Upcoming Exhibitions & Events
Threads of Thought: Cordy Joan
*Event has been postponed until further notice*
Transmissions Quilts is a project that makes quilts for individually nominated trans people. Along the way, we are building out an oral histories archive of interviews with quilt recipients and offering community workshops to trans and queer people. We're thrilled to be collaborating with San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles to offer a talk about the project. Preceding the talk will be a chance for trans and queer people to gather and work on a collective quilt together - no experience necessary. The pieces we make in these workshops enter into a larger exhibition that we are taking on tour around the country. The tour is intended to bring the gift-quilts and associated art objects to places our trans quilters and recipients live. Photo by Alastair Boone. We had to postpone this event, but please fill out this google form to receive a personalized invite when the new date is announced.
Threads of Thought: Julia Wright
Saturday, November 8th, 2025 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Julia Wright is a textile artist and engineer whose practice investigates how humans engage with structure to make sense of the world, with the loom acting as a tool for exploration, problem-solving, and self-imposed systems. Wright holds a BFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design and has worked in the textile industry as a designer and engineer for the past decade. Her work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Providence RI, Ithaca NY, and in Gimpo, South Korea. Join us for her talk Unbuilding, rebuilding: Inside the TC2 Loom. Purchase your tickets here.
Threads of Thought: Shannon Mirabelli-Lopez
Thursday, November 13th, 2025 | 7:00pm - 8:00pm
After a decade in music industry management, costume design, and styling, Shannon Mirabelli-Lopez entered academia through The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. As Associate Research Curator at the Met, she collaborated with Harold Koda, Curator in Charge, and Andrew Bolton, Curator, on exhibitions, publications, acquisitions, and education. She has taught and lectured at New York University, Pratt, and Parsons, with research interest areas that include twentieth-century avant-garde fashion and sub-cultural style, non-western costume as it relates to contemporary fashion practice, issues of sustainability, and postwar decorative arts and design history. Mirabelli-Lopez has an undergraduate degree in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley, a master’s degree in visual culture from New York University, and an MPhil in decorative arts, design, and culture from The Bard Graduate Center in New York City. Purchase your tickets here.
Threads of Thought: Nancy Bavor
Saturday, December 13th, 2025 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Join Nancy Bavor as she gives a walkthrough of the current exhibition Quilt National 2025. Nancy will talk about the history of Quilt National, the jurying process and the works in our exhibition. Buy your tickets here.
Trunk Show: Sonya Lee Barrington
Saturday, December 13th, 2025 | 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Come meet noted San Francisco quilt artist Sonya Lee Barrington at the Museum. She will have a trunk show of her work in silk, wool and cotton, that includes pillows, banners, small mounted quilts. This work will cover the years from the 1980’s to the present. All pieces attractively priced
The Woven Pixel
January 28th, 2026 — May 11th, 2026
This exhibition explores the rise of digital weaving which emerged in the early 2000s. It brings together a variety of work by artists and designers who experiment with digital looms and jacquard software. It pays tribute to two artists in particular, Bhakti Ziek and Alice Schlein, who wrote The Woven Pixel (2006), which quickly became something of a bible for weavers in art, design and industry—-and referenced still today. Because every intersection of warp and weft represents a pixel, weaving seamlessly merged with the earliest computer technologies. Today digital weavers are altering the landscape of contemporary art and design using algorithmic painterliness, expressive structures and flexible parametric forms. Curated by Sarah Mills.
