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The San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles has two new exhibits which will run from May 17 - August 7, 2011.

Primary Structures and Southwestern Banded Blankets: Three Cultures, One Horizon.  Here's how the museum describes the exhibits:

Primary Structures  - "explores how innovative artists using simple linear elements in combination with unconventional materials can broaden our understanding of the familiar by transforming the stitch structures of knit and crochet into large scale and compelling art."

Included in this exhibition are works by: Xenobia Bailey, Arline Fisch, Susie Freeman, Lori Goldman, Yvette Kaiser Smith, Sheila Klein, Tracy Krumm, Valerie Molnar, Adrienne Sloane, Mary Walker Phillips, and Tatyana Yanishevsky.

Southwestern Banded Blankets: Three Cultures, One Horizon - "This is a unique exhibit and the first of its type to focus exclusively on banded blankets. These utilitarian and simply striped blankets showcase the rich cultural tradition of the Pueblo, the Navajo, and the Spanish Colonial Rio Grande blankets of the “Four Corners” area of the American Southwest. United by common elements of stripes and indigo coloration these blankets are elegant in their design composition, sophisticated balance and amazing variety."

This blankets are from the collection of Jean and Roger Moss.  Curator Deborah Corsini states, "The understated simplicity of the stripes is a powerful contrast to the visual graphic intensity that resonates with kinetic movement.”

For more information about the museum, click here.