Full Listing of Exhibitions

California Fibers members Polly Jacobs Giacchina, Michael Rohde, and Peggy Wiedemann are among the fine artists in this show.

A national juried exhibition highlights the finest in contemporary crafts from across the country.  Mesa's annual exhibition has become a benchmark for innovation and quality.  This year it showcases 50 artworks by 38 artists residing in 18 states.  Displayed works including one by Friend Michael F. Rohde are constructed of traditional craft materials including ceramics, fibers, basketry, metals, wood, glass, jewelry, papermaking and book arts

Three artists including weaver-Friend Claire Campbell Park present work that reflects on how the natural beauty, divergent cultures and philosophies of Hawaii ebb and flow together.

Solo show of woven works by artist-Friend Michael F. Rohde.

A group exhibit of works about the longest night of the year includes four woven silk scrolls by artist-Friend Barbara Shapiro.

In conjunction with Dougherty's installation, the Art Center presents the exhibition "The Nature of Entanglements" with supporting photos of his work in the galleries and a display of contemporary basketry by Friends Gyongy Laky, Kay Sekimachi, Native American basketry, and work by other artists.

A large  (53 x 22 feet) site specific installation is on view on the grounds of the Palo Alto Art Center which was created of willow and poplar branches.

The 12th juried biennial of contemporary art quilts organized by this museum will announce a list of accepted pieces later.

-- Supported in part by a grant from Friends of Fiber Art International

Juried show of 37 artists includes work by artist-Friends Jill Ault, Caryl Bryer Fallert and Judith Plotner.

Visit a juried show of works by Tapestry Weavers West, see "Tara" and "Madoi" by artist-Friend Michael F. Rohde.

A show that pairs seminal work by four of California's earliest innovators (including the late artist-Friend Mary Walker Phillips) alongside related work by emerging and mid-career fiber artists from California.  Print catalog available.

-- Supported in part by a grant from Friends of Fiber Art International

Drawn from the permanent collection, this exhibition highlights the ways people in various cultures ingeniously have repurposed worn, but precious, fabrics to create beautiful new textile forms.  The show launches a year-long exploration at the museum of the ties between textiles and environmentalism.

Features more than 60 sculptural works by artist-Friend Michelle Sales.

A solo show that brings together sculpture, drawings and prints or artist-Friend, Jerry Bleem, O.F.M.  The work can be approached as an assemblage of marks that visually organize and create surfaces; these discrete stapled, drawn, sewn and printed lines might also be seen as a physical commentary on the human process of constructing coherence.  Time, Bleem's central consideration, is a precious commodity in contemporary culture.  It has been used to measure worth (the familiar “time is money”) and employed as an organizing principle.  Bleem’s work, reduced to its essential components, chronicles the moments during which each of these non-monumental gestures was made.  His art practice seems devoted to expending time, making it matter, and describing it as abundant in contradistinction to its usual characterization.

The tapestry, "Water" by Friend Michael F. Rohde is included in the 44th Clay, Fiber, Paper, Glass, Metal, Wood National Exhibition.

Forty-eight established and new contemporary fiber artists selected by an artist-curator at this venue.  Artist-Friends proposed for inclusion are Susan-Taber Avila, Mary Bero, Lindsay Ketterer Gates, Lewis Knauss, Gerhardt Knodel, Gyongy Laky, Tom Lundberg, Arturo Alonzo Sandoval, Jane Sauer, Cynthia Schira, Warren Seelig, Kay Sekimachi, Carol Shinn, Sherri Smith and Anne Wilson.

A year-long exhibit commemorating the 85th Anniversary of the Weavers Guild of St. Louis will change once around March 24, 2012.  First half Includes a handwoven tapestry by artist-Friend Deann Rubin.   Show is one of 20 in the St. Louis biennial "Innovations in Textiles."

In Stitches seeks a contemporary, fresh approach to fiber art, featuring work by internationally-exhibited artists (including Friend Pamela Becker) that combine recycled materials, mixed mediums, and installation of objects using traditional textile techniques: quilting, weaving, embroidery, soft sculpture, and book making.

The 31st art quilt exhibition juried by Friends Terry Jarrard-Dimond and Cynthia Schira.  Hosted since 1981, this year 82 quilts by 74 artists are on display including pieces by artist-Friends Nancy N. erickson, Astrid Hilger Bennett, Kevan Lunney, Robin Schwalb, K. Velis Turan and Kathy Weaver.

