Nini Towok's Spinning Wheel: Cloth and the Life in Kerek, JavaThrough December 5th, 2010
The community of Kerek is the last place in Java where batik is still produced on handwoven cotton cloth and where a full range of handwoven textilesprovides the foundation for a remarkable system of knowledge. Named after Nini Towok, the Japanese goddess who cultivates cotton in the heavens and sends her yarn to Earth in the form of moonbeams, the exhibition explores the multiple meanings of Kerek's rustic but beautiful textiles.Weavers' Stories from Island Southeast Asia
Through December 12th, 2010
Weavers and batik artists speak for themselves in videos recorded at eight sites in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philipines, and East Timor. A panoply of human emotions and emotions and experience - determination, longing, dream inspiration, theft, war, and more - emerge from the stories of these remarkable women. The videos are accompanied by newly made textiles created by each of the featured weavers and batik makers.Fowler Museum at UCLA
North Campus
100 Stein Plz
Los Angeles, CA
(310) 825-4361
(310) 825-4361
