We’re excited that READING MATERIALS will continue in 2021, in partnership with Textile Arts L.A.

Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
by David Bayles and Ted Orland

Tuesday, March 16, 2021
7:00pm - 8:30pm
online via Zoom.

"This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentially-statistically speaking-there aren't any people like that. Geniuses get made once-a-century or so, yet good art gets made all the time, so to equate the making of art with the workings of genius removes this intimately human activity to a strangely unreachable and unknowable place. For all practical purposes making art can be examined in great detail without ever getting entangled in the very remote problems of genius."
—from the Introduction

This event is free for Textile Arts L.A. members; $40 for the year for non-members.

READING MATERIALS is an informal book club with an art and material focus. We will be reading books about the artist’s life, about ways of seeing and reasons for making, and about our inextricable relationship with the materials in our hands.