Upcoming Events:
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Thinking by Hand: New Conversation Series RESCHEDULED for Saturday October 22, 3pm |
Thinking by Hand: New Conversation Series Launch with special guest speaker Christina Kim, founder, designer and owner of DOSA has been rescheduled for Saturday October 22, 3pm. On Thursday, October 13, Christina Kim will be unveiling her special commissioned shawl in Washington D.C. at the White House: a gift from Mrs. Obama to Mrs. Kim, the First Lady of Korea. Kim will be discussing this unique and important work at Thinking by Hand on October 22. For more information, and to buy tickets, please visit the event page, here: http://www.eventbee.com/v/thinkingbyhand
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Opening Reception for FIAT LUX: Randy Colosky New Works Thursday, November 10, 6-8pm Member & Press Preview, 5-6pm |
Bay Area conceptual artist Randy Colosky works with exacting physicality using commonplace and industrial materials with a strong emphasis on the architectonic. Altering the standard functions of traditional craftsmen processes, Colosky delves into the character of materials and craft methodologies by dissecting their codes and activating them with new ideas and associations. MOCFA is proud to present newly commissioned work in a range of materials and media including aluminum, engineered ceramic, brick and reclaimed wood. Learn More »
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: Wrapping Traditions: Korean Textiles Now Thursday June 16, 6–8pm Member & Press Preview: 5–6pm |
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Make It @ MOCFA Saturday July 9th (plus second Saturday of every month), 2–4pm |
Children's book reading + Bojagi art making
Join us for an afternoon of Bojagi art making along with author Joan Schoettler, who will bring alive the landscape and culture of Korea reading from her children's book, Good Fortune in a Wrapping Cloth. Surrounded by inspiration from the Museum's current Bojagi exhibition: create your own wrapping cloth using fabric and paper to stitch, staple, glue, and fasten into one-of-a-kind artworks!
$5 for materials and admission. All ages welcome, 5+.
About Good Fortune in a Wrapping Cloth:
Joan Schoettler's warm text brings the landscape and culture of ancient Korea into life. Together with illustrator Jessica Lanan's breathtaking depictions of Korea through the seasons, Ji-su's story of longing and determination will capture the hearts of readers of all ages.
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CRAFT BAR with ETSY LABS Thursday, August 4th 6–8pm |
Join us for a wonderfully wooly CRAFT BAR with Etsy Labs on August 4th from 6-8pm. MOCFA welcomes artist and needle-felter extraordinaire Jackie Huang, of Woolbuddy. You've ogled his cute and cuddly creatures in the Museum Store, now the master himself teaches you how to make one of his most popular Wool Buddy's, the owl!
$10 admission includes materials, tips and tricks. Bring your own wool roving and admission is only $5. Drinks kindly provided by local (and MOCFA) favorite Trumer Pils.
Learn more about Craft Bar with Etsy Labs »
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Make It @ MOCFA Saturday August 13 2–4pm |
Create your own patchwork wrapping cloth inspired by Korean Bojagi: use fabric remnants to stitch, staple, glue, and fasten into one-of-a-kind wraps and gifts. Demonstrations of simple wrapping techniques provided, complete with guides you can take home. $5 admission includes all materials, tips and tricks.
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CRAFT BAR with ETSY LABS Thursday September 1 6-8pm |
September's CRAFT BAR is sure to delight the dressiest of dandies and dandizettes! Join us in 
welcoming back local favorites Britex Fabrics, whose fashionable staff will teach you how to make your very own pair of spats. Choose from beautiful fabrics provided by Britex, learn the basics of hand sewing and construction, and get inspiration from the Museum's gallery. After this CRAFT BAR, you're guaranteed to want to strut through town looking lovelier than ever in handmade spats.
$5 includes admission, tips and tricks. Drinks kindly provided by local (and MOCFA) favorite Trumer Pils.
Learn more about Craft Bar with Etsy Labs »
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Make It @ MOCFA Saturday September 10 2–4pm |
Create your own patchwork wrapping cloth inspired by Korean Bojagi: use fabric remnants to stitch, staple, glue, and fasten into one-of-a-kind wraps and gifts. Demonstrations of simple wrapping techniques provided, complete with guides you can take home.
$5 admission includes all materials, tips and tricks.
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Artist Talk and Demonstration with Barbara Shapiro Saturday, September 17, 2pm |
Barbara Shapiro, textile artist, educator and writer who serves on the boards for the Textile Society of America and Textile Arts Council of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, will discuss her artistic practice and work on display in Wrapping Traditions: Korean Textiles Now. This talk will be followed by a Bojagi demonstration led by Shapiro.
