Companions in art
O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
616 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, CA 94941
December 2024
The O’Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley, CA, offers many classes in art and perception. Ileana Soto is a member of the Surprise Yourself class. The class has organized an exhibit called Companions in Art by the Surprise Yourself class, with an opening reception on December 3rd, 5-7 pm in the Loft Gallery. The hours of the Center are Tues-Sat, 10 am-2 pm. Accompanying the exhibit in the main gallery is an exhibit titled Chaos. Stop by and see both!
Opening reception: December 3, 5-7 pm
Gallery hours: Tues-Sat 10 am–2 pm
Make A Way Walk Through
Ileana Soto and Joanne Weis lead an exhibition walk through of Make A Way at Gallery Route One, with explanations of the works on display as well as the creative processes of each artist.
Solo Exhibitions
Step by Step, Forming My Art
Bay Quilts, Richmond, CA, January 2024
Forming Our Future: Culture, Climate, Community
Bay Quilts, Richmond, CA, November 2019
Forming Our Future: Culture, Climate, Community
Clarion Music Center, San Francisco, CA Jan-Mar 2020
GROUP Exhibitions
2025
Unfolding
Southeastern Quilt and Textile Museum (SQTM), January 10–April 16, 2025
306 Bradley St, Ste C, Carrolton, GA 30117-3269
Citizen Joy
Sanchez Art Center, January 6–February 9, 2025
1220 Linda Mar Blvd., Pacifica, CA 94044
Art Movements in Fiber
The Gallery at 48 Natoma, January 31–March 27, 2025
48 Natoma Street, Folsom, CA 95680
2024
Companions in Art
O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Loft Gallery, Mill Valley, CA, December 2024
Make A Way
Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA, October 26–December 1, 2024
Download exhibit postcard | Artist walkthrough video on YouTube
Step by Step, Forming My Art
O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Loft Gallery, Mill Valley, CA, September 3-27, 2024
Printed and Stitched, a collaboration between the California Society of Printmakers (CSP) and Studio Art Quilters Association (SAQA), San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA, May 2-September 1, 2024
54th Annual Fiber Arts Exhibit, Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, CA, June 6-August 3, 2024
Fiber Arts, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA, May 28-June 7, 2024
Layers, Art Cloth Network juried exhibition, Noyes Cultural Center, Evanston, IL, May 28-September 3, 2024
Printed and Stitched, joint collaboration between the California Society of Printmakers (CSP) and Studio Art Quilters Association (SAQA), San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, May 2-September 1, 2024
Unfolding, Art Cloth Network exhibition, Sierra Arts Foundation, April 3-30, 2024
2023
de Young Open 2023, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, September 23, 2023-January 7, 2024
Telling our Stories, Carnegie Center for the Arts, Turlock, CA, Oct 17, 2023-Jan 13, 2024
Award of Merit for Ancestors: Unplanned Occurrences
California Dreaming, Carnegie Center for the Arts, Turlock, CA, Oct 2022-Jan 2023
12 Cycles, Eddie Rhodes Gallery, San Pablo, CA, Feb-Mar 2023
Art & Ecology, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA, Mar 20-Apr 30, 2023
Printed and Stitched, Art Ark, San Jose, CA, May-June 2023 & traveling through 2025; SAQA & CPS
Adapting to Wildfire, Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, CA, May-Oct 2023
Unfolding, Pacific Northwest Quilt Museum, La Conner, WA, May-July, 2023
Luxury/Industry, Kemerer Decorative Arts Museum, Bethlehem, PA, June 2023-Jan 2024
Wide Open, Bloomingdale Park District Museum, Bloomingdale, IL, July 2023-Aug 2024
53rd Textile Exhibit, Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, CA, Aug-Oct 2023
Telling Our Stories, Carnegie Center for the Arts, Lobby Gallery, Turlock, CA, Oct 17 2023-Jan 13, 2024
—
2022
Wide Open, Temple Cultural Gallery, Temple, TX, November 4-January 6, 2022
Wide Open, Austin Bergstrom International Airport, Austin, TX, Jan 13-May 27, 2022
Threads of Change, Village Art Gallery, Danville, CA, January 20-March 11, 2022
Fiber Art, Innovative and Expressive, O’Hanlon Art Center, Mill Valley, CA, March 24-April 21, 2022
Abstract 2022, Sebastopol Art Center, Sebastopol, CA, June 18-July 24, 2022
Inspired by Archetypes, Living Arts Center, Tulsa, OK, July 1-22, 2022
Sacred Threads, Herndon, VA, July 2022
Harmony, A Textile Exhibition, collaboration with Sacred Threads Exhibit, Broadway Gallery, Alexandria, VA, June 2-Aug 31, 2022 | Extended to UChicago Medicine, Chicago, IL until the end of 2022
Spring Online Exhibit 2022, Textile Study Group of New York, TSGNY website
52nd Annual Textile Exhibit at the Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, CA, July 13-Sept 17, 2022
