The Bay Area Forum for artists, Council aficionados & collectors of , rugs & , baskets, costume & wearable September 2006 Upcoming Programs and Announcements Volume XXI, All programs are held in the Koret Auditorium at the in Golden Gate Park, Number 3 50 Hagiwara Tea Drive, . Admission to the programs is FREE to TAC members, $5 for non-members, and $3 for students with I.D. No additional Museum admission fee is necessary. You may enter from the lower garage level or from the main floor near the entrance.

Saturday, Sept. 16, 2006, 10:00 a.m. scheduled for publication in 2007. Ms. Coleman THE VOICE AND STYLE OF received a Master of Science in Counseling in AFRICAN-AMERICAN QUILTERS 1978 and she frequently uses her social service With Marion Coleman background as a resource for creating story . She is presently working on a commission The diversity of styles and techniques repre- for the Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center, sented within the African-American scheduled to open in 2007. Two of her pieces community will be presented by Marion Coleman have been accepted in the “By Hand: A National through slides and a hands-on viewing of a Juried Exhibition of Traditional and Innovative collection of quilts made by family and friends. ” exhibit at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut These works range from traditional quilts Creek, July 9-Sept. 10, 2006. Please join us made by her grandmother and great aunts to for this exciting opportunity to learn about contemporary quilts created by fellow members the historic as well as contemporary African- of the African-American Guild of Oakland. American quilt scene from a practicing artist. Solitude, Marion Coleman The lecture by Ms. Colman will focus on the 2005 variety of works produced by African-Americans Ms. Coleman has served as president of the including Underground Railroad quilts, strip and African-American Quilt Guild of Oakland. She string piecing, and story quilts documenting is a member of the Studio Art Quilt Associates, personal histories and the African-American the American Quilter’s Society, the International culture. Additionally Ms. Coleman will show and Quilt Association, East Bay Heritage Quilters, the discuss contemporary quilts using African and Surface Design Association, and the other international fabrics, digital technology, Council. , , etc. The lecture is designed to Saturday, Oct. 14, 2006, 10:00 a.m. encourage discussion about what can be defined as an African-American quilt. Participants will be ANIMAL MYTH AND MAGIC: encouraged to decide for themselves if there is IMAGES FROM PRE-COLUMBIAN an African-American style of quilt and, if so, what it is. With Vanessa Drake Moraga

Marion Coleman was taught to sew by her Ancient Andean art and culture cultivated an grandmother and she has been quilting for more intense symbolic identification with the animal than 20 years. Her work has been displayed world. Pre-Columbian societies, from Chavin to Winged Jaguar Staff-bearer from a Wari Tunic, 600-900 AD nationally, including in exhibitions at the Museum Inca, incorporated animals and animal imagery of the American Quilter’s Society and the into ceremony and costume, ritual space and International Quilt Festival. Internationally, her experience, social life and economy. Animals Fine Arts work has been displayed in South , , shaped Andean peoples’ vision of themselves Museums of and . A solo exhibition of her work was —and of their shamans and rulers, who were San Francisco presented in winter, 2006, at the Latham Square resplendent in fox skins, jaguar pelts, plumed Building in Oakland. Examples of her work are headdresses, whiskered masks, and garments de Young Legion included in Textural Rhythms: Constructing the patterned with mythological and real crea- of Honor Jazz Tradition, by Carolyn Mazloomi, which is tures. Animals signified prestige, spiritual power,  Programs continue on page 2, col. 3 From the Chair Lucy Smith as the new TAC newsletter editor. Programs September 2006 continued from page 1 Welcome Lucy! I am very excited to announce that our membership and contact with the Three board members are stepping down at the has reached 500! You can see from the list of new supernatural. They also end of their terms, in September. Please join me in members in this newsletter that there is a lot of figured prominently thanking Kathy Judd, Jill LeCrone, and Nan Robarge interest in and enthusiasm for textiles. among the constellations for their service to the Textile Arts Council. They of the southern sky, as There are terrific lectures planned for the fall. In have all worked hard