PAST PROGRAMS
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.Saturday, December 2, 2017.
Weaving Generations Together: Evolving Creativity in the Maya of Chiapas
with
Patricia Greenfield,
Distinguished Professor of Psychology, UCLA
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here for details
.Saturday, November 18, 2017.Disparate Nagas:How Textiles Define the
Tribes and the Peoples of Nagaland
with
Harry Neufeld,
Collector, Independent
Researcher and Dealer, North Wales and Santa Fe,NM
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. Saturday, October
7, 2017.Hidden Treasure: The Javanese
Batik
Collection of Thailand's King Chulalongkorn (r.1868-1910)with Dale
Carolyn Gluckman Senior Consultant, Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles,
Bangkok, Retired curator in former Department Head, Costume and Textile
Department,LACMA
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September 16, 2017.A
Nomads art: Anatolian Kilims with Sumru Belger Krody
Senior Curator,The
Textile Museum, Washington, DC
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here for details
.Saturday,
August 26, 2017
"Festivals, Faires
&
Rituals:Textiles, Costumes and Carpets of the Eastern Grasslands of Tibet"
with
Cheri Hunter
Photographer,
Writer and TMA/SC Program
Chairman, Los Angeles
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.Saturday,
August 5, 2017
"Myth and Magic
Symbols and Patterns in Textile Art, Spanning the breadth of the Asian
Continent"
with
Thomas Cole,
Author, Photographer Traveler, Independent Researcher and Dealer, San
Rafael, California
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details
.Saturday
May 20th ,2017 "African Print Fashion Now"with
Victoria Rovine,
Associate
Professor of Art History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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details
.Saturday,
April 29, 2017“1001
Embroidered Tales:
Stories ofArabEmbroidery”
with
Gillian Vogelsang- Eastwood,
Director Textile Research Centre, Leiden, the
Netherlands
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.Saturday,
April 1,2017 "Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic
Lands", 7th-21st Centuries"
with
LouiseW.Mackie,
Curator (Retired) of Textiles and Islamic Art,
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland,OH
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here for details
.Saturday,
February 18, 2017"Arab Abstraction, Kilim of the Arabs of
Uzbekistan"
with Richard Isaacson PHD,
Independent Researcher and Curator, Washington,
DC
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.Saturday,
January 28, 2017 "
COLLECTING, EXHIBITING AND INTERPRETING TEXTILES IN THE FINE ART MUSEUM with AliceZrebiec Avenir
Foundation Curator of
Textile Art, Denver Art Museum ( retired) and Curatutorial Consultant
Santa Fe, New Mexico
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.Saturday,
October 29, 2016Early
Carpets and Tapestries on the Eastern Silk
with
Gloria Gonick,Art
Historian and Research Associate, The Fowler Museum, UCLA and TMA/SC Member
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.Saturday,
September 17, 2016
ABazaar, Pot – Luck Picnic and Show & Tell in a Beautiful Rancho Palos Verdes
Garden
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.Saturday,
August 6, 2016"Reigning
Men: Fashon in Menswear, 1715-2015"
Sharon Takeda & Kate Spilker
Curators, Derartment of Costume and textiles LACMA
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Saturday, July 23,2016
Fine Cotton Khadi & Hand Painted Chintz: Two Key Textile Traditions Alive in
South India
with
Karthika
Audinet.
