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Tumbleweed Found, 1025 Center Street, Santa Cruz, CA (2026)

06/08/2026

Featured at Tumbleweed Found as part of a private historical footwear collection spanning the 19th and 20th centuries.

From elegant Victorian boots to Jazz Age evening shoes and sequined bo***ir slippers, these surviving examples offer a glimpse into changing fashions, craftsmanship, and the lives of the women who once wore them.

Currently on view alongside our exhibition, Gaza Bowen: Remembrance — Worn Histories & Transformative Objects.

All shoes are presented in as-found condition and are intended for display and collection rather than wear.

Woman’s Boots, Red Kid Leather
ca. 1901–1905
Red kid leather high-cut lace-up boots with Louis heels. Labeled Walk-Over Custom Grade by the Geo. E. Keith Co.

Green Silk Pumps
1920s
Green silk pumps with cut steel buckles and decorative netting detail.

Sequined Bo***ir Mules
ca. 1917
Open-back bo***ir slippers with a vamp covered in gold, teal, and mint green sequins. Silk lined with padded heels covered in gold-toned leather. Marked “Genuine Leather Hand Sewed” and patented October 23, 1917.

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05/19/2026

A few highlights from the historical footwear collection featured alongside Gaza Bowen: Remembrance at Tumbleweed Found.

• Dorothy Dodd “Motor Boot” — early 20th century leather driving boot designed for the emerging age of the automobile and women’s sportswear.

• Indonesian Women’s Court Shoes — richly embroidered ceremonial footwear reflecting intricate textile traditions and court adornment. Made in India in the late 19c.

• Damask Boot — an elegant late 19th century boot featuring richly patterned damask fabric and fine detailing including glass buttons.

Opening reception Friday, May 22 • 5–7 PM

All historical footwear and exhibited shoe works will be available for purchase.

Presented alongside the transformative sculptural works of Gaza Bowen (1944–2005), these shoes invite us to consider footwear as history, identity, adornment, and cultural memory.

05/17/2026

GAZA BOWEN: REMEMBRANCE
WORN HISTORIES & TRANSFORMATIVE OBJECTS

Alongside a Historic Footwear Collection (private estate)

Opening Friday, May 22, 5-7pm

Gaza Bowen (1944–2005) was an internationally recognized sculptor and fine artist whose work is held in museum and institutional collections including The Getty Center, LACMA, Oakland Museum, the de Young Museum, Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia, and the Deutsches Schuhmuseum in Offenbach am Main, Germany. As a pioneer in the wearable art movement of the 1970s and ’80s, Bowen used the motif of women’s shoes to examine femininity, gender norms, consumerism, and personal history. Often incorporating found objects and repurposed materials, her work invites viewers to consider the objects we live with, the marks we leave behind, and the marks they leave on us.

Working across sculpture, book arts, printmaking, and assemblage, Bowen created wearable shoe works, artist books, upcycled metal pieces, and lino and woodcut prints spanning different periods of her life and career.

Alongside Gaza Bowen’s works, Tumbleweed Found is presenting a rare private collection of historical women’s footwear dating from the 1830s through the 1920s. The collection includes Victorian bridal boots, Edwardian lace-up heels, early motor boots, Civil War–era riding boots, bathing shoes, bo***ir slippers, and richly embroidered 19th-century court shoes from India. Together, these pieces trace changing ideas of fashion, mobility, ritual, and women’s lives across generations. Displayed in conversation with Bowen’s memory-filled assemblages and upcycled works, the collection offers a meditation on transformation, wear, beauty, and the stories objects continue to carry.

05/16/2026

COLLAGE AT TUMBLEWEED FOUND

Wednesdays;

5/20
11:00-2:00 (4 spaces available)
2:00-5:00 (3 spaces available)
5:00-8:00 (6 spaces available)

5/27
11:00-2:00 (5 spaces available)
2:00-5:00 (5 spaces available)

Limited to 8 per session.
$10 fee (cash preferred)

We provide maps • stamps • postcards • vintage photos • handmade papers • broken books • magazines • estate artist clippings • scissors • glue • 8×10 card stock paper and more.

