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Join Center for Crafts Studies Coordinator Bob Devers and Textile Museum Docent Katrinka Ebbe for an exciting tour of Intrinsic Beauty: Celebrating the Art of Textiles!
This fabulous exhibition will showcase over 60 master works created worldwide during the last 2,000 years. Each piece exemplifies the intrinsic beauty of design, color, and technique. The juxtaposition of textiles from different regions and time periods creates conversations that shed light on cross-cultural connections and the preeminent role textiles have played in the social, political, religious, commercial, and artistic life of many communities.
Examples include carpets woven for the Ottoman court of the 1500s; robes of descent worn by Daoist priests, and a colorful tie-dye tunic from the Wari culture (in current day Peru) that was woven to be taken apart and put back together like a jigsaw puzzle.
The textiles that will be displayed in Intrinsic Beauty highlight the technical achievement and aesthetic richness of the textile arts while telling fascinating stories of human life and creativity.
This Center for Craft Studies program is made possible in part by a generous grant from the Windgate Foundation.
