Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts

Founded in 1973 by Hungarian-born artist Gyöngy Laky, Fiberworks included a wide range of contemporary and experimental approaches based in the textile arts medium. The Fiberworks gallery showcased textile art in the early 1970s, a time when most other commercial galleries and museums gave textile medium scant exposure.

Foremost was the year-round Community School, the Special Studies program and the Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts accredited programs in conjunction with Lone Mountain College of San Francisco. Many of the school's faculty, lecturers, exhibitors and students were, or would go on to become, influential leaders in the arts including Louise Allrich, Joanne Segal Brandford, Lia Cook, Mildred Howard, David Ireland, Gyöngy Laky, Jack Lenor Larsen, Nance O’Banion and Morgan O’Hara, Ed Rossbach, Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, and Katherine Westphal, to mention only a few.