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Advisory Council member and docent Sheridan Collins and guests from the Embassy of Laos at the opening reception for
Out of Southeast Asia: Art That Sustains. Photo by Kevin Allen.
1 T H E T E X T I L E M U S E U M
In our last year at our historic home, we celebrated The Textile Museum’s eighty-eight years on S Street and looked forward to our 2014 move to the George Washington University and an exciting future on campus. Despite the extra costs and demands of the transition, the museum finished 2013 with a revenue surplus and many other successes due to the incredible commitment of our supporters.
Our final exhibition at the S Street galleries—Out of Southeast Asia: Art That Sustains—paired recent textile artworks with treasures from the museum’s collections in a fitting blend of tradition and innovation. The exhibition culminated in October with our annual fall symposium and special event “A Night to Remember,” where hundreds of members and friends reminisced about the museum’s remarkable past through talks, tours, and slide shows.
In 2013, lectures, films, workshops, the 35th-annual Celebration of Textiles festival, and other public programs engaged participants of all ages at S Street, on GW campus, and around the city. During the
final months of the year, the museum remained open during limited hours for educational programs, a special showing of the Advocacy Project’s “Advocacy Quilts: A Voice for the Voiceless,” and holiday shopping in the museum store. Member trips to Houston and Baltimore and visits to other cultural venues around Washington (organized by volunteers from our New Horizons Committee) gave our audiences new experiences beyond the museum’s walls.
Behind the scenes, preparations for The Textile Museum’s transition to GW gained momentum in 2013. Staff and volunteers finished surveying the museum’s collections and began meticulously packing objects to move. By the end of the year, construction of the new conservation and collections resource center on GW’s Science and Technology Campus was completed, and progress on the downtown museum neared its halfway point. The new museum will offer significantly expanded gallery space; engage our local, national, and international members and diverse new
audiences; and foster academic partnerships across the university community.
Especially during this time of transition and new beginnings, we acknowledge with appreciation the many members, donors, sponsors, and volunteers who have made The Textile Museum’s recent success possible. On behalf of our staff, the Board of Trustees, and the many people who benefit from our exhibitions and educational programs, thank you for your generous and continuing support as we turn toward a new and exciting chapter in the museum’s history.
Bruce P. Baganz President, Board of Trustees
John Wetenhall Director
(Cover image): Carol Cassidy, Double Nak (detail), 2002. Collection of the artist. Inspired by traditional Lao textiles.
From the Board President and Director
(Left to right): Textile Museum Board President Bruce P. Baganz, GW President Steven Knapp, and Director John Wetenhall at the museum’s “A Night to Remember” reception. Photo by Kevin Allen.
Annual Report editor: Chita S. Middleton
Contributing editor: Katy Clune
Design: Ideal Design Co.
© 2014 The Textile Museum. All rights reserved.
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The last exhibition in The Textile Museum’s S Street galleries—Out of Southeast Asia: Art That Sustains (April 12–October 13)—explored textile traditions from Indonesia and Laos and their relevance in contemporary art and design. More than 11,000 visitors viewed historical pieces from the museum’s Southeast Asian collections, which were displayed alongside contemporary works by four international textile artists.
Read more on page 4.
R E S E A R C H
A rare eighteenth-century book in the museum’s Arthur D. Jenkins Library collections underwent conservation treatment as part of the Smithsonian Institution’s Wilkes Tapa Project, led by Curator of Oceanic Ethnology Adrienne L. Kaeppler and Chief Conservator Greta Hansen. The volume, which contains tapa cloth collected by English explorer Captain James Cook, is one of only sixty-three known copies.
Read more on page 5.
(Left to right): Out of Southeast Asia. Photo by Kevin Allen. | Conservator Bob Muens takes a sample from tapa cloth collected by Captain James Cook found in one of The Textile Museum’s rare books. Photo by Greta Hansen. | Museum members at the “A Night to Remember” reception. Photo by Kevin Allen. | Trustee Stanley Owen Roth (left) and the Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia H.E. Dino Patti Djalal (right) at the Out of Southeast Asia opening reception. Photo by Kevin Allen.
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Leadership and Staff p.13 Volunteers p.14 Financials p.15–16 About The Textile Museum p.17
P R O G R A M S A N D E V E N T SThe museum’s “A Night to Remember” reception on October 11 drew nearly 500 members and friends to celebrate the institution’s eighty-eight years in its historic home before the move to GW.
M U S E U M O N T H E M O V EIn April, staff completed a fifteen-month survey of the museum’s collections to identify each object’s current storage, requirements for the move, and future needs. This assessment ensured objects are properly secured for transit to the new conservation and collections resource center.
Read more on pages 6–9.
S U P P O R TIn 2013, donations from individuals and organizations from across the country and around the globe provided critical support for the museum’s work. Grants received in 2013 included a federal grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to design an interactive learning center for the new museum.
Read more on pages 10–12.
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In 2013, The Textile Museum
showcased historical and
contemporary textiles from
Turkey, Indonesia, Laos, and
other regions around the globe
in two exhibitions and one
special display.
