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| Japanese Sashiko Textiles at Plymouth |
Major 'Japanese Sashiko Textiles' exhibition
to travel to Plymouth this summer
The first major British exhibition of Japanese Sashiko Textiles will go on display at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery on Saturday 31 July 2010.
The show, which was launched at York Art Gallery in October 2009, presents traditional and contemporary textiles and garments, designed to decorate and protect the wearer both physically and spiritually.
Entitled 'Japanese Sashiko Textiles', the exhibition presents a sense of time and place in which these works were created.
The exhibition has been selected by textile artist Michele Walker whose research has been facilitated by a three year Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Fellowship. ...
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| About MEG... |
The Museum Ethnographers Group (MEG), formed in 1976,
is committed to the following aims -
- To encourage good practice in curatorship of all ethnographic collections
in the United Kingdom.
- To encourage and disseminate research on ethnographic collections
in the UK.
- To promote the exchange of information and resources, nationally,
internationally and locally.
- To maintain the profile of ethnography with respect to other groups
of museum professionals and in relation to other museum bodies more
broadly, such as the Museums Association and MLA.
- To educate the public through the use of ethnographic collections
and thereby to foster an awareness of their educational value.
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