California Fibers: Exploration & Innovation was at the Front Porch Gallery in Carlsbad, CA, from May 21-July 8, 2017. If you didn't make it to the show, here's what you missed.
Michael F. Rohde's pieces Jubilant and Dichotomy, flanking Mary Beth Schwarzenberger's Flower Power Redux
Doshi, Stone Steps
Mary Beth Schwarzenberger's Sunrise Sunset
Detail of Sunrise Sunset
Linda Anderson's Joshua Is Jazz
Gail Fraser's Web of Threads I and II
Gail Fraser's June Doom
Doshi, Garden Secrets
Kathy Nida's Earth Daughter and Marilyn McKenzie Chaffee's Marking Time #9
Marilyn McKenzie Chaffee's Marking Time #9, Lynne Hodgman's Twining Prepositions, and Kathy Nida's By All Means
Marilyn McKenzie Chaffee's Marking Time #9
Kathy Nida's Earth Daughter
Kathy Nida's By All Means
Lynne Hodgman's Split Infinitives
Linda Anderson's Musicman of Jaipur
Doshi, Garden Secrets
Cameron Taylor-Brown, Majestic Stone: Pisac Ruins, Peru, and Majestic Stone: Machu Picchu, Peru
Polly Jacobs Giacchina, Hidden Refuge
and a detail of Hidden Refuge
A side view of Lynne Hodgman's Flowing Subjunctives
And a detail of Flowing Subjunctives
Charlotte Bird, End of the Season
Lori Zimmerman, Mending 1.4
Zimmerman's Mending 2.0
A closeup of Zimmerman's Mending 1.2
Chari Myers, Indigo Rhapsody
Charlotte Bird, Fruiting Body #10
Polly Jacobs Giacchina, Web of Textures
Rebecca Smith, Contexture
Polly Jacobs Giacchina, If It Moves
Peggy Wiedemann, Springtime Nest
Peggy Wiedemann, In Celebration of Twirling (pedestal) and smaller pieces by Lydia Tjioe Hall
Lydia Tjioe Hall, Three in One
Tjioe Hall, Wood Shell and Spokes
Tjioe Hall, Copper and Steel Woven
Tjioe Hall, Steel Brass and Tigers Eye
Tjioe Hall, Spokes Wood and Bead
Rebecca Smith, Light Source
Charlotte Bird, Autumn Leaf
Michael F. Rohde, Techtonic
A view of the gallery during the opening
Another view during the opening
Another view, with artists Polly Jacobs Giacchina and Doshi in the foreground.
A view of some of the work
Another view of the gallery
A view of the front section of the gallery