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MIAO GEIJA

CONTACT:
> Tom Klobe, Emeritus Director (808) 261-6461, klobetm@hawaii.edu
> Lisa Yoshihara, Director (808) 956-6888, gallery@hawaii.edu
> Sharon Tasaka, Associate Director (808) 956-6888, gallery@hawaii.edu
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> COLLOQUIUM
> Writing with Thread: Traditional Textiles of Southwest Chinese
> Minorities
> Four scholars from China and one from Taiwan join three scholars from
> the United States and Canada to foster cross-cultural understanding of
> ideas and methodologies. This international team of scholars, museum
> professionals, and field experts of various disciplines will present
> the research they conducted for the exhibition Writing with Thread:
> Traditional Textiles of Southwest Chinese Minorities.
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> SPONSORS
> Writing with Thread: Traditional Textiles of Southwest Chinese
> Minorities is sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History and
> the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
> The exhibition and colloquium has received major support from the UH
> Manoa Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate
> Education, John Young Foundation, Blakemore Foundation, Hawaii State
> Foundation on Culture and the Arts through appropriations from the
> Legislature of the State of Hawaii and the National Endowment for the
> Arts, Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation, Blodwyn Goo Endowment,
> Women’s Campus Club, Watumull Grant for Museum Studies in the Arts,
> Wing Tek Lum and Chee Ping Lee Lum, and private contributions.
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> LOCATION
> Kuykendall Auditorium, Room 101
> University of Hawaii at Manoa
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> DATE
> Tuesday, September 23, 2008
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> TIME
> 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
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> ADMISSION
> Admission is free. Parking fees may apply.
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> COLLOQUIUM SUMMARY
> A special opportunity awaits those interested in Chinese minority
> textiles. The University of Hawaii Art Gallery presents an
> international colloquium in conjunction with the major loan
> exhibition,Writing with Thread: Traditional Textiles of Southwest
> Chinese Minorities, from the Evergrand Museum in Taiwan. Four
> scholars from China and one from Taiwan join three from the United
> States and Canada to make summary presentations of their research in
> preparation for the exhibition and catalogue. The eight research
> associates who worked on this project will discuss the outcomes of
> their work and answer questions from those attending the colloquium.
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> The scholars include:
> Deng Qiyao, Professor and Dean, School of Communication and Design,
> Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
> Stevan Harrell, Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington,
> Seattle
> Huang Ying Feng, Architect, Collector, and Curatorial Advisor for
> Writing with Thread, Taoyuan, Taiwan
> Li Qianbin, Director and Curator, Guizhou Provincial Museum, Guizhou,
> China
> Kate Lingley, Assistant Professor of Chinese Art History, University
> of Hawaii
> Angela Sheng, Assistant Professor of Chinese Art History, McMaster
> University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; curator of Writing with Thread
> Xi Keding, Curator, Cultural Palace of Nationalities, Guizhou;
> Consultant, Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Relics, Guizhou, China
> Zhang Xiao, Director and Associate Professor, Institute of Minority
> Culture, Guizhou Academy of Social Sciences, Guizhou, China
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> Interpreters will assist in the presentations.
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> EXHIBITION SUMMARY
> The University of Hawaii Art Gallery hosts a major exhibition from
> Taiwan that coincides with the Textile Society of America 11th
> Biennial Symposium in Honolulu. The exhibition, Writing with Thread:
> Traditional Textiles of Southwest Chinese Minorities, on loan from the
> Evergrand Art Museum from September 21-November 30, 2008, features a
> collection of southwest Chinese ethnic minority costumes unmatched in
> the world. During the last 17 years, the Evergrand Museum in Taiwan,
> under the direction of Huang Ying Feng, has assembled the most
> extraordinary examples of the textile arts of the southwest region of
> China. Of over 11,000 pieces collected by Mr. Huang, more than 500
> objects, including historically significant clothing and spectacular
> silver ornaments from 15 ethnic groups and nearly 100 subgroups, will be
> shown in the United States for the first time in Writing with Thread.
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>
> Writing with Thread will provide an arresting visual feast of
> exquisite and rare costumes. Visitors will wander through the gallery
> to view entire ensembles of women’s, men’s and children’s regalia,
> baby carriers, quilt covers, festive and religious vestments, silver
> jewelry, embroidered silk valences, and wax-resist dyed curtains, plus
> a loom, weaving tools, and embroidery cases. All are arranged in a
> meandering environment that suggests the great river systems of this region of
> China along which the various groups settled.
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>
> Writing with Thread explores the meanings associated with the
> production and use of indigenous clothing. In societies without
> written languages, traditions and customs are orally passed from
> generation to generation. However, the textile arts, largely
> practiced by women, provide tangible evidence of a group’s history,
> myths, and legends. The signs and patterns woven or embroidered in
> their clothing are often replicated in the accompanying silver
> ornaments made by men. Together, the textiles and silver ornaments,
> as complements to their oral traditions, record and transmit ideas and
> concepts that are important for the preservation and reconstruction of
> the identities of their makers and users.
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>
> The exhibition, the largest and most comprehensive of its kind to
> date, will showcase the finest and rarest costumes from the Miao
> (Hmong), Yi, Dong, Tujia, Shui, Zhuang, Dai, Buyi, Yao, Gelao, Hani,
> Jingpo, Li, Maonan, and Zang. The needlework and silverwork of each
> ethnic group show variations in their myths of origin and heroic
> combats, communal memories, and wish fulfillment.
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> The University of Hawaii Art Gallery has assembled an international
> team of scholars to conduct research for the exhibition and the
> accompanying catalogue. Textile scholar Angela Sheng from McMaster
> University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada is principal curator of the
> exhibition. She has worked with scholars in China to select the most
> extraordinary examples of objects from this unparalleled collection.
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>
> The scale and quality of this spectacular exhibition has already
> gained worldwide attention. Writing with Thread serves as the fulcrum
> for the Textile Society of America Biennial Symposium, “Textiles as
> Cultural Expressions,” in Honolulu. From Wednesday, September 24 to
> Saturday, September 27, 2008 hundreds of textile specialists, curators
> from many of the most distinguished museums, and scholars from around
> the world will meet in Hawaii to share their research and observe and
> learn about Hawaii’s own multifaceted textile traditions. Museums and
> galleries throughout Honolulu will also present textile related
> exhibitions.
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> Following its presentation at the University of Hawaii Art Gallery
> Writing with Thread will travel to the Chazen Art Museum at the
> University of Wisconsin, Madison and the Museum of International Folk
> Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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> PUBLICATION
> A 320-page illustrated catalogue will document the exhibition.
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> PUBLICITY PHOTOS
> High-resolution digital images are available upon request.
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> WEBSITE
> For more information please visit
> http://www.hawaii.edu/artgallery
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>
> University of Hawaii System
> Established in 1907 and fully accredited by the Western Association
> of Schools and Colleges, the University of Hawaii is the state’s sole
> public system of higher education. The UH System provides an array of
> undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees and community
> programs on 10 campuses and through educational, training, and
> research centers across the state. UH enrolls more than 50,000
> students from Hawaii, the U.S. mainland, and around the world. For
> more information visit www.hawaii.edu.

