American Arts Textiles

reference collection of textile art from America

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. "