Contact us to secure your spot, text or call 831-419-3130
See parking information on our website, tumbleweedfound.com/contact.
No food please.

Have a three-hour private collage gathering with 8 friends or co-workers. We set up and provide all the materials. Contact us to learn more. (not instructor led)

05/16/2026

DARE Art Sculpture by Simon Toparovsky

Toparovsky’s work bridges sculpture, narrative, memory, and material transformation — with pieces held in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty Center, and Centre Pompidou.

Known for combining bronze, found objects, textiles, and deeply symbolic forms, his work carries both spiritual weight and poetic mystery.

This 1995 piece is now available at Tumbleweed Found

05/12/2026

Join us this Friday for a reading by author, Carolyn Burke and Art by Ian Everard.

Friday, May 15, 5pm
Free
Limited Seating

This collaboration (part one in the Spring 2026 issue of Zyzzyva), began when Ian Everard accepted Carolyn Burke’s invitation to illustrate her stories about moments of aesthetic and moral choice. A series of exchanges ensued. Now, at Tumbleweed Found, a mosaic of images from the stories—an avocado, a lop-sided gravestone, hands enigmatically poised in the air, a gleaming art deco n**e, a showjumper on horseback, meticulous paintings of books as objects —trace steps in what has become a back-and-forth between artist and writer. . . . to be continued.

Carolyn Burke’s LEE MILLER, hailed by The Observer as “one of the great books on an artist’s life,” has helped inspire the resurgence of interest in Miller as model and photographer. Having also published biographies of Mina Loy, Edith Piaf, and FOURSOME: ALFRED STEIGLITZ, GEORGIA O’KEEFFE, PAUL STRAND, REBECCA SALSBURY, Carolyn is writing non-fiction stories sparked by encounters with creative artists. After completing a Ph.D in English Literature at Columbia University, she lived in Paris before settling in Santa Cruz, where she reviewed art for the Santa Cruz Express. Her books are published in the U.S. (FSG, Knopf), the U.K. (Bloomsbury), various European countries, and her birthplace, Australia.

Ian Everard has exhibited nationally and internationally. Born in St. Ives, UK. he has degrees in painting from Stourbridge College of Art, UK, in Natural Science Illustration from UCSC and an MFA from SFSU. While primarily known for his reconstructions and paintings of books as objects, he has also illustrated books, journals and magazines. His work is in many collections, including The Achenbach Foundation San Francisco, The Crocker Museum ,Sacramento, The Oakland Museum, UCSC Special Collections, The Farhat Collection, Santa Cruz, and the Lawrence B. Benenson Collection, Connecticut. He has received a Rydell Fellowship, a Tree of Life Individual Artist Grant, and a George Sugarman Award. He is represented by Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco.

05/06/2026

Ephemera
Fragments from the Villa, Release 1

Provenance Villa Gonzaga Papers
These papers were recovered from Villa Gonzaga, a historic hillside estate on Monte Berico, overlooking the quiet Valletta del Silenzio. Once part of a larger aristocratic property, the villa was later divided into multiple residences, where traces of its past remained—frescoed walls, a private chapel, and cellars once used for estate-made wine.

The documents date primarily from the late 19th to early 20th century. Some bear the name of Emanuele Gonzaga, linking them to the Gonzaga family, one of northern Italy’s historic noble lineages.

Discovered stored in the outbuildings of the villa—and nearly lost—these papers were gathered and preserved, carrying with them the marks of daily life, administration, and memory.

Now released into the world, they invite a new life in the hands of collectors and artists.

Includes 20 sheets, falling into categories such as;
* accounting/invoicing related papers
* travel documents; receipts, telegrams/telegraphs, postal receipts
* restaurant receipts, invoices
* letters/notes

50 available

04/23/2026

A BIOGRAPHER’S SKETCHBOOK:
ARTISTIC EXCHANGES

Join us for two events with author Carolyn Burke and Artist Ian Everard

First Friday Reception, May 1, 5-8pm
Reading by Carolyn Burke, May 15, 5pm

Everard's mosaic of illustrations for Burke’s short stories includes an avocado, a lop-sided gravestone, hands poised in the air, an art deco n**e, a showjumper on horseback, and meticulous paintings of books as objects—successive stages in a back-and-forth between artist and writer.