The Sultan’s Garden: The Blossoming of Ottoman ArtSeptember 21, 2012–March 10, 2013
Curated by Sumru Belger Krody, Senior Curator, Eastern Hemisphere Collections, and Walter B. Denny, Charles Grant Ellis Research Associate for Oriental Carpets
Ottoman art reflects the wealth, abundance, and influence of an empire that spanned seven centuries and, at its height, three continents. This exhibition chronicled how sty lized tulips, carnations, hyacinths, honeysuckles, pome-granates, rose buds, and flowering fruit trees came to embellish nearly all media produced by the Ottoman court beginning in the mid-sixteenth century.
SPECIAL DISPLAY Advocacy Quilts: A Voice for the VoicelessNovember 15–December 1, 2013
This showing of eight narrative quilts, on loan from the non-profit The Advocacy Project, offered vivid windows into the lives of women in marginalized communities across the globe, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kosovo, Belize, and Bangladesh. Each panel shares a different experience—from wartime violence to the celebration of local arts and customs—and was assembled into finished works by quilters in the United States.
The Textile Learning CenterThrough hands-on interactive displays, this activity gallery introduced visitors of all ages to the language of the textile arts and provided an opportunity to explore techniques, materials, dyes, and more.
(Right): Fragment of yellow-ground kemha, Istanbul, 1550–1600. TM 1.47.
Acquired by George Hewitt Myers in 1947.
(Below): Artist Vernal Bogren Swift with her batik triptych Moons Under Sea, 2007–08. Collection of
the artist. Photo by Kevin Allen.
On View
Out of Southeast Asia: Art That SustainsApril 12–October 13, 2013
Curated by Mattiebelle Gittinger, Research Associate, Southeast Asian Textiles
The Textile Museum’s last exhibition on S Street featured historical
textile art from its magnificent Southeast Asian collections—
including batiks from Indonesia and brocades from Laos. These
artworks were displayed alongside the work of four contemporary
textile artists whose imagery, style, and artistic technique is inspired
by the traditions of the region: batik artists Nia Fliam, Agus Ismoyo,
and Vernal Bogren Swift, and weaver Carol Cassidy.
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Textile Museum staff and research associates contributed to scholarship and broadened public awareness of the textile
arts in 2013 by publishing articles and book chapters, engaging with professional organizations and outside researchers,
and educating the next generation of textile scholars and museum staff.Research2 0 1 3 H I G H L I G H T S
25th General Assembly of the Centre International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens (CIETA)Marking the sixtieth anniversary of the establishment of CIETA, this conference in Lyon, France focused on the history of textile collections and research. Senior Curator Sumru Belger Krody pre sented “Ahead of His Time: George Hewitt Myers and his Legacy in Textile Studies,” a paper discussing Textile Museum founder Myers’s contribution to the field of scholarly textile research.
History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400–2000 Curator Lee Talbot contributed four chapters to this new textbook published by the Bard Graduate Center and Yale University Press. Talbot’s lavishly illustrated chapters survey the history of interior design, furniture, textiles, lacquerware, ceramics, metalwork, and jade carving in China and Korea from 1400 to 1750.
God Is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth: Light in Islamic Art and Culture Sumru Belger Krody received the Hamad bin Khalifa Travel Fellowship to attend the Fifth Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art, held in Palermo, Italy in November. The symposium was co-sponsored by the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, VCU Qatar, and the Qatar Foundation.
Weaving Royal Traditions Through Time: Textiles and Dress at the Thai Court and BeyondIn November 2013, Curator Lee Talbot traveled to Bangkok to attend this symposium organized by the newly opened Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles. Afterwards, Talbot traveled to Laos, where he visited the studio of Carol Cassidy in Vientiane and participated in silk weaving and natural dyeing workshops in Luang Prabang.
Smithsonian Wilkes Tapa ProjectIn partnership with the Smithsonian Institution’s Wilkes Tapa Project, The Textile Museum’s Arthur D. Jenkins Library book of tapa (bark cloth)—collected by Captain James Cook and assembled in 1787 by Alexander Shaw—underwent conservation treatment. During this process, small samples were extracted for source plant identification (DNA analysis), dye analysis, and possible oil analysis. The project offers a unique opportunity to broaden understanding of the very first tapa ever collected, as well as the early Pacific cultures that made this cloth.
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Carol Bier Research AssociateReview of Textile Terminologies in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean from the Third to the First Millennia BC, ed. C. Michel and M.L. Nosch, Journal of the American Oriental Society 133.1 (2013), 180–83.
Walter B. Denny Charles Grant Ellis Research Associate for Oriental Carpets“Inspiration and Innovation: Footprints from Afar in the Calderwood Collection” in In Harmony: The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art (Boston: Harvard University Press, 2013), 157–168.
Ann Pollard Rowe Research Associate, Western Hemisphere Textiles“The Elaboration of the Guatemalan Huipil” in Ancestry and Artistry: Maya Textiles from Guatemala (Toronto: Textile Museum of Canada, 2013), 66–85. Published to accompany the eponymous exhibition curated by Roxane Shaughnessy.
Lee Talbot Curator, Eastern Hemisphere Collections “Foreword” in Golden Hands, ed. Young Yang Chung (New York: The Seol Won Foundation, 2013), 2–3.
