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I received an email from San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles this weekend. They have a serious cash shortfall. If they don’t raise $80K in the next 2 weeks, they will have to close their doors. Please help out if you can and spread the word.

From their website:

The first museum in the United States to focus exclusively on quilts and textiles as an art form, the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2012. With compelling exhibitions of historical and contemporary textiles, engaging gallery walks and artist talks for adults, and a highly successful educational outreach program for 2nd students, we aim to increase the public’s awareness, understanding, and appreciation of quilts and textiles as a form of artistic and cultural expression that peoples worldwide have practiced for thousands of years.

Cloth is at the core of human experience. Every culture throughout history has had a textile tradition through which people learned about and sustained their social, civic and religious rituals. As largely a woman’s tradition, quilting became a primary vehicle for women’s social, political and artistic expression when other forms of expression were not available to them. It was during the 1970s, when the women’s movement and the feminist art movement came to full flower, that a new breed of artists, often formally educated, began choosing fiber as a fine art medium, challenging assumptions about both the intent and the content of textile art forms.

Thank you.

Fire at Judith’s Studio

Remains of Judith’s Studio

As many of you have heard, Judith MacKenzie’s teaching studio burned down in the early hours of Monday morning. She has lost all weaving and spinning equipment. There is now a website to help her rebuild her studio.

If you are able to, please consider donating to help this wonderful woman who has been so generous with her time and knowledge. I personally would not be the person I am today without her help, in more ways than just spinning and weaving.