Washington, DC
.Saturday,
May 21, 2016 "“Weavings
of Nomads in Iran: Warp – Faced Bands & Related Textiles"
with
Dr. Fred Mushkat
Independent Researcher & Collector, St. Petersburg, Fl
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.Saturday,
April 23, 2016 "Art of the Austronesians:The Legacy of Indo-Pacific
Voyaging.A Fowler Museum at UCLA Symposium, co-sponsored By TMA/SC
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.Sunday,
April3, 2016
A Two–Part Program on Tapistries
PART 1 GALLERY TOUR
“Woven Gold: Tapestries of
Louis XIV”
with
Charissa Bremer-David
Curator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts, the J. Paul Getty Center
and Curator of the exhibition
PART 2
LECTURE:
"Making
Tapestries Now: Digital Jacquard and a Renewed Form"
with
John Nava,
Tapestry Artis
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.Sunday
March 13, 2016"Lao-Tai Textiles and the Mythic Imagination"
Ellison
Banks Findly
Distinguised Professor of Religion and Asian Studies Trinity College, Hartford,
CT
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.Saturday,
February 27, 2016
"Back to the Future: Reconstruction of Anatolian Carpets from Renaissance
Paintings"
with
Ali Reza Tuna
Independent Researcher & Collector, Geneva
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.Saturday,
February 13, 2016“
"TradionalTextiles of Pakistan"
with
John Gillow Author, World Traveler,
Collector World Traveler and Dealer, United Kingdom
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here for details
.Saturday,
January 9, 2016
TMA/SC
30th Anniversary
Mini-Symposium and Luncheon
with
Walter Denny and
Marjorie Ransom
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.Saturday,
October 24, 2015 "Treasured
Textiles from the American Southwest" the
Durango Collection®
with Philip
Garaway
Dealer and Expert on Native American Art, Los Angeles
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here for details
.Saturday,
September 19th, 2015
" TMA/SC
Moth Market, Pot – Luck Picnic and Show and Tell !"
.Saturday, August 15, 2015
"African Textiles and Adornment: Selections from the Marcel and Zaira Mis
Collection"at LACMA with Sharon
Takeda and Kaye Spilker,
Curators ,
Department of Costumes and Textiles,
LACMA
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.Saturday,
August 1, 2015
"
Textiles for the Head: Utility,
Identity, Authority / Part 2"
with
Christine Brown
Collector
and World Traveler, Washington, DC
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•Saturday, May 2, 2015 " Fragments – A Stepchild in a Museum's Display"
with Anna Beselin,
Senior Carpet and Textile Conservator, Museum of
Islamic Art, Berlin
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•Saturday,
April 11, 2015"The Living Threads Project For Drafting Community Fashion in
Oaxaca Mexico"
A sneak preview of an historic work in progress.with
Eric Mindling,
Researcher, photographer, tour organizer and
Owner of Traditions Mexico of Ashland Oregon
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here for details
•Saturday, March 14, 2015: "From Tradition to Modernity: the Art of the
Anatolian Kilim" with Ali Riza
Tuna, Independent Researcher and Collector,
Geneva Switzerland
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•Saturday, February 14, 2015:"
LAMPUNG IMAGERY: TEXTILE ICONOGRAPHY OF SOUTH SUMATRA"
with Thomas Murray,
Independent Researcher and Private Dealer of
Asian and Tribal Art, the San Francisco Bay area
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•Saturday, January 31, 2015:
Flatweaves101:
"From Alternating Soumak to Zili: The Basic Structures of Oriental Flatweaves"
with
Patrick Weiler,
Collector & President, Seattle Textile and Rug Society, Seattle Washington
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•Saturday,
November 22, 2014“Spectacular
Rubens:
The Triumph of the Eucharest”
Tapestries
at The Getty Center Museum
with
Ann T.Wollen,
Curator, and Acting Head of the Painting Department and
Charissa Bremer-David,
Curator, Sculpture and Decorative Arts Department
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•Saturday, October 25, 2014 "Textiles of Timor, Island in the Woven Sea"
exclusive
TMA/SC gallery tour with
Roy Hamilton,
Senior Curator of Textiles, Fowler Museum UCLA
•Saturday,
September
6, 2014
"Felt
Across Central Asia"
with
Dr. Stephanie Bunn,
Researcher, Author and Senior Lectuter, University of St Andrews, Fife Scotland
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•Saturday,
August 30, 2014
"Risky Business:
Surviving the War on Collecting"(With special attention to collecting textiles
and Ethnographic art) with Kate Fitz
Gibbon, Attorney, Board member of the non-profit Committee for Cultural
Policy, and special expert in current legal patrimony issues of
ethnographic art and textiles, Author, and Central Asian textile expert.