Quilts and Blooms!, featured artist at the Diablo Valley Quilters Guild outdoor quilt show, Heather Farms Park, Walnut Creek, CA, September 10-11, 2022 (cancelled but will be re-scheduled)
Textures, Shapes, Patterns or Forms 2022, Las Lagunas Gallery online exhibition, September 2022
California Dreaming, Carnegie Center for the Arts, Turlock, CA, October 2022-January 2023
Printed and Stitched, Art Ark, San Jose, CA, May-June 2023 & travelling- 2025; SAQA & CPS
—
2021
Art Quilt Australia 2021 (Oz Quilt Network), Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, June 12-July 3, 2021; Yarro Ranges Regional Museum, August 7-October 31
Award of Excellence: Highly Commended for Heated Boundaries
Heated Boundaries in the de Young Open Exhibition, de Young Museum, San Francisco, October 10, 2020-January 3, 2021
—
2020
Andromeda in Art of the Cosmos, 30th anniversary of the Hubble Telescope, Pasadena, CA, April 2020 (traveling exhibition for two years, canceled for Covid)
Ancient Echoes and Waves of Migration, Emerald Art Center, Springfield, OR, March-April 2020
Global Alert: Arctic Melt in Opposites Attract, SAQA Global Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia, April 2020-222 (traveling exhibition)
2019
Quarterly Online Exhibit, Visions Art Museum, San Diego, CA, September-December 2018 and January-March 2019
Elements, Society of Marin Artists for the International Society of the Periodic Tables, January 10-February 2, 2019
Sacred Threads, Herndon, VA, July 2019 (traveling for two years to eight sites in the Midwest and Southeast USA)
The Edge Effect, Katonah Museum of Art, Bedford, NY, July-August 2019
Fiber Arts IX, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, August 2-September 8, 2019
Recycling for Art, Women’s Work Exhibit, Reclaimed Room, San Francisco, CA, September-November 2019
—
2018
Global Alert: Arctic Melt in 2018 Spring Open Juried Art Exhibition, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA, March-April 2018
Voices in Cloth, Richmond, CA, March 17-18, 2017 and 2019
Awareness and Activism in Textiles, Panorama Framing Gallery, Oakland, CA, July-August 2018
50th Annual Textile Exhibition, Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, CA, August-September 2018 & 2019
Fiber Theatricks, Harrington Gallery, Pleasanton, CA, September-October 2018
—
2017
Uncommon Threads, Village Theater Art Gallery, Danville, CA, January-February 2017
Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY, Oct-Jan 2017/18
Local Color, CA & CT SAQA, Norwich Art Museum, Norwich, CT, Jun-Aug 2017 and Folsom, CA, Jan-Mar 2018
Step by Step, Forming My Art
Solo Exhibition at Bay Quilts
5327 Jacuzzi Street, Suite 3-C, Richmond, CA
sfbayquilts.com
Exhibition dates: January 2-28, 2024
Open hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 10 am-3 pm
Opening: January 14
Artist Talk: January 17
This exhibition includes quilts and monoprints created since January 2020. It includes Ileana’s environmental pieces, her voting rights series, monoprints, and others that aren’t categorizable! Please stop by if you’re in the area.
Telling Our Stories
Ancestors: Unplanned Occurrences
Ileana was honored with an Award of Merit for Ancestors: Unplanned Occurrences, which is part of an exhibition called Telling Our Stories at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock, CA. This exhibition is located in the Lobby Galleries and features 20 regional artists whose works explore personal narratives and themes of culture and heritage.
From Carnegie Arts Center:
Culture can be a connection between our past and our future, and it is something many of us incorporate into the way we live our lives. With this exhibition, artists tell their stories of culture and heritage. How do we define our heritage? How do we interpret and represent our cultural past? Is there a lens through which we can experience and respectfully share in the cultural traditions of our neighbors and friends? Each artist has provided a brief statement about their work, to help viewers understand the nuances of how culture shapes who we are and how we see the world.
The exhibition was juried by painter and Merced College faculty member Louisa Benhissen. CAC Director, Lisa McDermott, says, “Many artists in our region have deep cultural ties going back generations. We wanted to offer the opportunity for reflecting on where we find value in our own ‘roots’ and how we learn to understand and enjoy the diverse cultures that make up our community.”
de Young Open 2023
Caravan: La Bestia
Please come see my new work, Caravan: La Bestia, which has been selected in the de Young’s second triennial of its juried community art exhibition. This special exhibition will feature works by artists from nine Bay Area counties, and will be presented “salon style.”
Tickets and more information are available here.