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Gallery Tour: Textile Alchemy

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  • Time: 2 PM – 3 PM
  • Location: Resnick Pavilion
  • Price: Free with museum admission
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Join a LACMA docent for a 60-minute tour of Textile Alchemy: The Art of Reiko Sudō and NUNO.

Reiko Sudō is a textile alchemist who, for more than 40 years, has pioneered innovative textiles that merge tradition with experimentation and handicraft with technology. Textile Alchemy: The Art of Reiko Sudō and NUNO provides an in-depth survey of the acclaimed Japanese designer’s work created with her textile collective NUNO, often in collaboration with independent artisans and workshops across Japan, and utilized by celebrated architects. The largest retrospective of Sudō’s textiles to date, Textile Alchemy features over 100 limited-edition textiles together with numerous objects, including drawings, sketches, raw materials, tools, mock-ups, and prototypes. The exhibition traces her artistic journey and reveals NUNO’s inventive choices that transform materials into fascinating textiles, while helping to preserve regional crafts and historic production centers, and highlighting sustainability issues.

Please be aware that these tours are volunteer-led and subject to cancellation. Ask a member of our team on the day for details.

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<p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(71, 71, 71);display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:Inter, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">Reiko Sudō, Hiroko Kobayashi, and Mizue Okada for NUNO in collaboration with Takekura Co., Ltd., </span><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(71, 71, 71);font-family:Inter, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">Origami Pleats</em><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(71, 71, 71);display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:Inter, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">, 1997, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Grace Tsao, © NUNO Corporation, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA</span></p>

Reiko Sudō, Hiroko Kobayashi, and Mizue Okada for NUNO in collaboration with Takekura Co., Ltd., Origami Pleats, 1997, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Grace Tsao, © NUNO Corporation, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

All education and outreach programs organized by LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Education Fund. 

Major support is provided 

Generous additional support is provided by the Judy and Bernard Briskin Family Foundation, Capital Group, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, William Randolph Hearst Endowment Fund for Arts Education, Alfred E. Mann Charities, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, Gloria Ricci Lothrop, Flora L. Thornton Foundation, U.S. Bank, and The Yabuki Family Foundation.

Textile Alchemy: The Art of Reiko Sudō and NUNO was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Major support provided by Japanese Friends of LACMA and Ellen A. Michelson. Generous support provided by Contemporary Projects Endowment Fund, Michelle Lu, and Pasadena Art Alliance. All exhibitions at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Exhibition Fund. 

Major annual support is provided by The David & Meredith Kaplan Foundation, the Blanchard Nesbitt Family, Louise and Brad Edgerton, Edgerton Foundation, Julie Jaffe, Stan and Ann Kroenke, Ezra and Lauren Perlman, The Michael Silver Family, and Marietta Wu and Thomas Yamamoto, with generous annual funding from Mary and Daniel James, Bert Levy Fund, Alfred E. Mann Charities, and Kelsey Lee Offield.

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