Open Call for Small Group Exhibition at LA Artcore
 LA Art CoreOctober 10 – November 2 , 2025 120 Judge John Aiso Street Los Angeles, CA 90012 |
 Held in partnership with LA Artcore and Textile Arts LA, this small-group exhibition will feature bodies of work by selected artists in a gallery exhibition at LA Artcore, Los Angeles, California. Selected works will build on the theme of Crafting Tomorrow and be juried by Fafnir Adamites. This opportunity is open to all artists working in fiber and textile-based materials and techniques.
Entries accepted online via CaFÉ through June 16, 2025
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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Art can be a portal to other worlds. It can offer us glimpses into the future and ways to shape the present. Crafting Tomorrow invites 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.
Highlighting fiber and textile-based materials and techniques, including traditional and cross-disciplinary practices, experimental processes, and material innovation, this group exhibition will showcase bodies of work from 3–5 artists who are “crafting tomorrow”.
JURORS
Using traditional craft processes such as feltmaking, weaving and papermaking, 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. Fafnir holds an MFA degree 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 and has taught workshops and intensives at Arrowmont School of Art and Craft, Snow Farm: The New England Craft Program and Women’s Studio Workshop.
ENTRY PROCEDURE & FEE
Artists working in all media are encouraged to apply, whether or not they are SDA or Textile Arts LA members. Crafting Tomorrow will celebrate works with a fibers sensibility. This includes works made with fiber and textile-based materials and techniques, traditional and cross-disciplinary practices, experimental processes, and material innovation. Works chosen will demonstrate unique, well-developed artistic vision representing the best of contemporary work in the field.
Each artist may submit from three to seven pieces. 2D, 3D, video, and audio works are eligible. Artists who have been included in prior SDA exhibits are encouraged to apply, but work should show a progression or be from a different body of work. Works previously exhibited with SDA will not be considered.
Entry Procedure:
Entries are accepted online through CaFÉ Call for Entry website.
Entries will be juried by application. Artists should submit 3-7 artworks to be considered together, along with a short artist statement on the entire body of work. All or a selection of the submitted artworks may be accepted.
Entry Deadline: June 16, 2025 (11:59 pm MT)
Entry fee: $30 SDA & Textile Arts LA members, $45 non-members
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IMPORTANT DATES
| April 9, 2025 | Call opens |
| June 16, 2025 | Call closes |
| August 1, 2025 | Notification to artists |
| October 3 – 4, 2025 | Work due at gallery |
| October 10, 2025 | Exhibition opens |
| November 2, 2025 | Exhibition closes |
| November 10, 2025 | Artwork returned |
For questions, contact: info@surfacedesign.org