Nancy Bavor, executive director of the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, will give an illustrated talk on the California art quilt.
Bavor will focus on the cultural forces that led to the emergence of art quilts, highlighting some pioneering California artists who blazed the trail for contemporary quilt makers.
Nancy Bavor coauthored the 2018 book, Art Quilts Unfolding: 50 Years of Innovation, and co-curated the accompanying exhibition,Layered & Stitched: Fifty Years of Innovative Art, that will have its West Coast premiere at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles from mid-April to mid-July, 2020. She holds a bachelor’s degree in art history from Northwestern University and a master’s degree from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln in the History of Textiles/Quilt Studies emphasis.
General admission is $4; $10 per family; $3 for students and seniors; free to all on the first Friday of the month; and always free to members.
Phone: 7074672836
2019/08/25 - 2019/08/25
Additional time info:
The Museum will be open till 4:30 p.m., showing the exhibit “Stitching California: Fiber Artists Interpret the State’s People, Life, and Land.”
Grace Hudson Museum
431 S. Main St., Ukiah, CA 95482