Maio Shidong

Honolulu, Honolulu Dresses to Impress for TSA
23 City-wide Exhibitions Planned for Textile Society Event

Honolulu, HI….From Hawaiian quilts and kapa to new works by leading contemporary fiber artists to Indonesian and Cambodian textiles and Japanese kimono–Honolulu arts organizations are reaching deep into their textile closets and mounting fabulous textile exhibitions for the 11th Biennial Textile Society of America Symposium being held in Hawaii September 24 through 27, 2008 at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel. Twenty-five exhibitions at a host of museums, galleries, and other city venues will be featuring extraordinary and unusual, contemporary and traditional textiles and fiber arts concurrently with the September 2008 symposium, which expects to draw an international crowd of textile curators, scholars, artists, dealers, experts, and students.
Textiles as Cultural Expressions is the over-riding theme for this major international arts event and marketplace being coordinated by Tom Klobe, Director Emeritus of the University of Hawaii Art Gallery; and Reiko Brandon, renowned fiber artist and former Curator of Textiles at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. The conference and Textile Marketplace are open to the public. Registration information is available at www.textilesociety.org. All exhibitions will also be open to the public with admission fees as applicable for respective organizations.
The TSA events happily coincide with Smithsonian Magazine’s Museum Day promotion on September 27, 2008. Many museum venues featuring TSA-related exhibitions are participating in the nation-wide event and will be offering free admission with the Museum Day Admission Card available to download free at www.smithsonianmagazine.com/museumday.
All the TSA-related exhibitions are open to the public during museum hours and are either free of charge or subject to the respective Museum’s normal admission fees. The TSA events are as follows:

PUBLIC EVENTS:

International Textile Marketplace
September 25-26, 2008; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Free Admission; Public Invited
Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, 2255 Kalakaua Avenue (Parking in Sheraton Waikiki Parking Garage at regular rates available)
This one-time-only textile event features a wide array of specialty textile collectibles including rare and hard-to-find books, the latest textile conservation products, exquisite wearable art, and one-of-a-kind textile collectibles. Over 25 vendors from India, United Kingdom, California, Thailand, Japan, New Mexico, Hawaii, Italy, Maine, Canada, and Guatemala will be featured. Among the products offered will be Southeast Asian garments and textiles, Japanese kimono and obi, shibori products; wearable art by original designers; hand-dyed textiles, scarves and shawls from India, Laos, and Thailand, indigo fiber work, fiber handbags, antique ethnic textiles and costumes, contemporary and vintage Japanese textiles, marbleized textiles, ribbon and yarn lei, original screen prints and much more. For more information, contact Linda-mei Jaress at ljaress@hotmail.com

