The Bay Area Forum for artists, Textile Arts Council aficionados & collectors of weaving, rugs & tapestries, baskets, costume & wearable art September 2013 Upcoming Programs and Announcements Unless otherwise indicated*, all programs are held in the Koret Auditorium at the de Young Museum in Volume XXVIII, Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Drive, San Francisco. Admission to the programs is FREE to TAC Number 3 members, $10 for non-members, and $5 for FAMSF members and students with I.D. No additional Museum admission fee is necessary. You may enter from the garage level or the main floor entrance between the main and side doors to the Museum. (*alternate location, when indicated, is the Legion of Honor Museum, 34th Ave & Clement St., San Francisco.)
Saturday, September 14, 2013, 10 a.m. Dale’s work continued in a management and FROM THE GROUND UP: curatorial capacity as they helped the museum’s DEVELOPING THE QUEEN SIRIKIT enthusiastic, but inexperienced, staff develop an MUSEUM OF TEXTILES administrative structure for the museum and three opening exhibitions. The Queen Sirikit Museum With Melissa Leventon of Textiles, nine long years in the making, finally In April 2004, Melissa Leventon received an opened to the public on May 9, 2012. RFQ—a request for qualifications—from an Leventon will share her perspective on the architectural firm in Chicago looking for a process, joys, and challenges of building a consulting textile specialist to assist with a museum from the ground up, across language renovation project undertaken by one of its and culture barriers and 8,000 miles of distance. principals. That out-of-the-blue email eventually She will display pictures charting the institution’s led her to the most exciting project of her career: development from four walls, a floor, and a roof to the creation of a brand-new museum. In Bangkok. Bangkok’s newest and best museum.
Before: Photo © Melissa Leventon 2007 After: Photo by Anak Navaraj, 2012 © Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles
For the project, Leventon teamed up with Dale Melissa Leventon, former FAMSF Curator-in- Gluckman, a Los Angeles-based colleague. Their Charge of Textiles, is principal of Curatrix Group, work began with the architectural program as a San Francisco-based museum consultancy and she and Dale planned and led an international appraisal firm specializing in costume and textiles. tour for a few key museum stakeholders to study Leventon has curated exhibitions in media ranging Fine Arts best—and worst—practices for the care, storage, from contemporary glass to the Dead Sea Scrolls, Museums of San Francisco and display of textiles and costumes. What they and has authored several books and many articles learned resulted in three reports outlining what and essays. She is also a senior adjunct professor de Young ideal museum galleries, storage, conservation, at California College of the Arts where she teaches Legion and other back-of-house spaces should look courses in fashion theory and history. of Honor like and contain. Subsequently, Melissa and Programs continue on page 2, col. 1 1 Programs continued from page 1 Saturday, October 12, 2013, 10 a.m. Saturday, November 16, 2013, 10 a.m. SCRAPE THE WILLOW UNTIL Artist, professor, and author Deborah LOOMS THAT BLOOM: YOUNG IT SINGS: THE WORDS AND Valoma is a faculty member and chair INDIGENOUS WEAVERS WORK OF BASKET MAKER of the Textiles Program at California FROM OAXACA College of the Arts. Her specialized JULIA PARKER With Hector Manuel Meneses Lozano field of research is the cultural history of With Deborah Valoma textiles as a global aesthetic practice. In During my presentation, I will give a brief Deborah Valoma has known master addition to teaching a comprehensive overview of the Museo Textil de Oaxaca’s basket maker Julia Parker (Coast Miwok/ series of graduate and undergraduate history and will also address key aspects Kashaya Pomo) for decades. Nine courses on textile history and theory, of our mission. The presentation will be years ago Valoma began recording their she has written articles including “Cloth very visual with pictures from different conversations and from these