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Textile Society Of America Newsletter 9:3 – Fall 1997

Textile Society of America Newsletters

A Brief History of the Textile Collections at the Brooklyn Museum of Art
Letter from the President
Letter from the Editor
Textile Museum Introduces a Learning Center
Lineups Change at Several Museums
Conference Reviews
Kalamazoo Medieval Congress has Four Textile Sessions
Announcements
Symposia/Seminars/Workshops
Exhibitions

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 9:2 – Summer 1997

Textile Society of America Newsletters

Bibliography: 1996
Letter from the President
Letter from the Editor
Announcements
Symposia/Seminars/Workshops
Board of Directors

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 9:1 – Spring 1997

Textile Society of America Newsletters

Symposium 1998: Exploring New York
Symposium 1996: A Report on Chicago
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
National Museum of the American Indian
Letter from the President
Letter from the Editor
Visual Data Archive Established by Charlotte Jirousek
Report on Computer Use Questionnaire by Ann Liivandi
Hearst Museum Acquires Southeast Asian Textiles
Textile Museum Symposium Explores Avant Garde Roots
The Fifth Biennial (1996) Symposium in Retrospect by Rita J. Adrosko
Announcements
Symposia/Seminars/Workshops
Exhibitions
Board of Directors

Trompe L'Oeil: The Art Of Deception, Nancy H. Dawson

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

The tenth annual Sheldon Statewide exhibition, Trompe l'oeil: The Art of Deception, marks a decade in the uniquely successful partnership between the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, our principal funding support group, the Nebraska Art Association, a nonprofit volunteer membership organization dedicated to the advancement of the visual arts in Nebraska, and twenty-two Nebraska communities that have served as exhibition venues in the past ten years. Local sponsors who support the exhibition in their community, and volunteer docents who disseminate vitally important information to the school children and adults of Nebraska have been equally invaluable to the …

Fredrick Brown:The Jazz Paintings, Daniel A. Siedell

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

I n addition to featuring a selection of recently completed paintings of jazz performers, Frederick Brown: The Jazz Paintings offers a broad cross section of the work of one of the most eclectic and aesthetically diverse African-American painters working today.

Born in Greensboro, Georgia in 1945 and reared in a working class neighborhood in Chicago, Frederick Brown graduated with a degree in painting from the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale in 1968 and two years later, moved to New York, where he became intimately involved with a community of jazz musicians that included Ornette Coleman and Anthony Braxton. In …

The Hergenrader Collection Of Contemporary Art, Daniel A. Siedell

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

The success of an art museum is often in proportion to the energy of its patrons who willingly commit themselves to its mission and who, by donating their time and resources, insure its continued success. The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden is no different. And the Sheldon Gallery not only has a local group of committed patrons and donors, but it also boasts an ever increasing number of patrons and donors across the nation who have, for many reasons, recognized the significance of the Sheldon Gallery's collection of American art and are willing to participate in its continued …