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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
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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