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•Saturday, August 9th, 2014 • "Kimono for the Modern Age, 1900-1960"
with
Sharon Takeda,
Curator of Costumes and Textiles LACMA
•Saturday,
July 26th, 2014
"Textiles for the Head: Utility, Identity, Authority" with
Christine Brown, Researcher
and Traveler, USAID Development Project Manager, Washington DC
•Saturday, May 17th, 2014 "Unraveling
Identity: Our Textiles, Our Stories"
with
Lee
Talbot,
Curator of
Eastern Hemisphere collections, The textile Museum, Washington DC
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•Saturday, April 26th, 2014
The “Carpet Pages” in Islamic Manuscript Illumination:
Are they related to historical carpet production?
with
Prof. Dr. Claus-Peter Haase,
Director (emeritus) of the Pergamon Museum of Islamic Art, State
Museum of Berlin Hon, P:rofessor of Islamic Art and Archeology Freie Universitat
Berlin
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•Saturday, March 22, 2014
"Taiwan
Aboriginal Textiles:
A Collectors Detective Story"
with Martha and Avrum Bluming, TMA/SC Members
and Collectors Calabasas, California
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•Saturday, February 1st, 2014 "Political Love-Hate as Exemplified by
MeiFu Li Womens Head Cloths of Hainan, China"
wth
Lee Chinalai,
Chinalai Tribal Antiques, Shorham, New York
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•Saturday,
January 18, 2014
"aNATOLIAN kILIMS AND tHEIR hISTORY "
with
Vedat Karadag Istanbul, Turkish and Central
Asian Rug and Textile Expert, Istanbul, Turkey
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•Saturday,
November 23, 2013
"Māori Cloaks, Māori Voices"
and
"The Peruvian Four-Selvaged Cloth:
Ancient Threads/New Directions"
with
Roy Hamilton,
Senior Curator of textiles
UCLA
Fowler Museum
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•Sunday, October 26, 2013
"The Dragon Chasing the Horse-or is it the
Other Way Around? Saddle Rugs from China and Beyond"with
Koos de Jong, the Netherlands
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•Sunday, September 29, 2013 "Land ofnthe Hornbill, Tiger, and Naga. The
Art of Lampung, Indonesia"with Garrett Solyom, noted expert on Southeast Asian textiles
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•Saturday,
September 21, 2013
Moth Market and Picnic and Members show and tell
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•Saturday, July 6, 2013
" In the Artisans Mind: Concepts of Design in Traditional Rabari
Embroidery"
with
Judy
Frater,
Co-Founder and
Project Coordinator for the Kala Raksha Trust Bhuj, Kutch, India
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•Sunday, June 30, 2013 "Resplendent Dresses of Southeastern Europe: A
History in Layers"with
Dr. Elizabeth Wayland Barber,
Professor Emerita of Archaeology and
Linguistics,Occidental College and Research Associate,Cotsen Institute of
Archaeology
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•Saturday,
May 11th, 2013 “Carpets,
Textiles and Islamic Art : New Museum Practice in the 21st
Century”
with
Walter B. Denny,
Prof. of Art History, U. Mass, Amherst, Scholar, Author, Independent
Curator, and Senior Consultant in the Department of Islamic Art at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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details
•Saturday,
April 27, 2013
“Stop
Worrying and Start Organizing: Planning the Future for Your Collection,”with
Bobbie Sumberg,Curator of Textiles and Costumes, Museum of
International Folk Art, Santa Fe,” with Walter Denny, Amherst, MA
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•Saturday, April 13, 2013
"The Magic Power of Large Medallion
Suzanis”
with Gisela Helmecke,
curator of Textiles, Metalwork and Epigraphy Museum of Islamic Art
(Pergamon) Berlin Germany
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details
