Upcoming Events:
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Fiber Futures: Japan’s Textile Pioneers x2 Friday October 12 5–8pm |
Exhibition opening and community party for Fiber Futures: Japan’s Textile Pioneers x2
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Make It @ MOCFA Saturday October 13 4–6pm |
We move our all-ages hands-on activity program after-hours as part of Yerba Buena Night! Be inspired with the fiber works in the current exhibition and use the popular method for transferring images to fabric using photos, old or new. Ages 5+. $5 includes admission and all materials. RSVP: makeit@mocfa.org.
RSVP: makeit [at] mocfa.org.
All events are free with Museum admission.
For more information about these events, please call the Museum at (415) 227-4888.
Docent Tours
Second Saturday of every month, 1pm
Past Events:
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Opening Reception for Fiber Futures x 1 Friday July 20, 6–8pm Member & press preview, 5-6pm |
Join artists, curators, and special guests for the Fiber Futures opening reception. Enjoy a sake tasting provided by Ozumo restaurant and entertainment by TOMOSAITO, guitarist and beat producer of FOTOS.
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CRAFT BAR with ETSY LABS Thursday August 2 6–8pm |
DIY Sewing Kit with Britex Fabrics
August CRAFT BAR features local favorite Britex Fabrics, with guest artist Geana Sieburger of GDS Cloth Goods leading a DIY sewing kit workshop. $5 includes admission and materials. RSVP: craftbar [at] mocfa.org.
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Make It @ MOCFA Saturday August 11 2–4pm |
Cascading Mobiles
Using exhibiting artist Machiko Agano’s floor to ceiling mylar sculptures as inspiration, we will transform old signage and print media into shiny mesmerizing mobiles to dangle from your ceiling. Fun for all ages 5+! $5 includes admission and all materials. RSVP: makeit [at] mocfa.org.
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CRAFT BAR with ETSY LABS Thursday September 6 6–8pm |
Unreel Jewelry with artist Suzanne Morlock
Not sure what do with those old VHS tapes taking up space in the bottom of your closet? Guest artist Suzanne Morlock is here to help, leading a demonstration on how to knit with old VHS cassette tapes. Bring an old cassette tape (rewind if possible) and we’ll show you how to unreel it to knit a fiber-forward fashion accessory to wear home! Local favorite Community Thrift is kindly providing a limited quantity of VHS tapes for those participants with uncluttered closets. $5 includes admission and materials. Beverages provided by Milk Bar.
RSVP: craftbar [at] mocfa.org.
Learn more about Craft Bar with ETSY LABS »
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Make It @ MOCFA Saturday September 8 2–4pm |
Unreel Jewelry with artist Suzanne Morlock
Visual artist Suzanne Morlock demonstrates her recent obsession transforming old newspaper and media tape (VHS, cassette, reel to reel) into yarn and then into a knitted fabric. Bring an old cassette tape (rewind if possible) and we’ll show you how to unreel it to knit a fiber-forward fashion accessory to wear home! Ages 5+. $5 includes admission and all materials.
RSVP: makeit [at] mocfa.org.
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CRAFT BAR with ETSY LABS Thursday October 4 6–8pm |
Natural Dye Workshop with FiberShed
Create your own natural dye with one of the world's most ancient dye flowers- coreopsis tinctorium. Fiber artist Rebecca Burgess of Fiber Shed will lead a workshop where each participant will see and participate in making a fresh vat of dye from locally grown organic coreopsis flowers, and will learn simple techniques to create beautiful surface designs on silk with simple shibori techniques. $10 includes admission and materials.
RSVP: craftbar [at] mocfa.org.
Fiber Futures:
Japan’s Textile Pioneers
x1: July 20–October 6, 2012
x2: October 13–November 10, 2012
Hideo Tanaka (b. 1942). Vanishing and Emerging, 2009. Cotton, flax, and paper 68 x 97 in. (173 x 246 cm). Photo by Mareo Suemasa
This exhibition explores a new art that is emerging from a remarkable fusion of Japanese artisanal and industrial textile making. Coaxed from materials as age-old as hemp and newly developed as microfilaments, a varied array of works by artists from multiple generations are on view in this important two-part exhibition.
By transcending the limitations imposed by inherited oppositions between art, craft and design, Fiber Futures brings together thirty contemporary Japanese artists who are active at the cutting edge of the global fiber-art movement, transforming fabrics into sculptures, pictures, emulations of nature, or even abstract meditations on memory and identity. The materials range from silk, cotton, recycled cocoons, antique paper scraps, jute, and hemp to stainless-steel wire and weaving and dyeing technology, often with the goal of expressing an environmentally sustainable ethos.
Fiber Futures: Japan’s Textile Pioneers not only reflects the fecundity of Japanese tradition and contemporary culture, but also speaks to the resilience of the Japanese people in repurposing the past in order to better shape the future. The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Japan Society (New York), Tama Art University (Tokyo), International Textile Network Japan, and the Museum of Craft and Folk Art.
Kyoko Kumai (b. 1943). Toki (Time), 2011. Stainless-steel filament 39 × 157 × 39 in. (100 × 400 × 100 cm). Photo: Mareo Suemasa
Shown at top of page: Reiko Sudo (b.1953). Fabrication, 2011. Fabricated by Kazuhiro Ueno White cotton 130 × 59 in. (330 × 150 cm).
Shown on homepage: Hitomi Nagai (b. 1954). Birth, 2011. Cotton; waffle weave 79 × 43 × 11 in. (200 × 110 × 28 cm). Photo: Mareo Suemasa
Fiber Futures: Japanese Textile Pioneers is supported in part by generous gifts from San Francisco Honda and Sandra and Paul Bessieres. The Museum of Craft and Folk Art is supported by Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, Gertrud and Harold Parker, The Sato Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Museum members, and friends.
Special thanks to Hiroko Watanabe, Professor, Tama Art University and President of International Textile Network Japan; Joe Earle, Director of Japan Society Gallery; all the exhibiting artists; and MOCFA staff and volunteers.
