The Textile Museum 2013 Annual Report by The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum

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2013 ANNUAL REPORT

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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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.

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

(Cover image): Carol Cassidy, Double Nak (detail), 2002. Collection of the artist. Inspired by traditional Lao textiles.

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

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Highlights

FROM 2013

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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.

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 pages 6–9.

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Financials p.15–16

About The Textile Museum p.17

On View 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.

(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.

The Sultan’s Garden: The Blossoming of Ottoman Art

Advocacy Quilts: A Voice for the Voiceless

September 21, 2012–March 10, 2013

November 15–December 1, 2013

Curated by Sumru Belger Krody, Senior Curator, Eastern Hemisphere Collections, and Walter B. Denny, Charles Grant Ellis Research Associate for Oriental Carpets

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.

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 stylized tulips, carnations, hyacinths, honeysuckles, pome granates, rosebuds, and flowering fruit trees came to embellish nearly all media produced by the Ottoman court beginning in the mid-sixteenth century.

SPECIAL DISPLAY

The Textile Learning Center Through 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.

Out of Southeast Asia: Art That Sustains April 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.

2013 HIGHLIGHTS 25th General Assembly of the Centre International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens (CIETA)

Weaving Royal Traditions Through Time: Textiles and Dress at the Thai Court and Beyond

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 presented “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.

In 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.

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

Smithsonian Wilkes Tapa Project In 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.

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.

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Curator Lee Talbot participates in a weaving workshop in Luang Prabang, Laos.

2013 PUBLICATIONS HIGHLIGHTS Carol Bier Research Associate Review 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.

Programs and Events From crafts to concerts, lectures to films, The Textile Museum’s public programs aim to share the textile arts with people

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.

of all ages. In 2013, perennial programs and new initiatives welcomed nearly 5,300 visitors

PROGRAMS IN 2013

to the museum and served

Boys & Girls Clubs Partnership

thousands more offsite.

In 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 Festival More than 600 visitors attended this February festival aligned with The Sultan’s Garden exhibition. Participants learned about Turkish art and culture through papermarbling demonstrations, a puppet show, and other familyoriented activities.

National Cherry Blossom Festival

Turkish Festival of Washington, D.C.

Through 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.

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.

Yoga in the Garden In 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 TM The 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 Textiles The 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.

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 advancements in archaeology, restoration, scholarship, and exhibitions.

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Ask a Curator, Ask a Conservator

OCTOBER 11, 2013 Members’ Reception: “A Night to Remember”

This program gives visitors the opportunity to learn more about their own textiles from the museum’s curators and conservators.

Arts for Families

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.

In 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.

OCTOBER 12–13, 2013 The Textile Museum Fall Symposium “From Village Court to Global Commodity: Southeast Asian Textiles”

Gallery Talks These free, lunchtime lectures by staff and special guests explore themes from the museum’s current exhibitions.

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.

Lunchtime Lectures Introduced 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 Mornings In Memory of Harold Keshishian The museum’s longest-running program features discussions and show-and-tell sessions led by local scholars and collectors.

Special Trips The 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.

Tours Experienced 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.

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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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Museum on the Move 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,

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.

developing new exhibitions and programs, and collaborating with university faculty and

2013 MOVE MILESTONES

students. In mid-October, the

Collections Survey

museum closed its galleries to the public, converting the space into a collections “rehousing” workshop.

Staff 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 Arts To 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 Site Construction 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. 2 0 1 3

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GW COLLABORATIONS The Textile Museum continued to engage GW student groups and coordinate with faculty on university courses and programs in 2013. The following collaborations offer a taste of how the museum will benefit from the support of students who, in turn, learn from expert staff. Internships In 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 Evaluation In 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 Media Students 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.

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LOOKING AHEAD Opening Exhibition Museum 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 supplemental material that will enhance the show.

Textile Learning Center The 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.