A juried biennial exhibition celebrating and exploring the contemporary work of fine artists of the Western New York State region working in all craft mediums.

Marking it's 35th anniversary, the Textile Study Group of New York presents another show of miniature (9x9x3 inches maximum) of 37 members' work that was juried by distinguished author-editor, Janet Koplos.  Artist-Friends included in this show are Katherine D. Crone, Margaret Cusack, Linda Brooks Hirschmann, Nancy Koenigsberg, Carole P. Kunstadt, Charlotte Thorp and K. Velis Turan.  As in a previous edition the accepted pieces fit in a special display structure.  A digitally printed catalog is available.

-- Supported in part by a grant from Friends of Fiber Art Inaternational

In accordance with good conservation practise, fiber and wood artworks are periodically changed in this rotating show of objects from the museum's permanent collection.  A very interesting and useful feature of the new MAD museum is "Collection Interactive" a 57-inch interactive plasma screen on the third floor; the entire collection is displayed in miniature on a grid; the visitor may touch an image and details about that piece will be displayed. Bravo!

Fify-two works by members of the Textile Study Group of New York selected by Curator-Friend Rebecca Stevens include artist-Friends Margaret Cusack, Virginia Davis, Emily Dvorin, Jayne Bentlley Gaskins, Marilyn Henrion, Marie-Laure Ilie, Nancy Koenigsberg, Elaine Longtemps, Patricia Malarcher, Michael F. Rohde, Donna Rosenthal, Joy Saville, Linda Friedman Schmidt, Larry Schulte, Robin Schwalb, Adrienne Sloane, and Kathy Weaver.  CD catalog available.

See weavings by 20 American and Canadian artists that convey challenging messages, explore space and form, painterly abstractions, landscapes and portraits. Each of the artists use their own unique visual language to address modern day issues such as gender, politics and the environment.   Includes work by Friends: Barbara Burns, Susan Iverson, Susan McGehee, Cameron Taylor-Brown, Betty Vera and Marzena Ziejka.

The first retrospective of the career of an artist reputed to have motivated the birth of creative innovation in the use of flexible materials to make art.  Large catalog available.

-- Supported in part by a grant from Friends of Fiber Art International

The Textile Art Alliance of the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Canton Museum of Art sponsor this regional juried exhibition featuring the best of contemporary textile/fiber work from artists (list not yet published) who live in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.  A full-color catalog will be avaliable.

Thirteen college-level teachers of fiber art were selected by Bruce Hoffman including Friends Gerhardt Knodel, Gyongy Laky, Rebecca Medel, Cynthia Schira, Pat Hickman and the late Lillian Elliott.  Show is part of the biennial FiberPhiladelphia which Friends will tour March 8 to 11.  Print catalog available.

-- Supported in part by a grant from Friends of Fiber Art International

Work by eight artists including Friends Marcia Docter, Pat Hickman and Amy Orr are part of the FiberPiladelphia biennial that will be visited on a Friends' tour March 8-11.  Print catalog available.

Peggy Wiedemann recieved an honorable mention for her piece "In Safe Keeping" which is currently on view.

This nationally recognized annual competition and exhibition of contemporary crafts was started in 1987.  Printed catalog.  The deadline for entries is September 9, 2011.

The second of a projected series of special-focus exhibitions will accept proposals until December 15, 2011 from contemporary fiber artists residing in the Northwest.  Details on the www.bellevuearts.org/exhibitions site.  Be advised that four jurors will review applications and select innovative and extraordinary projects that may include both traditional fiber expressions and work that explores the area where concepts of art and craft merge.  Only new, not previously exhibited work will be shown.  Cah awards will be made.  Printed brochure will be available.

-- Supported in part by a grant from Friends of Fiber Art International

This Lithuanian museum endowed by the late-artist-and-collector-Friend Janina Marks presents many contemporary fiber shows and objects from many times and cultures bequeathed by Mrs. Marks.

A range of textiles made using natural dyes in the rich palette of Mediterranean cultures, which explains the pre-industrial dye processes (direct, vat and mordant) and presents the system of analysis and results.

Continuous presentation of soft sculpture and wall works on the Internet and in the Chicago, Illinois gallery of Patron-Friend Peter Vale.