TSA CITY-WIDE TEXTILE EXHIBITION CALENDAR:
Exhibitions at Area Museums:
Writing with Thread: Traditional Textiles of Southwest Chinese Minorities
September 21-November 30, 2008
University of Hawaii Art Gallery; 2535 McCarthy Mall, Honolulu, HI 96822; Free
Monday-Friday 10:30 a.m. –5 p.m.; Sunday Noon to 5 p.m.
September 27, 2008, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Writing with Thread will feature over 500 objects from the Evergrand Museum in Taiwan, the most inclusive collection of Southwest Chinese ethnic minority costumes in the world. Writing with Thread will showcase the finest and rarest costumes from 16 ethnic groups and nearly 100 subgroups and will explore the meanings associated with the production and use of indigenous clothing. In societies without written languages, traditions and customs are orally passed from generation to generation. However, the textile arts, largely practiced by women, provide tangible evidence of a group’s history, myths, and legends. The signs and patterns woven or embroidered in their clothing and the ceremonial and ritual use of textiles are often replicated in the accompanying silver ornaments made by men. Angela Sheng, Assistant Professor of Chinese Art History at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada is curator of the exhibition. (For more information about Writing with Thread, !
visit
www.hawaii.edu/artgallery.)
Media Contacts: Sharon Tasaka, Associate Director, 808-956-6888 gallery@hawaii.edu; Lisa Yoshihara, Director, 808-956-6888 gallery@hawaii.edu; Tom Klobe, Project Director, 808-261-6461 klobetm@hawaii.edu
Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day Participant September 27, 2008.

Indonesian Batik From the Christensen Fund Collection – July 3 - October 15, 2008
Bright and Daring: Japanese Kimono in the Taisho Mode – August 5 - October 5, 2008
Blue and White: Indigo-dyed Japanese Textiles – August 5 - October 5, 2008
Earth and Sky: Chinese Textiles from the Academy’s Collection — August 5 - October 5, 2008
All About Textiles – September 11, 2008 - August 9, 2009
Honolulu Academy of Arts, 900 S. Beretania Street, Honolulu, HI 96814
Free to Symposium Attendees Thursday, September 25 through
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Tuesday–Saturday 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.; Sunday 1–5 p.m.
Several galleries of the Honolulu Academy of Arts will be devoted to selections from the museum’s superb collection of over 6,000 Asian textiles including exceptional pieces from the renowned Christensen Collection. Also, woodblock prints depicting kimono will be shown in a special exhibition selected from the famed James and Mari Michener Collection and the collection of modern era prints. Galleries throughout the Academy regularly feature important examples of the textile arts as part of the artistic heritage of the culture represented. All About Textiles will look at textiles as cultural artifacts and art objects, as well as fill visitors in on the materials, processes, and techniques used to make textiles. On view will be rarely seen objects and artifacts from the Academy’s collection. The exhibition will feature an interactive area where visitors are encouraged to touch, feel, and try they hand at making textiles. The Art Studio will be open for textile-related art
projects. (For more information visit www.honoluluacademy.org.)
Media Contact: Lesa Griffith, lgriffith@honoluluacademy.org; (808) 532-8712 Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day Participant September 27, 2008.

Tattered Cultures; Mended Histories
Academy Art Center, 1111 Victoria Street, Honolulu HI, 96814
September 6 - 28, 2008; Free
Tuesday-Friday 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Sunday 1-5 p.m.
Presented at the Academy Art Center, this invitational contemporary fiber art exhibition will feature a collection of artworks by international fiber artists who are members of the Textile Society of America. Tattered Cultures is curated by Mary Babcock, Assistant Professor and Fibers Area Chair, Department of Art and Art History, University of Hawaii at Manoa, in collaboration with Carol Khewhok, Curator of the Academy Art Center at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. The exhibition explores how dominant ideologies of a specific time and place often tatter the cultural heritage of the less-dominant and culturally diverse. Multitudes of lives and events pass by unnoticed, distorted and dismissed by the dominant ideologies of a specific time and place. The result is holes and gaps in human experience and understanding, a tattering of our cultural heritage. This exhibition speaks to the large gaps; places where the dominant culture has suppressed the voices of other modes of bein!
g. It
also speaks to the more subtle tatterings, the ways in which the lack of commemoration of ordinary lives results in impoverished cultures, cultural fabrics weakened by gaps in recognition, celebration and understanding. For more information visit www.honoluluacademy.org.
Media Contact: Lesa Griffith, (808) 532-8712; lgriffith@honoluluacademy.org
Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day Participant September 27, 2008.

