Saturday, June 27, 2–5pm, please join us for the opening reception of Replica of a Chip: The Weaving Technology of Marilou Schultz at the Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.

Replica of a Chip: The Weaving Technology of Marilou Schultz marks the first survey of acclaimed Navajo/Diné weaver and mathematics educator Marilou Schultz. Curated by Forge Project Executive Director & Chief Curator Candice Hopkins, the exhibition positions Schultz as an innovator whose work across culture and industry has influenced the practices of art, Navajo weaving, and computer architecture over a 65-year career. Replica of a Chip is on view June 27 through November 29, 2026 at the Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.

Courtesy of CCS Bard, limited free seating is available on a roundtrip chartered bus from New York City for the June 27 opening. Reservations are required and can be made on this by calling +1 845-758-7598 or emailing Mary Rozell at [email protected].

This event is free and open to the public. No RSVP required.

About the Artist

Marilou Schultz (b. 1954) is an artist and educator whose practice is rooted in honoring ancestral traditions, embracing innovation, and nurturing the next generation. Her weaving is a living art that goes beyond the studio and into the classroom, where she emphasizes it as a tool for learning and cultural preservation, with real applications in math.

Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including Once Within a Time: 12th SITE SANTA FE International at SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico (2025); Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (2024) and Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York (2025); Key Operators: Weaving and Coding as Languages of Feminist Historiography at Kunstverein München, Germany (2024); Unweaving the Binary Code – Hannah Ryggen Triennale at Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway (2022); Color Riot! How Color Changed Navajo Textiles at the Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona (2019) and Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey (2021–2022); and documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany (2017), which marked Schultz’s first collaboration with curator Candice Hopkins.

Schultz’s work is held in the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Heard Museum, the Thoma Foundation, the School for Advanced Research, and Gochman Family Collection.

About the Exhibition

Curated by Forge Project Executive Director & Chief Curator Candice Hopkins, Replica of a Chip: The Weaving Technology of Marilou Schultz positions Schultz as an innovator whose work across culture and industry has influenced the practices of art, Navajo weaving, and computer architecture over a 65-year career. Replica of a Chip is on view June 27 through November 29, 2026 at the Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.