Since its founding in 1985, Visions Museum of Textile Art has attracted a vibrant textile art scene in San Diego, California. In 2007, when volunteers organized a community build and created our permanent location in the Arts District Liberty Station in San Diego, California, our space invited new approaches to contemporary textile art. 

This exhibition showcases the creativity and innovation of San Diego’s textile artists, remembering that the textile tradition in San Diego dates back to the indigenous Kumeyaay. Artist Rebecca Smith utilizes her signature transparency weaving technique to create artworks whose intricate shadows rival the beauty of the artworks themselves.

Discover the rich history and enduring beauty of the cyanotype process through the work of featured artist Shane Booth. Derived from the Ancient Greek words kyáneos (“dark blue”) and týpos (“mark” or “impression”), cyanotype is one of the earliest photographic printing processes, often recognized for its striking blueprint-blue images. Invented in 1842 by astronomer and chemist Sir John Frederick William Herschel, the process gained popularity in the early 20th century because of its affordability and simplicity, becoming a favorite among amateur photographers and textile artists alike. Over time, cyanotypes found their way beyond photography and into decorative arts, appearing on fabrics, quilts, lampshades, pillows, and other household objects. Today, contemporary artists continue to reinvent the medium, exploring its unique ability to merge photography, printmaking, and textile traditions. In this video, we spotlight the work of Shane Booth, whose innovative approach demonstrates the continued evolution of cyanotype as a powerful artistic practice.

Since its founding in 1985, Visions Museum of Textile Art has attracted a vibrant textile art scene in San Diego, California. In 2007, when volunteers organized a community build and created our permanent location in the Arts District Liberty Station in San Diego, California, our space invited new approaches to contemporary textile art.

This exhibition showcases the creativity and innovation of San Diego’s textile artists, remembering that the textile tradition in San Diego dates back to the indigenous Kumeyaay. Artist Nancy Lemke draws on her own experience and playful style to create stunning art quilts.

Interviews of several artists from the 2012 Show sharing their timeless remarks about the Show.  This video illustrates the joy of the handmade through the artists’ statements.

As part of “Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026,” the International Quilt Museum presents “Material Nation: 250 Years of American Quilts,” a major exhibition tracing the history of quiltmaking in the United States from the nation’s founding to the present.

Drawn primarily from the museum’s internationally recognized collection, the exhibition situates quilts as central works of American material culture, reflecting creativity, community life, and the many forms of work and care that surround quiltmaking across more than two centuries.

This is the 2025 International Polymer Clay Association’s Global Exhibition Award Video presented to our members. Winners were voted on by members of the IPCA. You can see in the video how versatile polymer clay is and what incredible creations can be made with it!

Meskwaki artist and IAIA student Kayla Wanatee on her undergraduate exhibition and art. Bonus video from the WEST episode. PBS premiere December 19, 2025.

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The 33rd Rakow Commission was awarded to Rui Sasaki, a Japanese artist and educator who created Liquid Sunshine/I am a Pluviophile. Sasaki uses an array of materials, including resin, ice, light, performance, and especially glass, to highlight subtle aspects of everyday life.

As an itinerant artist, pursuing opportunities around the globe, she has often created work that deals with the slipperiness of the concept of “home” and with the idea of creating spaces of belonging.

Her more recent works address the weather, drawing viewers’ attention to the subtle qualities of sunshine and rain and the emotional states they provoke.

The Corning Museum of Glass has named Brooklyn-based artist Leo Tecosky (b. 1981, USA) the recipient of the 2021 Rakow Commission. Tecosky—an artist who blends hip hop, graffiti, and glass—has made his most ambitious work to date, which is now on view in the Contemporary Art + Design Galleries.

Tecosky is drawn to art forms that blend and layer a range of influences. In graffiti and hip hop, both of which played important roles in his upbringing, Tecosky found forms that allow for and encourage artists to bring together samples and styles from a breadth of different traditions. Using this same approach, his own work brings the building blocks of hip hop—the DJing, MCing, and breakdancing—and the aesthetics of graffiti—the looping letters, arrows, and stars—into the glass shop. The result are highly crafted works that radiate power, intensity, and cool grace.

Fiber Artist Talk by Barbara Danzi in Los Angeles June 28, 2026 at TAG Gallery. Discussing her exhibit of contemporary abstract quilts composed of seemingly hand drawn lines, some traditional quilt history including the American Bicentennial, some whimsical lines of poetry, and acknowledgement of fiber art and quilting communities.

