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Coming to the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles March 12 - July 3, 2016, is Blanket Statements: New Quilts by Kaffe Fassett and Historical Quilts from the Quilt Museum and Gallery, York, England. It features 20 new quilts designed and created by Kaffe Fassett inspired by 15 significant historic quilts, dating from 1780-1949, selected by the artist from the York Quilt Museum and Gallery.
"Color is my absolute passion~and that's what I concentrate on," says Kaffe Fassett of his vivid textile designs.
The traditional historic quilts provide contrast to Fassett's bold fabric designs and explosion of color. The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles is one of only two American museum venues to host this spectacular exhibition.
Additional loans from Fassett's family and a private collector represent over fifty years of the artist's work in painting, knitwear, needlepoint design, and ceramics, illustrating the full range of Fassett's prodigious talents. The additional material provides visitors with a rich experience and deeper understanding of Fassett's lifelong creative journey.
Born and raised in Big Sur, California, Fassett studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, but has made England his home since the mid 1960s. Fassett transformed the hand-knitting world in the 1970s with his bold use of color, incorporating an unprecedented 20 shades of yarn in one sweater! He continued to explore needlepoint, mosaics, rug making, tapestries, yarn and fabric design, costume and set design, and as this exhibition brilliantly illustrates, quiltmaking. His influence in the quilt world has been as profound as his effect on knitting, needlepoint and other fiber arts.
Now in his seventies, one of world's foremost fiber artists and designers continues to be extraordinarily prolific and shows no signs of slowing down.
Lecture: Glorious Color by Kaffe Fassett, May 21 11 am:
Fassett's inspiration comes from his continual travels and this lecture is designed to empower and inspire the audience to create and develop their own "mind's eye". Audiences leave invigorated - entranced by Kaffe's sense and use of colour. They are ready to try it themselves and are encouraged to do so. Fassett highlights works from his latest projects, including his patchwork quilt, fabric, needlepoint, mosaic, painting and knitting designs. The slide presentation lasts approximately one hour, followed by a question and answer session, and book signing.
Want to know more about Kaffe? In this video he invites you into his studio and gives an exclusive interview on his quilting career.
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