Image left Sara Torgison (she/her, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.), Strange Traveler, 2021.Quilted recycled clothing with yarn and thread, 36 x 24 x 3 inches. Photo by the artist.
Crafting Tomorrow: Meditation with Art
facilitated by: Noel Alumit MDiv.
donation are welcomed
come for a guided meditation with artwork on view
time: Saturday, October 25, 12-1 pm
place: 120 Judge John Aiso St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Crafting Tomorrow (October 10-November 2, 2025) is organized in partnership with Surface Design Association and Textile Arts LA and juried by Fafnir Adamites
Artists Sara Torgsion, R. Mertens, Juan Gomez, Emily Hunt, Ivy Anderson
Highlighting fiber and textile-based materials and techniques, including traditional and cross-disciplinary practices, experimental processes, and material innovation, this group exhibition showcases work from artists who are "crafting tomorrow."
Art can be a portal to other worlds. It can offer us glimpses into the future and ways to shape the present. Crafting Tomorrow invited submissions from artists whose work explores what our lives, communities, and environment could look like in many possible futures.
A day, a year, or a hundred years from now, how will visions of tomorrow trace back to today and reach even further into the past? How can our current engagement with urgent issues influence these trajectories?
Whether an artist’s vision is utopian, dystopian, or somewhere in between, these creative projections offer us ways to understand where we are now as much as where we are going tomorrow.
Using traditional craft processes such as feltmaking, weaving and papermaking, Juror Fafnir Adamites creates sculptural and installation work that serves as a meditation on trauma, memory and the legacy of emotional turmoil inherited from past generations.
Adamites holds an MFA from the Fiber and Material Studies Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in Photography and Women's Studies from UMass Amherst. Fafnir is currently Assistant Professor in the Fiber Area at California State University, Long Beach.
Facebook/Juan Gomez October 08, 205
Showing work @laartcore in partnership with @surface_design Thank you so much to both orgs and thank @fafniradamites for including me in the show! Keep on keeping on!!!
Reception: Saturday, October 11th, 6-8 pm
Crafting Tomorrow (October 10-November 2, 2025) is organized in partnership with LA Artcore and Textile Arts LA (@surface_design) and juried by Fafnir Adamites (@fafniradamites)
Highlighting fiber and textile-based materials and techniques, including traditional and cross-disciplinary practices, experimental processes, and material innovation, this group exhibition showcases work from artists who are “crafting tomorrow.”
Artists
@saratorgison
@r.mertensartist
@juanmgomezvisual
@emilydrivesatruck
@ivylaurelanderson
Art can be a portal to other worlds. It can offer us glimpses into the future and ways to shape the present.
Using traditional craft processes such as feltmaking, weaving and papermaking, Juror Fafnir Adamites creates sculptural and installation work that serves as a meditation on trauma, memory and the legacy of emotional turmoil inherited from past generations. Adamites holds an MFA from the Fiber and Material Studies Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in Photography and Women’s Studies from UMass Amherst. Fafnir is currently Assistant Professor in the Fiber Area at California State University, Long Beach.
Reception Time:
Saturday, October 11th, 6-8 pm
Place: LA Artcore, 120 Judge John Aiso St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 (Little Tokyo, Downtown L.A.)
Congratulations to all the artists!!
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LA Artcore
Crafting Tomorrow
Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 11th, 6-8pm
Crafting Tomorrow was organized in partnership with LA Artcore and Textile Arts LA and juried by Fafnir Adamites.
Highlighting fiber and textile-based materials and techniques, including traditional and cross-disciplinary practices, experimental processes, and material innovation, this group exhibition showcases work from artists who are “crafting tomorrow”.
Crafting Tomorrow features the work of five artists - Ivy Laurel Anderson, Juan Gomez, Emily Hunt, Robert Mertens, and Sara Torgison - who explore what our lives, communities, and environment could look like in many possible futures.
LA Artcore
120 Judge John Aiso Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
saratorgison.com | @saratorgison
