Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
4848 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002
www.crafthouston.org

• Texas Federation of Fiber Artists: Celebrating our Creative Spirit
  October 3 – December 24, 2009
  Fiber Art from the Dallas Area, Houston Area, Austin and San Antonio Fiber Artists Groups. Exhibition includes a collaborative work of Lu Peters and Connie Akers (http://sewforthsewon.blogspot.com)

• Texas Master Series 2009: Rachelle Thiewes
  October 3 – December 24, 2009

• Iron: Forged, Tempered, Quenched!
  January 16 – May 16, 2010

• CraftTexas 2010
  September 25, 2010 – January 9, 2011

• Michael Peterson: Evolution/Revolution
  Michele Holzapfel
  January 21 - May 15, 2011

Dallas Quilt Celebration, Dallas, TX
Quilter’s Guild of Dallas, Market Center
March 12 through March 14, 2010
www.quiltersguildofdallas.org

The Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York City
www.cooperhewitt.org

• Design USA: Contemporary Innovation
  October 16, 2009–April 4, 2010
  “Design USA celebrates the accomplishments of the winners honored during the first ten years of the prestigious National Design Awards. The exhibition features outstanding contemporary achievements in American architecture, landscape design, interior design, product design, communication design, corporate design, interaction design, and fashion.”

The Museum at FIT, New York City
http://fitnyc.edu/3662.asp

• American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion
  November 6, 2009 - January 9, 2010
  Their first exhibition that explores how the “philosophy of beauty” is related to the craft of dressmaking.

The Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY
www.metmuseum.org

• Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
  Through February 7, 2010

The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY

• Slash: Paper Under the Knife
  October 7 – April 4, 2010
  An exhibit of cut paper

The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.
www.textilemuseum.org

• Recent Acquisitions
  Through January 3, 2010
  This features a “selection of 19 of the most artistically and culturally compelling objects The Textile Museum has acquired within the last five years.”
• Contemporary Japanese Fashion: The Mary Baskett Collection
  October 17, 2009 –April 11, 2010
  This is an “expanded version of an earlier showing at the Cincinnati Art Museum, will include approximately 40 garments from the collection of Mary Baskett, an art dealer and former curator of prints at the Cincinnati Art Museum who has been collecting and wearing Japanese high fashion since the 1960s.”
• Fabrics of Feathers and Steel: the Innovations of Nuno
  October 17, 2009 –April 11, 2010
  The exhibition will show examples of eclectic textiles from the Japanese Nuno studio.
• The Art of Living: Textile Furnishings from the Permanent Collection
  February 12, 2010 - July 2010
  This exhibit will highlight the Museum’s collection of textile furnishings dating from the late Roman Empire and colonial Peru to Edo-period Japan and Victorian Britain.
• Art by the Yard: Women Design Mid-Century Britain
  May 15, 2010 – September 12, 2010
  This features designs made by Lucienne Day, Jacqueline Groag, and Marian Mahler.
• Colors of the Oasis: Central Asian Ikats
  October 16, 2010 – March 13, 2011
  This premier exhibit will feature selections from the Central Asian Ikats given to The Textile Museum by collector Murad Megalli in 2005.The collection will include clothing and home furnishings.
• Green: a Color and a Cause
  April – September, 2011
  This will explore the historical uses of the color green, the new techniques of making green textiles and the relationships of artists and the environment. Artists are invited to enter work for this exhibit at http://www.textilemuseum.org/PDFs/GREEN%20Call%20for%20Entries.pdf. The deadline is January 29, 2010.

See their online exhibits, including:

• Common Threads: Unraveling the World of Textiles
• Flowers of Silk and Gold: Four Centuries of Ottoman Embroidery
• Recent Acquisitions (March 6, 2009 through January 3, 2010)
• Contemporary Japanese Fashions: the Mary Baskett Collection (October 17, 2009 through April 11, 2010)

Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising Museum, Los Angeles, CA
http://fidm.edu/resources/museum+galleries/index.html

Many exhibits are featured in their online gallery.

• High Style: Betsy Bloomingdale and the Haute Couture
  October 21, 2009 – December 13, 2009

De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
http://www.famsf.org/deyoung/

• Amish Abstractions: Quilts from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown
  November 14, 2009 — June 6, 2010

The Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio
www.cantonart.org

Quilt Visions, San Diego, California
www.quiltvisions.org

• Interpretations (Juried exhibition of art quilts by Visions members)
  November 14 - January 17, 2010

Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR
www.MuseumofContemporaryCraft.org

La Conner Quilt and Textile Museum, La Conner, WA
www.laconnerquilts.com