Arpilleras: Talk and Workshop

Saturday, December 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM to Saturday, December 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM

ICA LA, Los Angeles

Join curator and art historian **Isabel Rojas-Williams** and artist educator **Gabriela Martínez** to learn about the Arpillera movement where communities of women produced and globally circulated hand-embroidered textiles depicting scenes of Chilean oppression and hardship under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The presentation will be followed by a workshop of LA-based arpilleristas, including Rojas-Williams, who are former members of the international activist organization Movimiento por la Emancipación de las Mujeres de Chile/Movement for the Emancipation of Chilean Woman (MEMCH). Examples of historic arpilleras from the family collection of artist Franciso Letelier will be on view during the program.