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.
Breaking News: Alexander Hamilton
Fake News? Hamilton Rumors and Truths
Join our panel of experts for short talks on Alexander Hamilton and his impact on Washington, D.C., followed by a Q&A and curator-led tour of the exhibition "Breaking News: Alexander Hamilton."
Vanishing Traditions: Textiles and Treasures from Southwest China
Film: "China’s Guizhou Ethnic Groups, Part I: Preface, Miao, Bouyei, Dong"
This documentary, the first half of an eight-part series, explores the origins, rituals, and elaborate dress of three minority cultures in Southwest China.
Art Museum Day
The museum will offer special activities in celebration of Art Museum Day.
Discussion and Tour: Indigo, Blue Star of the Orient
International lecturer and traveler Jenny Balfour-Paul will give an illustrated overview of indigo, followed by a show-and-tell and a special tour of the galleries to examine and discuss varied examples of indigo-dyed textiles from Asia.
Film: "China’s Guizhou Ethnic Groups, Part II: Tujia,Yi, Shui, Gelao"
This documentary, the final half of an eight-part series, explores the origins, rituals, and distinctive dress of four of Southwest China's minority cultures.
Film: "A Visit to China’s Miao Country"
Eleanor Coppola shot this documentary in the southern region of China, revealing the extraordinary textile traditions of the Miao culture.
Lecture: Tourism, Change, and the Textile Economy Among the Miao in Guizhou
Join Center of Asian Studies Director (University of Colorado) Tim Oakes to reflect on the changes he has witnessed conducting research in Southwest China’s Guizhou Province over the past thirty years.
Gallery Talk: Displaying Historical Textiles and Costumes
Associate Conservators Cathleen Zaret and Elizabeth Shaeffer discuss their conservation treatment and mount preparations for the current exhibitions "Binding the Clouds" and "Vanishing Traditions."
Film: "A Visit to China’s Miao Country"
Eleanor Coppola shot this documentary in the southern region of China, revealing the extraordinary textile traditions of the Miao culture.
Binding the Clouds: The Art of Central Asian Ikat
Lecture: Jewish Brides, Grooms, Merchants, and Craftsmen in Central Asia
Alanna Cooper, director of Jewish Lifelong Learning at Case Western Reserve University, examines images of the Jews taken by photographer A. L. Kun, who documented regions of Central Asia when they came under Russian control in the late nineteenth century. A collaboration with the GW Department of Judaic Studies.
Gallery Talk: Plush Life in Ikat Velvet
Massumeh Farhad, chief curator and curator of Islamic art at the Freer|Sackler, will discuss the production of ikat velvets in late nineteenth-century Central Asia through examples on display in "Binding the Clouds: The Art of Central Asian Ikat."
Demonstration: Bundle Dyeing
Join textile artist An-Phuong Ly as she discusses various plants and flowers used as natural dyes and explores the ways that color can be extracted.
Workshop: Ikat Binding and Dyeing
Try your hand at the involved dye-layering process of ikat in a step-by-step, hands-on binding and dyeing workshop led by Christina P. Day, professor of fiber and sculptural studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Gallery Talk: Displaying Historical Textiles and Costumes
Associate Conservators Cathleen Zaret and Elizabeth Shaeffer discuss their conservation treatment and mount preparations for the current exhibitions "Binding the Clouds" and "Vanishing Traditions."
The George Washington University Museum
The Textile Museum
701 21st Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052
Phone: 202-994-5200
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