emerged and African Identity in Bahia, Brazil” regions of Oaxaca showing people at the recently published looms, weaving, and doing embroidery, book, Scrape the and including videos with people speaking Willow until It Sings: (English subtitles). The Words and In November 2012, the Museo Textil de Work of Basket Oaxaca (MTO), located in Oaxaca City, Maker Julia Parker southern Mexico, presented an exhibition (Heyday–release titled, “Looms that sprout new leaves: date October 15, young textile artists of Oaxaca.” Twenty- 2013). Through image four weavers and embroiderers, ages 8 presentation, formal to 20 and coming from different regions analysis, and personal of Oaxaca, participated in the show. This narratives, Valoma talk will focus on the experiences and the will discuss Julia’s impact this show has had on these young life, art work, cultural textile artists. mission, and some of the philosophical Our goal was to motivate this group of principles that have young textile enthusiasts into preserving guided the weaver their traditions through a museological through the years. experience, in accordance with our mission. In preparation for the show, we Julia Parker was made trips to each of the participants’ a student of the communities, involving them, their great basket weavers of the twentieth (Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress families, and the whole MTO staff in the century Lucy Telles (Yosemite Miwok/ and Fashion) and “The Impermanent experience. These visits were made in Paiute), Carrie Bethel (Paiute), Mabel Made Permanent: Textiles, Pattern and order to get to know all the participants McKay (Cache Creek Pomo), and Elsie the Migration of a Medium” (Fiberarts). and, when allowed, to photograph and Allen (Cloverdale Pomo). Over the In 2010, Valoma edited and wrote the film them at home. These pictures and last fifty years of diligent study and introductory essay for a special issue of videos were then translated into a digital experimentation, she has emerged Textiles: Journal of Cloth and Culture on publication that was on display and that is as one of the preeminent Native the topic of dust. currently in the process of being uploaded American basket makers of California. Deborah Valoma will have a book signing onto the internet. A distinguished elder of the Federated of her book, Scrape the Willow until It All participants and their families Indians of Graton Rancheria and a Sings: The Words and Work of Basket attended the opening night. The MTO longtime resident of Yosemite Valley, Maker Julia Parker, at the Museum book prepared a series of activities for them Parker is a prolific artist, cultural store after her lecture. demonstrator, teacher, and storyteller. during the whole weekend. Then during the exhibition period at the museum,
2 Programs continue on page 4, col. 1 FROM THE TEXTILE ARTS COUNCIL BOARD CHAIR July 2013 TAC BOARD Along with the Chairs of the other curatorial Gautier exhibition. TAC’s contributions to the Rose Kelly Textile Conservation Department support special support groups, I recently presented a year- Chair end report to the Fine Arts Museums of San projects, including the cleaning of 3 European Peggy Gordon Francisco Board of Trustees. They were textiles on display at the de Young’s recent Treasurer impressed by the hard work and diverse exhibition From the Exotic to the Mystical: Textile activities of the Textile Arts Council. With Treasures from the Permanent Collection. Leslee Budge a membership of approximately 600, TAC Secretary You may wonder how someone becomes a continues to be one of the largest support Board Member. Each story is unique but I can Ruth Anderson organizations and one of the largest textile tell you mine. While I was teaching a class at U. Barbara Beckmann organizations in the country. C. Davis on World Textiles of Africa, Asia, and Mikki Bourne I thought you might be interested in learning a Oceania, another faculty member suggested Jean Cacicedo little more about how your Board works. The Serena Lee as a guest speaker. She is a Board Sharon Christovich 20-member Board includes artists, designers, advisor and organizes TAC’s Ethnic Textile Study Marlene