has exhibited nationally and internationally. Born in St. Ives, UK. he has degrees in painting from Stourbridge College of Art, UK, in Natural Science Illustration from UCSC and an MFA from SFSU. While primarily known for his reconstructions and paintings of books as objects, he has also illustrated books, journals and magazines. His work is in many collections, including The Achenbach Foundation San Francisco, The Crocker Museum ,Sacramento, The Oakland Museum, UCSC Special Collections, The Farhat Collection, Santa Cruz, and the Lawrence B. Benenson Collection, Connecticut. He has received a Rydell Fellowship, a Tree of Life Individual Artist Grant, and a George Sugarman Award. He is represented by Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco.

Carolyn Burke’s LEE MILLER, hailed by The Observer as “one of the great books on an artist’s life,” has helped inspire the resurgence of interest in Miller as model and photographer. Having also published biographies of Mina Loy, Edith Piaf, and FOURSOME: ALFRED STEIGLITZ, GEORGIA O’KEEFFE, PAUL STRAND, REBECCA SALSBURY, Carolyn is writing non-fiction stories sparked by encounters with creative artists. After completing a Ph.D in English Literature at Columbia University, she lived in Paris before settling in Santa Cruz, where she reviewed art for the Santa Cruz Express. Her books are published in the U.S. (FSG, Knopf), the U.K. (Bloomsbury), various European countries, and her birthplace, Australia.

04/21/2026

May dates are now released for our weekly
COLLAGE AT TUMBLEWEED FOUND

Wednesdays;

5/6
11:00-2:00 (5 spaces available)
2:00-5:00 (8 spaces available)

5/13
11:00-2:00 (6 spaces available)
2:00-5:00 (8 spaces available)

5/20
11:00-2:00 (8 spaces available)
2:00-5:00 (8 spaces available)
5:00-8:00 (6 spaces available)

5/27
11:00-2:00 (6 spaces available)
2:00-5:00 (8 spaces available)

Limited to 8 per session.
$10 fee (cash preferred)

We provide everything, just bring yourself (and a friend)!
maps • stamps • postcards • vintage photos • handmade papers • broken books • magazines • artist magazine clippings • scissors • glue • blank cards and envelopes, 8×10 card stock paper and more.

Contact us to secure your spot, text or call 831-419-3130
See parking information on our website, tumbleweedfound.com/contact.
No food please.

Have a three-hour private collage gathering with 8 friends or co-workers. We set up and provide all the materials. Contact us to learn more. (not instructor led)

04/20/2026

REMIXING & REIMAGINING:
AN ART HISTORY COLLAGE WORKSHOP
Thursday, May 28, 11am-2pm

Join collage artist and photographer for a hands-on workshop exploring how contemporary collage artists reinterpret images from art history.

Participants will look closely at famous artworks and study how contemporary artists borrow, remix, and transform elements from them to create new visual narratives. By isolating details, shifting scale, repeating imagery, and introducing unexpected elements, we will explore how historical images can be reimagined through a contemporary lens.

Participants will create their own collages inspired by artworks from the past, experimenting with techniques such as cutting, layering, repetition, and juxtaposition.

All materials will be provided, including a curated selection of copyright-free art history images.

All levels welcome. No prior collage or art-making experience is necessary.

About the Instructor
Iris Weaver studied art on weekends at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam while living and teaching in the Netherlands. Her work has recently been exhibited at Gallery 881 with Broad Magazine in Vancouver, British Columbia (2024) and Postales desde el Limbo in Zaragoza, Spain (2025). Her work has also been featured in Contemporary Collage Magazine, Kolaj Magazine, and Why Collage? Magazine.

Materials
All materials will be provided, including papers, tools, and a visual image prompt.

Participants are welcome to bring family photographs, vintage papers, or personal imagery to incorporate into their collage. If you would like to use personal photographs, you may send digital copies to Iris ahead of time and she can print them for the workshop.

DM or come by the shop to register.

Please note this workshop will also be offered on Wednesday, June 10, 5:30-8:30pm

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