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Opening Reception Friday, February 15, 5-7pm |
March Lectures:
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Cross Reference: fashion, music, and film Saturday, March 22, 2pm* |
Artist Julio Cesar Morales looks at the influence of punk rock in fashion through music and video and asks whether fashion or music came first. Ben and Chris Ospital, owners of local clothing store, Modern Appealing Clothing, discuss iconic fashion as plot device in film. (Please note the date of this event has
changed from March 15 to March 22.)
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Artist Salon Series: Textile Artist Barbara Shapiro Wednesday, March 26, 6-8pm |
Textile Artist Barbara
Shapiro will talk about her woven textiles, her affair with the color
indigo and her baskets, which are currently featured in the Museum Store. Learn more about the Artist here.
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Amy Winter, Ph.D., Curator’s Tour Thursday, March 27, 5pm* |
Director and Curator, Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College, Flushing, New York
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Going Global: Italian Style and the Movies in the Boom Years Saturday, March 29, 2pm* |
Eugenia Paulicelli, Ph. D., author of “Fashion Under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt”, presents a talk on 1950/60s Italian cinema and fashion, dealing with films by Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni and their impact on costume and design.
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Family Activity Day: Art of Japanese Dyeing Saturday, April 12, 1pm* |
Take a docent-guided tour of the exhibition and make a fabric masterpiece of your own to take home. Tie-dye is easy, magical, and fun with the Museum's School Program staff, who can show you wonderful ways to tie-dye at home and create more with your masterpiece.
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2008 Artist Salon Series: Sarah K. Havener Thursday, May 1, 5-7pm |
Artist Sarah K. Havener will discuss her passion for transforming antique textiles into useful everyday objects. Join us for a talk by the artist in the Museum gallery followed by a wine reception in the Museum store, where her work will be available for purchase.
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American Folk Art Festival Saturday, May 3, 12-5pm |
Come to the first ever American Folk Art Festival, held at the Laird Family Estate Winery in beautiful Napa Valley. The event is being held to help raise money and awareness for the Museum of Craft and Folk Art.
Docent Tours
1 pm: First Tuesday of every month; 2nd and 4th Saturday of every month*
All events marked * are free with Museum admission.
For more information about these events, please call the Museum at (415) 227-4888.
Pictured in banner above:
Hand-woven and dyed mud cloth belt, Mali, West Africa (20th century);
Courtesy of Julia Sharp.
The Fabric of Cultures:
Fashion, Identity, Globalization
February 15 - April 27, 2008
This exhibition of more than 30 garments and numerous textiles from the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, the Queens College Costume Collection, designers, and private collections represents a variety of global traditions and aesthetics from past to present. Through the medium of dress, the exhibition illuminates the interplay between cultural and personal identity and the global influence of culture and ethnicity on fashion. The Fabric of Cultures also demonstrates how traditional dress is transformed and finds new life in the creations of such well-known and emerging designers as Chanel, Carla Fernández, Kei Ito, Lakis Gavalas (LAK), Mary McFadden, Emilio Pucci, Oscar de la Renta, and Yves St. Laurent. Examples range from ancient Peruvian textiles to the fashions of Carla Fernández, a contemporary Mexico City-based designer who employs sewing techniques from indigenous Mexican culture.
Detail of Tapestry sleeve with image of warrior,
Peru, Huarmey region, 700-900 AD, camelid thread.
Gift of anonymous donor, Godwin-Ternbach Museum Collection.
Kei Ito. Hand made felt, raw wool, marino and blue-faced leicester.
Chinese robe pattern with Native American costume influence, 1999. |
Kei Ito, hand dye and tucking technique, machine embroidery. Silk zagar, 2003. |
Chinese woman’s robe, silk with hand embroidery, 20th century.
Gift of Lilliana Teruzzi, Queens College Costume Collection.
