Saturday Lecture Recordings by Date
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
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