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No matter where you live, you’ve got something special to look forward to! Our annual SAQA conference "Oceans Apart, Connected by Art " will be held online from April 23-25, 2026. This unique event will focus on fiber art and...

Materials and Boundaries explores the complex relationship between place and identity through experimental materials and innovative practices. Reflecting the state’s unique geographic and cultural position, the selected artists offer diverse perspectives on what it means to live, create, and belong...

The Manhattan Quilters Guild presents an exhibition of new work that reflects on life beyond the pandemic. This project grew out of a shared desire to acknowledge the challenges of Covid while celebrating the renewed energy, connections, and activities that...

This whimsical show presents fiber art chickens caught in various "impossible" situations. Created by Rosanna Lynne Welter, who thought it would be nice to share a little joy and encourage a few smiles. In this hospital gallery setting, the art...

This edition of the Biennale unfolds the theme “Interwoven Horizons” through four curatorial sections: Ecological Fiber, Lines of Perception, Smart Weaving with Innovation, and Future Experiments, each exploring a distinct dimension of contemporary expression in fiber art. This edition explores...

TRIO is a collaborative SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) regional exhibit of works by artists from Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida. The 2026-2027 exhibit celebrates the creativity and diversity of our regions' textile artists and includes scheduled exhibitions in all...

Open to current SAQA New Mexico regional primary and secondary members.

Imagine an existence where you pull one string and reality unravels. Twenty-seven artists from the U.S., United Kingdom, France, and Canada have interpreted the riotous creativity and far-out fusions of punk (Steampunk, Biopunk, Atompunk and more) to tell their own...

This exhibition explores fire not just as a destructive force, but as a symbol of renewal, power, and transformation. Many pieces address themes of climate change, deforestation, and the renewal that comes after devastation, adding a thoughtful and timely narrative to the visual feast.

In a solo show 19 art quilts by Nancy Bardach are on view at the Center for the Arts in Castro Valley, CA from now until mid- April, 2026. The exhibition is open during performances at the Center, for about...

Adriene Busch’s art celebrates the San Francisco Peninsula’s fog, marshlands, and daily beauty—not as metaphor, but as direct muse. Her pieces function as woven journals—mapping gratitude, intimacy, and local wonder. Her use of recycled and natural fibers aligns with sustainability...

Based in Surfside Beach, SC, professional artist and retired educator Jo-Ann Morgan considers her artwork her form of activism against violence. Her fabric memorials, as she refers to them, are quilted wall hangings that pay tribute to victims of violence...

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The word “Layers” evokes many images. Layers can be physical—layered clothing, layers of soil, layers of paint, or layers of light, shadow, and color. Layers might also be abstract—layers of memory, of meaning in conversation, or of cultural knowledge. Every...

At first glance, the work of Lena Meszaros and Kathy Nida appears to be very different, but once you understand their inspiration, you can begin to identify the common threads in their work. Like many artists, Meszaros and Nida use...

The annual group exhibition features avian-inspired fiber artworks. Unique quilts, fiber sculpture, weavings, and embroidery created by diverse regional and global artists will be on display in the first-floor galleries of the Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum. More...

Ever since our earliest ancestors began applying iron oxide to cave walls and their bodies, the color red has played a major role in art, rituals, and spirituality. The use of red can evoke excitement, danger, anger or love in the West. The color red is associated with purity in India, and in China it traditionally symbolizes luck. Red is also a primary color, crucial to the creation of other hues.

There is a continuum where beauty and function blend and diverge in the hands of the contemporary artist. Even when traditional materials such as thread, fabric, wood, reed, and paper are used, these artists combine skill, imagination, and vision to...

Featuring the work of 23 artists, this exhibition celebrates abstract art in all its forms. More Info

Onyx Patchworks: Exploring Black American History in the Berea College Archives is an interactive quilt and fiber art exhibition by Dr. Jaleesa Wells that transforms archival records into quilted memory games and new art quilts. Drawing on letters, photographs, publications...