and made great contributions characters in myth and September, Marion Coleman will speak on The Voice to our organization. Thank you Kathy, Jill, and Nan! folklore, and in acts of and Style of African-American Quilters. Ms. Coleman The board has voted to recommend to you three divination and sacrifice. has served as president of the African-American Quilt new board members to take their places. They are: Guild of Oakland, and is a member of the Studio Art Sherrie Horner, Master Curtainmaker, TAC member, These beliefs and tradi- Quilt Association, the American Quilter’s Society, the and lecturer on the fabulous curtains she made tions were reflected in International Quilt Association, East Bay Heritage for the King of Thailand; Hansine Goran, owner the marvelous variety Quilters, and the Surface Design Association. And she of Current , TAC member, and lecturer on of animals depicted in is a TAC member, too! October’s lecture is by Vanessa her beautiful custom design and fabrication textile iconography. In Moraga on Animal Myth and Magic: Images from process; and Michelle Nassopoulos, textile designer, a lecture based on her Pre-Columbian Textiles, which is also the name of the freelance interior designer, writer, and illustrator, and recent book, Animal Myth stunning book she has written. She is an independent Senior Interior Designer with the Wiseman Group and Magic, Vanessa scholar and writer, and a contributing editor to /HALI Interior Design, Inc. Drake Moraga will draw /magazine. November’s lecture will be on a *Sunday, There are also three board members unfortunately on native historical texts *and given by Edward Maeder, currently director of unable to complete their terms. Join me in wishing and South American exhibitions and curator of textiles at Historic Deerfield them well, and thanking Judith Content, Peter Lyman, mythology, as well as in Massachusetts, and he was formerly curator of and Sandra Whitman for their service on the TAC archaeological and textiles and costumes at LACMA. His fascinating board. According to our guidelines, the board has anthropological sources, topic will be Clothes for the Table: The Creation, appointed members to fill those midterm vacant to explore the mythic and Care and Mystique of Table , 1500-1800 and is positions. Please join me in welcoming Pat Borg, ritual significance of both especially interesting to me. Read more about each a devoted and longtime TAC member. A former surreal and naturalistic lecture in these following pages. dressmaker who also brings us business skills, Pat is animal representations in The Sinton lecture and reception in June were well working with Kathy Judd to learn the job of treasurer pre-Columbian textile art. attended and a great success. Many thanks again by the time Kathy’s term is up in September. Please Focusing on those ani- to Peter Sinton and Patricia Sinton Adler for making also welcome Barbara Kelly, a fine dressmaker and mals thought to possess this wonderful event possible! Thanks also to Merikay , fashion department faculty member at CCA, shamanic roles and char- Waldvogl for an introduction to the Gee’s Bend quilts. well-known instructor at the Workshop, acteristics, and thus the Board members Mary Connors and Serena Harrigan PACC member, and winner of too many sewing essential theme of magi- continue to host the Ethnic Textile Study Group awards to list. Finally, please also welcome David cal transformation, her each month. Come and join this informal sharing Holloway, showroom manager for Stroheim and discussion is illustrated and touching of amazing textiles. Please call (Mary’s Romann Fabrics at the San Francisco Design Center. by an archive of images phone number here--coming from Trish) for more David is the Industry Partner representative to the documenting over 45 information. Northern California American Society of Interior species (from humming- Designers. Welcome Pat, Barbara, and David! birds and butterflies to The July TAC event at board member Paul Ramsey’s jaguars, otters, and killer beautiful Krimsa Gallery on Union St. was inspiring. I encourage and welcome TAC members interested whales). Collectively, the Read more about it in this issue.! Thank you, Paul, for in serving on the board in the future, or those willing images span 2000 years hosting this event! to volunteer to help with TAC events, to contact the TAC office at 415 750-3627. Come join the fun! of cultural traditions in Board member Linda Gass has been working hard on the Andes (including I hope to see you at the upcoming TAC events! getting our website up to date. Check it out at www. Paracas, Nasca, Wari, textileartscouncil.org. Thank