The Rose Garden

The Fabric Workshop and Museum

She Summers in Vienna, 2022. Music by Emily Bate and John Jarboe. Photo credit: Christopher Ash., courtesy of The Bearded Ladies Cabaret. The Fabric Workshop and Museum presents a new installation of the work. — *She Summers in Vienna*, 2022. Music by Emily Bate and John Jarboe. Photo credit: Christopher Ash., courtesy of The Bearded Ladies Cabaret. The Fabric Workshop and Museum presents a new installation of the work.

John Jarboe, Rose: You Are Who You Eat, 2022. Photo by Christopher Ash, courtesy of The Bearded Ladies Cabaret. — John Jarboe, *Rose: You Are Who You Eat*, 2022. Photo by Christopher Ash, courtesy of The Bearded Ladies Cabaret.

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Grant Year 2022

Grant Amount $330,000

Status Completed

Updated October 1, 2024

An immersive performance-installation expresses the gender journey of cabaret artist, director, and writer John Jarboe, assisted by performance company The Bearded Ladies Cabaret and filmmaker and production designer Christopher Ash. The self-paced experience unfolds through a series of themed rooms that employ video, music, childhood artifacts, and images to embody Jarboe’s experiences and prompt audiences to reflect on their own relationships to gender. Live performances of poetry, music, and stories by other transgender and queer artists complement the installation, while a series of hands-on workshops explore costume making, gender, and memory.

The total grant amount represents project funding plus an additional 20% in unrestricted general operating support.

Primary ExhibitionEvents & Exhibitions

John Jarboe: The Rose Garden

May 11–Sep 29, 2024
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, 1214 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107

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Supporting Events

Opening Opening Celebration | The Rose Garden

May 11, 2024
12:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
The Fabric Workshop and Museum
1214 Arch St.
Philadelphia, PA 19107

Second Floor Gallery

Screening Watch Party | Dear Mom Premiere

May 25, 2024
4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
The Fabric Workshop and Museum
1214 Arch St.
Philadelphia, PA 19107

The Green Room, Second Floor Gallery

Various Clothes for Who You Are: FWM x FABSCRAP

Jun. 7, 2024
6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
The Fabric Workshop and Museum
1214 Arch St.
Philadelphia, PA 19107

Sixth Floor Print Studio

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The Fabric Workshop and Museum

The Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM) is an internationally recognized art museum with an active studio and artist-in-residence program. Research, construction, and fabrication occur on site in studios that are open to the public. Founded in 1977, FWM initially invited visual artists to Philadelphia to experiment with fabric in its workshops, and it later expanded tools to accommodate a wide range of innovative materials and media. Resident artists over the years have included Laurie Anderson, Mark Bradford, Louise Bourgeois, Glenn Ligon, Ed Ruscha, Yinka Shonibare, Sarah Sze, and dozens of others.

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