Textile Society of America Newsletter 25:2 — Spring/Summer 2013 Textile Society of America
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Textile VOLUME 25 n NUMBER 2 n SPRING/SIMMER, 2013 Society of America New TSA Program: Textiles Close Up CONTENTS First event in this new series: For our inaugural workshop, is it…The installation is enrap- participants will join curator and turing, as intricately patterned 1 Textiles Close Up Indonesian Textiles TSA member Dr. Ruth Barnes as the Indonesian textiles and 3 From the President at the Yale University for an exclusive day-visit to the Borneo carvings that fill it.” 4 TSA News, TSA Study Tours Art Gallery Yale University Art Gallery, New After the gallery tour, par- Haven, CT, and its rich collec- ticipants will gather for an à-la- 7 TSA Member News MAY 16, 2013 tion of textiles from Indonesia. carte luncheon at the Union 9 In Memoriam: Irene Good The small-group visit begins at League Café. In the afternoon, EXTILES CLOSE UP IS A NEW the group travels with Ruth to 11 Textile Community News program developed by the Gallery, which recently re- opened to the public following YUAG’s off-site collections stor- 12 Exhibition Review, Book TSA as a way to engage T a major--and highly praised- age for a focused session exam- Reviews our members and provide an -expansion. Ruth will guide par- ining weavings from Lampung 14 Call for Papers: TSA Symposium opportunity to study close-up and Palembang (South Sumatra), 2014 selected groups of textiles. It ticipants through the newly built and installed Indo-Pacific and Java, Borneo and Sulawesi. A 15 Calendar: Conferences & is an ongoing series of one- or Asian galleries with their superb private reception will complete Symposia two-day workshops scheduled the day. throughout the year, aiming to textiles from South Sumatra, 16 Calendar: Exhibitions Ruth Barnes received a provide textile enthusiasts–cura- Sulawesi, Borneo and Sumba. 17 Calendar: Lectures, Workshops Ph.D. from the University of tors, art historians, educators, Writing of the Indo-Pacific & Tours Oxford, based on her research students, collectors–with rare galleries, the New York Times in eastern Indonesia. Her doc- opportunities to view, study and recently declared “If you need toral dissertation was published learn firsthand from textiles. one irrefutable reason for a visit as The Ikat Textiles of Lamalera: Renowned international experts [to the Yale Art Gallery], this with special access to leading museum and private collec- tions will guide small groups in understanding the distinctive THE TEXTILE SOCIETY OF AMERICA, materials, techniques, styles, INC., PROVIDES an IntERnatIOnaL culture and history of important FORUM FOR THE EXCHanGE textile traditions. anD DIssEMInatION OF INFORMatION ABOUT TEXTILES WORLDWIDE, Ceremonial Weaving (Pua Kumbu). FROM ARTIstIC, CULTURAL, late 19th century, Cotton with warp-ikat patterning. 122 x 183 ECONOMIC, HIstORIC, cm. (48 1/16 x 72 1/16 in.), Yale POLITICAL, SOCIAL, anD University Art Gallery. Gift of Gerry TECHNICAL PERSPECTIVES. Masteller. A Study of an Eastern Indonesian TSA members will be Have you visited tsa BOARD OF DirectORS Weaving Tradition (Leiden, offered an early registration peri- TSA’s new website? OFFICERS E.J. Brill 1989). She has writ- od, announced on our website PRESIDEnt ten extensively on Indonesian and via an email blast. Please HE TEXTILE SOCIETY OF Elena Phipps weaving and related art forms. see the TSA website for further America’s website has a new TEL 212/349-4485 T [email protected] From 1990 to the end of 2009 information. look, with new features and she was textile curator at the http://www.textilesociety.org/ improved navigation. The Home VICE PRESIDEnt Roxane Shaughnessy Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, tours Page highlights coming attrac- TEL 416/599-5321 ext. 2226 UK, where she focused on tions and links you to other parts [email protected] early Indian Ocean trade net- Textiles Close Up 2013 of the site. The Events page lists RECORDING SECREtaRY works. She published Indian Schedule TSA events as well as other tex- Susan Brown Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: This inaugural year, we are pre- tile-related events. The Symposia TEL 212/849-8455 [email protected] The Newberry Collection in the senting three workshops: section has the latest news about Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: TREasURER the upcoming meeting, and also Nina Olson Clarendon Press 1997) and co- May 16, 2013: Indonesian contains programs and papers [email