Meeting Announcement:

“Uzbek Ikats and Traditional Costumes”

with

Dr. Ekaterina Ermakova

at

The Burke Room, The Burke Museum

University of Washington Campus

Tuesday, March 25th, 2003, 7:00 PM

Dr. Ermakova heads the Caucasian and Central Asian Department at the Museum of Oriental Art in Moscow. In the fall of 2002, she curated an important exhibition of Central Asian ikat textiles at the Pushkin State Museum in Moscow. This exhibition featured 100 pieces that had been collected since the 1970s by Tair Tairov, a dealer and collector based in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. Dr. Ermakova’s presentation to STARS will focus on the role of ikat fabric in the cultural life of the region. She will explain its use in men’s and women’s clothing, and in decorating the home. Dr. Ermakova will illustrate her lecture with 100 slides she herself has taken, including many pieces from the Tairov exhibition.

Dr. Ermakova is a graduate of Moscow State University, where she studied Ethnology. Her degree focused on the ornamentation of embroideries and fabrics of Uzbekistan. She has made frequent ethnographic and archaeological studies in the region, where she has personally collected material for the Museum of Oriental Art. In 1995, she completed her Ph.D. in History, writing her dissertation on the traditional jewelry of Bukhara. Dr. Ermakova has taken part in many international conferences on Islamic Art, and has organized exhibitions in Scotland, Singapore, Japan, and other locations around the world. She is also the author of the exhibition catalog for the Tairov exhibition.

Meeting Schedule:

7:00 Mix and mingle. Announcements.

7:30 Dr. Ekaterina Ermakova – Uzbek Ikats and Traditional Costumes”

8:30 Show and tell – please bring an interesting textile you’d like to share with the group. Central Asian ikat would be particularly appropriate.

Please note: This meeting is free to all members, $5.00 at the door for guests. As always, all are welcome.

Meeting Location:

The Burke Museum is located at the Northwest corner of the University of Washington campus, near the corner of 17^th Avenue NE and NE 45^th Street. The Burke Room is on the left side of the lobby as you enter off of 17^th. Parking is available in the lot just South of the Burke Museum, or on the street in the University District.