The award comes on the heels of the announcement that The Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences awarded Malti-Douglass the Kuwait Prize for Arts and Letters, one of the highest honors given in Kuwait for intellectual achievement. The exhibit illustrates how Japanese textile artists have combined traditional Japanese fabrics and needlework techniques with American quilting traditions. Over 40 works are included in the exhibit at the Mathers Museum, and additional works from the traveling exhibit are currently on display at the Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis. The exhibit was organized by the Asian Art Coordinating Council of Denver, Colo., and the Kokusai Art Museum in Tokyo. The Mathers Museum is located at 416 N. Indiana Ave. in Bloomington.
Admission is free.
Organized by the IU Asian Student Union, the IU Office of International Services and Bloomington Worldwide Friendship Inc., the event will include classical and jazz performances by some of the IU School of Music's top faculty musicians.