Featured Work: On View

'Material Prophecies: Craft as Divination

on view February 20 – August 1, 2026 at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, Ca. This group exhibition brings together Jackie Amézquita, April Bey, Calethia DeConto, Emmanuel Louisnord Desir, Joel Gaitan, vanessa german, Sky Hopinka, and Lani Trock, who explore how artists transform material into ritual, cosmology, and future-making. Through fiber, wood, bronze, cyanotype, terracotta, film, installation, and earth, the artists consider craft as a form of divination, where making becomes a language for healing, invocation, and ancestral knowledge.

The Long Drift Home, 2026  | Mapping the Emotional Weather of Memory and the Space Between, 2026 

Installation view of Material Prophecies: Craft as Divination, Armory Center for the Arts, 2026. Courtesy of Armory Center for the Arts. Photo: Chris Young / CC YOUNG STUDIO 

Installation view of Material Prophecies: Craft as Divination, Armory Center for the Arts, 2026. Courtesy of Armory Center for the Arts. Photo: Chris Young / CC YOUNG STUDIO

Installation view of Material Prophecies: Craft as Divination, Armory Center for the Arts, 2026. Courtesy of Armory Center for the Arts. Photo: Chris Young / CC YOUNG STUDIO

Installation view of Material Prophecies: Craft as Divination, Armory Center for the Arts, 2026. Courtesy of Armory Center for the Arts. Photo: Chris Young / CC YOUNG STUDIO

New Work: Cyanotypes on vintage textiles

Cyanotype installation on paper and textile. Materials study developed over a three-month residency culminating in a two-person exhibition. April 25 and 26th in Los Angeles, Ca

New Work: 'An Unstable Archive of Place'

Developed during a three-month residency, with an intentional use of expired Polaroid film.
Includes community participation through collected responses and site-based observation.
A growing archive of fragments exploring place, time, and environmental instability. 

Visitors were invited to add an observation to the archive.

March 4, 2026 - April 26, 2026

Current Work in Progress:

Super 8 film of artist Mayon Hanania sharing her art practice and inspirations. I am in the very beginning stage of this process and planning future dates to film and capture audio. +May 2026+

© Calethia DeConto 2026