Six varied fiber artists open their studios to the public during the weekend of October 2-3, 2010; 10am-5pm each day. Fiber-collage, quilting, reed baskets, washi paper, and weaving. Month long exhibition with lectures throughout the month of October, and Opening reception at Kinion Gallery, Sedona, on Friday evening, 10/1/2010, 5-8pm. All events free & open to the public. For map, send SASE to FAS c/o M.Anderson, 60 Mission Circle, Sedona, AZ 86336; 928-203-4355.

Juried exhibit from Studio Art Quilt Associates includes 34 art quilts by internationally known artists

Quilt Visions members interpret the theme in 12" square quilts

Celebrating the publication of Volume 2 of the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, the TExtile Arts Council presents a symposium moderated by author and scholar Margot Blum Schevill. Participant authors are Susan Tselos on dress within the vodou culture of Haiti, Mathew Loper of Cal State Chico, who specializes in Mayan textiles and performance, and Amy Oakland, professor at Cal State East Bay with a focus on Andean textiles and clothing.

Exhibition of works by 24 southern California art quilters, some of whom exhibit nationally and internationally. Several collaborative quilts created by teams of six quilters will also be on display.

fiber/DIMENSIONS is a Bay Area art presence that has achieved international recognition. fiber/DIMENSIONS artists bring a diversity of disciplines to their work, from weaving, felting, quilting, and paper making to painting, woodworking, printing, and welding. Their breadth of presentation extends globally to any venue where the creative spirit summons. Though many of their artists mix mediums and materials into forms that transcend definition, it is the vitality and potential of fiber that connects the group in the unique fiber/DIMENSIONS collaborative.

Juried exhibit of embroidery explores the range of contemporary hand and machine work by North American artists.

Art Quilts by Jill Le Croissette, nationally-exhibited artist.

Art Quilts by Pacific Quilt Artists, a juried group in San Diego County.

The work of Lucienne Day (1917-2010), Jacqueline Groag (1903-1985) and Marian Mahler (1911-1983). Inspired by modernist painters, their colorful and playful products transformed the post-war British home and made stylish design available to everyone. Over 50 textiles designed by Lucienne Day will be displayed, complemented by the designs of Mahler and Groag -- in addition to select pieces of mid-century furniture by Lucienne's husband, Robin Day. Showcasing excellent design in a spectrum of bright colors and whimsical patterns, the exhibition is sure to take visitors back to the era of Sputnik and Twiggy while proving the lasting relevance of these talented women designers‚ work.

Coral reef conservation will be a key message at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History this fall with an exhibition of the "Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef"—a project created by Margaret and Christine Wertheim of the Institute For Figuring in Los Angeles. Interweaving the fields of science, mathematics, conservation, and art, this unique project creatively engages local communities to help raise awareness about the plight of the world's coral reefs.

Exhibition of vibrantly colored wall hangings combining woven linen with painted, textured wallpaper.

Nimble Fingers Quilters is a Montgomery County, MD-based quilt guild that includes many art quilters and SDA members. This biennial show will include 200+ members´ quilts and a merchant mall.

Exhibition of textile arts by 32 Maine members of the Surface Design Association.

This Detroit based artist, Susan Aaron-Taylor, who is an educator and dream lover extraordinaire creates a new body of 3-d felt and found object sculptures. She utilizes the Jungian emphasis on dream images and symbol, hand made felt and bone, wood, and stones to bring the unconcious to life.

Mid-career artists Jill Ault and Sue Holdaway-Heys create a new body of work in response to their history with and love of the 5 Great Lakes and numerous rivers of Michigan. Both large and small scale works and framed pieces are included in this show in a 3,200 square ft. renovated, historical space.

NEW FIBERS 2010 Fourth biennial juried exhibition featuring national artists in contemporary fiber arts by Fiber Arts Network of Michigan (FAN). Works include textiles rooted in traditional processes and materials, sculpture, conceptual and installation art as well as non-traditional fiber art.

Mind At Hand, an exhibition of works by 2009-2010 Jerome Fiber Artist Project Grant program recipients Allison Roberts, Lyz Wendland and Kevin Kramp, opens on Friday, September 10 and runs through October 16, 2010 in the Textile Center Joan Mondale Gallery.

Hot Art Cool Jazz is an annual fundraising benefit for the Textile Center Joan Mondale Gallery Endowment. Emergence, the program theme for the evening, will showcase a runway show of one-of-a-kind artwear by up-and-coming local designers, a musical performance by local jazz singer-songwriter Rachel Holder and guest speakers. Attendees can also view the Mind at Hand exhibition in the Joan Mondale Gallery and chat up recipients of the Jerome Fiber Artists Project Program Grants, who will be on-hand to discuss their work.

Apparel design changed radically in twentieth century China from post-dynastic complexity, through the ubiquitous Mao suit, to today´s proliferation of contemporary trend-setters. The exhibition traces the development of apparel in China and introduces several of today´s most influential designers. Appearances by featured Chinese designers will be co-sponsored by the University´s China Center.