Jiyoung Chung: Whisper-Romance III
Academy Art Center, 1111 Victoria St., Honolulu, HI 96814
September 6 - 28, 2008; Free
Tuesday-Friday 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Sunday 1-5 p.m.
This is an installation of colorful Joomchi (handmade Korean paper) works by JiYoung Chung. Chung is a painter, paper maker, and mixed media artist. She received her BFA at Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has had numerous solo exhibitions throughout the U.S. Europe and Asia.
Media Contact: Lesa Griffith, (808) 532-8712; lgriffith@honoluluacademy.org
Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day Participant September 27, 2008.

Pauahi: A Legacy for Hawaii
Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice Street, Honolulu, HI 96817
Through December 31, 2008; Free to Symposium Attendees
Daily, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Castle Memorial Building
Kapa beaters, exquisite kapa cloth, and other decorating utensils from Bishop Museum’s own fine collection will be on display in this exhibition which celebrates the contributions of Bernice Pauahi Bishop, the last descendent of King Kamehameha I. Among the other treasures on view are Princess Pauahi’s feather cape, and a feather cloak of Kamehameha the Great, For more information visit www.bishopmuseum.org.
Media Contact: Donalyn Dela Cruz; ddelacruz@bishopmuseum.org
Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day Participant September 27, 2008.

Ili Iho: The Surface Within
Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice Street, Honolulu, HI 96817
September 20, 2008 through January 11, 2009; Free to Symposium Attendees
Daily, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; J.M. Long Gallery
Rare kapa cloth, a famous makaloa mat plaited in an eloquent woven protest to the King, spectacular Hawaiian featherwork, and other significant treasures from Bishop Museum’s own fine collection will be on display alongside a selection of contemporary Hawaiian textile arts by eight of Hawaii’s finest artists. University of Hawaii Associate Professor Maile Andrade guest-curates this exhibition. Andrade has invited the artists to explore their ancestral creations and create works that delve into the surfaces within. This exhibition makes imperative the role of the native community in interpreting and understanding their own material culture. This exhibition is supported in part by a Visual and Expressive Arts Grant from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. For more information visit www.bishopmuseum.org.
Media Contact: Donalyn Dela Cruz; ddelacruz@bishopmuseum.org
Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day Participant September 27, 2008.

Fundamental Fiber: Lauhala, Tapa & Quilts
Mission Houses Museum, 553 S. King Street, Honolulu, HI 96813
September 19, 2008 through January 3, 2009; Free to Symposium Attendees
Tuesday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Organized in conjunction with the 11th Textile Society of America Biennial Symposium (September 224-27, 2008), Fundamental Fiber: Lauhala, Tapa & Quilts will feature 19th and 20th century objects from the Museum’s permanent collections. Fiber arts traditions are well engrained in Hawaii’s ancient, modern, and contemporary cultures. This exhibition offers a unique opportunity to view rarely seen pieces from the permanent collections while providing a forum for local weavers and quilt makers to interact and share current techniques and trends. Extensive public programs are also planned. For more information visit www.missionhouses.org.
Media Contact: Nanette Napoleon, (808) 261-0705; nanetten@hawaii.rr.com
Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day Participant September 27, 2008..

Beaten and Basted: A Collection of Rare Kapa and Quilts Presented by the Daughters of Hawaii
Queen Emma Summer Palace, 2913 Pali Highway, Honolulu, HI 96817
September 20 – October TBA, 2008; $6; Free to Symposium Attendees.
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily;
Organized by the Daughters of Hawaii, this presentation of Hawaiian quilts and rare kapa cloth displays the unique styles and techniques of Hawaiian quilt and cloth makers. The rarely displayed quilted patchwork smoking jacket of King Kamehameha IV, handmade by Queen Emma, will be highlighted at this event. This exhibit will offer individuals the unique opportunity to view rare Hawaiian quilts and kappa cloth at Queen Emma’s historic summer retreat in beautiful Nuuanu Valley. For additional information, please visit www.daughtersofhawii.org.
Media Contact: Heidi Johnson. (808) 595-6191; publicrelations@daughtersofhawaii.org
Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day Participant September 27, 2008.

Intertwine: A Selection of Hawaii Fiber Art
September 5, 2008 through January 17, 2009
Hawaii State Art Museum, 250 South Hotel Street, Honolulu, HI 96813
Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Free Admission
Accession highlights extraordinary recent purchases, commissions, and gifts demonstrating the exceptional work collected by the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.
Intertwine presents a sampling of textile and fiber works from the Art in Public Places Collection. The exhibition showcases a variety of art spanning several decades, with a mix of styles, media, and techniques expressive of both traditions and innovation. Also visit the I Love Art Gallery with interactive exhibits and activities related to both exhibitions.
Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day Participant September 27, 2008.

