iNgqikithi yokuPhica / Weaving Meanings: Telephone Wire Art from South Africa

Museum of International Folk Art Santa Fe, New Mexico

Museum of International Folk Art November 17, 2024 – November 17, 2025. Santa Fe, New Mexico Foregrounding artists’ voices, Weaving Meanings shares histories of the wire medium in South Africa, from the 16th century uses as currency to the dazzling artworks wire weavers create today. From beer pot lids (izimbenge) to platters and plates, from […]

Ancient Andean Textiles

Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH, United States

Ancient Andean Textiles Ancient Andean weavers created one of the world’s most distinguished textile traditions. This new installation features examples utilizing the tapestry technique, particularly esteemed in antiquity. Image: Tunic with Frontal Figures, 1400–1532. Central Andes, Central Coast, Ychsma (Pachacamac) people. Cotton; slit tapestry weave; neck edge to hem: 46.7 cm (18 3/8 in.); width […]

Batik Nyonyas: Three Generations of Art and Entrepreneurship

Peranakan Museum , Singapore

Batik Nyonyas: Three Generations of Art and Entrepreneurship Family, art, and entrepreneurship converge in the story of three visionary Peranakan women from Indonesia – Nyonya OeijSoen King, her daughter-in-law Nyonya Oeij Kok Sing, and her granddaughter Jane Hendromartono. From the 1890s to 1980s, they produced impressive batiks in the renowned batik centre of Pekalongan on […]

Afterlives: Material Stories from the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection

Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery, University of Wisconsin Madison, WI, United States

Afterlives explores the many lives of objects and what happens to textiles after they enter the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection. From a child’s feed sack dress lovingly crafted and then saved on a family farm to an intricate robe from Turkmenistan that traveled halfway around the world, material things carry traces of people and things […]

Arts of the Maghreb: North African Textiles and Jewelry

Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH, United States

This exhibition spotlights the rich artistic traditions of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia during the late 1800s and early 1900s, through a display of elaborate textiles and fine jewelry in the Museum’s collection, many on view for the first time. These works introduce the specialized skills of North African artists, both Amazigh (Berber) and Arab, Muslim […]

Craft Front & Center: Conversation Pieces

Museum of Art and Design JEROME AND SIMONA CHAZEN BUILDING 2 COLUMBUS CIRCLE, New York City, NY, United States

Exploring craft's collaborative practices, Craft Front & Center: Conversation Pieces brings pioneering twentieth-century craft artists into dialogue with contemporary artists who are rethinking craft techniques and materials. The exhibition draws from MAD's permanent collection and includes more than sixty historic, recently acquired, and commissioned works in a range of artistic media; most prominently, the central craft materials […]

Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets

American Folk Art Museum NY, NY, United States

Featuring forty-two textile works and oil paintings, Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets is the first comprehensive survey of Santos Reinbolt’s art ever presented, and the first-ever solo museum exhibition organized outside her native Brazil. Best known for her large-scale quadros de lã(“wool paintings”) made from hundreds of vibrant colored threads, the exhibition […]

Confluence of Nature: Nancy Hemenway Barton

Denver Art Museum Denver, CO, United States

Confluence of Nature: Nancy Hemenway Barton features twelve textile wall sculptures and five works on paper by artist Nancy Hemenway Barton (1920–2008), each an exploration of the stunning locations from around the world that informed and inspired her artistic process. Hemenway traveled the world, experiencing rich colorful cultural traditions from the Andean weavers in Bolivia to […]

We Gather at the Edge: Contemporary Quilts by Black Women Artists

Renwick Gallery Washington DC, United States

In 2023, the Smithsonian American Art Museum acquired thirty-five quilts from the collection of Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi. In 1981, Mazloomi founded the African American Quilt Guild of Los Angeles, and then, in 1985, she founded the Women of Color Quilters Network, fulfilling the desire of isolated makers to connect and continue Black textile traditions. The […]

Intrinsic Beauty: The Art of Textiles

The Textile Museum, George Washington University Washington D.C.

In 1925, George Hewitt Myers founded The Textile Museum with his global collection of carpets and textiles prized for their “intrinsic beauty of design, color and technique.” This exhibition brings together iconic masterworks from the museum’s collection. As the museum launches its centennial year, Intrinsic Beauty celebrates textile making as one of the world’s oldest and most sophisticated […]