Past Exhibitions
2010
Rhythm and Hues: Cloth and Culture of Mali
February 5, 2010—May 2, 2010 | View Archive »
2009
Open Source Embroidery
October 2, 2009 – January 24, 2010 | View Archive »
Warren MacKenzie:
Legacy of an American Potter
June 11 – September 13, 2009 | View archive »
Inside/Outside:
Artist Environments
March 6 – May 24, 2009 | View archive »
2008
The Shape of Things:
Paper Traditions and Transformations
November 14, 2008 – February 15, 2009 | View archive »
Simply Shaker:
The Ben and Toby Rose Collection of Shaker Arts and Crafts
August 15 – November 2, 2008 | View archive »
American Symbols:
From Lady Liberty to the Stars and Stripes
May 9 - August 3, 2008 | View archive »
The Fabric of Cultures:
Fashion, Identity, Globalization
February 15 - April 27, 2008 | View archive »
2007
"C" Change, Craft in Our Future:
Recent Alums from California College of the Arts
November 1, 2007 – January 27, 2008 | View archive »
Evolution of the Ukulele: The Story of Hawaii's Jumping Flea
August 2 - October 21, 2007 | View archive »
Beyond Craft: Kamusuki, Paper as Process
May 10 - July 22, 2007
Beats Per Minute:
Contemporary Artists Influenced by Craft and Folk Art Practices
March 13 - April 29, 2007
2006
The Art of Gaman
November 2, 2006– January 21, 2007
Menagerie: Artists Look at Animals
August 3 – October 22, 2006
Will the Circle Be Unbroken:
Four Generations of
African-American Quiltmakers
May 4 – July 23 , 2006
The Sensuous Curve:
Scandinavian Modernists and their Influence on Contemporary California Design
February 9 - April 23, 2006
2005
Folk Art for the Soul
December 3 - January 29
Material Matters:
Three Masterful Approaches to Fiber, Wood, and Glass
September 14 - November 27
Sanctuary in an Age of Commodity:
The Art of Tobi Kahn
and Puppets from Around the World
May 4- August 28
Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form
January 12- April 24
2004
Craft Showcase 5
November 12- December 28
Ragged Beauty:
Repair and Reuse, Past and Present
August 20- October 31
Subtraction & Addition:
Ceramic Sculpture and Installations
and New Urushi Forms:
Three Lacquer Artists from Japan
May 5- August 8
Weaving Tradition:
Carol Cassidy and Woven Silks of Laos
and The New Rice Festival:
Vietnamese Artist Nguyen Bao Toan
January 14- April 25
2003
Craft Showcase 4
November 25- December 28
Revealing Influences:
Conversations with Bay Area Artists
August 27- November 16
Bella Feldman: War Toys Redux
and Valuables: Jewelry in the New Millennium
May 7- August 17
Quilted Journeys:
Immigration Stories by Australian Artists
January 15- April 27
2002
Craft Showcase 3
December 4- December 29
Fusing Traditions: Transformations in Glass by Native American Artists
September 12- November 24
Sirens and Snakes:
Water Spirits in Folk Art and Legend
June 26- September 1
Unwearable Art: Clothing in New Media
April 17- September 1
Findings: The Jewelry of Ramona Solberg
April 17- June 16
Emblems of Passage: Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
January 16- April 7
2001
Craft Showcase 2
December 5- December 30
Shibori:
Tradition and Innovation- East to West
August 8- November 25
Contemporary Needlework: Tattoo!
