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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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,” […]

There is a continuum where beauty and function blend and diverge in the hands of the contemporary artist. Even when traditional materials such as thread, fabric, wood, reed, and paper […]