Exhibitions at Area Galleries and Showrooms:

WeARTables
Louis Pohl Gallery of Fine Art, 1111 Nuuanu Avenue, Honolulu, HI 96817
Tuesday – Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Free
September 23 through October 18, 2008
With a fine reputation for handwoven—and sometimes handspun and dyed—textiles, members of the Hawaii Handweavers’ Hui (HHH) will have a wide array of clothing, bags, decorative accessories, and other wearables on view at the gallery. All items will be available for immediate sale, so the show will be constantly changing as pieces are sold and replaced. “There will no doubt be a nice assortment of scarves and shawls of cotton, linen or silk,” says HHH president Norma Wilson. “Members will submit their pieces which will be reviewed by fashion designers Takeo Kobayashi and Eric Chandler. Design, color, creativity and wearability will be among the criteria for acceptance.” The show coincides with the meeting of the Textile Society of America Biennial Symposium. HHH is a 55-year-old non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of handweaving by bringing together weavers, spinners, dyers, fiber artists, and educators who share the joy and passion of the fibe!
r arts.
Media Contact: Sidney Lynch, exhibition chair, may be reached at kenjoinc@aloha.net for more information. For more information about Louis Pohl Gallery of Fine Arts visit www.louispohlgallery.com.

Fiber Hawaii 2008
The ARTS at Mark’s Garage, 1159 Nuuanu Avenue, Honolulu, HI 96817
September 16 through October 11, 2008; Free
Tuesday – Saturday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Tom Grotta Lecture: Tuesday, September 16
Artist Reception: Thursday, September 18
This popular biennial juried exhibition is sponsored by Hawaii Craftsmen, one of Hawaii’s most active and respected arts organizations whose membership includes some of the finest artists and craftsmen in Hawaii. Fiber Hawaii, a showcase of contemporary art and craft based on fiber traditions, uniquely encourages creative interpretation of fiber as media as well as idea, offering artists an opportunity to explore their work within the context of Contemporary Fiber Art. Artists from all media participate in this juried exhibition. This year’s statewide juror is Tom Grotta of browngrotta arts (www.browngrotta,com), a virtual gallery from Connecticut. For more information about Fiber Hawaii visit www.hawaiicraftsmen.org. For more information about ARTS at Marks Garage visit www.artsatmarks.com.
Media Contact: Rose Anne Jones, Executive Director, (808) 521-3282, info@hawaiicraftsmen.org.

Contemporary Fiber Art of Hawaii
The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center, 999 Bishop Street, Honolulu, HI 96813
September 26, 2008 through January 13, 2009; Free
Monday – Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
This statewide invitational exhibition showcases the cultural and material diversity of contemporary fiber arts being created by Hawaii’s artists today. This exhibition coincides with the Textile Society of America’s 11th Biennial Symposium. Contemporary Fiber Art of Hawaii reveals how fiber artists today are combining materials and techniques to create highly expressive art works. Featured works range from computer generated images transformed into traditional tapestries to delicate embroidery and quilts exploring political themes. Participating artists including Pam Barton, Eli Baxter, A. Kimberlin Blackburn, Reiko Brandon, Sharon Britt, Sharon Chinen, Karen Galley, Keiko Hatano, Pat Hickman, Darius Homay, Jee-un Kim, Nicole Morita, Phan Nguyen Barker, Walter Nottingham, Anna Peach, Elizabeth Train, Jay Wilson, Carol Yotsuda Kouchi and others.
Media Contact: Pua LeMelle; (808) 237-5235; plemelle@tcmhi.org

Field of Flowers: Mughal Carpets and Treasures
East-West Center Gallery
Monday–Friday, 8 a.m.–5 p.m., Sunday, 12 noon–4 p.m.; Free
September 21 through December 31, 2008
In mid-seventeenth century Mughal India, the taste for naturalistic floral sprays reached an apogee of artistic expression. The aesthetic style dominated the arts of South Asia from the 17th century to the present, and has had an impact on even Western and Chinese aesthetic traditions. The taste for beautiful floral motifs is seen in a rare pair of large, unusually-shaped Mughal carpets in the collection at Shangri La, the magnificent Honolulu estate of the late Doris Duke. Paired together, the carpets form a bold field of flowers with an interior void wherein a person, most likely a royal personage, would have sat in splendor. The exhibition will include a pedestrian bridge, enabling visitors to view the carpets more closely. Intricate works of art inspired by Mughal floral patterns, including brassware, paintings, stonework, woodwork, and textiles will also be displayed. Photographs and video will demonstrate social and historical context. This exhibition is present!
ed by
the East-West Center Arts Program and Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts. The exhibition is co-curated by Michael Schuster, Ph.D., and Sharon Littlefield, Ph.D. In residence September 21-26: 3rd generation carpet atelier owner Sanjay Kalra and master carpet weaver Ayyoob Khan both from Agra, India.
Media Contacts: Michael Schuster, Curator, East-West Center Gallery; 808-944-7543; SchusteM@EastWestCenter.org