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CRAFT BAR with ETSY LABS |
October's CRAFT BAR brings author Leanne Prain to talk about her new book Hoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery and lead an exclusive workshop taken directly from the book. Have old photographs and postcards you have picked up at flea markets or your grandmothers house? Wonder what you're ever going to do with them? Photo Feelism, by artist Siobhan Long, explores adding embroidery and tactile elements to your photographs and other paper goods. We will have some photographs on hand, but we encourage you to get creative and bring your own as well!
$5 admission includes tips and tricks. Drinks kindly provided by local favorite Trumer Pils.
Learn more about Craft Bar here »
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BRIGHT LIGHTS, LITTLE CITY Yerba Buena Night Saturday October 15, 4pm - midnight |
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The Museum of Craft and Folk Art will be participating in the first ever Yerba Buena Night. There is a gallery walk from 4-7pm, which we are a part of, followed by a very special CRAFT BAR from 7-10pm.
For Yerba Buena Night, neighborhood streets will come alive with art, music, dance, and performance. Come enjoy the Yerba Buena neighborhood, home to the richest concentration of cultural institutions in San Francisco, as well as offering an enormous selection of food, drink, and entertainment. Yerba Buena Night has it all! For more information, please visit the Yerba Buena Night website, here: http://visityerbabuena.org/ybnight2011/
Wrapping Traditions:
Korean Textiles Now
June 17 – October 22, 2011
Watch the segment about Wrapping Traditions on YTN, 24 hr Korean news. (Video plays only in Internet Explorer).
Bojagi (Bo-Jah-ki)—traditional Korean wrapping cloths—is a centuries old Korean folk tradition of pieced textiles for everyday use or ceremonial purposes, hand-made by women in the domestic realm to fulfill a practical need along with an artistic impulse. In recent years, the technique has also gained attention outside Korea due to a resurgence of interest in the handmade and crafting as well the use of recycled materials, DIY and the politics of sustainability in textiles and contemporary art.
The special patchwork technique used in Bojagi employs a triple seam that leaves both sides of the fabric finished and can also serve as a strong structural element, allowing free standing sculptural constructions and a play between transparent and opaque effects. While the early makers of Bojagi cloths used pieces of fabrics available in their households—often achieving beautiful artistic validity in their work—contemporary artists, in their search for a new form for their concepts, have a more expansive array of materials available to them. These works in many kinds of fabric and paper include a variety of techniques, such as stitching, embroidery, quilting, printing, weaving and collage.
This exhibition presents the work of 66 artists from Korea, the United States, England, Finland, the Netherlands, Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Iceland, and Japan. The work includes delicately pieced and hand stitched traditional Bojagi, wearable pieces, installations, and wall hangings, all of which echo the larger world of art. This uniquely Korean folk art of anonymous ancestors has evolved into a contemporary art form embraced worldwide.
— Chunghie Lee, Guest curator
Bok Hee Lee
Yellow wrapping cloth, 2009
Linen
Artists include: Risa Benson Molly Bullick Leonie Castelino Young Kyu Cha HaeHong Chang Kuzina Cheng Nancy Crasco Judilee Fitzhugh Gerdur Gudmundsdottir JungSook Ham Karen Hampton Judy Harmony Marla Hattabaugh Alie Dijk-Hartlief Armi Heikkinen-Daum Inyul Heo Alice Hill Ji-Yeon Hwang Jiseon Lee Isbara Hyun Jung YeaGeum Jung HyunSook Kang ChungIm Kim HyungJoo Kim Jeeun Kim Juunsik Kim OkHyun Kim YoungSoon Kim Youngja Kim Patti King Karin Kunori Bokhee Lee Eunsil Lee EunSook Lee Ji Young Lee Mikyung Lee So-La Lee SungSoon Lee Sharon Lin Hanne Lukka Ruth Marchess Alicia Merrett SukHyun Min Nami Minaki Sang Jae Nam Kirsi Niinimδki Lyn Nixon Catherine O'Leary Myunghee Oh Seung-Ah Oh Soonhee Oh Hyangsook Park KyoungHee Park YoungLan Park Marianne Penberthy Kumhee Ryu Yolanda Sanchez Elisabeth Schubel Barbara Shapiro Mary Ruth Smith Sonjie Solomon Robi Szalay Kyungae Wang Elizabeth Wassermann Victoria-Gail White Jinja Kim Woollard Hee Soon You MeKang You
Ji-Young Lee
Be Tinged, 2010
Naturally dyed silk and silk yarn, traditional surrender technique, handstitching
SungSoon Lee
Seon, 2010-11
Printing and drawing on ramie, patchwork
Pictured on homepage:
EunSook Lee
Transparent Patchwork
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Jinja Kim Woollard
The Museum of Craft and Folk Art is generously supported by Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, The Walter and Elise Haas Fund, The Kimball Foundation, The Bernard Osher Foundation, Gertrud and Harold Parker, The Sato Foundation, Museum members, and friends.
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