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Washi Transformed: New Expressions in Japanese Paper

Peeler Art Center Depauw University, Greencastle, IN, United States

Washi Transformed: New Expressions in Japanese Paper Washi, which translates to “Japanese paper” has been integral to Japanese culture for over a thousand years. The strength, translucency, and malleability of this one-of-a-kind paper have made it extraordinarily versatile as well as ubiquitous. Despite the increased mechanization of papermaking in Japan over the last century, contemporary […]

Earth and Sky: Carpet Cultures of Asia

Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary Alberta, Canada

Earth and Sky: Carpet Cultures of Asia presents some of the largest and oldest handwoven carpets in the Nickle Galleries collection from across Asia. It is through the shared ‘carpet culture’ in which weavers, their families and communities, remain connected and rooted. Immigrants frequently mention how carpets evoke some of their earliest memories of home—tactile, acoustic, […]

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 […]

Feather Adornments: Boris Huang

Craft in America. Feather Adornments: Boris Huang. Through April 26, 2025. Los Angeles, California. Virtual Gallery Boris Huang is a master of the laborious Hawaiian featherwork technique having apprenticed with the Hawaiian Feather Lei Master, Aunty Mary Lou Kekuewa. In traditional Hawaiian culture, leis and other feather adornments represent welcoming and compassion as well as […]

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 […]

Earth and Sky: Carpet Cultures of Asia

Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary Alberta, Canada

Earth and Sky: Carpet Cultures of Asia presents some of the largest and oldest handwoven carpets in the Nickle Galleries collection from across Asia. It is through the shared ‘carpet culture’ in which weavers, their families and communities, remain connected and rooted. Immigrants frequently mention how carpets evoke some of their earliest memories of home—tactile, acoustic, […]

Hawaiian Quilts: From the Henry & Angela Hite Collection

Loveland Art Museum Loveland, CO, United States

This exhibition highlights a selection of twenty-eight, full-size quilts from the prestigious Colorado-based Hite collection, dating from the late 19th century through the 2000s. Hawaiian appliqué quilts are unique for their “snowflake” designs which were introduced to the Islands by New England missionaries. Imbued with the myths and traditions of the native Hawaiian population and […]

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 […]

Ubuhle Women: Beadwork & the Art of Independence

Liberty Hall Academic Center Gallery, Kean University Union, New Jersey, United States

Ubuhle Beads is a collective of female beadwork artists founded in 1999 by Bev Gibson and master beader Ntombephi Ntombelaon a sugar plantation in South Africa that empowers and changes the perspective of African women. The organization has allowed for women artists of South Africa to have a platform to use their generational talents for […]

Kimono: Garment, Canvas and Artistic Muse

Woodson Art Museum Wausau, Wisconsin

This exhibition celebrates one of the world’s most admired garment, the Japanese kimono, an instantly recognizable robe with a tall “T” form. The word kimono, meaning “a thing that is worn,” refers to many different types of robes, from ornate silk wedding uchikake to simpler cotton summer yukata. Worn in Japan by both women and men for well over […]