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Evenings at The TM
You're invited to spend an inspired evening at The Textile Museum. Learn more about Japanese fashion and textile arts from a leading expert, then enjoy light refreshments and music as you mingle with fellow attendees. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and lectures begin at 6 p.m. Fee per lecture: $20/members; $25/non-members. Fee for the series: $100/members; $125/non-members. Advance registration is required; space is
limited. Call (202) 667-0441, ext. 64 to register. Evenings at The TM is funded by Eleanor T. Rosenfeld. |
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Obi Origami: Textile Textures and the Aesthetics of Japanese Kimono
Thursday, November 12, 2009 • 6 p.m.
Japanese scholar Ann Marie Moeller explores how the culture’s use of fabric texture has contributed to the surprising perspectives Japanese designers have brought to Western fashions. She will show how different types of cloth are used in Japanese apparel and demonstrate tying one of the more complicated obi knots. Call (202) 667-0441, ext. 64 to register. |
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Global and Local Imaginings
of the Kimono
Thursday, January 21, 2010 • 6 p.m.
Dr. Terry Satsuki Milhaupt, an independent scholar, traces the tradition of re-using kimono, both within and outside of Japan’s borders. Her lecture explores how kimono have been unstitched, reconfigured and revitalized, acquiring novel functions with each transformation. Call (202) 667-0441, ext. 64 to register. |
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Creative Impulses:
Japanese Fashion and Textiles
Friday, February 12, 2010 • 6 p.m.
Through artistic craftsmanship and their use of “high tech” materials, Japanese fashion and textile designers have exhibited an imaginative approach to working with natural and synthetic materials, combining hand work with technology. Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, an artist, author, curator and textile researcher, gives us a closer look. Call (202) 667-0441, ext. 64 to register. |
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Issey Miyake’s Design Principles
and Traditional
Japanese Clothing
Thursday, February 25, 2010 • 6 p.m.
The roots of Issey Miyake’s design approach lie deep in Japanese soil.
This lecture by Amanda Mayer Stinchecum, a historian specializing in the cloth and clothing of Ryukyu/Okinawa and mainland Japan, examines the concepts behind the construction of the kimono and demonstrates their expression in the designs of Miyake. Call (202) 667-0441, ext. 64 to register. |
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Looking for Wa: Concept and Design in Contemporary Japanese Quilts
Thursday, March 18, 2010 • 6 p.m.
Western-style quilting is barely four decades old in Japan, but Japanese quilters have moved far beyond an early reliance on American design. Dr. Jacqueline M. Atkins, Kate Fowler Merle-Smith Curator of Textiles at the Allentown Art Museum, looks at the quilting phenomenon in Japan. Call (202) 667-0441, ext. 64 to register. |
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Beyond America: The Creativity
of Japanese Subcultures
Thursday, April 1, 2010 • 6 p.m.
The streets of Japan have witnessed a long history of spectacular subcultures, from the American pop culture influence of the post-World War II era to the original street style of the 1970s. Dr. Hiroshi Narumi, an associate professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design, provides a post-war history of Japanese subcultures and considers their origins. Call (202) 667-0441, ext. 64 to register.
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Images (top to bottom): A Japanese woman wears traditional kimono. Photo courtesy Ann Marie Moeller; Kimono, Japan, late Edo period. The Textile Museum 1976.26.6. Gift of Jerome A. and Mary Jane Straka; Fashion by Yoshiki Hishinuma. Photo courtesy Yoshiko Wada. Flying Dress (back), Issey Miyake, Fall/Winter 2002/03. Collection of Mary Baskett. Photo: Scott Hisey; Dragonflies (detail), Yoshiko Katagiri, 2001. Photo courtesy Nihon Vogue Co., Ltd.; Photo courtesy Hiroshi Narumi.
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