Support

Benefactors ($10,000 and above)

Amy L. Gould and Matthew S. Polk

Cheri Hunter

Bruce P. and Olive W. Baganz

Jane and Worth B. Daniels, Jr. Fund of the Baltimore Community Foundation

Fred and Susan Ingham

Sylvia Bergstrom and Joe Rothstein

Patrons ($1,000–$4,999)

Cynthia and Alton Boyer

Terry Adlhock and Jeffrey Hunter

Dr. David L. Johnson and Dr. LeeAnn Podruch

acknowledges the generosity

Alexander D. Crary

Deborah Anderson

of those who help the museum

Roderick and AnnMarie DeArment

Beaty Family Fund

Alastair and Kathy Dunn

Corinne Berezuk

Joseph W. and Judith Fell

H. Kirk Brown III and Jill A. Wiltse

leader in advancing knowledge

Allen R. and Judy Brick Freedman

Dr. Young Yang Chung

and appreciation of the textile

Virginia McGehee Friend

Sheridan and Richard Collins

Nancy and Carl Gewirz

Tom and Fay Cook

The Estate of Ann Gibbons

Jean Cox

Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham

Jeffrey P. Cunard

year are listed on the following

Shirley Z. Johnson and Charles Rumph

Walter B. Denny and Alice Robbins

pages. The museum extends its

Reeva and Ezra Mager

Tina M. deVries

Mary Jo Otsea and Richard H. Brown

K. Burke Dillon

Roger S. and Claire Pratt

Dennis Dodds and Zinaida Vaganova

Eleanor T. Rosenfeld

Colin and Lee England

Stanley Owen Roth

Elizabeth S. Ettinghausen

Ruth Lincoln Fisher and Frederic R. Fisher Trusts

Jerry and Laurie Feinberg

The Textile Museum gratefully

fulfill its role as a worldwide

arts. Gifts of $250 and above received during the 2013 fiscal

sincerest thanks to all members and Annual Fund contributors.

William and Sondra Bechhoefer

Paul and Barbara Schwartz Michael Seidman and Lynda Couvillion Alice Dodge Wallace Annie and Rick Zander

Jay L. and Sandra O. Jensen

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

Jack and Sharon Fenlon

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Rumford III

Mae Festa

Jay M. Schippers

Elisabeth R. French

Daniel and Sybil Silver

Donald R. Gant

Wendel and Diane Swan

Jannes J. Gibson Sally Glaser

Dr. John Wetenhall and Professor Tanya Wetenhall

Connoisseurs ($5,000–$9,999)

Diane and Marc Grainer

Michael and Patricia Wilson

Julie Schafler Dale

Harry and Diane Greenberg

Norma Yess

Alan J. and Suzanne W. Dworsky

Margaret H. and John B. Greenwood

Two Anonymous Patrons

Gwen and Tom Farnham

Thomas B. Harris

David and Barbara Fraser

Mr. and Mrs. George S. Harris

Anonymous

Sponsors ($500–$999) Melissa and Jason Burnett

Vicki Howard

James D. Burns

Kimberly and Rob Humphries

Skirt (phaa sin) (detail), Thailand, northeast, Tai-Lao people, ca. 1935–40. TM 1971.18.14. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Madison Andrews. 2 0 13

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Supporters ($250–$499)

