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.
Guild member Deborah Jarchow will teach a seminar on joining handwoven panels and a two-day double-heddle workshop for expanding rigid-heddle skills.
The Handweavers Guild of America (HGA) invites fiber artists to submit work for Small Expressions 2026, a nationally juried exhibition celebrating innovative fiber work at an intimate scale. Deadline: April 6, 2026.
Guild member Becca Licha is included in the Obscure Noteriety exhibition at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art from April 4 to April 25, 2026.
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.
Swings and Roundabouts - Following the Thread
The work of Julia Ford, Fiber Artist
The SBCC Art Department is pleased to present the ethereal beauty of Julia Ford’s extensive body of woven work. The show features her UCSB and SBCC student explorations.
Guild member Nancy Butterfield will be teaching two workshops for the Coastal Quilters Guild on February 14 and February 21—Sashiko Stitching and Japanese Rice Bag (Komebukuro)—offered together as a two-for-one opportunity.
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!
Come create a simple bookmark or bracelet made with natural material and basic basketry techniques.
Join Erica Huff at Art & Soul for a close look at the process of a multidisciplinary artist, working at the intersection of materials, process and ideas.
