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Visions Museum of Textile Art celebrates and advances contemporary quilting and textile art through exhibitions that explore cultural traditions, contemporary relevance, and innovative creativity.

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Current Exhibitions

August 5 — September 5

fun cycling quilt from quilt nihon exhibition

June 27 — October 10

Colorful crocheted coral reef-like sculpture by Marita Setas Ferro with various textured patterns on a black background.

June 27 — October 10

By fostering connection, dialogue, and inspiration, we empower individuals to appreciate, engage with, and contribute to the rich legacy and evolving practice of textile art, building a community that values diversity, creativity, and shared experiences.

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Color theory often drives the creative decision-making in the process of making art. In Noriko Tanabe’s “Orange & Blue Mosaic Tiles”, shades of burnt orange and cobalt blue dance around this quilt. Orange and blue are complementary colors, which means they are opposite one another on the color wheel. To our eyes, complementary colors enhance one another, creating this vibrant display of dynamic shapes and playful fabric choices. This piece is part of Quilts Japan: The 17th Quilt Nihon @visionsmuseum in @artsdistrictlibertystation. This exhibit features the most extraordinary and innovative works from the biennial competition of the Japanese Handicraft Instructor's Association (@jhia_org). This West Coast debut is the last stop before the exhibition heads back to Japan, making it a rare opportunity to see award-winning pieces from this prestigious competition. Camille and Vanessa Gallery and The Sebastian Family Gallery Financial support for VMOTA's operations is provided by the City of San Diego and the California Arts Council, a state agency. Shipping costs for this exhibition were generously provided by the Visions Giving Circle, a philanthropy group of VMOTA.
Nereida Dusten (Hermosillo, Sonora, b. 1992) is a visual artist with a degree in Fine Arts from the Autonomous University of Baja California. She develops her work in the technique of embroidery and two-dimensional and three-dimensional collage. On August 22nd at 1pm, Dusten will discuss her exhibition, “What does it mean to draw a line if home is a verb?”, which speaks to this refusal to disappear, rooms that collapse in one location only to rebuild in another, and resisting erasure through reconstruction. RSVP at vmota.org! “What does it mean to draw a line if home is a verb?” by @nereidadusten is on display @visionsmuseum in @artsdistrictlibertystation until September 5th. In this exhibit, Dusten’s mixed media artwork combines embroidery, photography, and collage to trace a line through past and present as a process of rediscovery. She asks: The line enters reality to define limits; so where does the line of home begin? On display in the Spotlight Gallery at Visions Museum of Textile Art. Financial support is provided by the City of San Diego. VMOTA is also supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency.
Touch is central to how Marita Setas Ferro wants audiences to engage with her work. She shared that, since the COVID-19 pandemic’s inception, touch has been scarce. She insists that visitors feel her textile sculptures, stitch by stitch, to meditate on the artistry that brought these sculptures into existence and the fragility of the marine life that they depict. Soft Architectures of the Sea by Marita Setas Ferro @visionsmuseum in @artsdistrtictlibertystation is on display from now until October 10th. This exhibition presents interactive textile sculptures as material reflections on marine ecosystems, care, and environmental precarity. Visitors are invited to touch these sculptures that invite proximity and embodied response, allowing tactility, softness, and vulnerability to operate as forms of knowledge. We encourage you to touch, reflect upon, and appreciate these meticulous artworks by @maritaferro. On display in the Dr. Sandra Ann Edwin Gallery at Visions Museum of Textile Art. Financial support is provided by the City of San Diego. VMOTA is also supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency.
Our annual Veranda Sale begins today! Shop second-hand fabrics, textile tools, yarns, patterns, sewing machines, and more at discounted rates. Each purchase helps keep items out of landfills, puts them back into the creative circuit, and supports the museum's operations. Preview sale for all VMOTA Members and Textile Guild Members: Friday, July 31st from 2 to 6 PM (Note: The museum will be closed tomorrow until the preview sale.) Public sale: Saturday, August 1st from 9:30 AM to 4 PM We hope to see you & your friends!
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