Please
note: Activities will be held at The Textile Museum and The Phillips Collection.
Friday,
October 15
7:30-9:00 pm
Opening Reception
The Textile Museum, 2320 S Street NW, Washington, D.C.
Enjoy light refreshments and a preview of the new exhibition Colors of the Oasis: Central Asian Ikats, featuring over sixty robes, dresses, cradle covers and more from the outstanding collection of ikats donated to the museum by collector Murad Megalli in 2005 and 2009.
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Saturday,
October 16
9:00
am
Coffee and Registration
The Phillips Collection Auditorium, 1600
21st Street NW, Washington, D.C.
9:30 am
Welcome
Maryclaire Ramsey, Director, The Textile Museum
9:45
am
Morning Program
All of a Piece: Ikat Design and the Central Asian Aesthetic
Andrew Hale, independent scholar, Sante Fe, New Mexico
Andrew Hale is an independent scholar based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His lecture will focus on the colorful designs of 19th-century ikats and place them within the historic trajectory of the Central Asian aesthetic. Using rare photographs from the 19th and 20th century, Hale will illustrate how ikat patterns have influenced other forms of Central Asian textiles and will touch on the methods and places of production for these vibrant designs.
At the Crossroads of Eurasia: The Changing Central Asian City
and Textile Production in the 19th Century
Dr. Jeff Sahadeo, Director, Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Dr.Jeff Sahadeo joins the symposium from Carleton University where he is an associate professor at the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian studies. His published work focuses on Central Asia and his recent travels have taken him to Russia to examine regional migration in the 19th and 20th centuries. His lecture at The TM Fall Symposium will focus on Central Asian textile production in the 19th century and how changes in the social dynamic of cities and government rule led to new forms of textile production.
Central Asian Ikat: Product
and Production
Dr. Mary M. Dusenbury, Research Curator, Spencer Museum of Art
The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Mary M. Dusenbury’s lecture will focus on the more technical aspects of ikat design and how the textiles are produced. Research Curator at the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, she focuses on archeological and historic Asian textiles and their cultural contexts, with her most recent research on ikat production in Uzbekistan and Xinhiang, China. She is a past president of the Textile Society of America and has served as a Lloyd Cotsen Fellow at The Textile Museum and on the international editorial board of The Textile Museum Journal.
12:15 pm
Lunch on Your Own
Participants will be given a list of suggested restaurants in the area
2:00 pm
Afternoon Program
The Samarkand Ikat-making Tradition
and the Karatag Silk Industry
Dr. Elena Tsareva, Head of Textile Research
Kunstkamera Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Dr. Elena Tsareva, a leading research specialist, comes to The Textile Museum from the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography at the Russian Academy of Sciences. A curator for over 30 years in the institute’s Central Asian collections, Tsareva specializes in ethnographic textiles of Central Asia and Turkmen carpet weaving. She has been a participant in the International Conference on Oriental Carpets (ICOC) since 1976 and the compiling editor of HALI magazine since 1984.
The Revival: The Craft of Ikat Silk Weaving
in Uzbekistan and
its Influence on Global Furnishings
Philippa Watkins, Senior Tutor, Constructed Textiles,
Royal College of Art, London, UK
Philippa Watkins has been senior tutor at the Royal College of Art in London, specializing in woven textile design, since 1990. She began working with silk weavers in Uzbekistan in 1997, culminating in an exhibit of Uzbek fashion and textiles for the 2002 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Her lecture will focus on the influence of ikat silk weaving on global furnishing design and how a small project during the 1990s encouraged the revival of ikat weaving by hand in Uzbekistan’s Fergana Valley.
Dress to Impress: Brilliant Ikat Use in Contemporary Fashion
Dr. Anne Bissonnette, Associate Professor and Curator, Clothing and Textiles Collection, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Dr. Anne Bissonnette is curator of the Clothing and Textiles Collection and assistant professor in Material Culture and Curatorship at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. She has curated over 40 exhibitions throughout her career, including a series for which she was honored with the Costume Society of America’s Richard Martin Award for Excellence in the Exhibition of a Costume in 2008. Her lecture will focus on the use of ikats in contemporary fashion and the difficulties these brilliant designs have for contemporary designers.
4:30 pm
Concluding Remarks
Maryclaire Ramsey, Director, The Textile Museum
5-7 pm
Reception
The Textile Museum, 2320 S Street NW, Washington, D.C.
Continue the conversation while enjoying light refreshments at an evening reception
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Sunday,
October 17
9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
The
Textile Museum
9:30-10:30
am
Curator's Tour
of Colors of the Oasis: Central Asian Ikats with Sumru Belger Krody,
Curator, Eastern Hemisphere Collections, The Textile Museum
10:45 am
Show-and-Tell
Bring in your own ikats to share with fellow participants in a session
facilitated by Michael M. Seidman, Trustee, The Textile Museum
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Two hotels conveniently located within walking distance of The Phillips Collection and The Textile Museum are offering special symposium rates. Please note that rates are subject to change based on availability, so guests should plan to reserve space as early as possible.
Normandy Hotel
2118 Wyoming Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20008
Symposium rate: $165, excluding room tax of 14.5% per room, per night. There is an additional $20 per day for triple/quad occupancy. For reservations, call 1-800-423-6953 by Wednesday, September 22. Ask for The Textile Museum group at The Normandy Hotel.
The
Churchill Hotel
1914 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20009
Symposium rate: $249, excluding room tax of 14.5% per room, per night. For reservations, call (202) 797-2000 or fax (202) 328-1984 by Friday, September 14. Ask for The Textile Museum group.
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New in 2010!
The Textile Museum is pleased to offer 10 scholarships for this year’s annual Fall Symposium: Tying the Rainbow: Reexamining Central Asian Ikats, October 15-17, 2010.
Undergraduate or graduate students in a textile-related course of study are invited to apply. The scholarship will cover the cost of the registration, and is not a cash award. Following the symposium, the recipients will be asked to write a brief report on the weekend’s highlights, which may appear in a Textile Museum publication or online.
To apply, download the application form here.
Deadline Extended! Submit completed form with a resume (2 pages maximum) by COB Monday, September 20, 2010 for consideration. Applications can be emailed to info@textilemuseum.org with “Symposium Scholarship” in the subject line, faxed to (202) 483-0994 or mailed to The Textile Museum, Attn: Tom Goehner, 2320 S St. NW, Washington, DC 20008. Scholarship recipients will be notified by September 24, 2010.
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