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San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles

The mission of the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles is to promote the art, craft and history of quilts and other textiles. Textile art transcends cultural, ethnic and age boundaries and encompasses traditional as well as contemporary forms. The museum provides a serious venue for all artists working with textiles, filling a void left by larger institutions with a narrower view of what defines artistic expression. Its exhibits and programs promote the appreciation of quilts and textiles as art and provide an understanding of their role in the lives of their makers, in cultural traditions, and as historical documents. The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, recognized as the oldest quilt museum in the United States, was founded in 1977 by the Santa Clara Valley Quilt Association. In 2005 it became one of the top ten attractions in San Jose.

Museum Hours:
Tues-Sun: 10am-5pm
Frist Friday of each month 8pm-11pm
Monday & Major Holidays - Closed

Admission:
Adults: $6.50
Seniors and Students with ID: $5
Free admission on the first Friday of each month
Free to members and children 13 years and under.

Parking:
Metered street parking on First Street in front of museum; parking lots at Market and San Salvador.

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  San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles

  520 S. 1st Street
  San Jose, CA 95113

  Phone: 408-971-0323

  Fax: 408-971-7226

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• Past Events

  01/04/09	Kids Create San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  12/07/08	Kids Create San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  11/22/08	Threads of Wisdom: The Artful Approach of Four Fiber Artists San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  11/21/08	Breakthrough: Strategies for Artistic Growth San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  11/07/08	High Fiber Under Five San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  11/02/08	Kids Create San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  10/11/08	2nd Annual Art of Collecting Symposium San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  10/05/08	Kids Create San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  09/07/08	The History of Art Quilts with Robert Shaw San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  09/06/08	A Conversation with Robert Shaw: Radka Donnell in Context San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  09/02/08- 11/02/08	Charged Sites: Radka Donnell's Art Quilts San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  09/02/08- 11/02/08	‘Til Death Do Us Part: Wedding Quilts from the Collection San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  08/24/08	Sha Sha Higby performs In a Cloud of Glass MACLA
  08/23/08	Sha Sha Higby in Transition San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  07/27/08	Batik: A Collection of Beauty and Heritage San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  06/22/08	The New World of Knitting: A Slide Lecture San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  06/21/08	Artful Knit: A Sculptural Approach to Knitting San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  06/17/08- 08/24/08	In Javanese Moonlight: Sha Sha Higby San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  06/17/08- 08/24/08	Beyond Knitting: Uncharted Stitches San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  06/17/08- 08/24/08	Pun Intended: The Appliqued Wit of Dorothy Vance San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  06/17/08- 08/24/08	Crocheted Reef and Anemone Garden San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  06/08/08	A Mao a Minute: Real Computers as Virtual Weavers San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  06/07/08	Creating Conscious Clothing San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  04/05/08	Hand and Art San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  04/01/08- 06/08/08	Pixels & Pieces San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  04/01/08- 06/08/08	Core Memory/Peripheral Vision San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  04/01/08- 06/08/08	Advanced Geometry: Gloria Hansen San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  04/01/08- 06/08/08	Awareables: Conscious Clothing San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  03/16/08	Celebrating a Sensation: Marian Clayden High Tea, High Fashion San Jose City Hall
  02/10/08	Artist Lecture: Shoescapes and other Stitches San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  01/20/08	Gallery Walkthrough Event - About Clayden: A Curator's Perspective San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  01/15/08- 03/23/08	Marian Clayden - The Dyer's Hand San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  12/07/07	Fashionable Friday San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  11/17/07	The Art of Collecting & Becoming Collectible: A Conversation on Making, Appraising & Collecting Textile Art San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  10/21/07	30th Birthday Party and Opening Reception San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  10/16/07- 01/06/08	Saturn Returns: Back to the Future of Fiber Art San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  09/23/07	Can Art Build Peace? What About Textiles? San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  09/11/07	FREE Admission September 11, 2007 San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  