"Women of Taste: A Collaboration Celebrating Quilt Artists and Chefs"
2000-03-04 until 2000-07-23
Oakland Museum of California
Oakland, CA, USA United States of America

The creations of quilt artists inspired by chefs will be on view in the exhibition Women of Taste: A Collaboration Celebrating Quilt Artists and Chefs, at the Oakland Museum of California from March 4 to July 23, 2000. From modern abstraction to pictorial to traditional, the 50 quilts in the exhibition display a full range of artistic responses to a subject dear to all of our hearts (and stomachs).

Cooking and sewing, once dismissed as women's work, are celebrated as a means of women's empowerment in this exhibition organized by Girls Incorporated of Alameda County and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES). Girls Incorporated works to ensure that girls have the opportunity to grow up strong, smart, and bold. The exhibition will tour as two separate exhibitions of 25 quilts, but all 50 quilts will be on display at the Oakland Museum of California.

The project paired a group of the country's most accomplished quilt artists with renowned women chefs to design quilts reflecting their mutual explorations of food and creativity. Each chef - quilter pair discussed creativity, aesthetics, careers, food and food-related issues such as the environment, agriculture and health. The essence of these dialogues was incorporated into 50 unique quilts relating directly or indirectly to the preparation, offering and celebration of food. The quilters talked and corresponded with the chefs, ate in their restaurants, made dishes from their cookbooks, and worked together with them in creating designs that expressed something about the chefs and their shared values and interests.

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