Porfirio Gutiérrez Textiles Trunk Show

Fibershed is a non-profit educational and research organization that develops regenerative textile systems that are based on carbon farming, regional manufacturing, and public education.We envision the emergence of an international system of regional textile communities that enliven connection and ownership of ‘soil-to-soil’ textile processes. These diverse textile cultures are designed to build soil carbon stocks on the working landscapes on which they depend, while directly enhancing the strength of regional economies. Both fiber and food systems now face a drastically changing climate, and must utilize the best of time-honored knowledge and available science for their long-term ability to thrive.

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A trunk show of the weavings of Porfirio Gutiérrez — California-based Zapotec textile artist and natural dyer

Fibershed Learning Center

Join Porfirio Gutiérrez at the beautiful <a href="https://fibershed.org/programs/education-advocacy/learningcenter/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Fibershed Learning Center</a> on Black Mountain Ranch near Point Reyes Station, California, for a trunk show and discussion of his work. (Address and directions provided upon registration.) There will be a 45-minute presentation at 6:30 pm on Zapotec textiles having a seasonal imprint and being a historical document, holding both climate and culture.

Porfirio Gutierrez is a California-based Zapotec textile artist and natural dyer, born and raised in the richly historic Zapotec textile community of Teotitlán del Valle in Oaxaca, Mexico. He grew up immersed in color and surrounded by the wildness of Oaxaca's mountains, and by the knowledge of plants for healing and for color. His life’s work has been revitalizing and preserving traditional Zapotec natural dye techniques with a focus on reinterpreting traditional textiles and materials to reflect his distinct creative vision. Working in both Ventura, California, and Oaxaca, Gutíerrez’s art practice maintains his ancestor’s spiritual belief in nature as a living being, sacred and divine. His grounding in Zapotec traditional knowledge manifests in his textiles, reinterpreting the traditional weaving language, subverting and re-imagining the symbols and forms, morphing his textile designs toward the fractal forms and spaces of architecture and the movement he sees in cities and urban environments. Gutíerrez is a truly American artist, moving freely across the imposed borders between his two countries, as his ancestors and many other Indigenous peoples have done for thousands of years. His designs draw deeply on his experiences of two cultures, moving between the traditional and the modern, but always reliant on the deep knowledge and spiritual dimensions of his work. To learn more, visit his website at <a href="https://porfiriogutierrez.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">porfiriogutierrez.com</a> or his <a href="https://www.instagram.com/porfirio_gutierrez_studio/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Instagram</a>.

Above: Weavings at Porfirio&#x27;s studio by Liz Fish; Top: Portrait of Porfirio Gutiérrez by Joe Coca

Porfirio Gutiérrez Textiles Trunk Show

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