you Linda! Yours in thread, and Chancay) and cover multiple techniques and The communications committee has engaged Laurel Sprigg, Chair, Textile Arts Council weaving structures. TAC Newsletter  Programs Programs continued from page 2 Review Vanessa Drake Moraga is an independent textile More than 60 TAC members researcher, curator, and writer, specializing in and friends attended the African and Andean textile art. She writes for special Dream Weavers of HALI magazine (as a consulting editor), Tribal, Borneo evening event at and other publications, and has published arti- the Krimsa Gallery on July cles on a range of subjects from Mapuche pon- 18th. Two Iban weavers from chos to Mbuti bark . She is the author Sarawak, Malaysia—Nancy of Animal Myth and Magic: Images from Pre- anak Ngali and Bangie Columbian Textiles (Ololo Press, 2005) and is ak Embol—were there to currently working on a companion volume to this demonstrate weaving warp visual encyclopedia, featuring the human figure ikat on a backstrap and as conceived by pre-Columbian textile artists. the tying in of their fantastic Iban weaver at the event designs into the warp threads. For the Iban, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2006, 10:00A.M. tying in an intricate ikat pattern not only CLOTHES FOR THE TABLE: demonstrates the tying skill of the artist but THE CREATION, CARE, AND the pattern produced reflects the age and A Special Invitation status of the person creating it. In addition MYSTIQUE OF TABLE LINEN, The and Design to this rare opportunity to see cloths being 1500-1800 Department of the San produced using traditional Iban methods, the Francisco Museum of With Edward Maeder group was entertained by a musician from Modern Art has generously Sarawak, Mathew Ngau Jau, who is also an When we trade our offered a limited number of artist and uses traditional barkcloth as his daily place mats and invitations to the canvas. napkins for opening reception for the our ‘best’ matching Edric Ong, president of the Society Atelier exhibition Alexander Girard: table linen to welcome Sarawak, an organization devoted to Vibrant Modern. Girard guests, we are carrying protecting the cultural heritage of Sarawak, (1907-1993) was a prominent on a tradition codified two hundred years ago. addressed the crowd. He spoke about the mid-20th century textile Though ’s ancien régime vanished at the creation of the cloths and the important designer known for his end of the 18th century, the refinement it brought motifs tied and woven into them. He quoted collaboration with Charles to social customs and the lives on. something Bangie had told him about how to Eames and his designs for judge a good quality ikat motif, “The hook, or The table service popularized at the Court of Herman Miller. The opening curl, must not be larger than a lady’s thumb. Versailles has endured through Regency routs reception takes place at It must be tightly defined like the nail sticking and Edwardian excess, right up to today’s SFMOMA on Oct. 12 from to the thumb, like a tadpole sticking to a fallen Power Lunch. Dressing the table with a large 6–8 p.m. leaf in the swift flowing waters of the stream.” cloth and individual napkins came into general If you would like an invitation The motif tied in must be “like genuine friend- use (at least for the upper classes) during the (which admits two), please ship, never betraying one another.” Edric 16th century. Soon this napery became luxury contact the TAC office by also touched on another important factor in goods. In the FAMSF Textile Collection is a large phone or e-mail. the creation of traditional Iban textiles, the blue damask napkin, ca. 1750, from Saxony. rich colors of the dyed , especially the Woven with delicate, white rococo figures of red color. Iban women honor those who can deities, it is almost as splendid as the and produce a rich deep red, for dyed this silken garments it was meant to protect. hue is the woman’s warpath, the equivalent of Edward is Director of Exhibitions and Curator the honor accorded their menfolk for valor in of Textiles at Historic Deerfield, MA. He was battle. formerly Curator of Textiles and Costumes We are extremely grateful for the generous at LACMA and is author of The Elegant Art: sponsorship of Krimsa Gallery for this evening event Fashion & Fantasy in the 18th Century. and would like to thank TAC board member Paul Ramsey for making it possible.  American Going Nano Tech Welcome to Our New Members

Gretchen Turner Through July 19,2006

