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Edition Release and Book Signing with Julia Chiang

August 16, 2025
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

A photo of a hardback book with a hand-stitched book cover featuring a vibrant, pattern of diagonal dark blue brush-like streaks and scattered yellow dots on a light blue background. The book is slightly open, revealing a blue patterned illustration inside.
Julia Chiang in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia. “Going Under, Shhh” (for book), 2025. Hand-printed cotton, cotton embroidery thread. 8.125 x 11.25 inches. Edition of 5 and 2 APs. Photo credit: Carlos Avendaño.

Meet Artist-in-Residence Julia Chiang at this celebration of her newly published monograph and exclusive book cover edition created with the FWM Studio.

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Julia Chiang (monograph)

For one day only, get your copy of Chiang’s book signed by the artist herself. This first monograph on the artist presents her work from the late 1990s to the present. Through paintings and ceramics, Chiang explores a sense of connectivity, of the body in nature and the environment that surrounds us. 

The book features an essay by Eugene Tsai, writer and former Senior Curator at the Brooklyn Museum, as well as a conversation with Jasmine Wahi, Founder and Co-Director of Project for Empty Space, New York City and Newark, New Jersey. Published by JRP Editions, 2025. 


A photo of a hardback book with a hand-stitched book cover featuring a vibrant, pattern of diagonal dark blue brush-like streaks and scattered yellow dots on a light blue background. The book is slightly open, revealing a blue patterned illustration inside.

Julia Chiang x FWM: Going Under, Shhh (for book)

Shelter your copy of Julia Chiang’s book with a limited edition cover hand-stitched from the same pigment-washed cotton yardage used for the artist’s Soft/Cover canopy, Going Under, Shhh.

Created with the FWM Studio as an edition of 5 (and 2 artist proofs), each book cover is accompanied with a handprinted label noting the edition number, title, and collaboration bearing the artist’s signature. 


Event Information

August 16, 2025
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

The Fabric Workshop and Museum
1214 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107

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Free | Drop-ins welcome

 

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About the Participants

A photo of the artist Julia Chiang, an Asian-American woman, painting with a fine-tipped brush on a surface.Julia Chiang is known for her meditative paintings and ceramic works of layered color fields and flowing patterns that create an entrancing effect suggestive of natural phenomena. The artist’s work has been widely exhibited internationally. Solo exhibitions include Julia Chiang: The Glows and The Blows, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY; Salt on Our Skin, Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York, NY; Holding My Breath Moving Closer Closer, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Ireland and Pump And Bump, NANZUKA, Tokyo, Japan. Chiang has also participated in group exhibitions in the US, UK, and Spain. Public projects include the Rockaway Hotel mural in Far Rockaway, Queens, NY and the Rx Art mural at the Nappi Wellness Institute, SUNY Upstate, Syracuse, NY. Chiang is represented by The Modern Institute, Nicola Vassell Gallery and Nanzuka. She is a graduate of New York University.