Mission: To elevate diverse community voices in the storytelling, materials exploration, and questions driving the future of sustainability design and bioengineering.
It will result in at least three quilts representing the communities of Japantown, Mayfair and Little Saigon, San Jose.
BioQuits is an art and biotechnology experiment that elevates community voices as drivers of questions regarding the future sustainability design and bioengineering by inviting people to make quilt pattern units grown from locally sourced natural materials. It blends the familiar concept of quilt tiles with the more unfamiliar process of growing biomaterials from fungus mycelium, cellulose from kombucha bacteria and bioplastics from seaweed and nopales cactus, among other locally sourced materials.
BioQuilts is a community-sourced art project that draws on local cultural practices and place-based materials to explore the artistic and technological possibilities of biomaterials. BioQuilts will be a series of sculptures by Artist Corinne Takara built from materials sourced from in-person and online collaborations with communities in San Jose.
This project is a collaboration between artist Corinne Takara and the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. It builds upon their past collaboration in the Mycelium Grow Chandelier Grow project, as well as Takara’s explorations as a biomaterial artist engaging community in hands-on bio material conversations.
It will result in at least three quilts representing the communities of Japantown, Mayfair and Little Saigon, San Jose.
BioQuits is an art and biotechnology experiment that elevates community voices as drivers of questions regarding the future sustainability design and bioengineering by inviting people to make quilt pattern units grown from locally sourced natural materials. It blends the familiar concept of quilt tiles with the more unfamiliar process of growing biomaterials from fungus mycelium, cellulose from kombucha bacteria and bioplastics from seaweed and nopales cactus, among other locally sourced materials.
BioQuilts is a community-sourced art project that draws on local cultural practices and place-based materials to explore the artistic and technological possibilities of biomaterials. BioQuilts will be a series of sculptures by Artist Corinne Takara built from materials sourced from in-person and online collaborations with communities in San Jose.
This project is a collaboration between artist Corinne Takara and the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. It builds upon their past collaboration in the Mycelium Grow Chandelier Grow project, as well as Takara’s explorations as a biomaterial artist engaging community in hands-on bio material conversations.
Community partner organizations are Veggielution, the Japanese American Museum of San Jose, and Chopstick Alley.
BioQuilts was made possible in part by a grant from The Creative Work Fund, a program of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund that also is supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
and by an Artists in Communities Grant from the California Arts Council.
A special thanks to MycoWorks for the donation of mycelium incubated substrates for this community project.