What’s My Line? explores the personality of lines through fabric and stitching. Lines can evoke feelings of power or serenity, a sense of direction, rhythm or abundance. I create the lines by hand cutting solid-colored fabric with gestural arm movements. I stitch the fabric pieces together using my sewing machine, creating seam lines that preserve the look of hand-drawn lines. I then add quilting stitches, either in straight lines or by drawing leaves or other designs which add layers of meaning to each composition. For this exhibit I created whimsical compositions drawn from the cultural and linguistic associations of lines. For nature lovers there is tree line, ridge line, coastline, shoreline. City dwellers will appreciate skyline, powerline, pipeline, trainline, fenceline and lane line. Rounding out the collection are line dance, hemline, line of scrimmage, headline, and since this is LA, “forgot my lines.”

Together, the works consider line as both a visual structure and a cultural metaphor. Quilts are available for sale. Additional quilt photos can be viewed on my website https://barbaradanzi.com

The Corning Museum of Glass has named Boston and Indian -based artist Anjali Srinivasan (b. 1978, India) the recipient of the 2020 Rakow Commission. Anjali Srinivasan’s work draws on her research of sheesh mahal, or mirror palaces, awe-inspiring Mughal-era constructions of glittering glass mosaics. Hear the ways she’s giving this centuries-old craft new life in her work for the Museum.

साँस {Saans} the eyes of the skin سانس is a glittering, interactive mirrored wall that senses viewers and rewards their attention by slowly beginning to breathe back at them.

Anjali’s work is now on view in the Contemporary Art + Design Galleries.

The Corning Museum of Glass selected mixed-media artist Te Rongo Kirkwood (b. 1973, Auckland, New Zealand) as the recipient of the 38th Rakow Commission. The Museum’s Rakow Commission, in its 38th year, supports the creation of a new work in glass by an artist who pushes the boundaries of the material and who is not yet represented in CMoG’s permanent collection.

The Seer, the Seen, the Seeing is a multi-dimensional installation that represents the artist’s most personal series in glass to date. Drawing from Māori weaving practices, Kirkwood has created a kākahu (cloak) made of glass and woven fibers, alongside a Puru hau (sacred ritual vessel) in blown glass.

These two works are central symbolism to a film featuring Kirkwood and her father, set against the backdrop of their ancestral lands at Piha beach on New Zealand’s west coast. The cloak worn by Kirkwood’s father embodies a connection to past, present, and future generations. In the symbolic act of passing it to his daughter, he offers not only the gift of ancestral wisdom and love but also unresolved intergenerational pain inviting her to integrate what she can in her lifetime as part of the ongoing cycle of evolution and transformation.

Check out the virtual tour of FIBERWORKS 2026 juried by Astrid Bennett on view at 108|Contemporary June 5 – July 25, 2026. FIBERWORKS is the member exhibition for Fiber Artists of Oklahoma which honors quality workmanship and original design while educating the public on the many facets of fiber art.

This exhibition is sponsored by the Cecil and Virgie Burton Foundation

Proud Partner of Craft in America’s Handwork 2026 initiative

More exhibition information: https://108contemporary.org/event/fiberworks2026/

Take a walk through Artazan Handcraft Market, a celebration of contemporary craft featuring artists, independent studios, and artisan businesses.

This highlight video captures the atmosphere of the market, showcasing ceramics, jewelry, textiles, woodwork, fine art, home décor, demonstrations, and the creative community that brings the event to life.

Join Kelly as she visits Fire Arts Inc. for their latest exhibit, ‘Flights of Fancy: Art Work from a Whimsical Perspective.’

🎨 Discover how local artists interpret whimsy and fantasy through their unique creations. Don’t miss this captivating journey into the playful side of art!

#FlightsOfFancy  #FireArtsInc  #ExperienceMichiana.

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As a pigment, blue was historically rare and expensive, reserved for those of high status, a symbol of their purity, prosperity, and wealth, but modern chemical dyes now make blue the most commonly used color in fashion, products and packaging. Blue is all around us.

SAQA Global Exhibition Color in Context: Blue provides a diverse interpretation of the color. In this Textile Talk, we view the exhibition and speak with exhibiting artists Stefanie Neuner, Rhoda Bennett, and Jennifer Solon. We’ll also hear about the exhibition premiere at Carrefour – The European Quilt Show.