Golden scholars and collectors. Each member serves Group that meets once a month at the de Young, Robin Hampton a 6-year term and is expected to work on 2 or enabling members to share their knowledge and 3 committees. There are 14 committees that enthusiasm about textiles from around the world. Karin Hazelkorn keep TAC running. These include Finance, This is a great interest of mine so I became a Darlene Jurow Programs, Tours, Volunteers, and Hospitality. member and began to attend the meetings in Shirley Juster There is a committee that organizes the addition to other TAC events. Subsequently I was Connie Levy invited to become a Board member and about a annual TAC Holiday Party and Silent Auction, Heather Oelerich and one for the upcoming fundraiser, the year later, I was asked if I would consider being Helen Scully Ethnic Textile Bazaar. A committee puts nominated to be chair. The Board Development Dana Walsh together the newsletter and events postcard Committee is always looking for potential new and another oversees the website. Board members who have an interest and enthusiasm members attend nine monthly meetings for textiles. If you would like to learn more, Board Advisory Board a year as well as committee meetings as members are easily identified by their badges at Mary Connors needed. It is a dedicated group. all TAC events. Serena Harrigan On a final note, The Textile Arts Council would All these efforts produce a broad range of Ana Lisa Hestsrom lectures, programs, tours, and events tailored not have been able to accomplish all that it has Barbara Kelly to the interests of our members. Equally without the hard work and dedication of Trish Karine Langan important, they raise funds to support the Daly. For 15 years, she has worked tirelessly Department of Textile Arts and the Textile in the office to make sure that questions are Barbara Shapiro Conservation Lab. Funds from the Acquisition answered, bills are paid, meetings are scheduled Laurel Sprigg Endowment enable the purchase of key and events happen. Trish is retiring in September. Susan York textiles, identified and researched by curator For the Board and all the members of the Textile Jill D’Alessandro, that will strengthen the Arts Council, I thank her for all her efforts and collection. This year the Endowment Fund wish her all the best. We look forward to seeing purchased a wonderful top hat made from her at future TAC events. human hair by the French artist, Odile Gilbert, Rose Kelly who made similar pieces for the Jean Paul Chair
3 Programs continued from page 3 Announcements we asked some of the participants if they answer of the youngest participant in the HAIL AND FAREWELL! would be willing to give a workshop and/or a show (8 years old), “I want to be a weaver, By the time you receive this demonstration of their work. We had one back- like my dad.” issue, I will be in my final week strap loom weaving workshop, one macramé Hector Manuel Meneses Lozano is director before retirement. Working with knotting workshop, and two demonstrations of the Museo Textil de Oaxaca. He is also a our wonderful membership of different techniques applied on the back- member of the Board of the North American has been a joy–what an strap loom, all presented by participants of the Textile Conservation Conference. He is co- extraordinarily talented group show. author with Stella Maria Gonzaléz Cicero you are! Thank you for your This initiative has become a travelling of Un pano novohispano: tesoro del arte support and appreciation. Please exhibition. Its first stop is La Salle University in plumaria. Two editions were published in extend the same support to our central-north Mexico. Some participants of the 2008 in Spanish and held by 9 libraries new Office Manager during this show have been a part of this experience as worldwide. It is a very detailed study of the transition period. I hope to see well, through demonstrations and workshops. “Paño Novohispano” feathered textile from you all from time to time at TAC The reward of this effort becomes tangible Oaxaca that includes history, restoration, events. through close relationships and conversations conservation and exhibition. This study Trish with both participants and their families. also includes design, texture, techniques, An eloquent example: for a homework identification of the fiber, feathers, dyes, and OBIKO ARTWEAR assignment, children were asked, “What do colors. ARCHIVE–LAUNCH PARTY & you want to do when you grow older?” The FUNDRAISER
