Something interesting is always happening at the Richmond Art Center here in California. In addition to their main professional exhibitions they have a hallway of community work, often students or kids from local schools as well as all kinds of art classes and workshops. An exhibit I visited a few weeks ago, which closes on June 5, 2026 is Weaving Between the Lines: tradition, innovation, and back, which features work from Golden Gate Weavers Guild and Bay Area Basket Makers Guild.
I am neither a weaver nor a basket maker, but I appreciate and am inspired by textures and materials and that is what I found. Here are a few of the pieces I noticed.
aprons by Sandy Drobny
all kinds of interesting materials woven in!
"Devil's Chalice" 2022 by Jutta Frankie
"Mask" 2024 by Jill Stanton
I loved that it was woven/netted with kelp and shells.
"Shell Shape #22" 2020 by Eugenia Gwathney
Recycled rebar ties, aluminum wire, broken pottery, stones, arrowheads, fossils, shells, beads
"Wave Basket" 2024 by Rachel Leibman
"Flirting" by Caroline Selfridge
Okay, I admit I've dabbled a bit. And you can see why the works shown above called to me. I made a few of these weavings in 2023. They are NOT in the show.
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