San Diego Textile Scene

Since its founding in 1985, Visions Museum of Textile Art has attracted a vibrant textile art scene in San Diego, California. In 2007, when volunteers organized a community build and created our permanent location in the Arts District Liberty Station in San Diego, California, our space invited new approaches to contemporary textile art.

This exhibition showcases the creativity and innovation of San Diego’s textile artists, remembering that the textile tradition in San Diego dates back to the indigenous Kumeyaay.

They were formerly known as the Diegueños, the former Spanish name applied to the Mission Indians living along the San Diego River. The Kumeyaay had land along the Pacific Ocean from the present Oceanside, California, in the north to south of Ensenada, Mexico, and extending east to the Colorado River.

Before the Spanish came to what is now known as San Diego, the native Kumeyaay people processed and used fibers from plants and animals to produce textiles.

The contemporary artists participating in this exhibition were selected from our 2026 art call and are: Jean Benelli, Monica Loss, Rebecca Smith, Nancy Lemke, Sue Britt, and Angela D’Amico, showing us different techniques and approaches to textile art.

Cost

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