A recent article in the San Francisco reinvigorate the industry here in the U.S. Isabel Acebal Elizabeth Kilmer Chronicle’s business section detailed Ten years later the NTC has expanded Sophie Aldrich Lesley Klionsky how State University is to include the cooperative efforts of Ruth Anderson Karen Landry sending out a recruiter to bring students eight universities with textile technology David Appel Kimberly Lang into their college of textiles. She and engineering programs. Those Sally Arney Virginia Larsen visits high schools and explains that schools are Auburn, Clemson, Cornell, Marcia Arrow Erin Lathers Shirlaine Baldwin Donna LaVallee graduates from the textile engineering Georgia Tech, NCSU, Philadelphia Christine Bare Bonnie Lawson program are in high demand in industry. University, UC Davis, and the University Carol Beaver Luciann Leraul But the focus now is not on apparel of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. Leilani Bennett Caroline Lieberman and furnishing fabrics, which used to Congress has designated $13M for Ruth Brousseau Karin Lusnak be the mainstay of the textile industry fiscal year 2006, to be apportioned Eileen Brubaker Diana Lynn in the East and the South. Now schools Patricia Bruvry Caroline McAboy among the participating institutions for are looking for candidates eager to be Deborah Burns Paula Malesardi research grants. This represents a 30% trained to develop and apply entirely Sharon Cahn Michele Malkin increase over FY 2005. In announcing new polymeric and nano to Lyn Caponera Susan Sullivan Maynard the appropriation, Senator Richard address a wide range of health, safety, Marion Coleman Diane Merrill Shelby (R-Alabama) noted that the NTC performance, and visual issues. These Lynn Crook Lissa Miner funds state-of-the-art research projects graduates represent the potential Patricia Daniels Sylvia Morafka and trains engineers and scientists salvation of the American textile Susanne Danielson Karina Nilsen & Bob who are essential to maintaining global Christopher Davies Moffat industry in the global economy. competitiveness in our textile sector. Suzanne Davis Mary O’Brien Most TAC members are lovers of Judy D’Este Remy Pessah A check of the websites of the NTC Janet Quinn textiles and for their visual Christine Devlin- universities yields a partial list of current Grogan Susan Randall and tactile properties. By and large research projects under way at NCSU. Barbara Edelson Kathlyn Ronsheimer performance has not ranked high on Research focuses on, among other Christine Edwards Claudia Sammis the list of desirable characteristics things, “bioactive bandages,” nano Brigitte Fowler Holly Samuelson in a fabric for us. Now performance fibers for heating and cooling, materials Jutta Frankie Gail Siegel of fibers has come to the fore as an Joanne Fraysse Bonnie Smith that are fire resistant, nanotechnology important factor in directing future Alexandra Friedman Claudia Smith for lower cost fabric dyeing, electrostatic research and development. Science Erica Fuchs Virginia Smith for ultrafine fibers, elastomers and industry have become interested Lucille Fukata Carol Kaseman Soker that can be braided into able in the characteristics of textiles that Thomas Goldwasser Ruth Spencer to take very high strain, and flocked allow them to bend and fold, rather Anne Gomes Anna Spudich fibers that can detoxify polluted water. than crack and break, as rigid materials Diane Graves Judith Steen Very high tech applications are clearly do. The aircraft, automotive, and sports Judith Greif Marilyn Sugimura envisioned for textiles in the future. Chooi Eng Grosso Ann Sundby industries are crying out for lightweight, Jommer Gryley Jill Tarlau strong, and flexible fibers. Engineers Although many of the textiles developed Jim Haws Deanna Taylor and specialists in fibers and textiles for a variety of high-tech purposes Susan Hendrickson Vickie Van Fechtmann can fill the bill. may ravish the eye and excite the Clarice Hirata Stephanie Vinces touch, perhaps these cloths of the In 1996 the National Textile Center David Holloway Martha Walker future will finally bring textiles the Kathryn Hovland Debra Wambaugh was formed and funded by the federal acknowledgement and respect so often Lara Jealous Patricia Williams government. The center originally lacking in the public mind today. Only Ingrid Johnson Heiderose Wilson included programs at four universities, time will tell what uses textile artists Michael & Susan Ann Wilton the aim of which was to fund basic Karasoff can make of the many advances that Kairsten Wydra research into all aspects of textile Joel & Debra Kass science will bring to cloth, woven and Patricia Yerian technology, design, and marketing to Macy Kaye Lisa York