In Smarter/Faster/Higher, Keithline activates the Craft Alliance gallery space by drawing the viewer into a current of figures traversing the space. The exhibition consists of multiple woven wire human figures that cross the Gallery from south to north. Crawling from a group of wire trees on one side, they slowly begin to walk, then run, then stretch to ascend the opposite wall. On that wall, the same group of trees is arrayed, but this time as drawn by a Drawbot, a machine that has produced an exact replica of the trees on the south wall.

Combining the ancient Japanese technique of katagami-style paper carving with more traditional basketry and metalsmithing techniques, American artist Jennifer Falck Linssen creates contemporary sculptures that transform the humble, two-dimensional katagami stencil into a unique three-dimensional art form. ‘Drawing’ with a knife, Linssen investigates patterns – both manmade and natural, in order to “understand how pattern lends overall strength to an object such as the veining in plant leaves, the structure of a moth’s wing, or the crystal formation of snowflakes.”

Daily demonstrations of weaving, spinning and fiber art in addition to the sale of handwoven clothing and accessories, hand-dyed silk scarves and garments, unique handmade jewelry, interior furnishings like woven rugs, placemats, baskets and wallpieces for the home.

Daily demonstrations of weaving, spinning and fiber art in addition to the sale of handwoven clothing and accessories, hand-dyed silk scarves and garments, unique handmade jewelry, interior furnishings like woven rugs, placemats, baskets and wallpieces for the home.

The exhibition includes examples of nineteenth and early twentieth century doll quilts and antique doll cribs and cradles.

An exhibit combining the contemporary textile art of Diane Savona with the historical textile artifacts of the Hermitage Museum

Features artists responding to the plant world.

Solo exhibition- Liz Alpert Fay. Nature inspired hand hooked wall pieces and mixed media textile art. Exhibition focuses on trees.

The Mary H.Dana Women Artists Series at Rutgers University presents "The Art and Science of Happiness: Patricia Dahlman." Dahlman uses sewn and stitched forms made from canvas and colorful fabric to create both sculptural and 2-dimensional works that are playful or serious, and sometimes both. Dahlman´s subject matter ranges across the political, social, and economic spectrums, while addressing issues of nature and society.

ArtCloth: Engaging New Visions´ inaugural, international touring exhibition venues in Australia until 2011 are: Fairfield City Museum and Gallery, 29th August - 11th October 2009, were instrumental in bringing the exhibition to Australia as part of the gallery´s excellence in contemporary fine art cloth exhibitions program. Orange Regional Gallery, New South Wales, 9th April - 30th May 2010 in conjunction with the international Orange Fibre Forum Conference. Redcliffe City Art Gallery in Queensland, 12th August - 4th September 2010 as part of the gallery´s 10 year celebrations. Wangaratta Gallery, Victoria, 11th December 2010 - 23rd January 2011 as part of the gallery´s contemporary textile exhibitions program. The exhibition was curated by Marie-Therese Wisniowski, artist, author, curator and university lecturer.

Textile fantasy and intervention in ten ambiences, The show is multi-sensorial and multimedia, comprises 102 textile works in various techniques and formats made by Costa Rican artist and SDA member, Silvia Piza-Tandlich, and is based on the different stages that all beings experiment through life.

solo exhibition of early and recent embroidery of Tilleke Schwarz

A site-specific exhibition that traces the social and architectural history of the Old Laundry.

MICAËLA GALLERY presents the work of three talented artists; Bella Feldman, Nancy Otto, & Monika Steiner. The gallery offers a survey of the remarkable career of Bella Feldman. Since the early 70’s, Feldman has made extraordinary objects - objects that rivet your attention by their physical appearance; their mass, material, and balance. The presence of her work immediately summons a bodily response. These sculptures are beautiful, yet they contain an element of threat and of irony. They are what critic Harold Rosenberg aptly called “anxious objects.” They are made in anxious times. Nancy Otto offers an intimate installation that presents the viewer with a voyeuristic window into an inner world of frozen reality. Her subtle use of glass, seductively pushes the structural boundaries of the material and generates a quiet tension between the precarious and the fragile. The rich oil paintings of Monika Steiner, investigate the subtle relationship between perception and material reality. Her paintings are hypnotically meditative by virtue of their multiple layers. The surfacing and dissolving of shapes in her work are a metaphor for the cycle of appearances arising from, then, returning to a state of pure potential.

Theme Textile Creation: Sustainable Tradition & Responsible Innovation.

Ten artists who worked with artist Hilary Bower for a year on a course at Bankfield Museum. This exhibition brings together the results of that work and traces the journeys that they have made as individuals.

HapticArt´s latest exhibition demonstrates the depth and diversity of this group´s textile art. HapticArt are at the forefront of new and exciting trends in pushing the boundaries in fabric and stitch.

wearable art clothing, jewellery. leather, woven fabrics, felting, knitwear, collaged creations, shibori silks and much more

Textile interpretations of head and body-imaging with computer simulations in neuro-sciences and biological processes from abstract science.

