Works in Progress

California Fibers may not have any shows this summer, but we’re all busy on new projects.

Peggy Wiedemann is working on her second chair, trying to work out problems she had with her first one. She is adding a form to give her coiling strength to hold its shape.

Polly Jacobs Giacchina is currently working with random weave technique. She got out her torch for patinas on copper with rivets.

Kathy Nida has started a new desert quilt, chosen from five designs she put on her Patreon, a community that helps support her art. She’s started picking fabrics…with the help of Kitten.

Stay tuned for more in-progress views from our members.

More of A Matter of Time, Soka University

A Matter of Time continues at Soka University through January 7, 2019, but if you can't make it or just want a teaser of the real thing, here's the work that's shown there.

Below are Mary Beth Schwartzenberger's 4 seasonal pieces, Autumn, Spring, Summer, and Winter.

Below are Peggy Wiedemann's pieces:

Shake It Up

Dialogue

Altering Course

Time Marches On

The Tribe

Below are Polly Jacobs Giacchina's works

21 Weeks

Data from the Past

Phrases

Strained

Time Flies

 Doshi's

The Tides Lull

Time Leaves Its Shadows

Linda Anderson's

Unbroken

Brecia Kralovic-Logan's work from the

Celebrate the Crone series: Memory

From the

Totem, Talisman, and Trinket series: Trinket

Michael F. Rohde's pieces

Partita

Danse

Exclamatory

Interrogative

Julie Kornblum's

Gyre

Elements

Kathy Nida's

Heart-Shaped Box

I Can't Be Your Superwoman

Holding It All In

All Stacked Up in My Head

Rebecca Smith's work

Time to Rise

Night Fire

Islands in the Stream of Consciousness

Marilyn McKenzie Chaffee's

Marking Time #7

Carrie Burckle's

Memento Mori-shirt plackets

Memento Mori-blue cuffs

Memento Mori-collars

Gail Fraser's

Tick-Tock, Hem and Haw!

Susan Henry,

Red Sky

Charlotte Bird's

Meander

Migration Installation

Cameron Taylor-Brown's work

Colors of Gujarat: Common Threads #2

LAVAfolds #2

Reflections: Giverny #1

Ashley Blalock's

Metaphor

Lydia Tjioe Hall's

One a Day 2014

A Matter of Time Opening at Soka University

California Fibers currently has an exhibit, A Matter of Time, at Soka University in Aliso Viejo, California, through January 7, 2019. Below are some photos from the installation and opening. Many thanks to Gail Fraser and the Soka University photographer for the photos. Pictures of all the work will follow.

Artists Cameron Taylor Brown, Polly Jacobs Giacchina, Charlotte Bird, and Rebecca Smith on installation day. 

Artist Lydia Tjioe Hall installing 365 days of art.

Artist Carrie Burckle installing one of her pieces.

Artists Polly Jacobs Giacchina and Charlotte Bird reviewing installation of Bird's piece.

All the artists who were present at the opening.

Viewers with Jacobs Giacchina's work.

A viewer with Marybeth Schwartzenberger's work.

Viewers with Tjioe Hall's work.

The exhibit includes boxes with small art by each of the participating artists.

Viewers with Peggy Wiedemann's work.

Viewers with Linda Anderson's work.

Viewers with Kathy Nida's work.

A viewer with Ashley Blalock's work.

Charlotte Bird (left), Kathy Nida (center), and Michael F. Rohde (right)

Viewers with Bird's work.

Exploration & Innovation at The Front Porch Gallery

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