Curator Lee Talbot participates in a weaving workshop in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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From crafts to concerts, lectures
to films, The Textile Museum’s
public programs aim to share
the textile arts with people
of all ages. In 2013, perennial
programs and new initiatives
welcomed nearly 5,300 visitors
to the museum and served
thousands more offsite.
Programs and Events
At the “A Night to Remember” reception, guests explored the museum’s historic buildings
and gained insight into the upcoming move from staff. Photo by Kevin Allen.
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Boys & Girls Clubs PartnershipIn its second year, The Textile Museum’s partnership with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington offered youth at two D.C. club locations the opportunity to learn basic textile techniques and produce colorful art through a sixteen-week program led by TM staff and volunteers.
Mid-Winter Family FestivalMore than 600 visitors attended this February festival aligned with The Sultan’s Garden exhibition. Participants learned about Turkish art and culture through paper-marbling demonstrations, a puppet show, and other family-oriented activities.
National Cherry Blossom FestivalThrough a partnership with the National Cherry Blossom Festival, The Textile Museum led over 1,500 children and their parents in a Japanese paper doll activity during the festival’s Family Days in March.
Yoga in the GardenIn May, The Textile Museum presented its first-ever yoga class, led by Washington, D.C.’s Hari-kirtana das, in the museum’s gardens.
PM @ The TMThe museum’s outdoor after-hours series for young professionals returned in May with Spring “Staycation!”—an evening of traditional Indonesian dance, cuisine, and crafts.
Celebration of TextilesThe museum’s thirty-fifth annual summer festival featured live sheep-shearing, along with craft demonstrations and hands-on art activities for visitors of all ages.
Turkish Festival of Washington, D.C.For the second year in a row, The Textile Museum collaborated with the American-Turkish Association of Washington, D.C. to present a cultural dress-up activity at the Turkish Festival. This activity was preceded by a similar museum-led program held at the Turkish Embassy as part of Passport DC’s embassy open houses.
International Study Tour: “Classics and Carpets in Turkey: A New Look at Ottoman Capitals and Ionian City-States”Led by Walter B. Denny and Sumru Belger Krody—co-curators of The Sultan’s Garden exhibition—this tour explored the classical and Ottoman legacies of Western Anatolia through a series of lectures, visits to well-known sites, and special access to museums with recent advance-ments in archaeology, res toration, scholarship, and exhibitions.
2013 Mid-Winter Family Festival. Photo by Alfredo Flores.
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Ask a Curator, Ask a ConservatorThis program gives visitors the opportunity to learn more about their own textiles from the museum’s curators and conservators.
Arts for FamiliesIn this free monthly series, the whole family is invited to learn about textiles through an art activity. Workshops in 2013 focused on crafts inspired by Southeast Asian culture, including “batik” crayon-resist postcards, Indonesian shadow puppets, and kawung-patterned bandanas.
Gallery TalksThese free, lunchtime lectures by staff and special guests explore themes from the museum’s current exhibitions.
Lunchtime LecturesIntroduced in fall 2013, this series of lectures and discussions on a range of textile topics connect GW faculty, students, and the public in the spring and fall semesters.
Rug & Textile Appreciation MorningsIn Memory of Harold Keshishian The museum’s longest-running program features discussions and show-and-tell sessions led by local scholars and collectors.
Special TripsThe Textile Museum offers regular guided trips to venues in Washington, D.C. and beyond, offering special access to collections and opportunities to engage with textile artists, collectors, and experts. In 2013, participants traveled with the museum to D.C.’s Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, Baltimore, New York City, and Houston.
ToursExperienced docents and staff lead weekly drop-in tours of exhibition highlights and scheduled tours for adult and school groups. In 2013, the museum also offered architectural tours of its historic buildings on S Street, once home to museum founder George Hewitt Myers. Nearly 1,300 visitors participated in a guided tour in 2013.
OCTOBER 11, 2013
Members’ Reception: “A Night to Remember”Nearly 500 members and special guests attended this reception celebrating The Textile Museum’s long history on S Street. The event gave the community a final opportunity to tour the facilities, including areas normally off limits to the public, before the museum closed its galleries to prepare for the move to GW.
OCTOBER 12–13, 2013
The Textile Museum Fall Symposium “From Village Court to Global Commodity: Southeast Asian Textiles”For the museum’s forty-first annual symposium, 160 scholars and artists from around the world came together for a weekend of lectures, discussions, tours, and show-and-tell opportunities focused on the evolving textile art of Southeast Asia.
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A member of the Santi Budaya Dance Troupe performed the traditional Indonesian peacock dance at the museum’s PM @ The TM Spring “Staycation!” event in May. Photo by Alfredo Flores.
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As regular exhibitions and
programs continued in 2013,
museum staff expanded
behind-the-scenes efforts to
prepare for the move to GW—
packing the collections,
developing new exhibitions and
programs, and collaborating
with university faculty and
students. In mid-October, the
museum closed its galleries
to the public, converting
the space into a collections
“rehousing” workshop.
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Collections SurveyStaff completed a fifteen-month survey of the museum’s 19,988 collections pieces, identifying roughly 8,500 objects that required additional care to safely leave the building. Between April and December, staff and volunteers stabilized and packed more than 5,700 of these fragile objects for the summer 2014 move to the museum’s new storage facility.