Saturday, September 21, 5–8pm
Joe Goode Dance Studio, Project
Artaud
401 Alabama Street, San Francisco
The Textile Arts Council invites you to revisit the Obiko era with projected fashion shows, artist images, and an informal modeling of fashion from this extraordinary creative movement. This archive documents the work of designers collaborating with Sandra Sakata at her iconic shop, Obiko, in San Francisco. The archive will be housed at the de Young Museum’s Textile Marcela Quiroz. Cotón (male shirt), 2012 Lubinia Cirilo, Huipil (female tunic), 2012 Mixtec group, Santiago Ixtayutla, Oaxaca Chinantec group, San Felipe Usila, Oaxaca Library and Study Center, to be Museo Textil de Oaxaca, Photography: Fidel Ugarte Museo Textil de Oaxaca, Photography: Fidel Ugarte available for research. As of our publication deadline, there were still tickets available NEXT NEWSLETTER for this gala event. DEADLINE Cost: $25. Please contact the
NOVEMBER 13, 2013 TAC office for more information: Please send your copy to the TAC 415 750-3627 or email: tac@ office. famsf.org [email protected]
TAC Newsletter 4 Welcome to our SAVE THE DATE! New TAC Members A TEXTILE TOUR TO OAXACA, MEXICO Through July 15, 2013 November 6—19, 2014 Lucy Barter Maren Beck TAC is planning a specially designed tour to Oaxaca, Mexico, focused on the Zapotec Roey Berman and Huave weavers and embroiderers of the ac Berry Isthmus of Tehuantepec, sericulture in the Kathleen Bishop Sierra Madre, weaving and natural dyeing in Pamela Bjork the central valleys of Oaxaca, and textiles of Chika Bradshaw the Mixtec and Trique people of the Upper Mixteca. Look for details in future newsletters Ann Dawson and on our website. Lien Brent-Dilernia Sarah Chu Oaxacan weaver. Photography by Eric Mindling Maria Erdi Tasa Gleason PENINSULA TOUR OF ARTISTS’ STUDIOS Susan Hall
Saturday, September 28, 9:30am–4:30pm Nancy Hawes Christine Jensen Textile Arts Council’s popular visits to the studios of local textile artists return with this full day event. We will be welcomed into the studios of four well-known artists on the Peninsula: Jennifer Jeon Therese May – prominent Art Quilter http://www.theresemay.com/ Karen Judge Anne Lamborn – multi-disciplinary fiber artist http://www.annelamborn.com/ Jane & Arnold Kahn Ulla de Larios – respected and innovative weaver http://www.ulladelarios.com/ Hillary Sinclair Kirk Linda Gass – Quilt designer and ecological advocate http://www.lindagass.com/ Hillary Koster This tour includes lunch and refreshments along the way and the number of participants is limited. Transportation is not included, but we will make every effort to arrange carpooling. Terri Nevins Cost: $75. To reserve a spot, please contact the TAC office for reservations: 415 750-3627 Courtney Norris [email protected] Sandra Peinado Jeannie Sack STEP LIVELY! A TOUR OF THE FAMSF TEXTILE CONSERVATION LAB Nina Steidl Choose one date: Tuesday, October 1 or Thursday, October 3 Roberta Valdez 9:30–11:00am, de Young Museum
Do you love shoes? Of course you do! Did you know that the collection of the FAMSF Textile Department contains almost 500 pairs? There are shoes of every description, from the 18th c. to yesterday and from many countries. Turkish and Yoruba slippers to Manolo! As 3-dimensional objects of diverse shape and material, shoes have special storage and care requirements within a museum collection. Over several years, Sarah Gates, Head of the FAMSF Textile Conservation Lab, has developed a safe, secure, and modular method of storage for this large group of footwear. For this tour she will exhibit some of the most beautiful examples from our wonderful collection and explain the evolution of its care. Trish Daly will provide the back story on designers and wearers. Cost: $65. Space is limited, so please call now for a reservation: 415 750-3627 [email protected] Museum admission is not included.
