March 20, 2016 Themes and Memes, Signs and Symbols: Ottoman Style and Other Voices in Anatolian Rug Design; Talk by Dennis Dodds Some pictures click on the thumbnail for the full picture. Dennis Dodds has been Secretary General of the International Conference on Oriental Carpets (ICOC) since 1999 and received the Joseph V. McMullan Award in 1996. In architecture school, he designed a mosque for Riyadh and his thesis was an airport for Kuwait City. During his graduate studies in City Planning and Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, he took courses under Prof. Renata Holod in Medieval Islamic Architecture which stirred an ongoing interest in pattern and ornament in Oriental carpets. A veteran collector, he was founding American Editor of HALI Magazine from 1978-87 and with Murray Eiland, Jr. he co-authored Oriental Rugs in Atlantic Collections. Through grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts, Dennis also wrote the book: Oriental Rugs from the Fisher Collection in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. His talk was: Themes and Memes, Signs and Symbols: Ottoman Style and Other Voices in Anatolian Rug Design and drew on several examples from his private collection. In addition, Dennis brought a few other pieces for show-and-tell after the talk. return to home page