American Arts Textiles description

Twentieth century art in textiles was truly "art for the masses," bringing the high culture of art into the everyday lives of ordinary citizens - the which IS ALSO an important part of the mission of the American Textile

The exhibition features examples of key European and American art movements: Fauvism, Cubism, Constructivism, Abstraction, Surrealism and Pop Art; as well as the work of leading fashion designers and manufacturers.

This exhibition of recently discovered fashion and furnishing fabrics by artists highlights the quality of textiles as a medium for combining art and mass production. Visitors gain a rare and remarkable glimpse of how ordinary people were once Able to Directly engage in a personal and intimate way with high modern art through Reviews their everyday clothing and the furnishings of Reviews their homes. "