Ides includes work from regional WNY artists that highlights innovation or fresh technique or cutting edge use of traditional techniques to create fine execution of fiber for IDES of Ideas: Executions in Fiber.

Arts Council for Wyoming County the public to join the artists on view for an opening celebration and presentation of awards on Saturday, March 14, 2026 from 2 pm – 4 pm as the beginning of the countdown to this year’s Fiber Flurry Fiber Arts Festival.

This exhibition will be judged, with the following prizes awarded:
1st Place – Fine Fiber: $75
2nd Place – Fine Fiber: $50
Best Non-Fiber: $50
Best in Show Overall: $75
People’s Choice: $50. The public is invited to cast their vote for people’s choice throughout the month. People’s Choice will be announced and awarded at Fiber Flurry on Saturday, April 25, 2026.

An artists panel will center voices of select Ides artists and kickoff Fiber Flurry weekend at 2pm Friday, April 24 at Council headquarters. Details on the artists panel will be announced.

About IDES:
Themes for this exhibition include cutting, including away outdated thoughts surrounding fiber’s role as a fine art OR craft medium, and explores the ideas of Interwoven experiences and the ever-important Exchange of Ideas, including those surrounding community and how we communicate and choose to include or exclude.
Additional themes include throwing caution to the wind, Cavio – Beware of the Ides, Infamy or unusual use of traditional materials to create dialogue or provoke exchange, veins, threads, and fiber optics, both with respect to how things appear and with respect to embracing new technology to honor and elevate respected shared traditions.

We invite the public to view the various artists’ interpretation of these ideas and celebrate spring and new ideas and energy.

This exhibition was curated by juror Tami Fuller. Fuller is a multi-disciplinary artist specializing in fiber, an arts educator and independent curator, and member of Weaver’s Guild and the Weaver’s Guild of Rochester. She is the President for the Buffalo Society of Artists, Executive Director and Chair of Emerging Artists at the Roycrofters at Large Association and Founder and Lead Teacher at Blubird Studio, providing fiber art education across New York State and the Northeast United States. She is a professional studio fiber artist, and her work has been published internationally with Fiber Art Now and has received awards from NY Sheep and Wool, the Carnegie Art Center, Lake Affect Magazine, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center and the Arts Council for Wyoming. Her work is held in private collections in the US, Canada and Australia.

Ides will be on view through April 26, 2026.