Selections from the University of Hawaii Costume Collection
Miller Hall, Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawaii at Manoa
11 a.m. -1 p.m. Monday-Friday; Sunday, September 28: 1-4 p.m.
September 20-30, 2008; Free
The Department of Family and Consumer Sciences on the University campus holds one of the most important Asian and Pacific Island costume collections within a United States university. Miller Hall is immediately adjacent to the Art Building.
Media Contacts:

Pride and Practicality: Japanese Immigrant Clothing in Hawaii
Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii, 2454 S. Beretania St.
Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.;
July 26 through September 27, 2008
Regular Museum Admission
The Japanese immigrants who came to Hawaii in a steady stream beginning in 1885 brought a rich cultural heritage that included their clothing. At first the issei men and women worked in the fields in the rustic cotton kimono they brought with them. But those kimono were not practical for moving among the sugar cane with its razor-sharp edges. As these immigrants came in contact with the diverse ethnic groups in Hawaii, they found useful ideas in the dress of other cultures. By assimilating these new ideas and combining them with their own traditional ideas, a unique style of clothing developed. Curated with the help of Barbara Kawakami, important examples of early clothing and the stories of the immigrants will make this exhibition a poignant reminder of the past.
Media Contact: Christy Takamune, (808) 945-7633; Fax (808) 944-1123; Email: takamune@jcch.com

Ancient Customs, Ancient Stories: Lampung Ceremonial Textiles and Objects
Hamilton Library Bridge Gallery; University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2550 McCarthy Mall
September ctober 31, 2008; Open daily all Library hours; Free
Examples of remnants of house architecture, ceremonial furniture and objects, mats and beadwork will be shown to demonstrate their relation to the imagery of textiles from Lampung, the southernmost province of Sumatra, Indonesia. This exhibition is curated by Garrett and Bronwen Solyom as part of the Textile Society of America site seminar on textiles from the Malay archipelago and New Guinea.
Media Contact: Bronwen Solyom; (808) 956-2849; brons@hawaii.edu

Original Bags for Original Women: The Passionate Purse
The Gallery at Ward Centre, 1200 Ala Moana Blvd., Honolulu, HI; (808) 597-8034
August 30 – September 25, 2008; Monday – Saturday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Free
Fabric artist Lynda Sakraida is the designer and creator of Hadji Baba Bags in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. Her Hadji Baba Bags are one-of-a-kind creations that are exquisite yet can withstand the rigors of daily use. Lynda uses designer fabrics in natural materials, and embellishment from around the world. She insists the fabric creates the bag and each one comes with a bit of mystery. Hadji Baba customers call them “works of art.” For more info: www.gwcfineart.com
Media Contact: Barbara Edelstein; barbarae@aloha.net

Iterate reiterate re
Featuring University of Hawaii Fiber Faculty: Mary Babcock, Maya Portner, and Madeleine Soder
39 Hotel, 39 Hotel Street, Honolulu, HI 96813
September 5 to October 25, 2008; Free to Symposium Members
Tuesday-Saturday 4 p.m. to 2 a.m.
The (re)iterative act is a means to shift consciousness. A commitment to iterated and re-iterated action — the conscious decision to turn back again to repeated action as a creative act — satisfies the mind’s desire to engage in focused decision making while providing space for other levels of consciousness and access to less familiar modes of comprehension. The common thread between these three artists’ work an intentional reliance on repetition in the process and an interest in the emergent motif. From repetition, pattern results. The pattern contains a motif. The motif inscribes a motive or reason–in essence, the co-created idea. Media Contact: Mary Babcock, mbabcock@hawaii.edu, (808) 956-5260.

bodyWHERE
The Commons Gallery at the University of Hawaii At Manoa, 2535 McCarthy Mall, Honolulu, HI 96822
September 21 through October 3, 2008; Free
Hours: Monday - Friday, 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, Noon to 5 p.m.
Sept. 27, 2008 - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
This exhibition showcases work by graduate and undergraduate students participating in the UH Fibers program. This is a mixed-media exploration of body and place.
Media Contact: Mary Babcock, mbabcock@hawaii.edu, (808) 956-5260.
Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day Participant September 27, 2008.