Eunice M. Childs

Jo Ann Abraham

Gene B. and Rebecca S. Christy

Julia and Douglas Bailey

Michael and Georgia de Havenon

Mary W. Ballard Jenkins

Timothy and Penelope Hays

Dennis M. Barry and Judith Hecht

Sona Kalousdian and Ira Lawrence

Sandra Bass

Laurie D. Kefalidis

Mary Ellen Bergeron

Gerhardt G. Knodel

Sharon Bigot

Jeffrey and Fern Krauss

Connie Binder

Dr. Judith Livingston and Mr. Richard Livingston

Carolyn Blakelock Aija C. Blitte

R. Joel and Melinda Lowy

Andrew Boesel

General and Mrs. David Maddox

Joyce H. Bryan

Eric A. Michael and Craig Kruger

Frances J. Catania

Mary Pat Osterhaus

Larry and Allison Chernikoff

Marian Osterweis

Laura Clyburn McWilliams

Mr. Arnold Peinado and Dr. Sandra Peinado

Edwin J. Cohn

Felix and Keisha Phillips

Dr. Yvonne C. Condell

Dr. Carol M. Ravenal and Dr. Earl C. Ravenal

Don and Kae Dakin

David A. and Gayle M. Roehm

Donna Dana

Mitchel Goodman and Wendy Orient

Carroll C. Long

Mr. Robert J.T. Rosenfeld and Mrs. Sheri A. Rosenfeld

Richard Denison and Paula Bryan

David Greenblatt and Sheila Gelman

James W. and Nancy K. McBride

Donna and Philip Dingle

Karen Heppen

Lorie H. McCown

Elizabeth Silver-Schack and Larry Silver

Cornelia W. Dodge

Rebecca Anne Higgins

Cecelia Menaker

Judith Alper Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan C. Dunn

Mrs. Frank W. Hoch

Bethany Mendenhall

Jenny L. and Steven C. Spancake

Cynthia Ely

Ann Holt-Harris and Gail Fisher

Mary M. Miller

Kai Spratt and Allan S. Rogers

Julie Evans

Mr. and Mrs. R. William Johnston

Catherine L. Moore and Carl W. Stephens

Mary Lou Steptoe

Douglas and Martha Evelyn

Margaret C. Jones

Herbert and Selma Moskowitz

Adelaide P. Stern

Maura G. Fallon and Mark Gau

Judith Jordan

Leone P. Murphy

Mary W. Sullivan

Carma C. Fauntleroy

Jerome and Deena Kaplan

Diana K. Myers

Elinor G. Vaughter

Joan Ferenczy and Gretchen Frederick

Ann N. and Thomas Kelsall

Dominie M. and Howard A. Nash

Dr. Ida M. Welsh

Kathy Fitzgerald

Dr. Margaret Kivelson

Ann Nicholas and Richard Blumenthal

Barbara Woodward

Mr. and Mrs. Russell S. Fling

Dr. Richard Klimoski

Nonna A. Noto

Miriam Zimmerman and Steve York

Alene H. and Robert S. Gelbard Jere Gibber and J.G. Harrington

Ross G. Kreamer and Christine Mullen Kreamer

Elizabeth Oliver

Three Anonymous Sponsors

Stephanie L. and Stephen W. Giddings

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Laura L. Linton

Dr. Leslie E. Orgel and Mrs. Alice Orgel Lona and Ioram Piatigorsky

Joseph A. and Claire-Lise Presel

Dr. David L. Williams and Mrs. Karen J. Williams

E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation

Bea and Thomas Roberts

Genii and Tim Williams

Hawk Rock Foundation

Professor and Mrs. Richard Rose

Christine Windheuser

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

Dr. R.P. Russell

Nicholas and Joan Safford Wright

Linda F. Segal

Thomas Xenakis

Catherine Seibert

Deborah Zeitler and Rodney Zeitler

Susan Sheehan

In Kind Ace Beverage American Friends of Turkey Bruce P. Baganz Flowers by Suzann

Historic Textile Research Foundation The Marpat Foundation, Inc.

The George Washington University

The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation

HBP Hot Club of DC

Professor Louise Shelley

Corporations

Prince Charitable Trusts

Dr. Elizabeth Short

Sumru Belger Krody

BHP Billiton Petroleum

The Selz Foundation

Cary Slocum

L and A Tent Rental Inc.

The Boeing Company

The Zeldin Family Foundation

Linden and Virginia Smith Corinne Smith

The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation

Organizations

Metro Technical Services Projection & Sound Select Event Rentals

Rosalie S. Smith

ELY, INC.

