Sep
22
to Mar 30

Living Echoes (reception Oct 13, 5-8pm)

Living Echoes

Art Faculty Exhibition Organized by Students

September 22, 2026 – March 30, 2027

Reception: October 13, 2026, 5 to 8 p.m.

The Santa Monica College (SMC) Art Department is pleased to present Living Echoes, a free exhibition curated and mounted by students in SMC's Art 80/82/84 Gallery Exhibitions & Display course, taught by SMC art instructor Kim Garcia. 

Living Echoes explores the enduring connections between memory, identity, material, and place. Through painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and mixed media, the exhibition brings together twenty-seven Santa Monica College faculty artists whose practices continue to evolve. In a fast-paced world where constant change can feel overwhelming, how do artists process what is happening around and within themselves?

Featuring work by Rhiannon Aarons, Liv Aanrud, Amanda Artsy, Terri Bromberg, Nehemiah Cisneros, Ismael de Anda III, Rebecca Frantz, Kim Garcia, Nevada Hardman, Carlson Hatton, Robert Brian Huerta, Jorge A. Jimenez Jr., Amy MacKay, Robin Mitchell, Margaret Oakley, Nathan Ota and Risk, Holly Perez, Kaelyn Rodriguez, Reinhart Revilla Selvik, Jane Shibata, Svetlana Shigroff, Emily Silver, Matthew Thomason, Marc Trujillo, Gerald Michael Vicich, Natasha Wheat, and John Zarcone.

The public is invited to join the opening reception on Tuesday, October 13, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Pete and Susan Barrett Gallery. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.

Students enrolled in SMC's Art 80, 82, and 84 Gallery Exhibition & Display courses conducted studio visits, produced a learning guide, and selected and curated the exhibition. This specialty course series provides hands-on experience in exhibition planning, research, operation, and management of gallery spaces.

The Pete and Susan Barrett Gallery is a student-centered contemporary art gallery adjacent to the Broad Stage at the Performing Arts Campus of Santa Monica College. Founded to create a dynamic gallery experience engaging the community and student body at large, the gallery is committed to closing equity gaps in higher education and in gallery and museum settings. The space serves as a hub for experiential learning through art, workshops, and campus and citywide activations.

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Sep
26
to Dec 13

High Pile: Concepts in Tufting (Opening reception Sept 26th 5-8 pm)

About

High Pile: Concepts in Tufting explores tufting beyond its traditional associations with domestic and commercial craft, highlighting the medium’s role within contemporary fine art as a site of experimentation and conceptual inquiry. This exhibition examines tufting as a practice where color is built through fiber density, form emerges through pile structure, and materiality plays a central role in how the work is experienced. 
 
High Pile brings together 20 artists whose work engages tufting as both a physical and expressive language. The works emphasize process while incorporating elements like abstraction and pattern to convey narratives and cultural meaning. Collectively, the exhibition positions tufting as a vital contemporary medium that is tactile, yet conceptually expansive.

Artists

  • Liv Beret Aanrud

  • Hacer Acma

  • Trish Andersen & Michael Porten

  • Jennifer Banzaca

  • Vanessa Barragão

  • Sam Druant

  • Sylvia Fragoso

  • Daniel Gardiner

  • Johannah Herr

  • Camilla Iliefski

  • Sachiko Janek

  • Sylvie Johnson

  • Caroline Kaufman

  • Maja Michaelsdotter

  • Mychaelyn Michalec

  • Melissa Monroe

  • Angela Anh Nguyen

  • Peter Salsman

  • Shishi San

  • Nakiesha White

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Apr
10
to May 16

A Golden Thread II 207 Front St NYC

A Golden Thread II is a second iteration of a fiber art exhibition curated by BravinLee Programs and organized by Karin Bravin. The exhibition features 60 new artists and over 100 artworks, including 8 site-specific installations, held at 207 Front Street in the South Street Seaport. The show explores the renaissance of textile art and its place within the broader art world.

Wed-Sun Noon- 6:30

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Mar
14
to Apr 27

Mythology/Matriarchy

The Middle Room is pleased to present Mythology/Matriarchy, a group exhibit of allegorical works centered on otherworldly and powerful female protagonists by contemporary artists Liv Aanrud, Susan Arena, Alexandra Carter, Vivien Ebright Chung, Christine Garvey, Erika b Hess, Kelly Lynn Jones, Aline Mare, Sarana Mehra, and Amy Talluto. The exhibition will be on view from March 14 - April 27, 2025. An opening reception will be held on Friday, March 14, from 6-8pm.

Mythology/Matriarchy is an exhibition curated by Shannon Rae Fincke to coincide with both Women’s History Month and Earth Day—and in dialogue with the newly released book by Nancy Reddy, The Good Mother Myth, along with the work of Sustainable Arts Foundation. This feminist interdisciplinary curation centers on the earthly and mystic interrelation between the both tangible and ethereal transcendent female-forward chorus of works by ten women artists. The at once historical, mythical and timely conversation between the dreamlike psychological, sociological, and experiential narratives in this group exhibition—coupled with the pragmatic text by Nancy Reddy and Sustainable Arts Foundation’s ongoing support of creative practices, community and structural reforms—contextualizes and amplifies women’s lives, lineages, contributions, power and voices, within the pendulum of history and currently threatening times.

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Mar
6
to May 18

Step and Repeat at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery

Inspired by the historical Pattern and Decoration movement of the mid-1970s and its impact across our region, Step & Repeat highlights 46 Southern California artists who engage with themes of pattern and decoration. The exhibition seeks to create a dialogue around those concepts, encompassing both direct explorations of the subject and works that approach it peripherally.

The exhibition’s title, Step & Repeat is a term used for publicity backdrops at special events, particularly red carpet premieres. While this slightly tongue in cheek reference to Hollywood hints at LAMAG’s physical proximity, it also reflects the repetitive and systematic qualities inherent in patterns within the works on view.

 

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Feb
25
to Apr 30

Body Language--Solo Exhibition at One River School, Inglewood NJ

One River School of Art + Design is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Liv Aanrud’s captivating textile work, showcasing her innovative approach to tufting and painting with fibers. Based in Los Angeles, Aanrud creates art that serves as both a textile drawing and a tactile map of the labor invested in its making. By using everyday materials, her pieces form a unique vision rooted in folk traditions while reflecting contemporary aesthetics. Through meticulous craftsmanship, Aanrud’s work invites viewers to slow down and reflect in a world that often feels built to commodify and consume.

Aanrud’s work has been exhibited globally, including in New York, California, Germany, and Taiwan, and this exhibition at One River School offers an intimate look at her labor-intensive, thought-provoking pieces. Join us for the opening reception on March 8th, where you’ll have the opportunity to experience her art firsthand and engage with the artist. Don’t miss this chance to explore the intersection of tradition, innovation, and personal expression in her work.


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Mar
6
to Apr 28

" Shift Change" exhibit at the Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiber Arts Museum

My work will be included in “Shift Change” a group exhibition at the Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiber Arts Museum. Other artists included:

Max Adrian | Margot Becker | Jes Le Bon | Lee Davignon | Julie Sevilla Drake
Audrey Esarey | Zak Foster | Julian Jamaal Jones | Millicent Kennedy | Chawne Kimber
Taylor Krz | Mashanda Lazarus | Marc Manke | Amanda Nadig | Heidi Parkes
Helen Parsons | Kendall Ross | Allyson Rousseau | Joey Veltkamp | Adeline Wang

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