Exhibitions at Area Hotels:

Pacific Island Textiles as Status, Wealth, Genealogy, Supernatural Protection
Outrigger Waikiki Hotel
Lobby Koa Showcase, 2335 Kalakaua Avenue, Honolulu
September 8 – October 10, 2008
Worn or displayed, woven or plaited, these textiles from the Pacific Islands are both utilitarian and ceremonial, secular and sacred. In the Marshall Islands they provided clothing before the introduction of trade clothes. In Fiji, masi is essential for all ceremonies from birth to death as well as for the ordination of chiefs. In Tonga large nagatu honor their king, smaller ones wrap bridal couples and bury the dead. In Yap and the outer islands of Ulithi, supernatural powers are believed woven into machi worn only by chiefs. From Papua New Guinea and the Marquesas women have utilized traditional bark cloth to express their creativity and earn much needed cash. Caroline Yacoe is serving as consulting curator. Textiles on view will include Marshall Island mats and kili bags; Fiji masi including a wedding set; Tongan ngatu; Samoan siapo; Colinwood Bay tapa from Papua New Guinea; Marquesan tapa from the breadfruit tree; woven burial shroud from the highlands in Papua New !
Guinea;
and Hawaiian five-layer kapa moe. Several photographs will also be included featuring images of a Tongan woman painting ngatu; a Fijian wedding couple in masi; tapa worn by dancing men of Papau New Guinea; and tapa from Pitcairn.
Media Contact: Marylou Foley, (808) 924-6040; marylou.foley@outrigger.com.

The Textile Society of America gratefully acknowledges the Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism (DBEDT) of the State of Hawaii for its support of the 11th Biennial Symposium in Honolulu. Other support has been provided by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art and the Evergrand Museum of Taiwan.
The Textile Society of America (TSA) provides an international forum for the exchange and dissemination of information about textiles worldwide, from artistic, cultural, economic, historic, political, social and technical perspectives. TSA was established in 1987 and has over 500 members worldwide.
For more information about the 11th Biennial Textile Society of America Symposium in Honolulu, Hawaii, visit www.textilesociety.org, or contact Tom Klobe at klobetm@hawaii.edu.
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Kunsthalle Bern

Robert Gober, Untitled, 1979/2007, ink over linoleum block on paper,
14 x 18 inches, photo: D. James Dee, Copyright Robert Gober.

NO LEFTOVERS -
Kunsthalle Bern
Benefit Auction Preview
August 16th - September 10th 2008

Kunsthalle Bern
Helvetiaplatz 1
3005 Bern
Switzerland
Tel: +41 31 35 000 40
Fax: +41 31 35 000 41

http://www.kunsthalle-bern.ch

On the 13th of September 2008, Kunsthalle Bern will auction off works by a total of 72 artists who, in the course of their careers, participated in exhibitions at Kunsthalle Bern and defined crucial moments and tendencies in art history. The proceeds will be dedicated in full to Kunsthalle Bern’s ambitious programme for the coming years.

From the 16th of August until the 10th of September, the works will be on exhibition at Kunsthalle Bern under the title NO LEFTOVERS (the title is an artwork by Mexican artist Stefan Brüggemann). The exhibition features young international and Bernese artists like Pamela Rosenkranz, Ivan Grubanov, Roberto Cuoghi or Urs Zahn, as well as established locals such as Franz Gertsch and Balthasar Burkhard. Most of the artists, however, are prominent members of the international art scene, including Raymond Pettibon, Robert Gober, Candida Höfer, Thomas Struth, Julian Opie, Georg Baselitz, John M. Armleder and Luc Tuymans.

Throughout its history, Kunsthalle Bern has had the privilege as well as the audacity to exhibit works by an extraordinarily impressive range of artists. The Kunsthalle offered a platform to some of Switzerland’s most significant artists, from Ferdinand Hodler to Franz Gertsch, and it introduced internationally well-known artists like Edvard Munch, Jesus Rafael Soto, Luc Tuymans and Jutta Koether to a Swiss audience. However, Kunsthalle Bern was and is not only the home of various groundbreaking and bold shows or projects (from the first packaging of a public building by Christo over the seminal exhibition “When Attitudes Become Form” and the exhibition of Sol Lewitt’s wall paintings up to Allan Kaprow’s retrospective last year); it is also an institution which, under its various directors, has always striven relentlessly to offer artists a passionate commitment to their works, to challenge the visitors and at the same time provide them the best possible conditions for experi
encing contemporary art.

We are extremely grateful towards the artists that donated works, or in some cases even created new artworks especially for the auction, and their generosity has strengthened us in the conviction that the Kunsthalle needs to keep faith with the artists in the future.

