{"id":2949,"date":"2012-05-07T06:30:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T13:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/?p=2949"},"modified":"2012-04-30T14:43:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T21:43:51","slug":"my-new-job-at-the-san-jose-museum-of-quilts-and-textiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/07\/my-new-job-at-the-san-jose-museum-of-quilts-and-textiles\/","title":{"rendered":"My New Job at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles."},"content":{"rendered":"
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After years<\/em><\/strong> of plugging away at the academic study of dress and textiles, I am about to start a new position in my preferred field! My new job as the Marketing Director for the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles<\/a> begins tomorrow, and I’m so thrilled to be working in a museum, with textiles, and in the bay area!<\/p>\n

For those who aren’t familiar, the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles is a small museum with a big mission: to “promote the art, craft and history<\/strong> of quilts and textiles.” and they will celebrate their 35th Anniversary this year.<\/p>\n

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Haena Point (Hawaiian Sunset No. 1), By Mark Adams, Quilt, 1979 From the Collection of the Stanford Library of Art and Architecture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It all began in 1977, when the Santa Clara Valley Quilt Association<\/a> opened in a Los Altos storefront. Now in its permanent home in downtown San Jose, the collection houses “850 quilts, garments and ethnic textiles, and a research library of more than 500 books on the history and making of quilts and textiles.”<\/p>\n

If you’ve never seen an art quilt on a museum wall, you are missing out – quilts are a flexible form, that can work as painting, sculpture or artifact. I’ve seen quilts as portraits, landscapes, using the same painterly techniques as pointillism or impressionism and the fashion techniques of bead and ribbon work to create evocative masterworks of art. The museum also frequently exhibits non-quilt textiles, including fashion, crochet and knitwear, and tech-textiles.<\/p>\n

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Sea jellies crocheted with metal by Arline fisch at SJMQT<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

I can’t tell you just how excited I am about this opportunity. As I grow familiar with my new role, I’ll be sure to share exciting exhibitions, events, objects and opportunities with you.<\/p>\n

Check out the Facebook page<\/a>, and the list of upcoming exhibitions<\/a> for a preview of what I’ll be working on – and if you happen to be down in the South Bay, be sure to pop by!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It all began in 1977, when the Santa Clara Valley Quilt Association opened in a Los Altos storefront. Now in its permanent home in downtown San Jose, the collection houses “850 quilts, garments and ethnic textiles, and a research library of more than 500 books on the history and making of quilts and textiles.” If […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,7,89,4,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}