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We are a support group of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco with the goal of advancing the appreciation of the Museums' textile and costume collections.

A Bay Area forum that provides lecturers, workshops, events and travel opportunities for artists, designers, aficionados and collectors of ethnic textiles, rugs, tapestries, Western costume, and contemporary fiber art.

All Power To The People
(after Man with Afro, San Francisco, California by Leon A. Borensztein, 1984)
2023  Bisa Butler
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

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Calendar

Lectures, Tours and Workshops

Lecture

Color from the Sea, Fiber from the Land:
Textiles of the Adang and Alurung people of Alor Indonesia

By Linda S. McIntosh
Saturday, January 18th, 2025
Presented Via Zoom

This presentation introduces the textile traditions of an area of East Indonesia that previously was rarely studied, the Alor Archipelago.


 

Studio Tour

Private Studio Tour of Fabric Artist
Alice Beasley

By Alice Beasley
Saturday, January 25th, 2025
Off Site - Oakland, CA 

Join us for an insider's look at the techniques and tricks Alice Beasley employs to attain the stunningly realistic fabric portraits of people and objects.

Without the use of paint or other drawing materials, Alice creates realistic portraits by assembling and layering fabric.

Lecture

You're all I Need: Quilted Portraits of Love,
Resistance, and Self-Determination

By Bisa Butler
Saturday, February 15th, 2025, 10:00am
In Person at Koret Auditorium, De Young Museum also Via Zoom 

Through her dynamic, celebratory quilted portraits of people of African decent, Bisa Butler investigates the purposes and potential of portraiture within the Black historical narrative.

Her work All Power to the People is in the permanent collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

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Lectures, Tours and Workshops

In January two textile related events are being hosted by the museum. See below for more information.

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VISITOR INFORMATION

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The Textile Arts Council is a curatorial support organization of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

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Textiles are displayed at the de Young Museum and at the Legion of Honor, which together form the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Legion of Honor museum

de Young Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco CA 94118
Tue thru Sun, 9:30am — 5:15pm

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Legion of Honor
100 34th Avenue
Lincoln Park
San Francisco CA 94121
Tue thru Sun, 9:30am — 5:15pm

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CONTACT US

The membership of the Textile Arts Council elects volunteers to serve on the Textile Arts Council Board to govern the organization.

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For inquiries or information, please contact our TAC administrator at (415) 750-3627.

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You may also reach us via email tac@famsf.org

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