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Bedford Gallery CALeidoscope: Evolving Reflections of California | Bedford's annual juried exhibition, a vibrant celebration of our Golden State.
👀 On view July 11 - Sept 13
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08/30/2026

Redefining the boundaries of textile art ✨

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.

Experience the depth, structure, and story behind every strand at our opening party!

🎉 Saturday, Sept 26, 5-7pm
⏰ Donor Preview: 4-5pm
🎟️ Tickets available at bedfordgallery.org

Liv Beret Aanrud, Dottir, 2026; Maja Michaelsdotter, A cat burning from the head, 2026. Courtesy of the Artist; Angela Anh Ngyuen, A response to the Query, 2026. Courtesy of the artist.

Sharing Indigenous voices through photography and storytelling.Bedford’s traveling exhibition, Re-Discovering Native Ame...
08/29/2026

Sharing Indigenous voices through photography and storytelling.

Bedford’s traveling exhibition, Re-Discovering Native America: Stories in Motion with the Red Road Project, opens today at Farmington Museum in Farmington, New Mexico!

Co-founded by Danielle SeeWalker (Húŋkpapȟa Lakota) and Carlotta Cardana, The Red Road Project shares the stories of Native American individuals and communities through powerful portraits and personal narratives, celebrating the diversity, resilience, and contemporary experiences of Indigenous peoples.

Learn more about Re-Discovering Native America and all of the Bedford’s traveling exhibitions through the link in our bio ↑

The Red Road Project, Elijah in Pine Ridge, South Dakota; Gina; Dancer Getting Ready at the Powwow; Danielle Ta'Sheena in her Bedroom, 2024.

08/27/2026

🌿 When the Dust Settles reflects an inner call for peace and renewal. Inspired by the beauty and vulnerability of the California landscape, the work uses jagged edges, wrapped and coiled threads, and dangling fibers to evoke a living landscape shaped by a changing climate and a complex world.

For Sue Weil, weaving offers a space for stillness and reflection, “allowing my hands to think.” Through its spare, abstract forms, When the Dust Settles invites viewers to pause, connect with their own experiences, and consider the possibilities of peace and renewal.

Sue Weil, When the Dust Settles, 2026.

08/25/2026

Layers of memory, landscapes of healing 🌿

In Past That Hill, Melissa Mohammadi explores trauma recovery through a deconstructed tunnel book inspired by the steep cliffs, winding highways, and resilient trees of the Diablo Range.

Created with tea-stained paper, intricate intaglio prints, and a drypoint tree, the work reflects the layers of memory and the excavation we undertake as we heal.

Melissa Mohammadi, Past That Hill, 2022.

History is collective, but the storytelling is entirely personal. Our traveling exhibition, Personal to Political: Celeb...
08/24/2026

History is collective, but the storytelling is entirely personal.

Our traveling exhibition, Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press, is now on view at Janet Turner Print Museum, the final stop on a national tour that began in 2018!

Sourced from Berkeley’s renowned Paulson Fontaine Press, this show features over 40 dynamic prints by powerhouse creators like Kerry James Marshall, Woody De Othello, and the Gee’s Bend quilters.

Radcliffe Bailey, In the Garden, 2003; Woody De Othello, Steppin Through the Night, 2021. Courtesy of Paulson Fontaine Press, Berkeley, CA.

“My work, more than anything, is about telling a story about the relationships between people and space.” – Shirene Shom...
08/22/2026

“My work, more than anything, is about telling a story about the relationships between people and space.” – Shirene Shomloo

In Astonishing Light #4, the desert is reimagined not as an isolated wasteland, but as a masterclass in profound resilience.

Blending the body directly into the Southern California terrain, this photo draws on Middle Eastern ancestral memory to explore climate adversity and healing. It calls us to move in harmony with the earth, turning scarcity into strength while honoring the quiet power of vulnerable landscapes.

Shirene Shomloo, Astonishing Light #4, 2025.

Texture takes center stage. 🧶✨Take a closer look at what’s coming. High Pile: Concepts in Tufting, where fiber, form, an...
08/20/2026

Texture takes center stage. 🧶✨

Take a closer look at what’s coming. High Pile: Concepts in Tufting, where fiber, form, and technique push traditional craft into contemporary fine art.

Coming soon to the Bedford.

Caroline Kaufman, The Start of the Day is the End of the Dream No. 2 (detail), 2022. Courtesy of the artist.

Let's do a studio visit with CALeidoscope artist, Astrid Reichenbach ✨San Francisco-based artist Astrid Reichenbach crea...
08/18/2026

Let's do a studio visit with CALeidoscope artist, Astrid Reichenbach ✨

San Francisco-based artist Astrid Reichenbach creates tactile fiber works and hand-embroidered jewelry that explore intimacy, ritual, and the body. Informed by Expressive Arts Therapy, she uses stitching and assemblage to transform humble, collected materials into reflective objects.

In Pacific Form II, Reichenbach draws on years of shell collecting to turn weathered coastal fragments into a vertical composition. Accentuated with rose quartz beads and a safety pin, the piece blends meticulous handwork with a language of ornament, offering a contemplative look at how we hold on to the places we love.

Astrid Reichenbach, Pacific Form II, 2025.

08/16/2026

“I seek to engage audiences with the urgent environmental realities facing wetlands and watersheds, and to foster awareness of the climate crisis affecting them.” – Anne Krinsky

In Boiling Seas Acid Seas, artist Anne Krinsky explores the delicate habitat where California’s natural waters collide with human infrastructure.

Filmed in Southern California, this video work uses high-key, unnaturalistic color and sound to juxtapose coastal wetlands with highways, traffic, and chainsaws. Part of Krinsky's ongoing project on vulnerable wetlands and climate change, the work reflects on the critical state of our watersheds and the fragile ecosystems we must protect.

Anne Krinsky, Boiling Seas Acid Seas, 2024.

Happy National Honey Bee Day! 🐝🌼✨In honor of our precious honey bees, let’s take a look at The Bee Effect by artists Bra...
08/15/2026

Happy National Honey Bee Day! 🐝🌼✨

In honor of our precious honey bees, let’s take a look at The Bee Effect by artists Brad Oldham and Christy Coltrin. Inspired by Walnut Creek’s hillsides, this installation features 12-to-17-foot California poppies and seed pods humming with hard-working bees.

Walk underneath, peer through the sky tubes in the petals, and take a moment to celebrate the tiny pollinators that keep our ecosystem blooming.

📍 Southwest corner of California Boulevard & Pringle Avenue, Walnut Creek

Learn more about the Walnut Creek’s Public Art collection at bedfordgallery.org/public-art.

Brad Oldham and Cristy Coltrin, The Bee Effect, 2022, stainless steel. Courtesy of Kevin Shea.

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