Sunday, May 20 at the UICC, 4pm Irish People, Irish Linen with Author Kathleen Curtis Wilson. Presented by the Irish Literary & Historical Society of the San Francisco Bay Area. The Irish Literary & Historical Society welcomes Kathleen Curtis Wilson who will speak about her highly acclaimed book Irish People, Irish Linen – the story [...]
Saturday, June 9, 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM Choose from thousands of opera, theatre, dance, musical theatre and film-related items. These items are duplicate material from our library collection. Pay one admission for each time you pass through the Sale in the Main Gallery and take away as much as you can carry in one [...]
Following in the footsteps of other important fashion photographers such as George Hurrell, Horst P. Horst, Louise Dahl Wolfe, Irving Penn, and Richard Avedon, 1980s photographer Herb Ritts (1952–2002) is now the center of an exhibition titled Herb Ritts: LA Style, through August 26, 2012, at the Getty Center, West Pavillion in Los Angeles. Best [...]
On Thursday, May 10 at 12pm, The Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco will play host to the Chavez Santiago family of the “famed weaving village of Teotitlan de Valle presents its story of this ancient art form, a family, a culture and preserving a way of life across generations.” The New York Times [...]
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
2012 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition at San Fransisco State University: April 21, 2012 – May 11, 2012 “The 2012 Master of Fine Arts Thesis exhibition features the work of 9 artists: A. Gaul Culley, Dan Herrera, Nif Hodgson, Paula Moran, Kanako Namura, Billy Ocallaghan, Jordan Perkins-Lewis, Kim Snyder, and Matt Thompson.” The opening [...]
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
* Join CSA Members and guests this summer for a special private curator-led tour of Colors of the Oasis: Central Asian Ikats at the historic Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM) in Seattle, WA on June 14, 2012. The show originated from the Textile Museum in Washington D.C. – a premiere institution – and it’s a [...]
If you hurry, you can see the last of the UC Botanical Garden’s current display, “Fiber & Dye,” which highlights plant-based natural fibers and dyes, as well as natural fibers themselves (including bamboo, hemp, soya, abaca and pina). As sustainable and eco-fashion grow in popularity, so too will the public’s general interest in these longstanding [...]
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk exhibit at the de Young has been getting a fair amount of media attention since it opened to the public on March 24. Much of the coverage focuses on the technology used for the mannequins, and indeed when I first saw them [...]
This morning at 10:30am (Pacific) I’ll be live-tweeting from the press preview of the de Young Museums, The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk. The exhibit opens to the public this Saturday, March 24; with a gala celebration tomorrow. Today’s press preview will provide an insiders look at the [...]
My local paper is always a wealth of information and on Friday of last week, the front page read “Richmond to host big quilt show.” As you all may know, I’m relatively new to the interest in quilts (see my past post on a Quilting Documentary in July and this Quilting book review on Wornthrough) [...]
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