Saint Louis, Missouri. With a focus on Britain, Italy, and the United States, Bolts of Color highlights the Museum’s recent acquisitions of post-WWII textiles, all made during the height of the experimental screen printing era of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Featuring works by well-known artists like Rockwell Kent and Lucio Fontana and trailblazing designers like Althea […]
MODA – Moroccan Fashion Statements The exhibition MOḌA--a Moroccan colloquialism for fashion--focuses on the versatility of contemporary makers from Morocco and the Moroccan diaspora in the Netherlands. Itbrings together the artistic work and personal stories of cutting-edge designers and artists who have paved the way for generations of makers, enthusiasts and wearers, beyond Morocco’s borders. MOḌA: Moroccan […]
Tapestry is not just an art of the past. In the mid-twentieth century, tapestry once again came into prominence in exhibitions and building decorations, and artists continue to make designs for tapestry today. One of the world’s great collections of twentieth and twenty-first century tapestries belongs to the Mobilier National of France, which has generously […]
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 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 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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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