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TQS was invited to view The California Art Quilt Revolution: From the Summer of Love to the New Millennium currently on exhibit through January 15, 2017.  Here are a few tidbits from the exhibit.

The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles presents a groundbreaking exhibition that looks at the emergence of the Studio Art Quilt Movement in the 1960s and 1970s and the significant role California played in the creation of this new art form.

The studio art quilt was the result of a complex intersection of art, craft, universities, and the traditional American quilt. Three national cultural developments resulted in the re-evaluation of quilts as a suitable art medium and increased artists’ awareness of quilts: the art museum’s legitimization of the quilt as art, the junction of art and craft at the university level and social political and fashion trends that brought quilts to national prominence. 

California artists were among the first to embrace the quilt medium as their primary means of expression and charted new territory in art and quilt making, leading the nation in creativity and innovation. The art quilt pioneers transformed a functional domestic object into an art form and inspired subsequent generations of quilt artists.  Their legacy continues in the work of today’s artists, who are reinterpreting the quilt medium with non-traditional materials and pushing the boundaries of what can be called a quilt.

This exhibition includes work by twenty five artists, including pioneers of the art quilt movement such as Jean Ray Laury, Yvonne Porcella, Joan Schulze and Therese May, and highlights works by late 20th and 21st century artists such as Alice Beasley, Judith Content, Joe Cunningham, Linda Gass and Susan Else.

These exhibitions and related programs are supported in part by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation; Silicon Valley Creates, in partnership with the County of Santa Clara and California Arts Council; by a Cultural Affairs grant from the City of San Jose; and the Santa Clara Valley Quilt Association.

Museum and Museum Store hours are: 11:00am-4:00pm Wednesday through Friday; 11:00am-3:00pm Saturday and Sunday; closed Mondays, Tuesdays and major holidays. Admission is $8.00 general; $6.50 students and seniors; and free to Museum members and children 12 and under. Admission is ‘pay what you can’ on the first Friday of each month. The Museum of Quilts & Textiles is located at 520 South First Street in downtown San Jose. For more information, call 408-971-0323 or visit www.sjquiltmuseum.org.