nonwoven, in the near future. Dagne Kerkorian TAC Newsletter  Obituary Candace Crockett: A Textile Legacy Barbara Shapiro Bay Area teacher and fiber artist Susan Spalding died Feb. 20th after a long illness. Many members of TAC know Candace Crockett as the Congratulations The California native arrived in Berkeley in author of books on card weaving, spinning, and off- loom techniques. I have had the privilege of watching the 60’s to join a weaving commune that TAC board member Candace teach for most of the last 25 years, and in operated the Berkeley Works, later and fiber artist Linda honor of her retirement from San Francisco State acquired by Fiber Works. She received a BA Gass has had an University, I want to share some of my thoughts about from the California College of Arts and exceptionally busy this extraordinary teacher. in 1973. After graduation, she joined owner summer. Cover girl for Susan Druding at Straw Into , and later the summer issue of For Candace there is no doubt that textiles are an art started her own company, Osage Dyeing Fiberarts magazine, form. She has instilled this concept in her students and Handspun. In 1975, Susan began her she was also featured during the 30 years she has spent at SFSU. She has 30-year association with the Richmond in the July issue generously shared her enthusiasm and her superb Art Center, teaching weaving and spinning of AmericanStyle technical abilities with absolute honesty and clarity. classes. As a freelance artist she taught magazine and on the Remaining true to her mission, she has guided at numerous Bay Area venues, including final installment of the hundreds of students through the mysteries of warp the last 10 years with the Oakland Unified HGTV program Simply and weft, designing and dyeing, fulling and finishing. School District at Pleasant Valley Adult Quilts. Her work has She also introduced students to a wide variety of off- School. She will be missed by her many been displayed at four loom and surface-design techniques. Always open former and current students and associates. venues this summer: and encouraging, she promoted the study of every Memorial gifts can be made to the Susan the Bellevue Arts imaginable approach to fiber, but never allowed Spalding Memorial Fund at the Richmond Museum in Bellevue, students to get bogged down in the merely technical. Art Center, 2540 Barrett Ave., Richmond, CA WA (until Sept. 3), Expo Every method was taught as a tool for personal artistic 94894 or call 510 620-6772. Magic Quilt in Lyon, exploration. Students left her class armed with a huge France, a Surface vocabulary of techniques and the confidence to use Opportunity Design showcase them well. at East Carolina The Sebastopol Center for the Arts invites University in Greenville, Candace’s particular enthusiasm for card weaving artists to submit work to Innovations in NC, and the California always made that one of the most exciting techniques Fiberart III, a juried exhibit scheduled for Art Quilts exhibition at that she taught. It was inspiring to see her eloquent Nov. 2 - Dec. 3, 2006. Open to California, the California Heritage hands on a stretched warp, manipulating simple cards Oregon, and Washington artists working Museum in Santa and thread to create a complex pattern. She always in fiber of all types. Juror is Richard Elliott, Monica. If you missed encouraged personal exploration and creativity within artist and current adjunct professor in the any or all of these, you the bounds of this very precise technique. textiles program at CCA. Hand-delivered can see Linda’s work entries will be accepted at SCA on Oct. 16, on her website www. Never afraid of sharing the pulpit, Candace hired the between 3 and 6 PM. Entries on 35-mm lindagass.com. slides or photographs must arrive by 5 PM best available local artists and teachers for a semester on that date. For fees and awards, send or two in the art department. And there were countless an SASE for a prospectus to Sebastopol guest speakers, accomplished textile artists who Center for the Arts, Fiberart, 6780 Depot St., willingly shared their passion with the students. Many Sebastopol, CA 95472 or request of her undergraduate and graduate students have one at [email protected] gone on to careers of substance in the field. Her legacy at SFSU and in the greater Bay Area art world has NEXT NEWSLETTER DEADLINE been assured with the endowment of a new tenure November 13, 2006 track position in textiles and new media. While other Please send your copy to the TAC office at departments close, Candace can be proud to say that [email protected] textiles will continue to be taught at SFSU.