Exhibition opening: 15th of August 2008, 6 pm at Kunsthalle Bern

Benefit auction: 13th of September 2008, 6 pm at Kunsthalle Bern

All the works on auction were collected by Kunsthalle Bern’s director Philippe Pirotte.
Auctioneer: Wolf von Weiler (President of the Verein Kunsthalle Bern)
Online catalogue: http://benefizauktion.kunsthalle-bern.ch/
The Kunsthalle Bern benefit auction takes place under the patronage of:
Ursula Andress (actress, Rome)
Rolf Bloch (entrepreneur, Berne)
Robert Frank (photographer, New York)
Donald Hess (entrepreneur and collector, Berne)
Thomas Koerfer (director and collector, Zurich)

Participating artists:

John M. Armleder, Carla Arocha/ Stéphane Schraenen, Knut Åsdam, Tonico Lemos Auad, Georg Baselitz, Pierre Bismuth, Mike Bouchet, Herbert Brandl, Stefan Brüggemann, Pavel Büchler, Balthasar Burkhard, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Ernst Caramelle, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Martin Creed, Roberto Cuoghi, Pascal Danz, Raoul de Keyser, Braco Dimitrijevic, Cecilia Edefalk, Maria Eichhorn, Armen Eloyan, Zhang Enli, Michel François, Robert Frank, Gaylen Gerber/ Michelle Grabner, Franz Gertsch, Robert Gober, Katharina Grosse , Ivan Grubanov, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Thomas Hirschhorn, Candida Höfer, David Hominal, Bethan Huws, Jutta Koether, Alois Lichtsteiner, Christian Marclay, Corey Mc Corkle, Chantal Michel, Jürg Moser, Julian Opie, Raymond Pettibon, Annaïk Pitteloud, Marjetica Potrč, Vaclav Pozarek, Markus Raetz, Arnulf Rainer, Michael S. Riedel, Ana Roldán, Pamela Rosenkranz, Ilona Ruegg, Christoph Rütimann, Gregor Schneider, Albrecht Schnider, Ross Sinclair,
Nedko Solakov, Yutaka Sone, Serge Spitzer, George Steinmann, Thomas Struth, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Luc Tuymans, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Lawrence Weiner, Uwe Wittwer, Christopher Wool, Urs Zahn, Otto Zitko, and Gregor Zivić.

Contact: Julia Strebelow j.strebelow@kunsthalle-bern.ch

Kunsthalle Bern
Helvetiaplatz 1
3005 Bern
Switzerland
Tel: +41 31 35 000 40
Fax: +41 31 35 000 41
http://www.kunsthalle-bern.ch

Ludwig Museum

Keith Haring: Untitled, 1982 Copyright.
Estate of Keith Haring

KEITH HARING
15 August - 16 November, 2008

Ludwig Museum –
Museum of Contemporary Art
PALACE OF ARTS
H-1095 Budapest,
Komor Marcell u. 1.
Phone (36 1) 555 3444
Fax: (36 1) 555 3458
info@lumu.hu

http://www.lumu.hu

KEITH HARING

Keith Haring, having died of AIDS at the age of 31, would be 50 years old in 2008. His anniversary is going to be celebrated with several exhibitions and events all over the world.

The Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest contributes to the celebration with a unique exhibition organized in co-operation with the Keith Haring Foundation in New York. It will be the first time that such a comprehensive overview on his oeuvre is exhibited in Hungary, which is fascinatingly rich and multifaceted, although it embraces merely a decade.

Haring’s characteristic figures, the ‘radiant baby’ and the ‘barking dog’ are well-known to millions of people. He developed this easily recognizable style (based on line) as a means of expression first in the New York Metro system by drawing on empty advertisement spaces. He was inspired by the work of graffiti artists and hip hop culture. Several other trends and artistic strategies also influenced his work, from Abstract Expressionism to Andy Warhol and Pop Art. Although he used various materials and surfaces – paper, waterproof canvas, huge mural surfaces, cars or even human bodies – he always created his paintings and drawings with a single light gesture, without making sketches or corrections.

For Haring, art’s most important task was communication. He wanted to reach as wide an audience as possible, which is why he promoted his works not only in museums and exhibitions, but on a variety of surfaces in various forms. Keith Haring’s art could be found on public spaces or on products he sold in his own shop - the Pop Shop. Although it was his intention to make his art accessible for the general public, toda, the price of his works sets records on the art market that are unaffordable to most.

In his works the criticism of American consumer society merges with elements of Christian iconography or symbols of civilizations outside Europe (or the Earth.) The inhabitants of this characteristic universe are cartoon figures, televisions, computers, dollar signs, pyramids and flying saucers; also included are his iconic people and dogs, angels and monsters. By means of his unique, complex system of symbols, he evokes the universal visions of violence and power, love and desire, and illness and death.

One of Keith Haring’s last works, the Altarpiece belongs to the Ludwig Museum’s collection. It is to be exhibited in a new context within the framework of this exhibition.

The Keith Haring Foundation’s mission is to protect the legacy of Keith Haring, his art, and his ideals. The Foundation also supports children’s charities and organizations involved in the fight against AIDS.

The exhibition will be displayed in the Ludwig Museum on 800 square meters, with 11 paintings and more than 80 graphics representing Keith Haring’s oeuvre between 1979-1989.

The exhibition is curated by Krisztina Szipőcs