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Learned how to make a giant head in 16 hours over 2 days with the amazing team at @latactilelab 🐐Also learned that it’s only technically a Halloween costume if it fits in the car/through the door to the party 🎃

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Lamp is coming back on November 1st•••link in bio to sign up•••see you at the shop••• #woodworking #losangeles #losangelesevents #whattodoinla #lathe

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Our first batch of Giant Heads this year! 🦄🪄

We’re so proud of what our participants accomplished in just two days during our Build a Giant Head workshop!! Such a fantastic crew

We have a fresh group coming in this weekend, stick around to see what they get up to!

BUILD A GIANT HEAD IN JANUARY IS NOW OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT
Sign up at the link in our bio ✨

#workshop #losangeles #wearablesculpture #costume #gianthead

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SOLD OUT! Intro to Felt Loom with Emily Silver @emilysilverstudio 🍓🪄🪄

Join textile artist Emily Silver for a one day workshop exploring the art of collage through innovative needle-felting techniques. Participants will learn to create unique pre-felt batting and textured fabrics by layering and compacting a variety of fibers, trims and fabric remnants through the felting loom.

This course is already sold out, but do not fear! Add your name to the waitlist on our website to be notified if there’s an available seat. We will also contact you first when we add the next one to the schedule 💕

Sunday, November 14 from 9:00 - 3:00 PM

📍407 E Pico Blvd Suite 808 DTLA

Link in bio to sign up for the waitlist and see what else we have on tap this fall ✨

#felting #losangeles #textileart #feltloom #workshop

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That’s a wrap on Speak To Me! Thank you to everyone who sat down with us for our Artist Talk with Joy Ray and Emily Silver and joined us for the warm reception that followed. We will miss this evocative, tactile show about text and textile! 🗣️🗣️🧵🧵🪡🪡

SPEAK TO ME
•Artists•
@joyray @emilysilver
•Curator+Exhibition Designer•
@shannonraefincke
•Gallery Assistant•
@carolineyuratich
•Gallery Intern•
@s1phjwall_08

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Week two @the_weaving_workshop is off to a rocky start, but I think the basket is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever made 🤲🏻💕
Also finding time to make a poster @campfireprintingpress Do you see what I’m saying?

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Big thanks to Eric Minh Swenson for stopping by and making this gorgeous film of Speak To Me! Today is the last day to stop by from 1-3 to see it in person before it closes tomorrow.🗣️🗣️

Speak To Me is an evocative, tactile exhibition that explores the intersection of words, fibers, and form—creating a complex, dialogue-driven pairing of two distinct multidisciplinary artists who use mixed soft sculptural media and language as subject matter. The text and textile works of Joy Ray and Emily Silver navigate the spaces between expression and material, abstraction and legibility, heartache and humor. Drawing from textile traditions while pushing into three-dimensional space, their works challenge the boundaries between text and image, asking viewers to encounter fragmented and reconfigured words not only as something to read, but as something to see and feel—where meaning hovers at the edge of recognition.

Within this shared conceptual framework, Ray and Silver move in strikingly different emotional and visual registers. Ray creates solemn, dense, monochromatic, contemplative works that reach toward what is remembered, inherited, and unknowable. Silver infuses her work with vibrant color, texture, and exuberant materiality, giving weight to sharp wit and tender vulnerability. The installation brings these distinct bodies of work into proximity, creating a dynamic exchange across the gallery space where intensity and levity, grief and resilience, the intellectual and the emotional exist in productive tension. The compelling physical surfaces carry complex narratives that extend beyond the literal meaning of words. Speak To Me considers what happens when language leaves the page and becomes physical—when words become both subject and visual elements, transformed into structure and surface while taking on functions and meanings beyond their literal definitions. The works invite close looking, revealing layers of meaning that emerge through the contrast between what can be understood and what can be felt, while leaving space for what remains unresolved.

