Weavings by Jacqueline Qiu depicting abstract cityscapes
Jacqueline Qiu, detail of Interplay, 2024
Free Admission, Community Day

Community Day

Saturday, July 13, 2024
11 am–6 pm
Free, RSVP recommended

On second Saturdays in summer 2024, join us for free admission days with special programming to celebrate “love and labor” and solidarity with the AANHPI community. Advance reservations are recommended; visitors without a reservation will also be welcomed based on museum capacity.

On July 13, artist Jacqueline Qiu, finalist for the 2024 Open Call for Artist Banners project, will lead a weaving workshop. On Friday, July 12 and Saturday, July 13, Qiu will be in residence in the Education Studio (Level C) and visitors are invited to view a weaving demonstration on a floor loom.

Events Schedule

10 am–1:30 pm: Weaving with Jacqueline Qiu
Join Jacqueline Qiu for an artist-led workshop that explores the meditative process of weaving. Participants will learn about the Kesi weaving tradition in Qiu’s practice, experiment with individual paper weavings, and contribute to a collective weaving on a floor loom.  

For visitors ages 17 and up. Free; advance registration is required. Program registration includes admission to the Museum. 

Register for the Workshop

1–5 pm: Gallery Kit 
Visitors of all ages are invited to an art-making activity in the galleries.

2–3 pm: Public Tour
An introduction to the life and vision of Isamu Noguchi, exploring highlights of the Museum and the Open Call for Artist Banners project. 

3–3:30 pm: Touch, Rattle, Hold 
Join an educator-led touch experience with a selection of Toshiko Takaezu’s closed ceramic forms. Sign up at the front desk.

4–5 pm: Public Tour
An introduction to the life and vision of Isamu Noguchi, exploring highlights of the Museum and the Open Call for Artist Banners project. 

5–5:30 pm: Touch, Rattle, Hold 
Join an educator-led touch experience with a selection of Toshiko Takaezu’s closed ceramic forms. Sign up at the front desk.

Jacqueline Qiu
Interplay

Jacqueline Qiu, Interplay

Jacqueline Qiu is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Exploring the breaking down of traditional fiber crafts and the combining of Eastern and Western painting philosophies, Qiu immortalizes transitory attachments and nomadic pondering through playful rearrangements and reconstructions of nature. Her woven tapestries hang at the conjunction between inner landscapes and the outer world. This past year, Qiu completed the Ós Residency at the Icelandic Textile Center in Blönduós. Her work has been exhibited at Latitude Gallery, Harper’s Chelsea, Underdonk Gallery, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Gelman Gallery, Rhode Island Hall, and Gallery 263. She has completed workshops at Tianzifang, New York Academy of Art, Anderson Ranch, and Huang Lan-Ye’s Kesi Studio. She holds a BFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design. jacquelineqiu.com | @jacqueline_qiu

Jacqueline Qiu, Lulling

Video by Xuan Films
All works © Jacqueline Qiu

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