Textile Seminar: Ikat from Western and Eastern Hemispheres November 28, 2007

Members $12; Non-members $15; Full-time Students PWYC. Advanced registration required.

Enjoy a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at artifacts from the TMC’s collection with curators Roxanne Shaughnessy and Natalia Nekrassova.

Learn about Ikat items in our Blues collection. The Blues showcases 36 textiles from our permanent collection from West Africa, East Asia and Canada, along with Canadian denim jeans and Japanese pieces lent from private collections. These pieces join works by 6 contemporary artists whose working methodologies are embedded in concepts of blue: Mary Lee Bendolph, Dorothy Caldwell, Judith Fielder, Leola Le Blanc, Chunghie Lee, and Anna Torma.

Textile Museum of Canada
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Toronto ON M5G 2H5
416 599 5321

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