and Crowning Glory: Contemporary Paper Hats by Moses
June 6- July 29
Bob Stocksdale: Eighty- Eight Turnings
and Larry Williamson: The West in Wood
April 4- May 27
Rio Grande Traditions in Fiber and Clay
January 24- March 25
2000
Contemporary Craft Show case
December 2- January 16
Dorothy Weiss Collects
and Day of the Dead (joint with the Mexican Museum)
September 30- November 26
Chinese Children’s Hats
and Jean Williams Cacicedo: Explorations in Cloth
July 29- September 24
Florence Resnikoff, Master of Metal
and Et Cetera: Metalwork of Jack Chandler
June 3- July 23
The Daily News: The Newspaper Art of Gugger Petter
and The Art of New Guinea: Spirits and Artifacts
April 1- May 28
An Intimate Reading: The Books of Kay Sekimachi
and Reliquaries for America
January 8- March 26
1999
Beyond the Obvious: Rethinking Jewelry
October 23- January 2, 2000
Sacred Markers: Funerary Sculpture
and Metal Arts from the Saxe Collection
August 14- October 17
Recycled Riches, Recycled Dreams:
The Altars of Pierrot Barra
and Fiber and Eloquence: African Traditions
June 5- August 8
The Delights of Brazil: Popular Art Today
and Master in Wood: The Furniture of Art Carpenter
March 20- May 30
Illuminations! Artists Working with Light
and Open and Shut Cases: Boxes by Jeffery Ketcham and Larry Jeffers
January 9- March 14
1998
Crèches from Around the World
and Pat Hickman: Through the Gates
October 17- January 3, 1999
Ware for Chanoyu: The Japanese Tea Ceremony
and Invitational Tea Bowl Exhibition
August 15- October 11
June Schwarz: Forty Years/ Forty Pieces
and Face to Face: The Portraits of Craig Budde and Ted Gordon
June 6- August 9
British Potters: The Dixon Long Collection
and Bert Marsh, British Woodturner
March 21- May 31
Five Points of View: Contemporary Baskets
and The Folk Art of Bali
January 10- March 15
1997
The Straw Trail
and Navajo Folk Art
November 1- January 4, 1998
Metalspeaks: The Unexpected
and Ed Trinkkeller: Gentleman of Iron
August 16- October 26
Sha-Sha Higby
and Peruvian Retablos: The Social and Political Art of Nicario Jimenez
June 7- August 10
Earth and Air
and Sticks
March 29- June 1
Ethiopian Folk Art: The Leavitt Collection
and Beatrice Wood: The Luster of 104
January 11- March 23
1996
Craft Traditions of Okinawa
November 2- January 5, 1997
Pani and Fili: Breads and Threads from Italy
and Jay Lewis: Found Civilization
August 17- October 27
Poe Dismuke: From Vaudeville to Carnival
andC.T. McClusky: Visions of the Circus
June 1- August 11
Small Wonder (Contemporary craft and crossover art)
and Have Birdcage, Hatbox, and Silk Case: Will Travel
March 23- May 26
Craft at Gumps: The Helen Heninger Years
and Vitalijus Cepkauskas: Lithuanian Folk Artist
January 6- March 17
1995
The Saami: People of the Sun and Wind
October 29- December 31
Land of the Morning: Treasures of the Philippines
August 12- October 22
Working Folk
and Otto and Vivika Heino: Master Potters
June 3- August 6
Bacchus’ Vessels
and Two Guatemalan Folk Painters
March 18- May 28
Botswana Live!
and Edith Heath: 50 Years of Design
January 7- March 12
1994
Contemporary Cast Glass
and Russian Lacquer Artists: Pavel and Natasha Tikhomirov
October 29- December 31
Puppets & Poetry
and The Monkey with the Flaming Tail: A Rural Festival in India
August 13- October 23
Riches from Rags: Recycling in Japanese Rural Weaving
and Metamorphosis: Recycling in High Fashion
May 28- August 7
Making Sense: Story in Contemporary Bay Area Art
and Marilyn and Jack da Silva: Metalsmiths
March 19- May 22
Models in the Mind: African Prototypes in American Quilts
and Con Mucha Alegria: Bolivian Masks and Costumes
and The Paintings of Kyra Nijinsky Markevitch
January 8- March 6
1993
Contemporary Native American Art Forms: Lakota Quilts
and Unknown Africa: Selections from the Collection of Daniel and Pearl Crowley
October 30- January 2, 1994
Nine Decades: The Northern California Craft Movement
and Jolanta Pachowska and Son: A Collaboration
September 4- October 24
From the Heart of Ogun: Haiti's Steel Drum Sculpture
and Gertrude Parker: A Lightness of Being
July 3- August 29
Art Deco in San Francisco
and Face to Face: Clayton Bailey and Traditional Southern Face Vessels
May 1- June 27
Beads: Ancient, Traditional, Tribal, and Trade
and Memories in the Tips of our Fingers
February 27- April 25
Madeline de Joly: Libraries of Confluence
and San Francisco Young Artists
January 9- February 21
1992
Hand Bookbinders of California
and Jewish Papercuts
November 7- January 2, 1993
Classical Chinese Furniture
September 1- November 1
Lillian Elliott: Baskets and Textiles
and Lillian Elliott Collects: Folk and Tribal Impact
July 7- August 23
Pond Farm
and Julia Morgan: Architecture Rendered Beautiful
May 2- June 28
Tivaivai: Cook Island Quilts
and Doris Miller: Raku Vessels
February 29- April 26
Many Mansions