•Saturday,
March 9, 2013
“From Royal Command to Reality: Creating The Queen Sirikit Museum of
Textiles”
with Dale Carolyn Gluckman, Independant curator and
Consultant, and Former curator and department Head, Costumes and Textiles, Los
Angeles County museum of Art
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•February 2 ,2013 "Textiles of the Islamic World"
with
John Gillow,
Author, Lecturer , Traveler ,Collector
and Dealer, UK
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•January
19, 2013 "A Mixed
Bag:Salt Bags fromCollector and dealer the Frances
Plunkett
Collection"
with Frances Plunkett, Collector, Washing , DC
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•November
10th, 2012
"South Persian Rugs & Trappings:
"Highlights from Val Arbab’s Collection"
with
Val Arbab
Oriental
Carpet Appraiser, ASA,ISA-CAPP, & Collector La Jolla California
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•October
27, 2012
"Turkmen Weavings:Some Thoughts on their Vocabulary of Ornament"
with
Dr Jon Thompson, Oriental Carpet
Scholar, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (retired)
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•Thursday,
October 4, 2012
“Silk Fabrics of the
Golden Horde:Historical, Cultural and Ideologoical Aspects"
with Zvezdana Dode,
,
Senoir Researcher, Southern Scientiific Center of the Russian Academy of Science
and Professor, Stavropol State University, Russia
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for details
•September
15,
2012
“Qara U'y: the Qaraqalpaq Yurt and its Decoration”
with David
and Sue Richardson,
Independent researchers, Nottingham UK
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•August
19, 2012 “The
Evolving Surface of 20th Century Kimono”
at the Pacific Asia Museum
of Art, Pasadena California
with
Hollis Goodall , Guest Curator, " Kimono in the 20th Century" Curator
of Japanese art , Los
Angeles County Museum of Art.
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details
•August
11, 2012 "Five
Centuries of Carpet Weaving in Kerman"
With
Taher Sabahi
Author,
Independent Researcher,Carpet
Dealer and Editor, GHEREH Magazine Turin Italy
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•Saturday, July 21, 2012
"Weaving My Way
Through Morocco"
With
Lynn Dines,
marketing
specialist Huntington Beach
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•Saturday,
May 19th, 2012
"COCHINEAL
RED: The Art and History of a Color”
with
Elena Phipps,
Phd Curator, Conservator,
Author and Professor, New York City.
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•April 7th, 2012
A special Double Gallery Tour Event! At the Fowler Museum at UCLA
“Order
And Disorder: Alighiero Boetti By Afghan Women”:
“Second
Skins: Painted Barkcloth from Papua New Guinea and Central Africa”
with“
Roy Hamilton,
Principal Museum Scientist (Senior Curator for
Asian and Pacific Collections), and
Gemma Rodrigues,
Curator of African
Arts at the Fowler Museum at UCLA
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•"Antique
Rugs of Kurdistan" with
James D. Burns,
Attorney, Author and Collector
Seattle washington
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•"Felts of Northern Eurasia"
with Elena Tsareva,
St. Petersburg
Peter the Great Museum of
Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera)
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•
"Japanese Pictorial
Ikats from the Krauss Collection"
with
Jeffrey Krauss,
Textile
Collector, physicist and consultant, Potomac Maryland
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•
"Interweaving Traditions:
Chinese
Minority Costume and Jewelry"
with
Alex Stewart
, Director, education and outreach, San Diego
Chinese Historical Museum and doctorial candidate. A self – drive field trip to
the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum.