Moving beyond the boundary of quilting and into the realm of contemporary fiber artwork, Quilt Visions 2010: No Boundaries will surprise visitors with thirty nine exceptional art quilts. Ranging in style from abstract to representational the quilts on view challenge one’s notion of what a quilt can be. Oceanside Museum of Art is thrilled to present its fifth exhibition in conjunction Quilt San Diego/Quilt Visions. This year a distinguished panel of jurors reviewed 601 entries submitted by 270 artists from 20 states and five foreign countries.

HapticArt´s latest exhibition demonstrates the depth and diversity of this group´s textile art. HapticArt are at the forefront of new and exciting trends in pushing the boundaries in fabric and stitch.

The latest innovations in eTextile and wearable computing hit the runway for the Maker Faire World Smart Clothing Fashion Show.

Living Arts of Tulsa announces VisionMakers 2010, a product of the Brady Craft Alliance with support from OVAC and the Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa. VisionMakers is a definitive exhibit for Oklahoma artists working in 2- and 3-dimensional fine craft. The purpose is to spotlight and reward excellence by Oklahoma fine craft artists.

ANN JOHNSTON will be the guest artist at the Northwest Quilting Expo, showing over 20 quilts representing some of her larger works between 1997 and 2010 Where: Portland Expo Center, Portland, Oregon When: September 23-25, 2010 | Workshop: Before the exhibition opens, I will be teaching a new two-day workshop Reverse Appliqué for Designs from Photos • September 21-22, 9:30 am-4:30 pm

September exhibition at SJU Gallery features unique fiber art sculptures PHILADELPHIA (August 4, 2010) - This fall, fashion is given a new edge at Saint Joseph’s University’s Gallery, where award-winning sculptor C. Pazia Mannella’s fiber art sculptures will be shown from Aug. 30 to Sept. 23. Entitled “Conviction of Vanity,” the show features sculptures that can be worn on the body, mimicking high-end fashion and costuming. An artist’s reception will be held Thursday, Sept. 9, from 6 – 8 p.m. Mannella’s pieces are made from everyday materials – like coffee filters and zippers – and take influence from the world of haute couture design. She employs techniques similar to the intricate hand construction, sewing and fastening used in premier fashion shows and photography to create her works, while suggesting a new perspective for the viewer by highlighting the changes clothing has seen over the years. “The term ‘clothing’ implies protection against the elements and preservation of modesty,” Mannella says. “In the course of history, clothing has also become a means of seduction by enhancing nature or adding artificial attraction. [It] functions beyond simple utility.” “Conviction of Vanity” will feature several of Mannella’s sculptures, including machine-sewn zippers and “I’ll Be Your Mirror,” a reflective assembly of mirror paillettes that forces the viewer to participate in the work simply by standing in front of it. For the artist, her sculptures are a means of delving into the way cultures tap into the power of dress. “I want to break from the trend of universal uniformity and create innovative and unique works of contemporary art to address these topics,” she says. “Mannella’s expertise for transforming mundane objects into eye-catching sculptural works is fascinating,” says Jeanne Bracy, coordinator for the SJU Gallery. “She sees beyond the normal use of objects and has a creative eye for taking everyday materials to make free-flowing, wearable art. Her work highlights the beauty of unique, hand-made pieces.” Mannella currently serves as an adjunct assistant professor at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, where she earned her M.F.A. in fiber work in 2008. Her work has been shown at university and local galleries throughout Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, and in Opole, Poland. The Saint Joseph´s University Gallery is located in Boland Hall on Lapsley Lane, off of City Avenue, between 54th Street & Cardinal Avenue in Lower Merion. Hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. For more information, call 610-660-1840, or visit http://www.sju.edu/gallery. Background: Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1851, Saint Joseph´s University advances the professional and personal ambitions of men and women by providing a demanding, yet supportive, educational experience. One of only 141 schools with a Phi Beta Kappa chapter and AACSB business school accreditation, Saint Joseph´s is home to 4,600 traditional day students, 750 College of Professional and Liberal Studies adult undergraduates, and 3,500 graduate and doctoral students. Steeped in the 450-year Jesuit tradition of scholarship and service, Saint Joseph´s was named to the 2009 President´s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for General Community Service. The University strives to be recognized as the preeminent Catholic comprehensive university in the Northeast.

An art quilt show featuring dyed cloth by Elin Noble; work by 12 artists.

Our biennial Japanese Quilt Exhibit features two unique exhibits with Guest Curator, Miwako Kimura and members of the Hanatsunagi-kai Quilt Club in Japan. “All That Blooms” is an exhibit focusing on the quilt makers’ use of blossoms, flowers, plants and other nature to create their quilts. “Japanese Textiles,” an exhibition of textiles collected from a quilt maker’s point of view--showcasing the vast variety of colors, textures, etc., as well as the process of dyeing, weaving and design motifs.