NOW OPEN! Textiles 101 is open for all to enjoy as part of their museum visit, as a center for museum workshops, and as a starting and ending point for textile tours.
One artist who visited the space during its first week laughed a little at the question “How long did it take to make this?” posted outside the door. She gets asked that question a lot about her own artwork... Her answer, simply, was “All my life.”
And that’s the answer to the question here! It took all of OUR lives, collectively. Developing textile technologies, design techniques, meanings, functions, and aesthetics has been a major enterprise since the beginning of human history. I hope visitors will leave with a better understanding of the human ingenuity and creativity behind textiles which makes them a special part of our existence.
*Photographs by Thelma Young