The Fabric Workshop

April 13, 2006

I’ve always wanted to see the Fabric Workshop and Museum. It’s devoted to encouraging artists to explore new work in fabric and other materials, and recently they produced lots of silk-screened polka-dot fabrics for Jun Kaneko’s Madama Butterfly. We got in at the end of the reception on Friday night.

Here’s the best photo I took there — yes, it is the Men’s room. It has a glass door so you can just see the entrance which is covered with a fantastic hand screenprint with fluorescent ink and rayon flock on Tyvek by Virgil Marti. I found the details in a big book of artist-designed wallpaper in the collection of the Fabric Workshop.

And here’s the inside of the women’s room. I guess they think that women need more reading material.

The exhibition on the fifth floor of the museum wasn’t what I expected, but the fourth floor was fantastic! Look at these long (and this is just half) work tables for surface design on yardage of a major scale. Hmmh, gives me some grandiose ideas for a space in the back of our warehouse!

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