Moving the Arthur D. Jenkins Library of Textile ArtsTo prepare for the move, library staff and volunteers conducted an inventory and condition assessment of more than 400 volumes of nineteenth-century material, as well as rare books, folios, and quartos.
Once the inventory was completed, the team created custom archival packaging for the most fragile volumes—roughly one third of those surveyed—to protect them during transit.
Conservation and Collections Resource Center The new home for The Textile Museum’s collections on GW’s Science and Technology Campus in Ashburn, Va. reached substantial completion on schedule in October 2013. The 22,000-square-foot center offers expanded storage for the museum’s collections, as well as a conservation lab, staff offices, and unique features such as a photography studio and walk-through freezer (part of the museum’s integrated pest management protocol).
Foggy Bottom Museum SiteConstruction on the new museum reached a milestone in December when it “topped off” (the highest structural beam was placed). The museum’s six floors—four above ground and two below—and the renovated Woodhull House will offer three times the gallery space of the current Textile Museum.
Assistant Registrar Tessa Lummis (left) and Registrar Rachel Shabica (right) with boxes of collection objects, packed and ready for the move. Photo by William Atkins / The George Washington University.
Collections storage room in the new conservation and collections resource center, prior to the installation of storage equipment.
Photo by William Atkins / The George Washington University.
Museum on the Move
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G W C O L L A B O R A T I O N S
The Textile Museum continued to engage GW student groups and coordinate with faculty on university courses and programs in 2013. The fol lowing collaborations offer a taste of how the museum will benefit from the support of students who, in turn, learn from expert staff.
InternshipsIn 2013, seventeen of the museum’s twenty interns were GW students—many of them from the university’s acclaimed museum studies and museum education graduate programs. Interns provided critical assistance in surveying the museum’s collections and preparing objects for the move.
Museum EvaluationIn summer 2013, students in this museum education course conducted front-end analysis on how to serve future audiences ages eighteen to thirty at the new museum’s future learning center.
Exhibition Design Summer Institute Students enrolled in this museum studies program designed a “Coming Soon” informational exhibit about the new museum for display in the GW student center. This course gave them the opportunity to learn important exhibition design skills while building excitement about the museum’s opening.
Museums and Social MediaStudents enrolled in this fall 2013 museum studies course worked with TM staff to research models for creating an online portal to serve the community of textile enthusiasts.
GW graduate students in an intensive summer course worked with TM curators to learn all aspects of designing and producing an exhibition.
Photo by Jessica McConnell Burt / The George Washington University.
Opening ExhibitionMuseum curators and conservators continued preparations to produce Unraveling Identity: Our Textiles, Our Stories, the first exhibition that will be presented at the new museum. In 2013, conservators prepared twenty objects for exhibition, and curators conducted research and began drafting text panels, gallery guides, and other supple mental material that will enhance the show.
Textile Learning CenterThe Textile Museum received a competitive matching grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services’s Museums for America program in September. The grant will support the design of an interactive learning center for the new museum that will introduce audiences of all ages to the techniques and materials used to create textiles, as well as the cultures that make and use textiles around the globe.
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The Textile Museum gratefully
acknowledges the generosity
of those who help the museum
fulfill its role as a worldwide
leader in advancing knowledge
and appreciation of the textile
arts. Gifts of $250 and above
received during the 2013 fiscal
year are listed on the following
pages. The museum extends its
sincerest thanks to all members
and Annual Fund contributors.
Benefactors ($10,000 and above)
Bruce P. and Olive W. Baganz
William and Sondra Bechhoefer
Sylvia Bergstrom and Joe Rothstein
Cynthia and Alton Boyer
Alexander D. Crary
Roderick and AnnMarie DeArment
Alastair and Kathy Dunn
Joseph W. and Judith Fell
Allen R. and Judy Brick Freedman
Virginia McGehee Friend
Nancy and Carl Gewirz
