Join the Textile Museum Associates of Southern California for presentations by Lee Talbot, Curator, The Textile Museum Collection, and Walter B. Denny, professor at UMass, Amherst, and an Indian banquet luncheon.
“Indian Textiles: 1,000 Years of Art and Design” with Lee Talbot
This colorfully illustrated lecture will provide an overview the exhibition, which presented the textiles in three thematic sections corresponding to the predominate ornamental elements traditionally used by Indian textile makers: abstract, floral, and figurative. From simply woven stripes and checks to complex narrative scenes requiring many skilled specialists, the designs on these fabrics could impart color and beauty, communicate personal and group identity, express deeply felt spiritual beliefs, or render fabrics appropriate for a particular person, place, occasion, or consumer market. This lecture will highlight the technical achievement and cultural significance of traditional Indian textiles as well as the fascinating stories they tell of the people who originally made and used them.
"How We Look at Turkish Carpets: James F. Ballard and a New Way of Collecting" with Prof. Walter B. Denny. In this illustrated talk Walter Denny will focus on carpets from the Ottoman Empire acquired by American collector James Ballard, and how his collection, today divided between the Saint Louis Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has influenced a century of American carpet collecting and changed the way we look at carpets made in Anatolian workshops, villages, and nomadic encampments.
PREPAID RESERVATIONS are REQUIRED.
Members $75/ Guests $85
Link for form, reserve by August 15
Additional validated parking, $5
PROGRAM:
9:30 am Check-in and Morning Snacks
10 am “Indian Textiles: 1,000 Years of Art and Design” with Lee Talbot
11 – 11:15 am Break
11:15 "How We Look at Turkish Carpets: James F. Ballard and a New Way of Collecting" with Prof. Walter B. Denny
12:30 pm Indian Buffet Banquet Lunch & Anniversary remarks
2:30 pm Event ends