California Fibers: Time, Blackboard Gallery, Studio Channel Islands

California Fibers' newest show is Time, currently on exhibit at the Blackboard Gallery, Studio Channel Islands, Camarillo, California, through May 6. A gallery walkthrough is scheduled on Thursday, April 6, at 5:30 PM with Michael Rohde, and a panel discussion with Carrie Burckle,  Mary Beth Schwartzenberger, Cameron Taylor-Brown, and Lori Zimmerman is planned for Saturday, April 22 at 1 PM.

The opening was this last weekend. Below are some photos of the work and the people...

Michael F Rohde with his piece Grace.

Lori Zimmerman with her piece Quarter Jacket.

Polly Jacobs Giacchina with her piece Time Flies.

A closeup of her piece...

Lydia Tjioe Hall's piece One a Day July 2014.

Lynne Hodgman's piece Timely Phoenemes.

A view of the gallery opening, including Kathy Nida's Holding It All In on the right.

Lydia Tjioe Hall's piece again, with the artist and a friend.

A view of one wall of the gallery, with Carrie Burckle's Rend 2, then Tjioe Hall's piece, Gail Fraser's Ripple Effect, and Rebecca Smith's Night Fire on the facing wall.

A viewer and Kathy Nida's Give Me Time, with Peggy Weidemann's Time Marches On on the wall behind and Spring Forward on the pedestal.

Here are Weidemann's pieces close up.

A gallery view of Hodgman's piece on the left, Ashley Blalock's Keeping Up Appearances in the corner, Linda Anderson's Waiting and Becoming, and Burckle's piece from another view.

On the left is Doshi's Autumnal Face, while viewers cluster around Zimmerman's jacket.

Here's another view of Doshi's Autumnal Face.

A different view of Blalock's piece, with Linda Anderson's Waiting and Becoming.

Blalock's piece, Anderson's Waiting, and Nida's Holding It All In.

Doshi's Bare Branches on the left, Mary Beth Schwartzenberger's Inscription in the middle, and Zimmerman's Too Good to Waste on the right.

Doshi's Bare Branches...

Fraser with her piece Rachel Carson's Song.

Here's Rachel Carson's Song and Jacobs Giacchina's piece.

Artist Carrie Burckle listening to an exhibit viewer, with Rohde's piece Grace and Cameron Taylor-Brown's Colors of Gujarat: Common Threads #2 in the background.

Here are Rohde's and Taylor-Brown's pieces

On the left is Anderson's Becoming with Burckle's Rend 2 in the distance. Doshi's Spring Beauty is on the right.

Charlotte Bird's Habitat Granite 2 is on the left, with her Forest Primeval on the right. Burckle's Remnant is between the two.

Tjioe Hall's piece Suspended Time.

On the left is Schwartzenberger's piece Meadow, with Blalock's and Anderson's pieces in the background.

Stop by the gallery and see the show, or come by for the gallery walk or the panel discussion. Another post will follow with closeups of the work.

California Fibers: Eclectic Threads at the Oceanside Museum of Art

California Fibers currently has an exhibit, California Fibers: Eclectic Threads, at the Oceanside Museum of Art, in Oceanside, California, through October 9. The show is in a large room upstairs in the museum, with half the walls painted black and half white, to show off the wide variety of fiber art in the exhibit.

On July 12, from 6:30 to 8 PM, there will be a "Walk and Talk with the Artists". It will be a semi- seated event, in that there will be chairs available to sit, watch, and listen, but guests will be encouraged to move around the gallery and gather with each artist near their artwork.

Chari Meyers, Tree of Life

VALYA, Speechless Scroll II

Lydia Tjioe Hall, (top to bottom) Sand Dollar, Muffled Destination, Familiar

Susan Henry, 99

Gail Fraser, Ripple Effect

Michael F. Rohde, Yanomano

Ashley V. Blalock, Keeping Up Appearances

Chari Meyers, Fracture

VALYA, I Know That He Knows That She Knows

Linda Anderson, Waiting

VALYA, Apron II

Polly Jacobs Giacchina, Spiral Progression

Doshi, Kakemono

Polly Jacobs Giacchina, Web of Textures

Lynne Hodgman, Dangling Participles

Cameron Taylor-Brown, Colors of Gujarat: Common Threads #1

Peggy Wiedemann, Happy Boy

Charlotte Bird, Who Knew? Four Inventors Who Changed Our Lives

Charlotte Bird, Who Knew? (detail)

Kathy Nida, Mammogram

Carrie Burckle, Re Bloom

Carrie Burckle, Constructed Harmony

Mary Beth Schwarzenberger, Viewpoint

Julie Kornblum, I'm Still Here

Linda Anderson, Beneath the Surface

The show is definitely worth stopping by to see, and there are three other exhibits in the museum for you to check out while you're there. 

