11:30 AM | Lunch, garden terrace, Phoenix Art Museum

12:30 PM | Program with author Virginia Postrel

1:30 PM | Book signing

Ticket required | open to the public, $22 ACI Member, $28 non-ACI Member

Textiles are one of humanity's oldest and most influential technologies, but nowadays most people take them for granted. Drawing on her widely praised new book The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World, author Virginia Postrel will take us on a tour of some of the innovations--in fiber, spinning, weaving, and dyeing--that gave us today’s textile abundance and the ways textiles shaped civilization as we know it.

Pre-purchase your copy of the book from The Museum Store here, limited copies will be available the day-of. Books are available for pick-up in The Museum Store at your convenience, or can be shipped directly to you.

Lunch will be served on the terrace in the garden. Welcome in spring with us and wear your favorite sun hat!

Note: Tickets purchase is for luncheon. Presentation is available to the public and included with purchase of Museum General Admission ticket.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Image credit: Sonya Isenberg

Virginia Postrel is a Los Angeles-based writer, a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, and a visiting fellow at the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy at Chapman University. Her latest book is The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World. Her previous books include The Power of Glamour, The Substance of Style, and The Future and Its Enemies. During her research for The Fabric of Civilization, she learned to weave and is now the program co-chair for the Southern California Handweavers' Guild. Visit her website at vpostrel.com.