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Hey, Are you Free?
November 28, 2018–January 13, 2019

Wu Yu Jung’s solo exhibition Hey, Are you Free? will be featured in the Porcella Gallery. Her work on mended cloth is a metaphor for how clothing shapes the identity of the wearer, but also reveals our histories, scars, and growth. Her exhibition will document the mended clothing through artifact, video and photograph, and feature the artist’s experience of the beauty and culture in San José.

San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
520 S. First Street
San Jose, CA 95113
Gallery hours: Wednesday–Friday 11am–4pm, Saturday and Sunday 11am–3pm
Admission: $8 general, $6.50 seniors and students, free to members and children 12 and under
sjquiltmuseum.org

 

Public performance by featured artist Wu Yu Jung
October 1, 2018, 1–4pm

Wu Yu Jung’s project Hey, Are you Free? promotes meeting new people through sewing in public places. Jung, a textile artist from San José’s Sister City, Tainan, Taiwan, will ride a bicycle with a sewing machine around San José and ask people if they want their clothes mended on the spot. Jung repairs clothing as she interacts and strikes up conversations with people.

Presented by San José Museum of Quilts & Textiles
At Plaza de Cesar Chavez
1 Paseo de San Antonio
San José, CA 95113
sjquiltmuseum.org

 

Public performance by featured artist Wu Yu Jung
October 2, 2018, 1–4pm

Wu Yu Jung’s project Hey, Are you Free? promotes meeting new people through sewing in public places. Jung, a textile artist from San José’s Sister City, Tainan, Taiwan, will ride a bicycle with a sewing machine around San José and ask people if they want their clothes mended on the spot. Jung repairs clothing as she interacts and strikes up conversations with people.

Presented by San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
At Circle of Palms
127 S. Market Street
San José, CA 95113
sjquiltmuseum.org

 

Public performance by featured artist Wu Yu Jung
October 3, 2018, 11am–2pm

Wu Yu Jung’s project Hey, Are you Free? promotes meeting new people through sewing in public places. Jung, a textile artist from San José’s Sister City, Tainan, Taiwan, will ride a bicycle with a sewing machine around San José and ask people if they want their clothes mended on the spot. Jung repairs clothing as she interacts and strikes up conversations with people.

Presented by San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
At Parque de los Pobladores (across from SJMQT and MACLA)
S. Market and 1st Streets
San José, CA 95110
sjquiltmuseum.org

 

Public performance by featured artist Wu Yu Jung
October 4, 2018, 1–4pm

Wu Yu Jung’s project Hey, Are you Free? promotes meeting new people through sewing in public places. Jung, a textile artist from San José’s Sister City, Tainan, Taiwan, will ride a bicycle with a sewing machine around San José and ask people if they want their clothes mended on the spot. Jung repairs clothing as she interacts and strikes up conversations with people.

Presented by San José Museum of Quilts & Textiles
At Paseo de San Antonio, San José State University
S. Market and 1st Streets
San José, CA 95110
sjquiltmuseum.org

 

Meet featured artist Wu Yu Jung
October 5, 2018, 7–10pm (First Friday)

As part of downtown San Jose’s First Friday event, the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles will be hosting Taiwanese artist, Wu Yu Jung. Wu Yu Jung lives in San José’s Sister City of Tainan, Taiwan’s Cultural Capital. In conjunction with her project Hey, Are You Free? she will be featured in an upcoming exhibition at SJMQT. Wu Yu Jung will be at the Museum to celebrate First Friday and meet the public.

San José Museum of Quilts & Textiles
520 S. First St.
San Jose, CA 95113
Admission: Pay what you can
sjquiltmuseum.org