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Couples in Craft
Couples in Craft at the Craft in America Center this summer featuring textiles and ceramics.
Ferne Jacobs: A Personal World
Ferne Jacobs: 50 Years in the Making
An intimate exhibit expanding 50 years, showcasing Jacob’s sculptural twinned and coiled works. What stands out is her devotion to materials and processes. The exhibit includes personal sketchbooks and diaries, personal correspondence, artworks, and ephemera from her friends Lenore Tawney and Dominic Demare.
Hammer Projects: Chiharu Shiota
Immerse yourself under a canopy of entangled red threads in the Hammer Museum Foyer.
Small Expressions Exhibition
Handweavers Guild of America’s Small Expressions Exhibit 2022 is now on view in Los Angeles
Saturday, April 22, 2023 2:00 PM Saturday, June 3, 2023 4:00 PM
Small Expressions Juror Walkthrough
Please join juror Cameron Taylor-Brown for a special in-person walkthrough of the exhibit Small Expressions 2022 Saturday, May 20, at 2 pm.
Micah Clasper-Torch
CONSTRUCT: Loud By Nature is a new exhibition by artist and fashion designer Micah Clasper-Torch. Micah's work is known for its intricate detail, contrasting textures, and bold use of color.
Ernesto Neto’s Houston Installation Winds Visitors Through Nature
Intended to evoke the powers of nature that create life and drawing on the crocheting taught to Neto by his grandmother when he was an adult, SunForceOceanLife is an interactive installation. Photography by Albert Sanchez.
New York's Museum of Arts and Design Puts Craft Front and Center
The exhibit brings together more than 70 works in an iconic survey of the many iterations of craft. The exhibition features never before shown pieces by lesser known artists working in clay, fiber, glass, metal and more.
Cooper Hewitt set to re-open, highlighting contemporary fashion and Historical textile design
Cooper Hewitt, NY will re-open its doors to the public on June 10th, 2021 with several exciting exhibitions on contemporary muslim fashion, works from iconic pattern designer Suzie Zuzek and street couture extraordinaire Willi Smith.
Berkeley’s Kay Sekimachi, 94, weaves her way to solo show at BAMPFA
Over fifty works by weaver Kay Sekimachi will feature in upcoming solo show at BAMPFA, the UC Berkley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Sekimachi brings weaving to life, transforming 2D surfaces to 3D sculptural objects.
Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America
With a virtual walkthrough March 3. Link here.
Bisa Butler Creates Stunning Quilts Capturing Narratives of Black Life in America
The Art Institute of Chicago presents Bisa Butler: Portraits, a series of over 20 intricately quilted portraits exploring the histories of Black lives in America.
Desktop Dialogue: Making and Meaning in Mola Textiles
From the Cleveland Museum of Art: A conversation on the mola, a key component of traditional dress of the indigenous Guna (formerly Kuna) women of Panamá.
Asafo Flags: Online Exhibition from the Karun Thakar Collection
Online exhibit from the Karun Collection: Asafo Flags from Ghana, depicting a journey through the country’s history from 1900-1970’s. Some flags have been digitally repaired to give the viewer a better visual experience.
Knit! - A Global Textile Exhibition Showcasing Extreme Creativity
Knit! sees 28 designers from around the world interpret the structural and decorative capabilities of knitted textiles. We’re talking about some of the world’s top craftsman and industrial designers pushing woven materials to their functional limits.
Making Knowing at the Whitney Museum of Art
Includes work from Ruth Asawa, Eva Hesse, Lenore Tawney and more. Runs through Feb 2022
Sterling Ruby at ICA Boston
Influenced by Ruby’s childhood experience with Amish quilt-making in rural Pennsylvania, these works embody the artist’s attraction to craft and its connotations relating to gender and modernity. Through October 12, 2020
Labor: Motherhood & Art in 2020 Exhibition
The new University Art Museum at New Mexico State University is featuring Labor: Motherhood & Art in 2020 as their inaugural exhibition, on view through August 16, 2020.
Virtual Tour of Dress Up, Speak Up exhibition at 21c Museum Hotel in Cincinnati
The 21c Museum Hotel in Cincinnati is featuring Dress Up, Speak Up: Regalia and Resistance, an exhibition on view through July 2020 that can be visited virtually.
Virtual Video Tour + Photos of Boro Textiles: Sustainable Aesthetics at Japan Society
The Japan Society’s current exhibition, Boro Textiles: Sustainable Aesthetics, features boro textiles hand-pieced by Japanese peasants in the 19th and early 20th centuries.