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Our Phones Are Back Online
Phone lines are back online; our new phone number is (408) 384-8382. Thank you for your continued support!
On View at the Museum:
Kay Sekimachi: Ingenuity and Imagination
&
Virginia Davis: Art and Illusion
&
The Museum Collection Survey
Special Exhibit opens at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles on Friday, June 6th through Sunday, September 14th.
Thursdays, Fridays | 1 pm to 5 pm
Saturdays, Sundays | 11 am to 5 pm
Curator’s Talk with Melissa Leventon
Saturday, August 16th | 1:00pm to 2:00pm | $10 Admission Fee
Join us to gain insight on Sekimachi's works in Kay Sekimachi: Ingenuity and Imagination from the curator Melissa Leventon.
Kay Sekimachi is esteemed as an innovator in contemporary fiber art. Sekimachi joined rigorous technique and improvisation to produce instantly recognizable, small-scale works of great beauty and simplicity in her pathbreaking three-dimensional art, including woven hangings and boxes. Her vision has had an impact on many outstanding artists. Sekimachi came of age at a boom time for fiber art, when many artists were experimenting with dimensional weaving both on and off the loom and were challenging old art world hierarchies in the process. In this talk, Melissa Leventon will discuss Sekimachi’s oeuvre within the wider context of fiber art in the 20th century.
Melissa Leventon, formerly Curator-in-Charge of Textiles at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, is principal at Curatrix Group, a museum consultancy and appraisal firm specializing in European and American textiles and fashion. As a curator, she has organized exhibitions on topics ranging from French couture to contemporary glass, Wearable Art to the Dead Sea Scrolls, and has worked with museums such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Textile Museum, the Chicago History Museum, and the Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles in Bangkok. She has authored or co-authored six books and numerous essays. Outside museum work and appraising, Melissa teaches fashion history and theory at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, and is the former Chair of the Board of Trustees of the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles.
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The mission of the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles is to preserve, celebrate, and promote knowledge about quilts and textiles, their creation, their beauty, and their relationship to human culture and expression.