protected] authored (with Rosemary Crill Textiles with Ruth Barnes at from previous Symposia. The DIRECTOR OF IntERnaL RELatIOns and Steven Cohen), Trade, the Yale University Art Gallery, News section contains informa- Ann Svenson Temple and Court: Indian Textiles New Haven, CT. TEL 818/789-9691 tion, past newsletters and also [email protected] from the Tapi Collection (2002). October 25, 2013: Printed offers a Blog for members to Most recently she co-edited DIRECTOR OF EXTERnaL RELatIOns Textiles in Europe and North share news and information. Use Michele A. Hardy with Mary Hunt Kahlenberg, TEL 403/220-4137 America with curator Pamela the guest blog to post articles, Five Hundred Years of Indonesian [email protected] Parmal at the Museum of Fine tutorials, share research progress, Textiles. In January, 2010, she Arts, Boston, MA. or anything that might be of Past PRESIDEnt left the Ashmolean and moved interest to the textile community. Patricia Hickman to Yale, where she now is TEL 845/947-8735 November 2013 tbd: Ellyane Hutchinson is the TSA [email protected] Senior Curator of the Yale Interwoven Globe: Worldwide Website Coordinator. You can University Art Gallery’s newly Textile Trade, 1500-1800 reach her at DIRECTORS AT-LARGE Susan Bean endowed Department of Indo- with curator Melinda Watt [email protected] TEL 978/745-1876 Pacific Art. and the exhibition’s curatorial [email protected] The workshop is limited to team at the Ratti Textile Center, Dominique Cardon 12 participants. See the Itinerary Metropolitan Museum of Art, TEL (33) 4-66-85 24 84 on the TSA website for informa- NYC. [email protected] tion on meeting points and tour Jill D’Alessandro timing. TEL 415/750-3533 [email protected] Textiles Close Up reflects Gerry Craig the TSA’s ongoing commit- TEL 785/532-6605 ment to the exchange and dis- [email protected] semination of information about Sarah Fee textiles. In keeping with this WANTED! TEL 647/347-9246 mandate, TSA is also pleased to [email protected] offer special workshop fees to Citations for the new TSA Bibliography Eulanda A Sanders TEL 970/491-7356 student/new professional par- Please send your recent publications from [email protected] ticipants, and will also offer one 2011, 2012, and 2013 to: scholarship for each scheduled TASK REPRESENTATIVES [email protected] event. Due to the behind-the- TSA WEBSITE COORDInatOR Ellyane Hutchinson scenes locations of these events, [email protected] the number of participants at TSA LIstsERV ManaGER each event will be limited. Lydia Fraser [email protected] TSA NEWSLEttER EDITOR Karen Searle [email protected] ‘Like’ TSA on Facebook! TSA BIBLIOGRAPHY EDITOR Marlys McGuire HE TEXTILE SOCIETY OF America’s Facebook page provides its followers with the latest [email protected] Tinformation on textile-related events, exhibitions and publications. The page is updated 2012 SHEP AWARD CHAIR multiple times per week, keeping followers up-to-date on these happenings. To follow TSA, Lee Talbot simply hit the “Like” tab in the upper right hand corner of our page. If you are interested in [email protected] sharing information on our page, contact TSA’s Facebook administrator, Laura Camerlengo, TSA SYMPOSIUM 2014 CHAIR Roy Hamilton through the website’s “Message” tab. [email protected] 2 tsa NEWSLEttER are in an exhibition or under access the Textile Bibliography, had a number of highly qualified Plexiglas vitrines. So please look and we hope to get it to mem- applicants to our job position for at our program schedule and bers very soon. Meanwhile, Executive Director of TSA and From The let us know what you’d like to Ellyane Hutchinson has been we will soon be able to present attend. If you can offer a similar dedicated to developing our our plan to you. TSA is growing, President opportunity in your own insti- adjunct website, which will make and we thank our members for tutions, we would like to hear all our transactions—like member- enabling this process. from you. ship renewals, registrations for Your support of TSA pro- We hope to offer three programs—and other activities vides the financial and intellec- Dear Members and Friends, or four events per year in the easier. We will be providing you tual backbone of the organiza- Textiles Close Up series. We have with details on this shortly. tion. Please consider helping us received a generous pledge from TSA’s 2012 Symposium financially: donations to TSA go PRING IS COMING, AND ALONG Swith it, many new programs Textile Arts, Santa Fe, NM, to Proceedings are in the editing directly toward building our pro- and plans for TSA.