Recordings are available from September 2020 forward

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Access Recordings (password protected, email tac@famsf.org to request)

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Recording List

2024

11/16 Marie Bergstedt, Stitched up and Unbuttoned

​10/19 Reiko Sudo, Making Nuno; Innovative Japanese Textiles

9/21 Talia Spielholz, The Evolution of the Political Uniform; Congresswomen in Official Portraiture

6/15 Annual Sinton Lecture: Barbara Shapiro — Weaver, Dyer, and Basket Maker

5/18 Nancy J. Troy and Ann Marguerite Tartsinis, Making Mondrian’s Dress

4/20 Melissa Leventon and Ellin Klor, On and Off the Loom: A Discussion of Kay Sekimachi and 20th Century Fiber Art

3/23 Virginia Postrel, The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World

2/17 Seif El Rashidi, Khayamiyya: The Magnificent Textile Art of Egyptian Appliqué-work

1/20 Véronique I. C. Pouillard,  Licensing Luxury Fashion: A Global History

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2023

11/18 Alessandra Wood, Setting the Stage: Retail Store Design and Display in the 20th Century

10/21 Demetri Broxton, Sacred Bling: African Diasporic Beadwork

9/23 Julia Bryan-Wilson, Mother-Taught: Matrilinear Needlework

6/17 Fashioning an Exhibition: How FAMSF Textile Conservators Prepare Christian Dior’s "Junon" for Display

5/20 Joan Hart, Unraveling the Origins and History of a Unique Cashmere Shawl

4/15 Nancy Bavor, The California Art Quilt Revolution: From the Summer of Love to the New Millennium

3/18 Rowland Ricketts, Annual Sinton Lecture: Invisible Blue

2/25 Minjee Kim, The Rise of Fashion Museology: Korean Fashion Exhibitions 2013–2022 

1/21 Ingrid Mida, Reading Fashion in Art with The Dress Detective

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2022

11/19 Terri Friedman, Bittersweet: Painting the Loom

10/15 Pachia Lucy Vang, Culture Through Cloth: Hmong Textiles and Fashion

9/17 Sandra Jackson-Dumont,  Flying Free: The Audacious Work of Faith Ringgold

6/4 Linda Gass, Annual Sinton Lecture: Using Beauty and Textiles to Look at Hard Environmental Realities

5/21 The Julia Koerner, Future is Now

4/23 Rachel Silberstien, From Second-Hand Robes to Chinese Art: the Formation and Meanings of “Chinese Dress” Collections in the Twentieth-Century American Museum

3/19 Susan Brown and Alexa Griffith, Dorthy Liebes, Coast to Coast

2/26 Teri Greeves, Honoring the Women Who Came Before

1/22 Helena Hernmarck, Helena Hernmarck: Wool and Color

2021
11/6 Laura Camerlengo, From Mississippi to Paris – to San Francisco: The Making of “Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love”

10/16 Genevieve Duggan, Beyond the warp and the weft: Ikat textiles of the island of Savu, eastern Indonesia

9/18 Laura Johnson, ’Very full of work’: Patterns of Printed Textile Scholarship

6/5 Kana Taira, Annual Sinton Lecture, Ryukyu Bashofu: Banana Fiber Textiles of Okinawa

5/15 Valerie Kirk, Tapestry Weaving – A Universe beyond the everyday.

4/17 Carol McLennan, Embracing the In-Between: Comme des Garçons, Butoh, and Ma

3/20 Carol Cassidy, Weaving, Tradition, Art and Community

2/20 Cristin McKnight, Curating Handmade: Textiles from South Asia, Past and Present

1/16 Dilys Blum, Back to the Future: Reflections on Off the Wall: American Art to Wear at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

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2020

11/21 Evelyn Vanderhoop, Annual Sinton Lecture, The Northwest Coast Wool Textiles – Cultural Use, History and Contemporary Revival

10/24 Mariachiara Gasparini, Rolling Roundels: Development and Evolution of Medieval Chinese-Central Asian Textiles

9/26 Sara Trail, Social Justice Sewing Academy: Youth Voice Through Textiles