International Monetary Fund

Windows Catering Company

Barbara Steele

ExxonMobil Foundation

Kathryn L. Stevens

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Foundation

International Conference on Oriental Carpets

Robert W. and Louise B. Stieg Paula Stober and Bill Bucklen Florence and Roger Stone Mr. Lawrence Stuebing and Dr. Lois Berlin

Gail Martin Gallery HVAC Precision Services McGraw Hill Financial, Inc. Pepco

David Swetzoff

Peruvian Connection LLC

Ms. Marsha E. Swiss and Dr. Ronald M. Costell

Prospera-U.S.

Henry and Jessia Townsend Dr. Saran Twombly Darcy Walker Keith Weed and Julia Molander Mr. and Mrs. David E. Weisman

Seattle Weaver’s Guild

In 2013, donors made gifts in memory of the following individuals:

Textile Museum Associates of Southern California

Alan Bergstrom

The Textile Museum Docents

Viola and Henry Bergstrom

World Bank Community Connections Fund

Elizabeth DeArment

Government

Louise Woodhead Feuerstein

Richard Ettinghausen

Security Energy Company

D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities

Foundations

Institute of Museum and Library Services

Alice Shaver Foundation Catherine Hawkins Foundation The Charles Delmar Foundation

Agus Ismoyo and Nia Fliam, Father Sky Mother Earth (Bapak Langit Ibu Bumi) (back detail), 2005. On loan from Margrit Benton and Mark Nelson.

Harold M. Keshishian Murad Megalli Samuel J. Rosenfeld

National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs Program

Clyde “Ev” Shorey, Jr.

U.S. Commission of Fine Arts

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Ingeborg Tschebull Edwin M. Zimmerman

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Leadership and Staff Board of Trustees Bruce P. Baganz,

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

President

Cynthia R. Boyer, Vice President Roderick A. DeArment, Treasurer

Ezra Pascal Mager, Assistant Treasurer

Michael M. Seidman, Secretary

Alexander D. Crary, Assistant Secretary

Paul Schwartz Wendel Swan Annie Hurlbut Zander

Trustees Emeriti Sheila Hicks Alice Dodge Wallace

Honorary Trustees Elizabeth Ettinghausen Jack Lenor Larsen

2013 Board of Trustees. Photo by Stone Photography.

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

2013 Advisory Council. Photo by Stone Photography.

Staff

Research Associates

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*

Maria Fusco, Associate Conservator

Ana Kiss, Special Assistant to the Director

Miriam Gentle, Shop Sales Assistant*

Kate Konefal, Development Manager*

Tom Goehner, Curator of Education

Sumru Belger Krody, Senior Curator, Eastern Hemisphere Collections

Chelsea Hick, Registration Technician Monika Hirschbichler, Exhibition Coordinator*

Lydia Fraser, Librarian

Emily Johnson, Development Associate

Sheila Freeman, Receptionist and Membership Assistant

Jessica Kern, Shop Sales Assistant*

*Partial Year

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Hattie Jo Lehman, Assistant Curator of Education* Kimberly Lightner, Shop Sales Assistant*

Chita S. Middleton, Communications and Marketing Associate*

Rebecca A.T. Stevens, Consulting Curator, Contemporary Textiles

Carol Bier, Islamic Textiles

Melissa Moore, Shop Sales Assistant*

Lee Talbot, Curator, Eastern Hemisphere Collections

Erveina Nichols-Fletcher, Shop Sales Assistant* Frank Petty, Facilities Assistant

Richard Timpson, Director of Facilities and Exhibition Production

Walter B. Denny, Charles Grant Ellis Research Associate for Oriental Carpets

Emily Robinson, Exhibition Coordinator*

Eliza Ward, Director of Development

Rachel Shabica, Registrar

Chabrina Williams, Director of Retail Operations

David W. Fraser, Eastern Hemisphere Textiles

Kibebew Wondirad, Senior Accountant

Mattiebelle S. Gittinger, Southeast Asian Textiles

Tessa Lummis, Assistant Registrar

Patti Sheer, Shop Sales Assistant*

Esther Méthé, Chief Conservator, Margaret Wing Dodge Chair in Conservation

Lauren Shenfeld, GW Presidential Administrative Fellow*

William J. Conklin, Pre-Columbian Textiles

Thomas J. Farnham, Charles Grant Ellis Archives Research Associate Michael Franses, Oriental Carpets