08/19/07	Old Threads/New Ground San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  08/18/07	Afghan War Rugs: A Talk and Walk San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  07/22/07	In Search of the Whole Truth: Afghan War Rugs San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  07/17/07- 09/23/07	Woven Witness: Afghan War Rugs San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  07/17/07- 09/23/07	Weavings of War: Fabrics of Memory San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  07/17/07- 09/23/07	Patriot Art San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  05/20/07	Silk, Snacks and Sushi Grass: The Mixed Media Sculptures of Corinne Okada San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  05/19/07	Focus on Tapestry: Three Bay Area Artists San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  05/04/07	4 Generations of Zapotec Weaving: A Demonstration San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  05/03/07	4 Generations of Zapotec Weaving: Tradition & Transition San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  04/28/07	American Tapestry Association Silver Anniversary Celebration San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  04/27/07	Tapestry in America San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  04/24/07	A New Tapestry: Weaving in the Digital Age San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  03/18/07	Susan Else: Process & Works Slide Lecture San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  02/11/07	Point of View: Reflections & Observations San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  02/02/07	The Attack Band San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  01/30/07- 04/29/07	Fiber Sculpture by Susan Else San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  01/21/07	Opening Reception for Winter '07 Exhibitions San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  01/16/07- 04/08/07	The Etiquette of Form: Fiber Art by Fran Skiles San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  01/16/07- 04/08/07	Between the Curtains: Bob Freimark's Czech Romance, 1970 - 1995 San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  01/16/07- 04/08/07	Outside the Box: Quilts with Character San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  12/10/06	Costume and Character in Safavid, Persia San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  11/12/06	Fast Forward: State of the Art Quilt San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  11/03/06	Permanent Madness San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  10/25/06- 11/12/06	Dia de los Muertos San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  10/10/06- 01/07/07	Quilt National '05 Exhibition San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  10/08/06	Essence of Art: Quilts, Textiles, Fine Wine Fourth Street Summit Center
  10/06/06	Poetry & Short Story Readings: Silence and the Feminine Ideal in Iran San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  10/01/06- 08/05/07	Kids Create San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  09/21/06	A Presentation and Conversation w/ Katherine Westerhout San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  07/18/06- 10/01/06	Art About Art: The Weavings of Virginia Davis San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  07/18/06- 10/01/06	Katherine Westerhout: After/Image San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  03/19/06	Art Quilts and America During the 1960s &1970s San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  03/09/06	Quilt Politics – A Slide Lecture w/Dr. Bernard Herman San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  01/17/06- 04/09/06	Jean Ray Laury: A Life by Design San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  12/15/05	Primer on Collecting Textile Art San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  12/11/05- 01/08/06	Second Sundays Story Hour San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  10/23/05- 11/02/05	Dia de los Muertos at Museum of Quilts & Textiles San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  09/17/05	Grand Opening Celebration San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  09/17/05- 01/08/06	Traditions in Transition San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  07/18/05- 10/01/06	Insecurity: An Installation by Julie John Upshaw San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  05/31/05- 08/29/05	Lucid Dreams
  04/26/05	Reflections on My Life - An Evening w/ Jean Neblett
  03/08/05- 05/22/05	Still Reflections - The Contemporary Art of Dominie Nash & Jean Neblett
  11/20/04- 02/27/05	Quilt National 2003 Exhibit
  11/03/04- 11/13/04	11th Annual Benefit Auction
  09/20/04	From Under the Covers: Feminism and the Quilt Movement
  08/24/04- 10/31/04	The Art of Politics
  06/15/04- 08/15/04	Teec Nos Pos: A Navajo Tradition
  04/06/04- 06/06/04	A Generation Apart
  01/27/04- 03/28/04	Captured by the Moment
  11/15/03- 01/18/04	Moe'uhane Nani: Contemporary Hawaiian Quilts
  11/08/03	10th Annual Benefit Auction
  10/29/03- 11/08/03	San Jose Museum of Quilt & Textile Auction Preview
  10/29/03- 11/08/03	10th Annual Benefit Aucton
  10/13/03	Sentimental Activists: Quiltmakers as Reformers in American Culture
  08/19/03- 10/26/03	UnderCover: Political Expressions
  06/10/03- 08/10/03	Stories Untold: Jewish Pioneer Women 1850 - 1910
  04/08/03- 06/01/03	MOLAS! Folk Art/Tourist Art/ Contemporary Art
  01/25/03- 03/16/03	LanguageArts: Text as Imagery
  09/14/02- 10/27/02	Quilts, Expressively Korean
  11/16/01- 01/20/02	A Sense of Place: Landscape Art from Nancy Halpern