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In the annals of fiber art, CAROL SHAW-SUTTON is a rock star. Her elegant textile sculptures have been exhibited and collected by museums worldwide since the late 1970s. “I see textiles as a tissue that connects histories and cultures,” says Shaw-Sutton, who headed the Fiber Program at California State University, Long Beach for more than three decades before relocating to the artistic enclave of Ojai. Demand for her work has never waned, as evidenced by her presence in a recent show at Connecticut’s venerable browngrotta arts gallery and, closer to home, a group fiber arts exhibition at Ventura’s Vita Art Center from June 2 through 30. Catch her locally—she also teaches classes at Ojai’s Cattywampus Crafts. L . D . P O R T E R C AR O L SH AWSU T T O N .CO M
Candid Camera
“I grew up interested in culture and people,” says Santa Barbara photographer NELL CAMPBELL summing up her 40-plus years (thus far) spent documenting the world around her. A self-described “participant observer,” Campbell has chronicled family, friends, New Orleans Mardi Gras festivities, California migrant workers, urban and rural Cuba, Louisiana hunters, and decades of political demonstrations. This summer offers two opportunities to view Campbell’s work. UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum, 805-893-2951, museum.ucsb.edu, unveils “Nell Campbell: About Face” from July 8 through August 20, focusing on 25 of Campbell’s most compelling images curated by assistant director/curator Elyse A. Gonzales. “Nell brings a unique humanity and intimacy to her portraits,” says Gonzales, who believes Campbell deserves “much more widespread recognition.” The Channing Peake Gallery at the Santa Barbara RELATED EVENTS County Office of Arts and Culture, 805-568-3990, is mounting “Bearing Witness: The Photography of Nell JULY 6, 5-7 PM Opening at Campbell” from July 6 through December 1. Curated Channing Peake Gallery. by Maiza Hixson, codirector of Santa Barbara’s JULY 13, 5:30 PM Exhibition Center for Art, Science & Technology, the exhibition walk-through with artist and features images of Campbell’s rural and urban scenes curator at UCSB. from California to Cuba. Says Hixson: “Campbell is JULY 23, 2 PM Reading by artist always watching and keeping track of moments that and friends from selected poems/ define who we are as people.” L . D . P . novels/memoirs at UCSB.
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Clockwise from top right: WOMEN’S MARCH, LOS ANGELES, CA, 2017 ,
archival pigment print, 10 x 6.5 in.; GEISHA GIRLS, MARDI GRAS DAY, NEW ORLEANS, LA, 1982 , archival
pigment print, 12 x 18 in.; UFW SUPPORTER (UNITED FARM WORKERS UNION) RALLY NEAR TEJON RANCH, CA, 1977 ,
archival pigment print, 13.5 x 9 in.
Left to right: CROSSING (from the Long Beach Museum of Art collection), lashed willow and linen, 36 x 30 x 32 in.; LEAF MEMORY , leaf, silk, and thread, 30 x 26 in.
PHOTOGRAPH: CROSSING, ANDREW NEUHART
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