Highlights Tours
Free docent-led tours of the galleries are offered Saturdays and Sundays at 1:30 p.m.
All Programs by Date
June
Workshop: Sketching in the Galleries
Daniel Moreno, a graduate from GW's Interior Architecture program, will lead a guided sketching workshop in the galleries.
Member Program: Personal Textile Treasures from Asia
Museum members are invited to join members of Weave a Real Peace for a special show-and-tell program with curator Lee Talbot.
Lecture/Show and Tell: Natural Dyes in the Weavings of Oaxaca, Mexico
Join master dyer and weaver Porfirio Gutiérrez as he discusses the use of natural dyes, including cochineal, found in the traditional textiles in the historic Zapotec community of Teotitlán del Valle in Oaxaca, Mexico.
SOLD OUT: Workshop: Dyeing with Cochineal
This program is sold out
Artist Talk: Beading Beyond Belief
In this talk, artist Sonya Clark shares her inspiration for the "Beaded Prayers Project."
July
Demonstration: Indigo Dyeing
Join textile artist An-Phuong Ly as she discusses methods of indigo dyeing.
Artist Talk: The Indispensable Plan for Washington
In this gallery talk, artist Peter Waddell gives a behind-the-scenes perspective on his process.
Gallery Talk: Tapestry in the Americas
Ann Pollard Rowe will discuss the varied contexts and purposes of artworks currently on view in the Textile Museum Collections gallery
Member Program: "Written in Knots" and "Beyond Knotting' Curator Tour
Join fellow members at Dumbarton Oaks for a tour of two exhibitions with co-curator Jeffrey Splitstoser.
Lecture/Show and Tell: Anatolian and Caucasian Weavings
Share examples of any rug or textile from Anatolia or the Caucasus region from your personal collection.
Gallery Talk: Kilims and the Weaver's Hand
Senior curator Sumru Belger Krody discusses two textiles that are both cultural expressions and highly personal artistic expressions by the rural women who made them.
Performance and Sing Along: Songs of the Civil War
The Washington Revels Heritage Voices, an ensemble specializing in traditional American music, leads a sing along to "Songs of the Civil War," a collection of historical ballads.
August
Lecture/Show and Tell: A Global Textile Potpourri
Collector and museum trustee Roger Pratt will present select examples of textile arts from around the world (including Japan, Southeast Asia, India, Tibet, Africa, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Mexico).
Workshop: Sketching in the Galleries
Sketch artworks on display in the museum with guidance from Stephanie Travis, head of GW's Interior Architecture Program.
Member Program: "Fast Fashion/Slow Art" Curator Tour
Be among the first to see the exhibition "Fast Fashion/Slow Art" on this tour with co-curators Bibiana Obler and Phyllis Rosenzweig.
Film: "The Machinists"
This documentary focus on the daily lives of three women garment workers and a union boss who want the fashion industry to stop making a profit at the expense of their workers.
Film: "Tears in the Fabric"
After the Rana Plaza tragedy, documentary filmmakers Hannan Majid and Richard York of Rainbow Collective return to Bangladesh to make their second film on the plight of garment workers.
Gallery Talk: Mali Tent Weavings
Bryna Freyer, former curator at Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, gives an up-close look at a Mali tent weaving from The Textile Museum collections.
Member Program: "Woven Interiors: Furnishing Early Medieval Egypt" Curator Tour
Discover the richly decorated world of early Medieval palaces, villas, and sacred spaces in the eastern Mediterranean on an exhibition tour with co-curators Sumru Belger Krody and Elizabeth Dospel Williams.
September
Consultations: Ask a Curator, Ask a Conservator
Learn more about your own textiles from museum curators and conservators.
Lecture: Felt Making Now and Then
Join Renate Maile-Moskowitz—fiber artist, lecturer, and consultant—for a talk on the history and evolution of felt to its applications today.
Member Program: "Woven Interiors: Furnishing Early Medieval Egypt' Curator Tour
Discover the richly decorated world of early Medieval palaces, villas, and sacred spaces in the eastern Mediterranean on an exhibition tour with co-curators Sumru Belger Krody and Elizabeth Dospel Williams.
Lecture: Spies in the Civil War
Join Vince Houghton, historian and curator at the International Spy Museum, to uncover the hidden world of spies during the Civil War.
Gallery Talk: Textile Preparation for Woven Interiors
Associate Conservator Cathleen Zaret will share some of the methods, materials, and decision-making processes employed in preparing archaeological textiles for display in "Woven Interiors."
Film: "The Man in the White Suit"
Join us for a screening of this 1952 film about a chemist who creates the perfect white suit—which turns out to be very bad for business.
Student Presentations: Art, Sustainability, and Activism
Join us at the Corcoran as graduate students present their semester-long research projects on topics concerning the production and distribution of textiles and clothing.
Celebration of Textiles: Comfort at Home
The museum celebrates its 40th annual free community festival with a unique look at carpets, curtains, cushions, and other textiles for the home.
Book Talk: "Heroes of the Underground Railroad Around D.C."
Anthropologist and author Jenny Masur tells the stories of unsung heroes of the Underground Railroad from her new book.
Film Shorts: "Unravel" and "Occupation: Mill Worker"
"Unravel" follows the western world’s least-wanted clothes on a journey across northern India. Occupation: Mill Worker documents the events of February, 1992, when workers forcibly occupied the factories of Mumbai’s New Great Eastern Mill after a four-year lock-out.
Lecture/Show and Tell: Artful African and Asian Garments
Collector Steve Price gives an overview on why clothing exists and its cultural role, followed by a presentation of garments from Africa and Central, mainland Southeast, and East Asia.
Lecture: Rosetta Tharpe: Black Queer Icon
Gayle Wald, author and chair of GW's Department of American Studies, discusses black queer icon Rosetta Tharpe.
Workshop: Beaded Gloves
Embellish a pair of gloves with beads and other decorations, inspired by Jon Eric Riis's contemporary artwork "Hands of the Oracle"
Workshop: Motifs, Migrations, and Misappropriations
Join artist and activist Frau Fiber (Carol Francis Long) in this hands-on workshop that reimagines a Syrian tunic from the Textile Museum collections using discarded t-shirts, remnants of our consumer culture.
Conference: Unveiling Fashion: Textiles and the New Circular Economy
Join in a collaboration with the D.C. Sustainable Fashion Collective and GW’s Office of Sustainability to understand the relationship between the consumer and the fashion industry and learn about the environmental impact of the fashion industry.
October
Film: "Maquilapolis"
This documentary is a collaboration among filmmakers Sergio de la Torre and Vicky Funari, factory workers, and community organizations that depicts globalization through the eyes of the women who live on the frontlines.
November
Film: "RiverBlue"
This feature-length documentary chronicles paddler and conservationist Mark Angelo's journey to uncover and document the extensive pollution impacts of the global fashion industry.
George Hewitt Myers Award
On Thursday evening, November 21, the museum will honor Dr. Thomas P. Campbell with the George Hewitt Myers Award for lifetime achievement in the textile arts.
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