Planned Events of the International Hajji Baba Society DATE: Sunday, January 22, 2012 EVENT: Annual Meeting, Potluck Dinner And Lecture By Bruce Baganz LOCATION: Fairlington Village Community Center 3005 S. Abingdon St., Arlington VA 22206 TIME: 5:00 to 9:00 pm We would like to thank John Wertime for helping us set up this Winter Party at Fairlington Village. HAPPY HOUR –- 5:00 to 6:00 pm POTLUCK DINNER –Dinner will be served from 6:00 to 7:00 pm. The IHBS has been holding successful potluck dinners for many years. Participants should bring a favorite dish that can either be an appetizer, entrée, salad or dessert. Whatever you bring should serve about eight people. The IHBS will provide wine, beer, and some non-alcoholic beverages. SHORT ANNUAL MEETING -- 7:00 to 7:30 PM. Election of Board of Directors LECTURE -- 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM Bruce Baganz, President of the Board of Trustees, The Textile Museum On the topic of: AFFILIATION OF THE TEXTILE MUSEUM AND GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: The TM GW arrangement, and the current work-in-progress architectural design of the new museum The Textile Museum and George Washington University have recently announced an affiliation, in which The Textile Museum will relocate in 2014 to a new museum building located in the center of the GW campus, and where the TM will be the cornerstone of a new university museum. The move, in which the TM’s mission will not change, will help secure the future of the TM, and will give greater access its collection to both increased numbers of general museum visitors as well as to textile scholars and connoisseurs. The arrangement between the TM and GW is key to The Textile Museum achieving its fundamental challenge of cultivating the next generation of those who appreciate textiles as art. This unprecedented arrangement between a university museum and an existing operating art museum has become a reality under the leadership of Bruce Baganz, the President of the Board of Trustees. Bruce Baganz is President of Security Energy, an oil and natural gas exploration company in Houston, Texas. He received his master’s and doctoral degrees in geology from the University of South Carolina. He joined the Textile Museum’s Board of Trustees in 2002, and was appointed President in 2004. In 2008, Bruce received the Joseph V. McMullen Award for stewardship and scholarship in Islamic rugs and textiles. Bruce is a member of the IHBS, the Hajji Baba Club, former president of the Textile and Oriental Rug Club of Houston, and the Chairman of the Near Eastern Art Research Center. Bruce and his wife Terry have wide-ranging interests in antique rugs, textiles, and embroideries from throughout the Caucasus, Anatolia, Persia, and Central Asia. SHOW AND TELL -- 8:30 to 9:00 PM Bruce Baganz will be leading a show and tell of rugs and textiles after his presentation. He will be bringing a few pieces from his own collection, and also invites IHBS members to bring in recently acquired or seldom-seen rugs and textiles from their own collections. Please bring in 1-2 interesting pieces from your collection for the show and tell. Please be prepared to tell us something about your acquisition. DRIVING DIRECTIONS TO THE FAIRLINGTON VILLAGE COMMUNITY CENTER FROM 14th and K ST IN THE DISTRICT: 1. Turn onto 14th St NW go 1.6 mi 2. Merge onto I-395 S via the ramp to Richmond, Entering Virginia, go 4.8 mi 3. Continue on I-395 S. Take exit 5 for VA-7/King St. go 0.2 mi 4. Stay in the right lane at the fork, follow signs for VA-7 West/King St West and merge onto King St/VA-7 West. go 0.3 mi 5. Turn at the first right at 30th St S go 200 ft 6. At the traffic circle, take the 2nd exit and stay on 30th St S. Go two blocks to S. Abingdon St. 7. Turn right at S Abingdon St, go 300 ft. Destination will be on the left: 3005 S Abingdon St There is a parking lot to the right of the Community Center Some Other Upcoming Textile Events and Other Events of Interest DATE: January 8-April 29, 2012 Fowler Museum at UCLA: Japanese Pictorial Ikats from the Krauss Collection Fowler Announcement DATE: March 21-23, 2012 The Austrian Society for Textile-Art-Research in co-operation with the Museum of Natural History Vienna and the University of Applied Art Vienna is organising the II. International Symposium on Hallstatt Textiles. The Symposium will take place in the Museum of Natural History in Vienna in March 2012. The 3-day Symposium will provide a thorough insight into the unique world of ancient textiles and their colours. Lectures, workshops, exhibitions and performances will complete the "Hallstatt Experience". See here and here for details. DATE: September 19-22, 2012 Textile Society of America 13th Biennial Symposium Washington DC See here for details. Tour to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Small group in August-September. Possible to skip Uzbekistan if you've already been there and join the tour in Tajikistan. See Cultural Travels (Vedat Karadag) for details. return to home page