The R.L. Shep Symposium is a one-day symposium at LACMA, with multiple speakers on the evolution of ikat pattern design within a cultural context, and its production from the 19th century through today, held in conjunction with the exhibition “Power of Pattern: Central Asian Ikats from the David and Elizabeth Reisbord Collection.” The talks include:
• “Beauty and Purpose: Central Asian Ikat Garments,” Sumru Belger Krody, Senior Curator, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum (Washington D.C.)
• “Wearing the World: A Look Inside Central Asian Ikat Robes,” Annie Carlano, Senior Curator of Craft, Design, and Fashion, Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC)
• “All of a Piece: Ikat and the Central Asian Aesthetic,” Andrew Hale, Director of Anahita Gallery, Inc. and Anahita International Photography (Sante Fe, NM)
• “Ikat and Politics, Ikat and Creativity: Uzbek Textiles in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods,” Irina Bogoslovskaya, Independent Scholar (Samarkand and Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
• “A Collector’s Eye: Conversation with Dr. David Reisbord,” Dr. David Reisbord, Collector, and Clarissa M. Esguerra, Associate Curator of Costume and Textiles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA)
*TMA/SC has made a donation to support this program as a co-sponsor. Saturday, May 11, 2019 10 a.m. (prompt) – 4:30 p.m.
There will be a 1 hr. 40-minute lunch break at noon, and time to visit the exhibition.
Bing Auditorium, LACMA
5906 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036
ADMISSION: $10 for LACMA members, Seniors (65+), Full-time Students, and TMA/SC Members under 65 who are not already members of LACMA, and who respond to info@tmasc.org by May 8.
– Reserved TMA/SC members may pick up & pay for their tickets on the morning of the Symposium.
$15 Non-LACMA Members, and non-reserved TMA/SC members under 65.
Tickets (except for TMA members under 65, who will pick up & pay for their tickets on the day of the event) are available on-line at https://www.lacma.org/event/symposium-power-pattern or at the LACMA Box Office.
* LACMA Admission tickets, which will allow you to see the “Power of Pattern” exhibition, are included in the ticket to the Symposium. If you have already purchased your Symposium ticket on-line, please go to an Admissions/Ticket sales window to get your LACMA sticker.
***PARKING is available in LACMA’s lot at Wilshire & Spaulding, and in the underground parking lot off of 6th Street. $16 all day. There is limited street parking; beware of time limits!
REFRESHMENTS: There will be no formal refreshments for this program, and LACMA’s on-campus coffee places DO NOT OPEN BEFORE 10 a.m.! PLEASE NOTE: The LACMA Café is now closed for the big renovation! There is an airstream trailer with food near Ray’s (the LACMA Restaurant,) and there are 5-6 food trucks on Wilshire Blvd.: Menus
https://www.bestfoodtrucks.com/lots/lacma/schedule. Al fresco seating & tables are still available outside the old Café in the Bing Auditorium building, and in the PLAZA between the Ahmanson Building and the Reznick Pavilion (where the Ikat exhibition is.) ***If you would like to have lunch at Ray’s at LACMA, we suggest that you make a RESERVATION early, before it is all booked. This can be done by calling them, or reserving via OpenTable.com on-line. More suggestions:
Starbucks just east of the museum, in the next block after the Tar Pits. There is also The Counter for food, and more restaurants on that block like Johnny’s Pizza, Baja Fresh, and Mixt Greens. *Marie Callender’s has closed! To the west on Fairfax is a great Vietnamese place called Pho Saigon Pearl. Drago is in the Petersen Museum across the street.
