational program. Check our events page for details!
Featuring works by 50+ member artists, this year’s exhibition celebrates the richness and innovation of fiber arts through the theme Layering. Guild members interpret the concept through material, process, meaning, and technique—revealing how layers can inform both structure and storytelling.
Learn all about the magic of felting. Experience how something so fluffy off a sheep can become as silky and lightweight as a scarf or as heavy and dense as a rug or yurt. It takes no special tools, just a creative spirit, a little water, soap and elbow grease. Please come and see, it is magical!
So many textures, so many colors, so many possibilities ..... In this panel discussion at Art & Soul, discover how exhibiting artists who work in concert with the various craft techniques in the repertoire of textiles, approach their work and explore the range of how they think of themselves as artists and as craftspersons.
The Japanese papermaking and bookbinding Intensive was designed to provide the unique opportunity to learn four distinct Japanese crafts: Nagashizuki hand papermaking, natural dyeing and cover decoration, hand bookbinding, and portfolio box-making.
We will once again rely on input from our community of fiber enthusiasts and learn from one another together find new ways forward. Collectively we will celebrate our accomplishments and also sort through solutions to problems that have presented themselves in our work.