5 GLOBAL VISION: EVIDENCE OF GLOBAL TRADE IN MUSEUM TEXTILE COLLECTIONS
Shortly after The Caroline & H. McCoy Jones Department of styles from casual to formal spaces, and the breathless pace Textile Arts closes its summer exhibition From the Exotic to the of technological advancement. Mystical: Textile Treasures from the Permanent Collection, the An eighteenth century man’s robe in the Fine Arts Museum Metropolitan Museum of Art will place on view a comparable of San Francisco’s collection exemplifies the hybrid nature collection of textile treasures in the interdepartmental of much early deshabille or “undress” fashion. Collected in exhibition: Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, Sumatra, the de Young’s example is constructed of painted, 1500–1800. Like From the Exotic to the Mystical, the mordant-resist dyed cotton trade cloth like that produced on inspiration for Interwoven Globe was born of a curator’s the Coromandel Coast of India for export to the European observation of pervasive themes encountered in a permanent market. Based loosely on the silhouette of the kimono, collection of textiles. Drawing on the Fine Arts Museum of capacious men’s robes like this were popular vehicles for the San Francisco’s Textile Arts collection, Jill D’Alessandro called display of bright imported cottons. The informal style was attention to the persistent influence of exoticism on centuries adopted in Europe as a masculine uniform for the leisured of European textile design. Observing similar themes in the pursuit of philosophical endeavors in the late seventeenth Metropolitan Museum of Art’s American Decorative Arts century. The style’s many names echo its broad exotic department, Amelia Peck proposed Interwoven Globe as a associations. The Dutch, who first observed the voluminous platform for displaying the “exotic” textile objects that defy silhouette in Japan, called the style Japonsche rock or conventional regional classification. Textile collections all “Japanese robe.” Elsewhere in Europe, it was called a banyan over the world contain hybrid objects that are too common or “India gown” in reference to the bright printed cottons to call anomalies and too strange to catalogue according to frequently used in its construction. Familiarity with the style traditional cultural or historical systems of classification. These communicated a wearer’s access to worldly goods and objects, fascinating demonstrations of early globalization, ideas. It was often worn in eighteenth century portraiture as a frequently linger unseen in collections because of their powerful symbol of success. resistance to prevailing exhibition strategies.
As the consulting costume specialist on the Interwoven Globe project, I examined the holdings of The Costume Institute in search of these anomalies in the form of fashionable dress. What I found was a familiar story of adoption, adaptation, and innovation. The Costume Institute contributed fourteen garments to the Interwoven Globe exhibition that ranged in date from the second half of the sixteenth century to the last quarter of the eighteenth century. Of these fourteen, one half were made of printed textiles and one third were made of cotton. Prior to the golden age of European merchant navigation in the sixteenth century, garments worn in Europe were largely made of linen, silk, or wool fibers and embellished with woven or embroidered rather than printed designs. Man’s robe, 18th century Cotton garments were extremely rare and printed designs India, Coromandel Coast Cotton; painted, mordant-resist dyed were crude or, worse, impermanent. The colorfast painting Gift of George and Marie Hecksher and printing techniques and the comfortable cottons imported 2005.140.7 from the East in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth While some Indian textiles were made up into garments prior centuries revolutionized the European textile market and to export, most were shipped as bolts of uncut cloth to be transformed the look of fashionable dress. constructed by European tailors and dressmakers according I was excited to discover a selection of eighteenth century to the latest fashions. The de Young’s Robe à l’anglaise of printed and painted cotton garments in the Fine Arts Museum painted, mordant-resist dyed cotton from the Coromandel of San Francisco’s collection that succinctly illustrates some of Coast was likely constructed in England or the Netherlands. the dominant and recurrent themes of early global fashion: the The rounded neckline, elbow-length sleeves, front-closing relentless demand for novelty, the percolation of fashionable bodice, and separate overskirt pleated into the waist all continued next page TAC Newsletter 6 date this informal dress to the early 1780s. Early bans on the import of cotton to England were relaxed in 1774 when CONSERVING MODERNITY: THE advancements in cotton production ARTICULATION OF INNOVATION and printing gave the British textile November 12—16, 2013 industry a competitive edge against San Francisco, California the flood of inexpensive cotton