🎥 @ericminhswenson

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LAST WEEK 🗣️Speak To Me 🗣️

Speak To Me is an evocative, tactile exhibition that explores the intersection of words, fibers, and form—creating a complex, dialogue-driven pairing of two distinct multidisciplinary artists who use mixed soft sculptural media and language as subject matter.

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“Beginning with processes of tracing, translation, and material transformation, my sculptural weavings translate language into structure. I embed text, coded symbols, and shifting materials to produce forms that move between legibility and abstraction, where humor and grief sit uncomfortably close. Shaped by experiences of loss, bodily change, and broader instability, my work engages labor as a form of endurance. Fibers are bound, layered, and reworked through time-intensive processes that register care and persistence rather than resolution.” —Emily Silver

#emilysilver #themiddleroomgallery
#artinla #atwatervillage #atwater
Exhibition Installation 📸 @false_artifacts

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“Side Pony” by Emily Silver

LAST WEEK OF SPEAK TO ME—schedule an appointment or stop by this Saturday 1-3pm!

Emily Silver
Side Pony
2026
Wood, Reed, Cotton, Wool, Acrylic, Embroidery
20x16x8

For press and sales inquiries or a checklist contact info@TheMiddleRoomGallery.com

#TheMiddleRoomGallery #ArtinLA
#LAArtists #AtwaterVillage #LAart

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👀A closer look at the incredible details in Emily Silver’s work in SPEAK TO ME, on view through October 11. 🗣️Join us TODAY at 4pm for an Artist Talk to learn more about Emily’s process and practice—a happy hour reception will follow.🥂

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Emily Silver is an artist working across textiles, sculpture, and installation who lives and works in Los Angeles. Beginning with processes of tracing, translation, and material transformation, her sculptural weavings translate language into structure. Silver embeds text, coded symbols, and shifting materials to produce forms that move between legibility and abstraction, where humor and grief sit uncomfortably close. Shaped by experiences of loss, bodily change, and broader instability, Silver’s work engages labor as a form of endurance. Fibers are bound, layered, and reworked through time-intensive processes that register care and persistence rather than resolution.

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The Middle Room is open by appointment and on Saturdays and Sundays from 1-3pm while the exhibition is on view.

For press and sales inquiries or a checklist contact info@TheMiddleRoomGallery.com.

@emilysilverstudio #themiddleroomgallery

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Speak To Me is an evocative, tactile exhibition that explores the intersection of words, fibers, and form—creating a complex, dialogue-driven pairing of two distinct multidisciplinary artists who use mixed soft sculptural media and language as subject matter. The text and textile works of Joy Ray and Emily Silver navigate the spaces between expression and material, abstraction and legibility, heartache and humor. Drawing from textile traditions while pushing into three-dimensional space, their works challenge the boundaries between text and image, asking viewers to encounter fragmented and reconfigured words not only as something to read, but as something to see and feel—where meaning hovers at the edge of recognition.

Within this shared conceptual framework, Ray and Silver move in strikingly different emotional and visual registers. Ray creates solemn, dense, monochromatic, contemplative works that reach toward what is remembered, inherited, and unknowable. Silver infuses her work with vibrant color, texture, and exuberant materiality, giving weight to sharp wit and tender vulnerability. The installation brings these distinct bodies of work into proximity, creating a dynamic exchange across the gallery space where intensity and levity, grief and resilience, the intellectual and the emotional exist in productive tension. The compelling physical surfaces carry complex narratives that extend beyond the literal meaning of words. Speak To Me considers what happens when language leaves the page and becomes physical—when words become both subject and visual elements, transformed into structure and surface while taking on functions and meanings beyond their literal definitions. The works invite close looking, revealing layers of meaning that emerge through the contrast between what can be understood and what can be felt, while leaving space for what remains unresolved.

•Artists•
@joyrayart
@emilysilverstudio
•Curator+Exhibition Designer•
@shannonraefincke

ARTIST TALK+RECEPTION: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 4–6PM #themiddleroomgallery #artinla #laart

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