Utopias get a bad rap, mostly for their association with the unrealistic and impractical. But two new (and complimentary) exhibitions at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia leave you wondering if you maybe have utopias all wrong.

In its blend of artwork and archival records, “The Living Temple: The World of Moki Cherry” reminds you that when Moki Cherry and her husband, the trumpeter Don Cherry, performed in the 1970s, you didn’t just show up to their concert; you entered a world. Moki’s tapestries and paintings framed the performance, or housed it. The jacket Moki made for Don is a straight-up star of what is the largest collection of her artwork to appear in North America. The other star, as seen in her posters and sketches and in the videos and photographs or her work thro

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