Join artist Basil Kincaid for a hands-on family workshop at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art inspired by A Day at Victoria Glades (2021), a quilted work. families will create their own collages. This workshop is designed for children and their caregivers to create art together. Ages 7-12.

We gather in Tucker’s Grove for our annual celebration and joint experimentation into botanical dyes. This year, we will have pots of indigo, cochineal, mushroom, logwood, and weld.

Valerie McLean invites us Saturday, July 18th to Felt Again! Let’s make a bag! In this full-day workshop, you’ll learn fiber layout, resist techniques, cord making, and how to add inside or outside pockets.

In July, we welcome Ellin Klor, a board member of the Textile Arts Council of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and producer of the Bay Area Fiber Artists Archive Video series.

This fall, sewing classes at SBCC return to the Wake Center, where the sewing room has been renovated with all new equipment. The curriculum has changed, too. More classes have been added, daytime and evenings, with simpler registration.

We are excited to welcome Melissa Leventon, founding partner of Curatrix Group and a specialist in European and American costume and textiles.

We’re pleased to welcome Julia Ford, local fiber artist and educator. Known for her innovative and expressive woven work, Julia explores weaving as a dynamic art form. She will share her work along with her methodology and approach to teaching weaving.

In her lecture Film, Fabric, and the Feminist Imagination at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art artist Sabrina Gschwandtner examines the intersections of film, textiles, and feminist histories in her moving-image practice.

We’re thrilled to welcome San Francisco textile artist Barbara Shapiro for our April 4th Guild meeting, sharing a remarkable body of work spanning five decades.

Join Remixed exhibition artist Michael Thorpe at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art to create a felt collage on SBMA collection postcards. Drop in format. One beer included to sip along with the artist as you create.

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art cordially invites you to the celebratory reception for three upcoming exhibitions: As if in a Dream: History, Fantasy, Future; Remixed: Entwined Histories and New Forms; and RANDOM-ACCESS MEMORY: Internet Art.

Get ready for natural dyeing fun at the Explore Ecology Community Natural Dye Bath. Bring an item from home that needs a new burst of color and experience the magic of natural dyeing. The cost is $5 per item.

Bring your current knitting, crochet, or stitchery project and your folding chair. Help knit together a community for greater resilience in dark times. PLEASE JOIN US! THIS IS PART OF A NATIONWIDE KNIT-IN EVENT.

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.

Learn the art of embroidery in this beginner-friendly workshop focused on creativity and sustainability! Learn how to transform simple materials into a beautiful, textured piece of art.

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.

A 2-hour tutorial on successful rayon chenille weaving, including setup, tensioning, tips, and a scarf pattern.

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.

CREATING COLOR will be a monthly zoom session where Kathy Hattori of Botanical Colors will demonstrate how to work with their dyes to achieve a spectrum of hues. First up: MADDER.

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!