WOOL at Thistle Restaurant
OPENING: 3-7 pm on February 22nd, 2026
Dear Friends & Community,
Please join us for an afternoon of art and connection as we celebrate a collection of felted works by fiber artist Kristina Foley. Each piece is created by hand, using wool sourced from small farms in the Pacific Northwest.
Appetizers and light drinks will be served. We’d love to see you there!
The exhibition will be on view from February 14–28.
Wild Thresholds
Wild Thresholds invites viewers to contemplate the shifting boundaries between the built and the natural, the domesticated and the wild, the remembered and the reimagined. This group show focuses on works that collectively embody reverence for the living species and raw materials while challenging the viewer to reconsider what preservation, coexistence and transformation look like in this era of climate change and urban sprawl.
A Sense of Place
Artwork for the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and Museum’s permanent collection and new exhibition: A Sense of Place - Exploring the History and Evolution of the Imperial Stock Ranch.
The Dalles, Oregon
Animal Landscapes - Solo Exhibition
Hemmings Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by fiber artist Kristina Foley, whose large-scale felted works invite viewers into lush, tactile landscapes that shift between the familiar and the fantastical. Using raw wool, combed Merino, and wild silks, Foley continues her deep exploration of feltmaking—an ancient, transformative craft. Her carefully chosen materials engage the senses and highlight the origins and slow processes that shape each piece.
For this exhibition, Foley combines wool from a flock of endangered Navajo-Churro sheep near her Western Oregon home with fine Merino from Shaniko Wool Company. This pairing opens a dialogue about the cultural legacy and sustainable future of wool in the American West, a conversation deeply connected to Sun Valley’s own centuries-long tradition of sheep ranching.
Human Nature
Felted wool invites the attention of all our senses and transports us into the natural world at the root of its making. When we engage with the felt we realize that it is at once wild, like nature, and also cultured, owing to the centuries of tradition informing its production.