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Fall Volume 21, No.3 The Bay Area Forum for artists, Textile Arts Council aficionados & collectors of weaving, rugs & tapestries, baskets, costume & wearable art September 2006 Upcoming Programs and Announcements Volume XXI, All programs are held in the Koret Auditorium at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, Number 3 50 Hagiwara Tea Drive, San Francisco. 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 quilts. 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 quilting 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. Craft” 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 Quilt 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 Textile Arts other international fabrics, digital technology, Council. dyeing, painting, 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 TEXTILES 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 Africa, Europe, shaped Andean peoples’ vision of themselves Museums of and Japan. 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, 1 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 Carpets, TAC member, and lecturer on of animals depicted in is a TAC member, too! October’s lecture is by Vanessa her beautiful custom carpet 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 Linen, 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 tailor, 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 Sewing 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 2 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.
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