Kimono 5 – Yakei
Digital Print on Double Crepe Marocain Silk w/ Charmeuse Silk Lining
Mohamed A. Yakub
Main Gallery
Threads of Connection:
Traditional Forms, Contemporary Stories
Featured Artists:
Mohamed A. Yakub and Jane Wilson-Marquis
Exhibition:
April 11-July 26, 2026
Opening Reception: April 11
Threads of Connection unites two artists who transform fabric into narrative, light into form, and garments into cultural bridges.
A garment is never just attire. It holds memories, signals change, and carries culture across borders and generations.
For Mohamed A. Yakub, clothing becomes a canvas. He turns his photographs into silk kimono that capture his experience of living through the pandemic in New York; each one a meeting point between African heritage, Japanese tradition, and American identity.
Jane Wilson-Marquis, drawing on forty years of theatrical design, creates couture that transforms the people who wear it. Her gowns accompany individuals through life’s pivotal moments: weddings, performances, declarations of identity.
Neither artist treats fashion as simple decoration. They craft objects meant to witness, to remember, and to catalyze transformation. Yakub’s kimono read like visual stories, cultural conversations rendered in fabric. Wilson-Marquis’s gowns feel like performances suspended in motion, garments that help usher the wearer into a new version of themselves.
Accompanying Programs:
Free with museum admission
Kimono—Things for Wearing
Midori Oka, Associate Director, Mary Griggs Burke Center for Japanese Art, Columbia University
The Art of Kimono Dressing
Demonstration of the correct way to wear kimono by Kyami Osi (KiraKira Artistry LLC) and Kyoko Sato (Japan Contemporaries)
Creating Threads of Connection
Free with museum admission
Exhibiting artists Mohamed Yakub and Jane Wilson-Marquis discuss the artistic processes, sources of inspiration, and ideas embodied in their innovative current exhibition of unique garments.
Long Evening Jacket
New silk Organza and Three Layers of Meisen Silk
Jane Wilson-Marquis
PROUD TO BE SUPPORTED BY
ARTSWESTCHESTER
WESTCHESTER COUNTY GOVERNMENT