 Curator’s Column Contemporary Fiber the center of the kimono as if he is both once famously purveying his garden and the kimono. In remarked that the Bay Area is the her oral history Katherine explains her Vatican of . For over forty artistic approach: “I feel I am perched on years, the Bay Area has been the home top of a pyramid, maintaining a delicate to some the countries top contemporary balance between kitsch and art. The artists working in fiber. It is only fitting relationship between the unexpected is that the de Young would collect and the challenge. I like creating an object, promote works by contemporary which may seem worthless in time spent, fiber artists; however, the holdings of materials used, and content. To me, the , Giverny No. 3, ca. importance is the joy of doing. I love to contemporary fiber art over the years 1980 have remained relatively small. That is FAMSF, Gift of the Sinton-Adler families cut, paste, color, , and collect.” until recently. in memory of Carol Walter Sinton Two Bay area artists, and The initial boost to the de Young’s Annual Carol Walter Sinton Program for Emily DuBois, have also generously made collections came in 1998 with the Craft Art—a 2004 grant to the Textile Arts donations of art this year. Emily DuBois promised gift from George and Dorothy Council to support special programming. encouraged a friend and patron to gift Saxe. Contemporary fiber art is one ten works over the course of two years. component of Saxe’s world-renowned The Textile Department was honored to Represented in the gift are both DuBois’ collection of contemporary craft, which receive Carol’s collection of fiber art, which computer woven pieces and also includes works in glass, ceramic, includes works by such prominent artists made from bark cloth. Sekimachi gifted wood, and metal. The Saxe collection as Norma Minkowitz, Katherine Westphal, the museum a seminal work, a miniature was prominently exhibited in the 1999 Kay Sekimachi, Emily DuBois, Lillian Eliot, book—The Wave. The Wave comes from exhibition and catalogue The Art of Craft and . We are especially her series of accordion books that were shown at the old de Young and in both pleased to be given our first object, inspired by the Japanese artist Hokusai the George and Dorothy Saxe Gallery Giverny No. 3, by the Bay Area luminary prints from his own series Hundred and the Textile Gallery at the opening Katherine Westphal. Giverny No. 3 is one in Views of Mt. Fuji. Woven in natural of the new de Young. The Saxe fiber a series of paper kimonos Katherine made linen, Sechimachi used a painted-warp art collection is comprised of works by in homage to her trip to Monet’s home technique to imprint the repetitive pattern leading artists such as Nilda Al Hilai, and garden. In it one can see Katherine’s of the wave on the book’s covers and , , Mary Giles, approach to making art—an emphasis on pages and a double-weave technique to Diane Itter, , and Jane process-oriented work, a manipulation of create the accordion folds. The meditative Sauer. multiple techniques, and an exploration quality of Sekimachi’s work belies the of surface design. The kimono is pieced complexity of her techniques. Her work Furthered by the support of our out of small squares of her own hand reflects a combination of influences— community, the collection has continued made paper. The sleeves, collar and from the Japanese aesthetic comes her to grow and strengthen. This year the border of the kimono are patterned with purity of form and reverence of nature textile department received twenty-eight heat transfers made from slides Katherine and from her early Bauhaus training the gifts of contemporary fiber art objects. had taken in Monet’s garden. The center control of geometry and symmetry, as One of the most prominent gifts came is created by individually shibori dyed well as, the exploration of the double- from the family of Carol Sinton—fifteen squares, which she later stamped with weave technique. works in total representing both floral motifs. A portrait of Monet commands nationally and internationally recognized The de Young is proud to be part of such fiber artists. For decades, Carol Sinton a dynamic fiber art community. We look was a fixture to the Bay Area art and forward to continuing to collect and craft world. As her daughter Pat Adler promote works by contemporary fiber explains in her tributary book, Carol artists. Thank you to everyone who has Sinton: Fiber Artist, Carol’s involvement made these gifts possible. in the fiber art movement was multi- Jill D’Alessandro pronged. She was an art advocate, Associate Curator of Textiles as well as an artist and a collector. Her legacy as a public advocate for contemporary craft lives on through The Kay Sekimachi. Wave, 1980. FAMSF, Gift of the artist