The Estate of Ann Gibbons
Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham
Shirley Z. Johnson and Charles Rumph
Reeva and Ezra Mager
Mary Jo Otsea and Richard H. Brown
Roger S. and Claire Pratt
Eleanor T. Rosenfeld
Stanley Owen Roth
Ruth Lincoln Fisher and Frederic R. Fisher Trusts
Paul and Barbara Schwartz
Michael Seidman and Lynda Couvillion
Alice Dodge Wallace
Annie and Rick Zander
Anonymous
Connoisseurs ($5,000–$9,999)
Julie Schafler Dale
Alan J. and Suzanne W. Dworsky
Gwen and Tom Farnham
David and Barbara Fraser
Amy L. Gould and Matthew S. Polk
Jane and Worth B. Daniels, Jr. Fund of the Baltimore Community Foundation
Patrons ($1,000–$4,999)
Terry Adlhock and Jeffrey Hunter
Deborah Anderson
Beaty Family Fund
Corinne Berezuk
H. Kirk Brown III and Jill A. Wiltse
Dr. Young Yang Chung
Sheridan and Richard Collins
Tom and Fay Cook
Jean Cox
Jeffrey P. Cunard
Walter B. Denny and Alice Robbins
Tina M. deVries
K. Burke Dillon
Dennis Dodds and Zinaida Vaganova
Colin and Lee England
Elizabeth S. Ettinghausen
Jerry and Laurie Feinberg
Jack and Sharon Fenlon
Mae Festa
Elisabeth R. French
Donald R. Gant
Jannes J. Gibson
Sally Glaser
Diane and Marc Grainer
Harry and Diane Greenberg
Margaret H. and John B. Greenwood
Thomas B. Harris
Mr. and Mrs. George S. Harris
Vicki Howard
Kimberly and Rob Humphries
Cheri Hunter
Fred and Susan Ingham
Jay L. and Sandra O. Jensen
Dr. David L. Johnson and Dr. LeeAnn Podruch
Robert J. Joly and Nancy S. Hewison
Barbara Kaslow
Dr. Kathy S. Katz and Dr. Richard Katz
Melissa McGee Keshishian
Kirk M. Keshishian
Patricia Key and Lauren L. Suter
J.L. Martin
Maud Mater
Maria Montelibano
Jill Moormeier
Kurt Munkacsi and Nancy Jeffries
Jerilyn and Rob Nalley
Elmerina and Paul Parkman
Judith Plunkett
Michael and Penelope Pollard
Amelia Preece
Nancy Rice
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Rumford III
Jay M. Schippers
Daniel and Sybil Silver
Wendel and Diane Swan
Dr. John Wetenhall and Professor Tanya Wetenhall
Michael and Patricia Wilson
Norma Yess
Two Anonymous Patrons
Sponsors ($500–$999)
Melissa and Jason Burnett
James D. Burns
Support
Skirt (phaa sin) (detail), Thailand, northeast, Tai-Lao people, ca. 1935–40. TM 1971.18.14. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Madison Andrews.
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M.K. Caverly
Eunice M. Childs
Gene B. and Rebecca S. Christy
Michael and Georgia de Havenon
Timothy and Penelope Hays
Sona Kalousdian and Ira Lawrence
Laurie D. Kefalidis
Gerhardt G. Knodel
Jeffrey and Fern Krauss
Dr. Judith Livingston and Mr. Richard Livingston
R. Joel and Melinda Lowy
General and Mrs. David Maddox
Eric A. Michael and Craig Kruger
Mary Pat Osterhaus
Marian Osterweis
Mr. Arnold Peinado and Dr. Sandra Peinado
Felix and Keisha Phillips
Dr. Carol M. Ravenal and Dr. Earl C. Ravenal
David A. and Gayle M. Roehm
Mr. Robert J.T. Rosenfeld and Mrs. Sheri A. Rosenfeld
Elizabeth Silver-Schack and Larry Silver
Judith Alper Smith
Jenny L. and Steven C. Spancake
Kai Spratt and Allan S. Rogers
Mary Lou Steptoe
Adelaide P. Stern
Mary W. Sullivan
Elinor G. Vaughter
Dr. Ida M. Welsh
Barbara Woodward
Miriam Zimmerman and Steve York
Three Anonymous Sponsors
Supporters ($250–$499)
Jo Ann Abraham
Julia and Douglas Bailey
Mary W. Ballard Jenkins
Dennis M. Barry and Judith Hecht
Sandra Bass
Mary Ellen Bergeron
Sharon Bigot
Connie Binder
Carolyn Blakelock
Aija C. Blitte
Andrew Boesel
Joyce H. Bryan
Frances J. Catania
Larry and Allison Chernikoff
Laura Clyburn McWilliams
Edwin J. Cohn
Dr. Yvonne C. Condell
Don and Kae Dakin
Donna Dana
Richard Denison and Paula Bryan
Donna and Philip Dingle
Cornelia W. Dodge
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan C. Dunn
Cynthia Ely
Julie Evans
Douglas and Martha Evelyn
Maura G. Fallon and Mark Gau
Carma C. Fauntleroy
Joan Ferenczy and Gretchen Frederick
Kathy Fitzgerald
Mr. and Mrs. Russell S. Fling
Alene H. and Robert S. Gelbard
Jere Gibber and J.G. Harrington
Stephanie L. and Stephen W. Giddings
Mitchel Goodman and Wendy Orient
David Greenblatt and Sheila Gelman
Karen Heppen
Rebecca Anne Higgins
Mrs. Frank W. Hoch
Ann Holt-Harris and Gail Fisher
Mr. and Mrs. R. William Johnston
Margaret C. Jones
Judith Jordan
Jerome and Deena Kaplan
Ann N. and Thomas Kelsall
Dr. Margaret Kivelson
Dr. Richard Klimoski
Ross G. Kreamer and Christine Mullen Kreamer
Laura L. Linton
Carroll C. Long
James W. and Nancy K. McBride
Lorie H. McCown
Cecelia Menaker
Bethany Mendenhall
Mary M. Miller
Catherine L. Moore and Carl W. Stephens
Herbert and Selma Moskowitz
Leone P. Murphy
Diana K. Myers
Dominie M. and Howard A. Nash
Ann Nicholas and Richard Blumenthal
Nonna A. Noto
Elizabeth Oliver
Dr. Leslie E. Orgel and Mrs. Alice Orgel
Lona and Ioram Piatigorsky
TM members at the “A Night to Remember “ reception. Photo by Kevin Allen.