imports. The imposition of an import The 9th Biennial North tariff transformed the market. Once American Textile considered inexpensive substitutes Conservation Conference for fine woven patterns, hand- (NATCC) will take place November 12-15, 2013 in painted Indian chintzes like this beautiful San Francisco, California. became luxurious alternatives to the The 12 presentations from 9 different countries new industrial prints. will cover new ideas to old problems, creative treatment solutions, will reflect on collaborations with contemporary artists, and address approaches to Robe à l’anglaise, ca. 1780 conserving evolving installations. Netherlands Cotton; mordant-resist dyed, embroidered Two days of workshops will precede the presentations Gift of George and Marie Hecksher 2006.127.1a-e and include: • Aqueous Cleaning Techniques with Richard This woman’s caraco from about the same period Wolburs demonstrates the very advances in the European textile • Fiber Identification withDenyse Montague industries that created viable competition with the import • Fosshape Mannequin Fabrication with Shelly Uhlir market. The block-printed red and brown flower sprigs on • Shibori Dyeing Techniques with Ana Lisa Hedstrom ivory with pencil blue detailing combine European taste in floral • Ribbon and Fabric Embellishment Techniques with print design with the new printing technologies developed to Candace Kling compete with vivid colorfast dyes from India. A short, jacket- The opening reception will be held at the Lotus Gallery, style bodice, the caraco began as a working-class garment Peter Pap Gallery and Arader Gallery in Jackson Square that was typically worn over a woman’s short petticoat. Like and the closing reception will be held at the Asian Art the printed cottons that moved from domestic spaces into Museum. public ones, however, a version of the caraco was soon adopted as fashionable day wear. This double-breasted Please visit http://natcconference.com/ for more woman’s jacket with swallowtail peplum, long tight sleeves information on the conference and for registration. and deep décolletage combined up-to-the-minute detailing Registration for the workshops requires full conference with the finest in new materials registration. At the end of regular registration to elevate a simple working class (September 30th) if there are spaces available, garment to high fashion. registration for workshops only will be allowed. Please contact Beth Szuhay for volunteer opportunities at These and countless examples [email protected]. from museums around the world communicate the long history Beth Szuhay of global exchange that inspired Chair, NATCC 2013 early consumers and continue to Chrysalis Art Conservation inform the taste of contemporary www.natcconference.com [email protected] culture.
Kristen E. Stewart
Woman’s jacket or caraco, ca. 1780 Curatorial Assistant English or French The Caroline and H. McCoy Cotton; printed, quilted Jones Department of Costume Museum collection X1989.1153 and Textile Arts
7 GENERAL CALENDAR Ongoing Until October 13 SEPTEMBER Out of Southeast Asia: Art That Sustains. Work by September 8 – 9 Carol Cassidy, Agus Ismoyo & Nia Fliam, and Vernal Natural Fiber Fair, Arcata Community Center, Arcata, CA Bogren Swift. Textile Museum, Washington DC. http://www.naturalfiberfair.com/ http://www.textilemuseum.org/ September 13 – January 4, 2014 Until October 13 A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk. Ancestry & Artistry: Maya Textiles from Guatemala. The Museum at FIT, New York. Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto. http://www.fitnyc.edu/3452.asp http://www.textilemuseum.ca/apps/index. September 13 – 15 cfm?page=exhibition.detail&exhId=348 California Wool & Fiber Festival, Mendocino County Until October 27 Fairgrounds, Booneville, CA http://www.fiberfestival.com/Fiber%20Festival/Home. Collecting New York Beauty Quilts: Bill Volckening’s html Passion Out of Chaos, quilts by Linda Toeniskoetter September 14 – January 26, 2014 Tasty Quilts Inspired by Food Color Revolution: Style Meets Science in the 1960s. American All at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, CA Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA. http://sjquiltmuseum.org/ http://www.athm.org
