Museum of Contemporary Arts Santa Barbara — British Textile Biennial presents Sangre de Nopal/Blood of the Nopal: Learning from the Land at The Whitaker Museum & Art Gallery, Lancashire, England
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British Textile Biennial presents Sangre de Nopal/Blood of the Nopal:
Learning from the Land at The Whitaker Museum & Art Gallery, Lancashire, England
Porfirio Gutiérrez, Tania Candiani, Sarah Rosalena October 2 – November 2, 2025
British Textile Biennial (BTB) is a free festival of contemporary art, commissioning artists and designers from all over the world to make work inspired by the context and legacy of the textile industry in East Lancashire and its global impact, often in the places that were created by it. This Autumn, British Textile Biennial (BTB) explores invention and innovation in textile production; through indigenous knowledge to space-age technology, from the earliest form of shelter, the tent, to space suits, and from plant-based dyes to the first polymers.
Images:
Porfirio Gutiérrez, Andrea and her descendents
Tania Candiani, La ruta de la grana cochinilla and Campo Carmin
Sarah Rosalena, Rose Star
Sangre de Nopal/Blood of the Nopal Catalog –
Pre-Purchase now!
Be one of the first to bring home this special publication that is a culmination of over five years of collective labor including three exhibitions (Fowler Museum at UCLA, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, and the British Textile Biennial) and is intended to be a resource for those looking to further their own research and interests into the impact of the Indigenous Oaxacan Diaspora on global culture, contemporary Indigenous and Latinx/Latine artists, and cochineal as a case study in Indigenous innovation deeply rooted in Traditional Ecological Knowledge.
Full color, 184 pgs, spiral bound. Designed by Sofia Broid.
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Sangre de Nopal/Blood of the Nopal was made possible through a lead grant from Getty as part of the PST ART: Art & Science Collide initiative
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