TAC Newsletter  GENERAL CALENDAR SEPTEMBER Until Sept. 9 Marking Boundaries, a contemporary fiber Sept. 1–Jan. 7, 2007 Pieces of a Puzzle: Classical Persian exhibition curated by Myra Block Kaiser, Braunstein/ Carpet Fragments, Textile Museum, Washington, DC, Quay Gallery, 430 Clementina St., SF, 415 278-9850 or www.textilemuseum.org www.bquayartgallery.com Sept. 9–Dec. 16 Love and War: The Weaponized Woman, Until Sept. 15 MFA Graduate Show 2006, a virtual gallery Fashion and Textile History Gallery, Fashion Institute of exhibition at www.fiberscene.com Technology, NYC, www.fitny.edu Sept.15–Dec.1 Fiber: In & Out, Online gallery exhibition, Until Sept. 24 Yinka Shonibare Selects: Works from the www.fiberscene.com Permanent Collection, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Sept. 17–Jan. 7, 2007 Breaking the Mode: Contemporary Museum, NYC, ndm.si.edu Fashion from the Permanent Collection, Los Angeles Until Oct. 1 Art About Art: from Virginia Davis, County Museum of Art , Los Angeles, www.lacma.org A Retrospective, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Sept. 23 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. An Intimate Perspective: The Textiles, 520 S. 1st St., San Jose, 408 971-0323 or Women of Gee’s Bend, a chance to meet some of the www.sjquiltmuseum.org Gee’s Bend quilters. Seating is limited, early ticketing suggested. Reservations at www.museumtix.com. Until Nov. 4 The Tailor’s Art, Fashion and Textile History Koret Auditorium, de Young Museum. $15 for Museum Gallery, Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC, members, $20 for non-members. www.fitny.edu Sept. 24, 1 to 2 p.m. Gospel Sunday, the women of Gee’s Bend

ONGOING Until Nov. 12 Recent Acquisitions: African Printed Textiles and the Glide Memorial Ensemble . Gospel concert in Wilsey Court. Open to the public free of charge. Book Until Jan. 21, 2007 Designing the Modern Utopia: Soviet signing and quilt-making demonstration to follow. Koret Textiles from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection Auditorium, 1:30–3:00 p.m. Until July 6, 2007 Tsutsugaki Textiles from the Collection of Oct. 10 Preserved & Properly Covered: 250 Years of Historic David Paly Beyond Basketry: Japanese Bamboo Art. All Upholstery, lecture sponsored by the American Deco- at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, rative Arts Forum with Elizabeth Lahikainen, Peabody www.mfa.org Essex Museum in Salem, MA. 8 p.m., Gould Theater, Legion of Honor Museum. $15 general admission. Until Jan. 28, 2007 Balenciaga , Museé des Arts Oct. 15 Sunday Afternoon Concert with Linda Tillery and the Decoratifs, Paris, France Cultural Heritage Choir, in homage to the artistry and Until Feb. 25, 2007 I Do; Inaugural exhibition in the newly power of the Gee’s Bend quilters. A free concert in the renovated Paul Fashion Arts and Paul Textile Arts Barbro Osher Garden, de Young Museum. galleries, Indiana Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, Other concerts in the series, go to www.thinker.org. www.ima-art.org OCTOBER Oct. 10–Jan. 7, 2007 Quilt National 2005, approximately two-thirds of the pieces from this juried show, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, 520 S. 1st St., San Jose, 408 971-0323 www.sjquiltmuseum.org Oct. 11–14 Textile Narratives & Conversations, the 2006 Biennial Textile Society of America (TSA) Symposium. Toronto, Canada. Co-chairs: Nataley Nagy, nnagy@ textilemuseum.ca, and Frances Dorsey, [email protected] Oct. 13–Feb. 25, 2007 Mantles of Merit: Chin Textiles from Mandalay to Chittagong, Textile Museum, Washington, Emily DuBois, 9/11/18/4, 2001 DC, www.textilemuseum.org FAMSF, Gift of Anna Kardon Oct. 29–Feb. 25, 2007 Art of Being Tuareg: Sahara Nomads in a Modern World, UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, www.fowler.edu COMING THIS SPRING: NOVEMBER-DECEMBER April 19–22 CNCH Asilomar Fiber Retreat. Workshops in Nov. 12–Jan. 21, 2007 East Weaves West: Korean Women weaving, spinning, basketry, and dyeing. Contact Make Art, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CNCH 2007 Registrar, 5910 Highwood Rd., Castro www.cafam.org Valley, CA 94522. For a complete list of instructors and Dec.1–Mar. 1, 2007 Faux Fiber, Online gallery exhibition workshops go to CNCH website: www.fiberscene.com www.CNCH.org Dec. 31 The Quilts of Gee’s Bend, exhibition closes, de Young Museum  Textile Arts Council Fall 2006 Don’t miss these exciting TAC events!

The Voice and Style of African-American Quilters with Marion Coleman Saturday, Sept. 16 Koret Auditorium de Young Museum

Animal Myth and magic: Images from Pre-Columbian Textiles with Vanessa Moraga Saturday, Oct. 14 Koret Auditorium de Young Museum

Clothes for the Table: The Creation, Care, and Mystique of Table Linen, 1500-1800 with Edward Maeder Sunday, Nov. 19 Koret Auditorium Fine Arts de Young Museum Museums of San Francisco de Young Legion of Honor

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