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details
•"From
Srinagar to Paris and Paisley: the Kashmir Shawl in its Descendents"
with
David Reisbord,
Retired
Physician, Textile Collector and TMA/SC Member
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•"Looking
Behind the Veil … Reading Between the Lines: Embroideries from the
Mediterranean Sea"
with Christian Urber,
Engineer, Textile Collector and Independent Researcher, Munich Germany
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•"The
Luri Tribes of Iran and Their Weavings"
with Patrick Weiler, Private Collector and President, Seattle
Textile and Rug Society
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•“Caucasian
Rugs” with Alan Campbell
of the San Diego Rug Society
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•"Fez
& Kilim: A History of Trade Between the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires"
with
Peter
Bichler,
independent Textile Scholar, Vienna Austria
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•"Textiles
as Treasures: Cultures of Consumption in Central Asia and Beyond "
A Textile Museum Associates of Southern California, Inc, and UCLA Asia Institute
/ Program on Central Asia, a
conference consisting of six lectures by nationally and internationally renowned
scholars and experts, a special Show & Tell of fine Central Asian rugs and
textiles from selected collections of TMA/SC members, and a wine and cheese
reception.
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•TMA/SC
25th Anniversary Symposium & Luncheon
with Paul Hepworth and Kate Fitz Gibbon and Special Guests of Honor Maryclaire
Ramsey, Director and Bruce P. Baganz, president Board of Trustees,
The Textile Museum
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here for details
•"The
Textile in Fashion”,
with
Sharon S. Takeda and Kaye D. Spilker, Curators in the
Department of
Costumes
and Textiles Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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details
•"Scoartzes:
Romanian Folk Kilims"
with Stefano Ionescu, Rome, Italy independent
carpet scholar and engineer.
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•Moth
market, Pot Luck and Member Show and Tell
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•"Collecting
the Uncollectible:
Kurdish Flatweaves of Afreen, Syria"
with Yaser Al
Srghrji,
owner, Yana Kilims Damascus, Syria
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•"Nini
Towok’s Spinning Wheel: Cloth and the Cycle of Life in Kerek, Java”
and
“Fowler in Focus: Courtly and Urban Batik from Java”
with Roy Hamilton, The Fowler Museum UCLA
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•"Weaving,
Cooking, Smiling: The History and Development
of Weaving in Lao Culture"
with Kongthong Nanthavongdouangsy ,Master
Weaver and Gallery Owner,
Vientiane, Laos
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details
•"
Lebab, Weavings of the Turkmen of the Middle Amu Daryat Yurt.
Archetypical Weavings, Tribal Ethno-history and Images from the 19th
Century"
with
Peter Poullada,
Independent Scholar, San Francisco
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•“African Textiles: Color and Creativity Across a Continent”
with
John Gillow, African
and South Asian textile expert, Author and dealer, United Kingdom.
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•"Ottoman
Imperial Tents"with
professor
Nurhan Atasoy,
Research Associate, Turkish
Cultural foundation
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•
"Pile
Weavings of the Kyrgyz"
with Dennis Marquand
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•"The Kazakhs and
Their Traditional Textiles, Ornaments and Worldview"
with
Dr. Alma Kunanbaeva,
Professor of Anthropology, Stanford
University
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details
•"Batak
Textiles of Sumatra,
Indonesia: Reviewing the Repertory"
with Dr. Sandra Neissen,
The Netherlands
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•"Fabric of Radiance and Splendor: Many Yarns of Central Asian Ikat"
with Sumru Krody,
Curator of Eastern Hemispheric Textiles, The Textile Museum,
Washington DC
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•"Endangered Ethnic and Tribal Textile Craft Skills in India”with
Bina Rao,
Creative Bee Design Studio, Hyderabad, India
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•"Five
centuries of Indonesian textiles: Selections from the Mary Hunt Kahlenberg
Collection"
with Sandra Sardjono,
Assistant Curator of Costume and Textiles,
LACMA
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details
•"Ottoman Rugs
in Transylvanian Churches"
with Alberto Boralevi,
Antique Carpet Dealer and Carpet Scholar, Florence, Italy
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•
"Singing the Rug: Patterned Textiles and the Origins of Indo-European
Metrical Poetry"
with
Professor Anthony Tuck,
Classics
Department University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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information
•
"Turkic Influences on Mamluk Carpets
and Octagonal Medallions"
with
Dr. Sumiyo Okumura,
Istanbul
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“Small
South Persian Tribal Weavings”
with Ann Nicholas and Richard Blumenthal, Boston
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details
•
"Li Textiles of
Hainan:
Seeking the Source of Austronesian Iconography"
with Thomas Murray of Asiatica Ethnographica, San Francisco
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•
A Day of Japanese Textiles in San
Diego: A field trip from Los Angeles to San Diego including exhibitions of "Kimono
as Art: the Landscapes of Itchiku Kubota "at
the San Diego Museum of Art and the Timken Museum of Art. Also including
"Shibui-the
Subtle Beauty of Japanese Art"
at the Mingei International Museum.