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Joseph A. and Claire-Lise Presel
Bea and Thomas Roberts
Professor and Mrs. Richard Rose
Dr. R.P. Russell
Linda F. Segal
Catherine Seibert
Susan Sheehan
Professor Louise Shelley
Dr. Elizabeth Short
Cary Slocum
Linden and Virginia Smith
Corinne Smith
Rosalie S. Smith
Barbara Steele
Kathryn L. Stevens
Robert W. and Louise B. Stieg
Paula Stober and Bill Bucklen
Florence and Roger Stone
Mr. Lawrence Stuebing and Dr. Lois Berlin
David Swetzoff
Ms. Marsha E. Swiss and Dr. Ronald M. Costell
Henry and Jessia Townsend
Dr. Saran Twombly
Darcy Walker
Keith Weed and Julia Molander
Mr. and Mrs. David E. Weisman
Dr. David L. Williams and Mrs. Karen J. Williams
Genii and Tim Williams
Christine Windheuser
Nicholas and Joan Safford Wright
Thomas Xenakis
Deborah Zeitler and Rodney Zeitler
Corporations
BHP Billiton Petroleum
The Boeing Company
The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation
ELY, INC.
ExxonMobil Foundation
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Foundation
Gail Martin Gallery
HVAC Precision Services
McGraw Hill Financial, Inc.
Pepco
Peruvian Connection LLC
Prospera-U.S.
Security Energy Company
Foundations
Alice Shaver Foundation
Catherine Hawkins Foundation
The Charles Delmar Foundation
E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation
Hawk Rock Foundation
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Historic Textile Research Foundation
The Marpat Foundation, Inc.
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation
Prince Charitable Trusts
The Selz Foundation
The Zeldin Family Foundation
Organizations
International Monetary Fund
International Conference on Oriental Carpets
Seattle Weaver’s Guild
Textile Museum Associates of Southern California
The Textile Museum Docents
World Bank Community Connections Fund
Government
D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Institute of Museum and Library Services
National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs Program
U.S. Commission of Fine Arts
In Kind
Ace Beverage
American Friends of Turkey
Bruce P. Baganz
Flowers by Suzann
The George Washington University
HBP
Hot Club of DC
Sumru Belger Krody
L and A Tent Rental Inc.
Metro Technical Services Projection & Sound Select Event Rentals
Windows Catering Company
In 2013, donors made gifts in memory of the following individuals:
Alan Bergstrom
Viola and Henry Bergstrom
Elizabeth DeArment
Richard Ettinghausen
Louise Woodhead Feuerstein
Doris Hendershot
Harold M. Keshishian
Murad Megalli
Samuel J. Rosenfeld
Clyde “Ev” Shorey, Jr.
Ingeborg Tschebull
Edwin M. Zimmerman
Agus Ismoyo and Nia Fliam, Father Sky Mother Earth (Bapak Langit Ibu Bumi) (back detail), 2005. On loan from Margrit Benton and Mark Nelson.