January 4- February 23
1991
Indonesian Textiles: A Heritage in Cloth
and Third World Trade Signs
November 2- December 29
The California Duck
and Perfection in Porcelain: Armin Muller
August 31- October 27
Eliminating Definitions: Installations by Four Bay Area Artists
and California Cutlery
June 29- August 25
Looking Pretty, Sitting Fine: Baltimore Screens and Folk Art Chairs
and New Metal Work: Judith Hoffman and Bruce Metcalf
May 4- June 23
Katherine Westphal: The Grand Tour
March 2- April 28
Mythical Figures and Fantastic Facades: Nance O’Banion and Peter Winter
and Ogbozo: An Igbo Maskmaker of Nigeria
January 5- February 24
1990
An Old Turkish House
November 3- December 30
The Quiet Eye: Pottery of Shoji Hamada and Bernard Leach
and Reiko Brandon: Bridging Two Cultures with Fiber
September 1- October 28
Primal Portraits: Adam and Eve as Seen by Self-Taught 20th-Century Artists
and Andean Folk Knitting: Traditions from Peru and Bolivia
July 7- August 26
Folk Art of the Soviet Union (in Herbst Pavilion, Pier 2, Fort Mason Center)
June 21 - July 29
Who’d A Thought It: Improvisation in African-American Quiltmaking (City Center Square, Oakland, CA)
May 30 - June 16
Brian Gladwell: Cardboard Furniture
and In Celebration: Ed Rossbach’s Baskets
May 5 - July 1
Beyond Words: The Book as Metaphor for Art
and Tramp Art
March 10 - April 29
The Painter as Sculptor and Collector: John Haley
January 6 - March 4
1989
Dolls as Mirrors of Culture: The Gregory Collection
and The Ethnographic Paper Dolls of Satch La Valley
November 4- December 31
The Arts and Crafts Studio of Dirk Van Erp
September 2- October 29
Maritime Arts and Artisans
July 2- August 27
Glass Inventions, Silica Dreams: Three Pacific Northwest Artists
and Bay Area Violin and Bow Makers
May 6- June 25
The Life and History of Hog Hammock:
Sculptures and Drawings by Aminah Robinson
and Baskets and Nets by Joanne Segal Brandford
March 4- April 30
Minority Costumes and Textiles of Guizhou Province, The People’s Republic of China
December 31, 1988- February 26, 1989
1988
88 Jewels : A National Juried Competition of Contemporary Jewelry
November 5- December 23
Clay and Skin Pots by Allen Moe
November 5- December 23
Sun and Moon: Traditional Arts of Yi Dynasty Korea
and New Acquisitions: Pieced Textiles from Gujarat, India
September 3- October 30
Not So Naive: Bay Area Artists and Outsider Art
July 2- August 28
Above the Shoulders
and Paintings by Folk Artist Alex Maldonado
May 7- June 26
This is Who We Are: Weavings and Costumes from Tarabuco, Bolivia
March 5- May 1
Who’d A Thought It: Improvisation in African-American Quiltmaking
January 2- February 28
1987
Innerskins/ Outerskins: Gut and Fishskin
October 31- December 20
Women’s Foundation Awards Exhibition
September 30- October 18
Enduring Traditions: Tibetan Folk Art
August 26- October 25
Bay Currents: Clay and Glass
June 25- August 23
Contrasts in Wood: John Abduljaami and Harold Pepperell
April 29- June 21
Hopi Art: A Century of Continuity and Change
March 4- April 26
From Aid to Art: Decorated Flour Sacks from WWI
January 7- March 1
1986
Heirloom Quilts: The Gaby Burkert Collection
October 15- December 21
A Sculptor’s Place
August 6- October 12
Art of the Lesser Sunda Islands
June 11- August 2
Textiles of Old Japan: Color and Dye
April 16- June 6
Max Pollock, Artist and Collector
February 27- April 12
The Road to Heaven is Built by Good Works: Southern Black Visionaries
January 4- February 23
1985
Design for Living: 1910
October 25- December 22
Kerry Vander Meer- Atlantillian Images
and Ann Christenson Sculpture: Ceramic and Steel
August 28- October 19
Ancient Symbols: The Language of Oriental Rugs
July 3- August 25
Shelly Jurs: Architectural Glass
and Art in Haitian Vodou
May 1- June 28
Textiles of Old Japan: Bast Fiber Textiles and Old Kasuri
March 8- April 28
Barbara Shawcroft
January 9- March 3
1984
Lillian Elliott and Pat Hickman–Collaborations: Basket Forms and Wall Pieces
October 31- December 23
A Mexican Day of the Dead Altar
October 31- November 11
Form and Color: Rudolph Schaeffer Collects for Teaching
and American Art Pottery: 1890- 1950
September 5- October 28
The Little Black Dress: The Power, Function, and Ceremony of Black
and Native Arts of Luzon: Philippine Traditions
July 4- August 26
Belts and Fajas of the Americas
and Excessories: Gaza Bowen
May 2- July 1
Musical Instruments from the Third World
and Rebecca Stephens: Color Xerography
March 7- April 27
Majolica from Faenz
January 5 - March 4
1983
Mexican Ceremonial Masks
November 2- December 23
Katherine Westphal: Paper to Wear
September 21- October 30
Camel Belts from the Great Indian Desert
August 10 - September 18
Boats, Trains, Cars, and Planes: Folk Art from Many Places
and June Schwarz: Enameled Bowls and Wall Pieces
June 8- August 7
Trends and Tradition
March 3- June 5