Including lectures by
Dale Carolyn Gluckman
on "Kimonos as Art: The Landscapes of Kubota,"
Hollis Goodall
on
"Kimono as Landscape/Landscape as Kimono "
and Terry Satsuki
Milhaupt
on
"Idealizing a Textile Tradition: Itchiku Kubota's Kimono Designs"
• “Nomads
in Anatolia: Their Life and Their
Textiles--Encounters with a Vanishing Culture”.
With Dr. Harold Bohmer,
Istanbul
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•
"The Shining Cloth: Materials
and Meanings"
with
Victoria Z. Rivers,
Professor of Design, University of California, Davis
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•
"Colonial Andean Tapestries: Tradition and
Transformation in the Inca Heartland"
with
Elena Phipps, Senior
Conservator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
• “Embroidered
Textiles of the
Sindh
Desert
(South
Pakistan)”
with
John Gillow,
UK
• “Architectural
Textiles: Tent Bands of Central Asia”
with
Richard Isaacson, Washington, D.C.
• “Armenian Rugs, Kazak Rugs, Bordjalu Rugs: Who Wove Them?”
with
Barry O’Connell, Williamsport, PA
• “Yarns from the
Aegean Islands: Embroidery from the Greek Islands and Epirus Region”
with
Sumru Krody, The Textile Museum,
Washington, D.C.
• “Green Rugs: The New Environmentally-Friendly Rugs of the Qashq’ai”
with
Khosrow Sobhe, TMA/SC
• “Ottoman
Influences on Islamic Batik from Indonesia”
with
Thomas Murray, Asiatica-Ethnographica
• “Oriental Rug Fakes, Frauds and Forgeries”
with
Dr.Ahmet Birbilir,
Ankara
• “Drugs, Thugs
and Rugs”
with
Louise
Shelley, Washington, D.C.
• “The Perfect
Red: The Story of Cochineal”
with
Amy Greenfield, Boston
• “Textile
Adventures in South India”
with
Cheri Hunter, TMA/SC
• “The Splendor
of Burmese Textiles”
with
Sylvia Lu, Bethesda
• “Kurdish
Weavings”
with
Michael Wendorf,
Ann Arbor
• “Appraising
Your Textiles and Rugs”
With
Val Arbab,
TMA/SC
• “The Chintamani
Motif in Ottoman Textiles and Carpets”
with
Sumiyo Okumura,
Istanbul
• “Trappings of the Middle Amu-Darya/Ersari-Beshir”
with
Erik Risman,
Indianapolis
• “Mantles of
Merit: Chin Tribal Textiles from Mandalay to Chittagong”
with
David and Barbara Fraser,
Philadelphia
• “A Noah’s Ark:
Birds and Animals in Textiles and Rugs”
with
Ed Gomperts and Tom Rutherford,
TMA/SC
• “Great Textiles
and Carpets in the Textile Museum”
with
Daniel Walker,
Director, Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.
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