The Textile Museum 2013 Annual Report

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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.

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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.


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.


R E C U R R I N G P R O G R A M S

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.

E V E N T S

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


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.


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


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 [email protected].

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


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.

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