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Advisory Council
Terry Adlhock
Deborah Anderson
Julia Bailey
William B. Bechhoefer
H. Kirk Brown III
Julia M. Burke
Melissa Burnett
Dr. Young Yang Chung
Sheridan P. Collins
Julie S. Dale
Jane W. Daniels
K. Burke Dillon
Joan Dreyer
Suzanne W. Dworsky
A. Edward Elmendorf
Sharon G. Fenlon
Jannes Gibson
Elif Gokcigdem
Marc Grainer
Thomas B. Harris
R. John Howe
Robert J. Joly
Barbara Kaslow
Kirk M. Keshishian
Melissa M. Keshishian
Patricia Key
Jeffrey Krauss
Zeyneb Lange
Mary Kay Lanzillotta
Gail Martin
Vanessa Moraga
Kurt Munkacsi
Ann Nicholas
Maria O’Leary
David A. Paly
Elmerina Parkman
Felix Phillips
Penelope B. Pollard
Joe Rothstein
Jay M. Schippers
Stephanie Zeldin Sigal
Judith Alper Smith
Anne Wright Wilson
Jill A. Wiltse
Board of Trustees
Bruce P. Baganz, President
Cynthia R. Boyer, Vice President
Roderick A. DeArment, Treasurer
Ezra Pascal Mager, Assistant Treasurer
Michael M. Seidman, Secretary
Alexander D. Crary, Assistant Secretary
Alastair Dunn
Thomas Farnham
Judy Brick Freedman
Virginia McGehee Friend
Nancy Gewirz
Hannelore Grantham
Gerhardt Knodel
Mary Jo Otsea
Roger Pratt
Eleanor T. Rosenfeld
Stanley Owen Roth
Paul Schwartz
Wendel Swan
Annie Hurlbut Zander
Trustees EmeritiSheila Hicks
Alice Dodge Wallace
Honorary TrusteesElizabeth Ettinghausen
Jack Lenor Larsen
2013 Board of Trustees. Photo by Stone Photography.
2013 Advisory Council. Photo by Stone Photography.
Staff
John Wetenhall, Director
Doug Maas, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer
Doug Anderson, Exhibition Production Technician
Katy Clune, Communications and Marketing Manager*
Angela Duckwall, Associate Conservator
Ingrid Faulkerson, Development Manager, Special Events*
Lydia Fraser, Librarian
Sheila Freeman, Receptionist and Membership Assistant
Maria Fusco, Associate Conservator
Miriam Gentle, Shop Sales Assistant*
Tom Goehner, Curator of Education
Chelsea Hick, Registration Technician
Monika Hirschbichler, Exhibition Coordinator*
Emily Johnson, Development Associate
Jessica Kern, Shop Sales Assistant*
Ana Kiss, Special Assistant to the Director
Kate Konefal, Development Manager*
Sumru Belger Krody, Senior Curator, Eastern Hemisphere Collections
Hattie Jo Lehman, Assistant Curator of Education*
Kimberly Lightner, Shop Sales Assistant*
Tessa Lummis, Assistant Registrar
Esther Méthé, Chief Conservator, Margaret Wing Dodge Chair in Conservation
Chita S. Middleton, Communications and Marketing Associate*
Melissa Moore, Shop Sales Assistant*
Erveina Nichols-Fletcher, Shop Sales Assistant*
Frank Petty, Facilities Assistant
Emily Robinson, Exhibition Coordinator*
Rachel Shabica, Registrar
Patti Sheer, Shop Sales Assistant*
Lauren Shenfeld, GW Presidential Administrative Fellow*
Rebecca A.T. Stevens, Consulting Curator, Contemporary Textiles
Lee Talbot, Curator, Eastern Hemisphere Collections
Richard Timpson, Director of Facilities and Exhibition Production
Eliza Ward, Director of Development
Chabrina Williams, Director of Retail Operations
Kibebew Wondirad, Senior Accountant
Leadership and Staff
*Partial Year
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Research Associates
Carol Bier, Islamic Textiles
William J. Conklin, Pre-Columbian Textiles
Walter B. Denny, Charles Grant Ellis Research Associate for Oriental Carpets
Thomas J. Farnham, Charles Grant Ellis Archives Research Associate
Michael Franses, Oriental Carpets
David W. Fraser, Eastern Hemisphere Textiles
Mattiebelle S. Gittinger, Southeast Asian Textiles
Ann Pollard Rowe, Western Hemisphere Textiles
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Terry Adlhock
Tae In Ahn
Caroline Backlund
Jeanne Barnett
Sondra Bechhoefer
Adam Bethke
Michael Bloomfield
Diane Bratter
Jordan Brothers
Shelly Brunner
Emily Buhrow
Elizabeth Campos
Teresa Cappiccilli
June Carmichael
Leslie Carson
Ingrid Caverly
Pavithra Chidambaram
Rebecca Christy
Sheridan Collins
William Conklin
Anthony Cornelious
Lynda Couvillion
Elizabeth Davidson
Kat Davis
Susan Dichter
Burke Dillon
Nicole DiSarno
Joan Dreyer
Jessica Evans
Julie Evans
Ashlee Forbes
Michael Franses
Elisabeth French
Rachel Frederick
Danielle Gabriel
Barbara L. Gentile
Julie A. Geschwind
Gayle Gibbons
Jannes Gibson
Jessica Gosling-Goldsmith
Amber Greenleaf
Margaret H. Greenwood
Rebecca Haase
JeeAhn Han
Dorie Hightower
Nancy Hirshbein
Heather Hoagland
Sandra Hoexter
Marissa Huttinger
Margaret Jones
Phyllis Kane
Lori Kartchner
Andrea Kiernan
Fereshteh Klauss
Joey Konefal
Megan Krishnamurthy
Pam Kopp
Katie Koshy
Maggie Leak
Elizabeth Lee
Kellye Longgood
Brooke Maake
Ethelmary Maddox
Joyce Martin
Gale Awaya McCallum
Jane Moss McCune
Ruth McDiarmid
Janice McHenry
Marcia Melin
Caryn Miller
Katy Milligan
Nancy Mitchell
Polly Morrison
Natalia Morse
Joan Moyers
Nick Oristian
Cayla Osgood
Ethelyn Owen
Ellery Allen Owens
Elmerina Parkman
Ashley Philips
Penelope B. Pollard
Jerrilynn Pudschun
Kirstin Purtich
Rachel Rhodes
Catherine Rich
Amy Rispin
Allison Rohde
Ruth Roush
Alana Rusonis
Linda Segal
Catherine Seibert
Kathleen Severens
Patti Sheer
Ann Sloatman
Susan Spock
Kathryn Stevens
Flo Stone
Suzann Stotlemyer
Martha Strickland
Amanda Varnam
Marcy Wasilewski
Trudy Werner
Lenora Williams
Lindsey Wong
Linda Wrigglesworth
Nancy Wynn
Margaret Yamamoto
Robin Yang
Rosalinda G. Yangas
The Textile Museum could not
fulfill its mission without the
support of dedicated volunteers,
who devote thousands of hours
annually to the museum. In 2013,
volunteers generously donated
more than 7,000 hours as
interns, docents, program
and departmental volunteers,
New Horizons Committee
members, and more. The Textile
Museum is grateful for their
many contributions.