Beyond the Boundaries Award: Michael Bill Smith

Every year, California Fibers looks for an exhibit that meets our requirements for the Beyond the Boundaries award. This year, we chose the exciting Extreme Fibers: Textile Icons and the New Edge exhibit at the Muskegon Museum of Art in Muskegon, Michigan.

The Beyond the Boundaries award is for artistic innovation in subject matter, materials, and/or technique in a national or international fiber exhibition. This year's winner, Michael Bill Smith, was chose by Extreme Fibers' jurors Ferne Jacobs and Namita Gupta Wiggers.

His piece Cardinal Sean Brady is seen below, and is created from sparkling vinyl, acrylic, metal bolts, and upholstery tacks.

Cardinal Sean Brady, 2014, 48" x 36" x 8"

The exhibit will be at the Muskegon Museum of Art opening August 20 at 5:30 and continuing through November 1. It will then be at the Dennos Museum in Traverse City, Michigan, December 6, 2015 and run through March of 2016.

California Fibers in Diverted Destruction 8: The Fabric Edition

Last Saturday was the opening of Diverted Destruction 8: The Fabric Edition at The Loft at Liz's, 453 S La Brea Ave in Los Angeles, California. California Fibers' members made up a large portion of the show, as we were challenged by gallery owner Liz Gordon to create work from recycled materials, including a lot of upholstery sample books from local stores.

The exhibit continues through September 8. There are two free workshops scheduled for Saturday, July 11 from 2-5 PM (adult), and Saturday, July 18 from 2-5 PM (family-oriented). The workshops will be facilitated by California Fibers' members. There is also an artists' talk scheduled for Wednesday, August 12, from 7-9 PM.

There's pictures of the work below, but they do not do justice to the work in real life. Make time to stop by and see the show, and enjoy the antique hardware store below that has some amazing stuff in it.

Cameron Taylor Brown, Majestic Stone: Pisac Ruins, Peru (top) and Majestic Stone: Ollantaytambo, Peru (bottom)

Cameron Taylor Brown, Majestic Stone: Pisac Market, Peru (top) and Majestic Stone: Machu Picchu, Peru (bottom)

Charlotte Bird, Travels in Space (top) and Mid Century (bottom)

Lydia Tjioe Hall, Line of Descent (left) and Carrie Burckle, Rebloom (right)

Carrie Burckle, Rebloom

Carrie Burckle, Hexagon Blues

Peggy Wiedemann, Messages; Polly Jacobs Giacchina, Protected; Julie Kornblum, I'm Still Here (l-r)

Polly Jacobs Giacchina, Protected

Julie Kornblum, I'm Still Here

Peggy Wiedemann, Messages

Lori Zimmerman, Landscape A

Lori Zimmerman, Landscape B

Lori Zimmerman, Landscape C

Lori Zimmerman, Landscape D

Lori Zimmerman, Quarter Jacket

Michael F. Rohde, Construction

Michael F. Rohde, Destruction

Lydia Tjioe Hall, Birds Eye View

Mary Beth Schwartzenberger, Inscription

Gail Fraser, Web of Threads II, Web of Threads I, and The Gathering Grounds (l-r)

Polly Jacobs Giacchina, Curvature (left) and Gail Fraser, Web of Threads II (right)

Peggy Wiedemann, Celebration

Chari Myers, Dragon Tree (left) and Dawn (right)

Susan Henry, Sunset Boulevard (top) and Diverted Business (bottom)

Susan Henry, Sunset Boulevard (top) and Diverted Business (bottom), and Chari Myers, Dusk (right)

Mary Beth Schwartzenberger, Blossom

Doshi, Mood Clown (happy side)

Gallery views follow, full of people at the opening, which is always nice. Many of the artists showed up, as you can see below.

Again, the show continues through September 8, or stop by one of the workshops or the artists' talk to see the art.