Textile Research Day
Textile Research Day is an annual program that features the research of university students studying textiles. Topics range from textiles in the museum collections to fashion, costume, textile conservation, dye analysis, sustainability, ecological impact and more. Each accepted student gives a brief (5-7 minute) presentation or participates in a poster session with an opportunity to answer questions from attendees. Students can meet others interested in textiles and network with professionals in the fields of decorative arts, art history and museum studies. Join us in person at the museum or register to watch the livestream online.
Schedule
12:00 p.m. Session 1
- Caitlin Chan, “Through a Cartographic Lens: Maps as Tools for Museum Education”
- Audrey Emanuel, “Threads of Memory: The Inkan Khipu and Epistemicide”
- Methi Satyanarayana, “Quilting a Community: African American Quilting Traditions In Washington D.C.”
- Ruby Leonard, “Upcycling and Youth Empowerment”
12:35 p.m. Session 2
- Alicia Campbell, “Textile Afterlives: Repurposed Material in the Construction of Christian Devotion”
- Andrea Lanza Aliaga, “Decolonizing the Gaze: Andean Cosmology and Andean–Amazonian Connections in Textile Iconography”
- Cat Perloff, “Pochoir to Pedagogy: Tracing a French Art Nouveau Textile Design from Germany to Early Soviet Russia”
- Evelyn Lai, Aurelia Liu and Chris Moorshead, “Analyzing Heritage through Object Documentation”
1:10 p.m. Session 3
- Temiloluwa Osunjimi, “Unraveling the Adire: Stories of Yoruba Symbols”
- Owen Schladweiler, “Coverlets: Window into the Weaver”
- Meghan Heaney, “Dionysiac Iconography in Late Antique Egyptian Tunics”
- Amani Ambay, “Transcending Marble: Drapery as Female Empowerment in The Nike of Samothrace”
- Anika Anjume Khan, “The Song of Jamdani: From Loom to Lyric, and the making of ‘Woven Air’”
How to Join the Program
This program will be in a hybrid format. You can join us in person at the museum or watch the livestream online. Please register in advance and choose how you would like to participate. We will email virtual attendees a link and instructions for joining via Zoom. When you register, you can also request to receive a reminder email one day before the program with the link included.