LatinXTextiles & Texiltes Hispanos
An Online Exhibition
October 1 - 15, 2020

From October 1st- 15th, 2020 SJMQT celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month by inviting Museums, Cultural organizations, Artists, and Enthusiasts to share a textile piece made by LatinX artists! The purpose of this campaign is to celebrate the diverse and unique takes on material and the history of textiles by LatinX artists.

I Was India: Embroidering Exoticism
Kira Dominguez Hultgren
An Online Exhibition

Bay Area-based artist Kira Dominguez Hultgren explores what it takes to make an Indian. Her work incorporates cultural and familial materials, as she opens up her grandmother’s cedar chest to reveal two Punjabi phulkaris embroidered by her auntie Dalip Kaur around 1925. Through woven sculpture and installation, Dominguez Hultgren invites visitors to step with her into phulkari practice as a transgressive process that challenges both personal identity and global histories.

Watch an introduction from virtual exhibition co-curator and SJMQT intern Shilpa Shah!

Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage
An Online Exhibition

Emmeline Pankhurst, the famously militant British suffragist, in 1903 coined the motto “Deeds Not Words” for the newly formed Women’s Social and Political Union. History proved that while rhetoric was the impetus for radical change, actions were needed to finalize steps toward ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. The suffragists were true revolutionaries, occasionally sacrificing their reputations and sometimes their freedom. Several of the artists in Deeds Not Words chose to celebrate a suffragist whose name they remembered from history lessons, while others felt a more personal relationship with their subjects. Arturo Alonzo Sandoval, for example, was inspired by a friend who is the daughter of an African-American suffragist; Martha Wolfe studied Sara Bard Field, who road-tripped from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., collecting signatures for women’s suffrage; North Carolina artist Hollis Chatelain honors Gertrude Weil; Alice Beasley’s quilt depicts the courageous Ida B. Wells; and, Jill Kerttula’s multi-part quilt reminds us that Belva Lockwood in 1884 ran for president, even though she herself was not permitted to vote. The 28 art quilts in this exhibition, all but one created for the tour, were curated by Sandra Sider, curator of the Texas Quilt Museum, and Pamela Weeks, curator of the New England Quilt Museum.

Sponsored exclusively by eQuilter.com, with additional support from Karey Bresenhan and Nancy O’Bryant Puentes. 

Our sincerest thanks goes to SJMQT Intern Victoria Nguyen for providing Vietnamese translation and for Manuel Chavez Padilla from PerMondo for the Spanish translation. 

Traducción al español dentro del proyecto PerMondo para la traducción gratuita de páginas web y documentos para ONG y asociaciones sin ánimo de lucro. Proyecto dirigido por Mondo Agit. Traductor: Manuel Chavez Padilla

Gems From Our Past
An Online Exhibition

Ranging from 1850 to 1940, SJMQT showcases classic quilts from San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textile's permanent collection. Curated by Ashley Elieff, Collections Manager at SJMQT, this show highlights the bright, high-contrast, and bold prints of the museum's diverse quilt assortment. (From our 2019 past exhibitions)

Text On Textiles
AN ONLINE EXHIBITION

On May 3, 2020, SJMQT celebrated National Textile Day by prompting artists, museums and other cultural organizations to post a fiber art piece that highlighted text. Everyone was welcome to participate on the social media platform of their choice and any language or symbol that communicated text was acceptable.