Until November 11 September 16 – January 5, 2014 Hippie Chic, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500 – 1800 http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/hippie-chic Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. http://www.metmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/ Until November 16 listings/2013/interwoven-globe Retrospective. Exploring the way fashion “borrows” from the past. The Museum at FIT, New York. http:// September 28 www.fitnyc.edu/336.asp Azzedine Alaïa Retrospective. Celebrating the reopening of the Palais Galliera, Musee de la Mode, Paris. Until December http://parismusees.paris.fr/en/exhibition/alaia For Worship and Glory, and exhibition of ecclesiastical embroidery worked by the Royal Needlework School OCTOBER and choice examples from their famous collection. October 3 – May 26, 2014 Hampton Court Palace, London. Think Pink, exploring the changing meaning of pink in art and http://www.royalneedlework.org.uk/content/7/ fashion, this exhibition opens to coincide with Breast Cancer royal_school_of_needlework_where_you_can_see_ Awareness Month. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. http://www. our_work mfa.org/exhibitions/think-pink Until February 16, 2014 October 4 – 6 Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s, Victoria 2013 Quilt & Fiber Arts Festival. International juried exhibition, and Albert Museum, London. La Conner Quilt and Textile Museum, Gaches Mansion, La http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/ Conner, WA. exhibition-from-club-to-catwalk-london-fashion- http://www.laconnerquilts.com/ in-the-80s/
TAC Newsletter 8 October 8 November 12 Glamorous Vice: Cocktail Culture, Couture & Bengal to Baltimore: Influences on Anglo-American Quilts. Accoutrements. An American Decorative Arts Forum An American Decorative Arts Forum lecture with Linda lecture with Michelle Finamore, MFA Boston. Koret Baumgarten of Colonial Williamsburg. Koret Auditorium, de Auditorium, de Young Museum, 8pm. ADAF members free, Young Museum, 8pm. ADAF members free, $15 general, $15 general, TAC members (with card) $10. TAC members (with card) $10. http://www.adafca.org/ http://www.adafca.org/
October 13 November 12 – 15 Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Fowler! Conserving Modernity: The Articulation of Innovation. Opening at the Fowler Museum at UCLA: North American Textile Conservation Conference. San ° Powerful Bodies: Zulu Arts of Personal Adornment Francisco (see page 7 for details) ° Maori Cloaks, Maori Voices http://natconference./com ° The Peruvian Four-Selvaged Cloth: Ancient Threads/New November 16 – January 26, 2014 Directions http://www.fowler.ucla.edu/exhibitions/upcoming Future Beauty: Avant-Garde Japanese Fashion. Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA. October 18 – 21 http://www.pem.org/exhibitions/upcoming Antique Rug & Textile Arts (ARTS) Show, Capri Motel, 2015 Greenwich Street, San Francisco, 10am – 8pm. http://artsrugshow.org/
October 24 – November 30 Innovations in Fiber Art VI. International Juried Fiber Art exhibition, Sebastopol Center for the Arts. http://sebarts.org/index.php/visual-arts/upcoming- exhibitions/
NOVEMBER AND BEYOND November 6 – 9 Weaving Royal Traditions Through Time: Textiles and Dress at the Thai Court and Beyond. Symposium featuring a program of international speakers and visits to private collections. Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles, Bangkok, Thailand. Early bird registration deadline September 30. http://www.qsmtsymposium2013.com/
November 6 – January 19, 2014 Fiberart International, 21st triennial juried exhibition in its West Coast premiere. San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. http://sjquiltmuseum.org/exhibitions_upcoming.html
9 Textile Arts Council September Don’t miss these exciting TAC events! 2013 Saturday, September 14, 2013, 10 a.m. FROM THE GROUND UP: DEVELOPING THE QUEEN SIRIKIT MUSEUM OF TEXTILES With Melissa Leventon
Saturday, October 12, 2013, 10 a.m. SCRAPE THE WILLOW UNTIL IT SINGS: THE WORDS AND WORK OF BASKET MAKER JULIA PARKER With Deborah Valoma
Saturday, November 16, 2013, 10 a.m. LOOMS THAT BLOOM: YOUNG INDIGENOUS WEAVERS FROM OAXACA With Hector Manuel Meneses Lozano
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco de Young Legion of Honor Textile Arts Council de Young Museum 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive Golden Gate Park San Francisco, CA 94118-4501 415-750-3627
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Office Manager Trish Daly
Editor Rosalie Cooke
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