Neon artists Meryl Pataky and Kelsey Issel bend glass to its limits in this year’s edition of The Rockwell Museum’s Antigravity installation. A site-specific work of art created for the Museum’s rotunda, Pataky and Issel, founders of the neon workers collective, She Bends, True Gravity references textiles and investigates the idea of “true gravity:” a condition in which the body yields to what the material and the environment already intend.

Working within tensions of hard and soft, control and happenstance, and isolation and interdependence, Pataky and Issel’s sculptural neon invites the viewer to rethink the potential of glass and light.

As part of their week-long residency to install at The Rockwell Museum, Pataky and Issel were invited to the Corning Museum of Glass’s Amphitheater Hot Shop, allowing them to experiment with new techniques that bring their artistic vision to life in glass. See this installation at The Rockwell Museum in Corning, NY through March 2027.

108|Contemporary presents the virtual tour of the FiberWorks 2024 exhibition.

FiberWorks 2024 was held at 108|Contemporary June 7 – July 20, 2024 and showcases a variety of work by Oklahoma fiber artists. Juried by Shin-hee Chin, this eclectic exhibition honors quality workmanship and original design and features work by members of the Fiber Artists of Oklahoma guild.

For more information visit: https://108contemporary.org/event/fiberworks-2024/

108|Contemporary presents the Virtual Tour of Alicia Kelly’s solo exhibition, “Roughly Right” on view February 6 – March 21, 2026.

Roughly Right infuses the act of turning process into ritual, repetition into meditation, and soft shadows into alternative architecture. Sitting at the intersection of drawing and sculpture, this exhibition emphasizes the importance of the handmade wavering line and the conversation between layers of paper, pattern and body.

More information can be found at 108contemporary.org

Artist Sara Garden Armstrong reflects on her career in hand papermaking and discusses her artistic process, as part of the exhibition Legacies in Paper.

Legacies in Paper is an exhibit celebrating the lifelong exploration of hand papermaking in the artworks of Nancy Cohen, Sara Garden Armstrong, and Helen Hiebert, significant pioneers in developing paper as an artistic and sculptural medium.

Legacies in Paper was on display at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta, GA from September 4, 2025 – January 30, 2026.

Artist Nancy Cohen reflects on her career in hand papermaking and discusses her artistic process, as part of the exhibition Legacies in Paper.

Legacies in Paper is an exhibit celebrating the lifelong exploration of hand papermaking in the artworks of Nancy Cohen, Sara Garden Armstrong, and Helen Hiebert, significant pioneers in developing paper as an artistic and sculptural medium.

Legacies in Paper was on display at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta, GA from September 4, 2025 – January 30, 2026.

Artist Helen Hiebert reflects on her career in hand papermaking and and discusses her artistic process, as part of the exhibition Legacies in Paper.

Legacies in Paper is an exhibit celebrating the lifelong exploration of hand papermaking in the artworks of Nancy Cohen, Sara Garden Armstrong, and Helen Hiebert, significant pioneers in developing paper as an artistic and sculptural medium.

Legacies in Paper was on display at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta, GA from September 4, 2025 – January 30, 2026.

“Nordic Echoes: Tradition in Contemporary Art” is a traveling exhibit at Scandinavia House in New York City, New York, shedding light on Upper Midwest artists preserving Nordic folk arts and cultural traditions. The exhibit will travel through the six upper midwestern states and feature 24 contemporary artists whose works are informed by Nordic traditions in nature and innovative in other ways.

The American Scandinavian Foundation, whose mission is to foster understanding between the Nordic countries, opened, in 2000, Scandinavia House, which is where the exhibition takes place. The exhibit aims to engage and interest people in preserving and learning these traditions.

An intimate look at a creative partnership decades in the making, this Exhibition Insights episode explores the life, work, and legacy of George and David Lewis. Reflecting on their journey from the 1980s to today, the episode highlights how their shared passions—for art, gardens, architectural history, and water features—grew into a deeply rooted creative practice.

Through personal reflections and a look at their iconic designs and sculptures, we step into their artistic process and enduring partnership. Tied to their retrospective “Deeply Rooted,” this episode honors not only their body of work, but their lasting impact on the Bainbridge Island community and beyond.