Ann Pollard Rowe, Western Hemisphere Textiles

Volunteers 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

Volunteer Julie Evans (left) assists at the Celebration of Textiles. Photo by Alfredo Flores.

and departmental volunteers, New Horizons Committee members, and more. The Textile Museum is grateful for their many contributions.

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

Tunic (detail), Peru, south coast, ca. 1410â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1532. TM 91.843. Museum Purchase.

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

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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

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Financials STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION December 31

2013

2012

$801,544

$544,577

$12,042,307

$12,376,636

Assets

Cash and cash equivalents

Investments

Promises to give

Prepaid expenses and other assets

Inventory

Property and equipment

Collection

Total assets

$61,000

$1,122,992

$134,358

$55,800

$43,250

$106,951

$626,082

$694,731

$13,708,541

$14,901,687

Liabilities and net assets Liabilities

Accounts payable and accrued expenses

Deferred revenue

Total liabilities Commitment and contingency

$187,449

$140,295

$26,865

$38,986

$214,314

$179,281

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

$13,494,227

$14,722,406

$13,708,541

$14,901,687

Total net assets

Total liabilities and net assets

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.

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Hip wrapperâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;long cloth (kain panjang) (detail), Indonesia, Java, Yogyakarta, 1960s. TM 1998.11.19. Gift of Beverly Deffes Labin Collection.

STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES December 31

Unrestricted

2013 Temporarily Restricted

2012

Permanently Restricted

Total

Revenue and support $891,730 $185,115 - $1,076,845 Gifts and contributions

Operating investment return Museum shop Membership dues Government grants Travel tours Other income Contributed goods & services

$431 $790,000 $295,968 $139,660 $125,979 $10,200 $133,397 $104,617 $99,624

Total

$790,431 $295,968 $139,660 $136,179 $133,397 $104,617 $99,624

$2,174,785 $793,811 $409,740 $173,701 $79,594 $77,669 $251,285 $183,274

$1,791,406

$985,315

$2,776,721

$4,143,859

Net assets released from restrictions

$1,154,273

$(1,154,273)

$2,945,679

$(168,958)

$2,776,721

$4,143,859

Total revenue and support

Expense

Program services $307,798 $307,798 Museum shop Conservation $250,317 $250,317 Collections management $185,764 $185,764 Communications and marketing $178,169 $178,169 Education $172,811 $172,811 Eastern Hemisphere $168,810 $168,810 Contemporary $84,405 $84,405 Library $12,326 $12,326 Western Hemisphere $7,713 $7,713

$1,368,113

$1,643,693

Supporting services Administration $609,233 $609,233 Facilities $439,011 $439,011 Development $243,724 $243,724 Membership $68,387 $68,387

$953,781 $453,643 $230,973 $89,637

Total program services

Total supporting services

$1,368,113

$375,779 $299,402 $161,089 $231,995 $180,177 $248,863 $120,346 $16,362 $9,680

$1,360,355

$1,728,034

Total expense

$2,728,468

$3,371,727

Change in net assets from operations Non-operating investment return Transition costs Transfers to GW

$217,211 ($168,958) - $106,968 $423,641 $4,629 ($145,004) ($1,666,666)

$48,253 $535,238 ($145,004) ($1,666,666)

$772,132 $459,971 ($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

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About

Conservators handle a piece from The Textile Museum collections. Collar (details), China, Qing Dynasty, 19th century. TM 1992.32.6.

THE TEXTILE MUSEUM

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.

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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.

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