Volunteer Julie Evans (left) assists at the Celebration of Textiles. Photo by Alfredo Flores.
Tunic (detail), Peru, south coast, ca. 1410–1532. TM 91.843. Museum Purchase.
Volunteers
1 5 T H E T E X T I L E M U S E U M
Financials December 31 2013 2012
Assets Cash and cash equivalents $801,544 $544,577
Investments $12,042,307 $12,376,636
Promises to give $61,000 $1,122,992
Prepaid expenses and other assets $134,358 $55,800
Inventory $43,250 $106,951
Property and equipment $626,082 $694,731
Collection - -
Total assets $13,708,541 $14,901,687
Liabilities and net assets Liabilities
Accounts payable and accrued expenses $187,449 $140,295
Deferred revenue $26,865 $38,986
Total liabilities $214,314 $179,281
Commitment and contingency - -
Net assets
Unrestricted:
Available for operations $3,622,755 $5,148,563
Net investments in property and equipment $626,082 $694,731
Deficit in endowment funds ($29,720) ($136,686)
Total unrestricted $4,219,117 $5,706,608
Temporarily restricted $1,285,963 $1,031,280
Permanently restricted $7,989,147 $7,984,518
Total net assets $13,494,227 $14,722,406
Total liabilities and net assets $13,708,541 $14,901,687
This financial information was derived from audited financial statements. For a complete copy of these statements, please contact Doug Maas, chief financial and administrative officer, at douglasmaas@gwu.edu.
Hip wrapper–long cloth (kain panjang) (detail), Indonesia, Java, Yogyakarta, 1960s. TM 1998.11.19. Gift of Beverly Deffes Labin Collection.
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December 31 2013 2012
Unrestricted Temporarily Restricted Permanently Restricted Total Total
Revenue and support Gifts and contributions $891,730 $185,115 - $1,076,845 $2,174,785 Operating investment return $431 $790,000 $790,431 $793,811 Museum shop $295,968 $295,968 $409,740 Membership dues $139,660 $139,660 $173,701 Government grants $125,979 $10,200 $136,179 $79,594 Travel tours $133,397 $133,397 $77,669 Other income $104,617 $104,617 $251,285 Contributed goods & services $99,624 $99,624 $183,274
$1,791,406 $985,315 - $2,776,721 $4,143,859
Net assets released from restrictions $1,154,273 $(1,154,273) - - -
Total revenue and support $2,945,679 $(168,958) - $2,776,721 $4,143,859
Expense Program services Museum shop $307,798 $307,798 $375,779 Conservation $250,317 $250,317 $299,402 Collections management $185,764 $185,764 $161,089 Communications and marketing $178,169 $178,169 $231,995 Education $172,811 $172,811 $180,177 Eastern Hemisphere $168,810 $168,810 $248,863 Contemporary $84,405 $84,405 $120,346 Library $12,326 $12,326 $16,362 Western Hemisphere $7,713 $7,713 $9,680
Total program services $1,368,113 - - $1,368,113 $1,643,693
Supporting services Administration $609,233 $609,233 $953,781 Facilities $439,011 $439,011 $453,643 Development $243,724 $243,724 $230,973 Membership $68,387 $68,387 $89,637
Total supporting services $1,360,355 - - $1,360,355 $1,728,034
Total expense $2,728,468 - - $2,728,468 $3,371,727
Change in net assets from operations $217,211 ($168,958) - $48,253 $772,132 Non-operating investment return $106,968 $423,641 $4,629 $535,238 $459,971 Transition costs ($145,004) ($145,004) - Transfers to GW ($1,666,666) ($1,666,666) ($1,666,666)
Change in net assets ($1,487,491) $254,683 $4,629 ($1,228,179) ($434,563)
Net assets, beginning of year $5,706,608 $1,031,280 $7,984,518 $14,722,406 $15,156,969
Net assets, end of year $4,219,117 $1,285,963 $7,989,147 $13,494,227 $14,722,406
1 7 T H E T E X T I L E M U S E U M
Created and prized by cultures around the world for millennia, textiles are beautiful works of art that tell stories about the people who made them. The Textile Museum expands public knowledge and appreciation—locally, nationally, and internationally—of the artistic merits and cultural importance of the world’s textiles, through scholarship, exhibitions, and educational programs.
The museum’s collections encompass more than 19,000 objects that date from 3000 BCE to the present, including some of the world’s finest examples of rugs and textiles from the Near East, Central Asia, East and Southeast Asia, Africa, and the indigenous cultures of the Americas. The 20,000-volume Arthur D. Jenkins Library of Textile Arts is among the world’s foremost resources for the study of textiles.
Situated in museum founder George Hewitt Myers’s historic home and gardens for almost ninety years (1925–2014), The Textile Museum is joining with the George Washington University and will reopen as a cornerstone of a new museum in Washington, D.C.’s Foggy Bottom neighborhood by spring 2015.
Conservators handle a piece from The Textile Museum collections. Collar (details), China, Qing Dynasty, 19th century. TM 1992.32.6.
About T H E T E X T I L E M U S E U M
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(202) 994-5200museum.gwu.edu
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