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Pamela

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Pamela

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on-line tribal textiles resource

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Pamela

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I haven't heard anything back from the University of Hawai Art Gallery about the book BUT Steven Frost spotted that it was available on the Chazen Museum of Art bookshop on-line http://www.chazen.wisc.edu/shop/books.asp at the University of Wisconsin.

I have ordered 'Writing with Thread' and another book. The staff at the Chazen Museum have been very helpful indeed and also have a neat way of dealing with international postage.

I will give more feedback when my books arrive.

Best,

PS Updated info on University of Hawaii Art Gallery website re arrival of catalogue June 2009 http://www.hawaii.edu/artgallery/writin ... etails.htm

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Pamela

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A friend in Santa Fe just brought to my attention that this exhibition has come to the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe and will be there until 16 August, 2009. The catalog is also available from them for $50. (plus shipping of course):

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Pamela

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For those of you like myself who managed to acquire the beautiful book/catalogue of the 'Writing with Threads' exhibition you may be interested in the video lecture by Tom Klobe available on DVD: 'Exhibition Planning and Design: Writing with Thread'. It is also is available as a one hour video on YouTube and I am very grateful to Ann Goodman for sharing the link with me. I have embedded the video below. There are some lovely close-up shots of the textiles as well as film clips from minority villages in SW China which Tom Klobe visited with the collector when the exhibition was in the very early planning stages.



The information given about the DVD/video is as follows:

Exhibition Planning and Design: Writing with Thread
(Educational DVD, 60 minutes, 2010)
Lecture by Tom Klobe
Producer: Karen Kosasa
Director and Camera: Clinton Uyehara

Tom Klobe, former director of the University of Hawaii Art Gallery (1977-2006), introduces crucial elements of a successfully designed exhibition. For his case study, he uses the development of Writing with Thread, an exhibition of traditional textiles from ethnic minorities in southwest China. Mr. Klobe begins by describing his collaborative research with Huang Yin Feng, director of the Evergrand Art Museum in Taiwan, and a team of scholars and exhibition specialists, and their travels to several Chinese villages. As he walks us through the conceptual and physical development of the exhibition, Mr. Klobe discusses thematic concepts, spatial arrangements of objects, color choices, lighting effects, selection of mannequins, construction of specialized stands and bases, and the writing of signage and labels. Viewers will enjoy a rare glimpse of the "behind the scenes" process and the students and volunteers who helped create this stunning exhibition of embroidered clothing and silver jewelry from Guizhou, Yunnan, Hunan, Sichuan, Guangdong, Guangxi Autonomous Region, and Hainan Island. This lecture is an invaluable resource for designing exhibitions on a range of topics.

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Thank you Pamela for working out the inclusion of videos onto the forum! This is a real asset and will no doubt help the textiles to come to life. This particular video was quite interesting and tho it was about a major museum exhibition, there are useful ideas for displaying textiles in the home. It also really helps us appreciate the thought and work involved in creating and executing exhibitions. Kudos!