Highlights Tours
Free docent-led tours of the galleries are offered Saturdays and Sundays at 1:30 p.m.
Exhibition Programs
Museum curators, researchers, and special guests explore themes from current exhibitions.
Beaded Prayers Project
Artist Talk: Beading Beyond Belief
In this talk, artist Sonya Clark shares her inspiration for the "Beaded Prayers Project."
Best Laid Plans: Designs for a Capital City
Artist Talk: The Indispensable Plan for Washington
In this gallery talk, artist Peter Waddell gives a behind-the-scenes perspective on his process.
Songs of the Civil War
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.
Fast Fashion/Slow Art
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Woven Interiors: Furnishing Early Medieval Egypt
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.
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.
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."
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.
701 21st Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052
Phone: 202-994-5200
[email protected]
