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Current Exhibitions INTERWOVEN WORLDS: EXPLORING DOMESTIC AND NOMADIC LIFE IN TURKEY Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, CUNY March 9 – April 30, 2012
The exhibition will present materials from the perspective of the “historic present”—through time and across space—to illustrate two overarching themes in Turkish cultural history which operate in harmonic tension with one another: the depth of tradition and history in the region, and the diversity of cultural influence and interconnection with neighbors. Ancient ceramics, glass, and metalwork, complementing the textiles, will represent early expressions of styles and motifs that continue today, and show some of Turkish culture’s Central Asian roots and links. Visitors will walk inside the dwellings to experience how such living quarters would look and be arranged. These environments will be complemented by photographs, video projection and sound recordings as well as interpretive texts that will examine the technologies, symbolism, and historical significance of the materials. These texts, as well as essays, images and a checklist, will be published in a full on-line catalogue available throughout the exhibition and archived for public access thereafter. Interwoven Worlds is a community collaboration being held off-site at the Flushing Town Hall (FTH), administered by the Flushing Council of Culture and the Arts (FCCA, a Smithsonian Affiliate), during the 2011-2012 year. The GTM is undergoing a major renovation and will be closed to the public during this time. Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts Public Programs
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Major funding for the exhibition has been proved by the Coby Foundation, Ltd. the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Turkish Ministry of Culture. Additional support has been provided by Flushing Town Hall, Office of the President of Queens College, The Kupferberg Foundation, Friends of the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, The Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Dominick and Rose Ciampa Family Foundation, Baklavaci Güllüoglu, Vintage Food Corp. Special thanks to the Office of the Commercial Attaché, Consulate General of Turkey in New York and Turkish Embassy, Washington D.C.
Museum Hours Please note that the museum, located in Klapper Hall, Room 405, is not open on holidays and when the college is closed. Admission is free. For directions to Queens College, please visit: http://www.qc.cuny.edu/welcome/directions/Pages/default.aspx Please call the museum for updated programs and schedules or re-visit this website www.qc.cuny.edu/godwin_ternbach for further information. |
Interwoven Worlds: Exploring Domestic and Nomadic Life in Turkey, a special exhibition organized by the Godwin-Ternbach Museum on view at Flushing Town Hall (www.flushingtownhall.org), highlights textiles from the museum’s permanent collection alongside an array of objects within the simulated dwellings of an Ottoman-style interior and a nomadic tent. Outstanding examples of material culture, textiles encode the identities of makers and users, whether local, idiosyncratic and personal or part of larger enduring traditions of the collective conscious or unconscious. Textiles, and particularly carpets, for which the Turks are famous, are the most important type of home furnishing and one of the primary forms of artistic expression in the larger Turkic world. Various categories of textiles will include hand-woven carpets, kilims (flat tapestry-woven rugs), cicims (embroidered flat-weave rugs), and yataks (flat-woven bed coverings), as well as woven and embroidered accessories like pouches, saddlebags, pillow covers, bedding and hangings for nomadic travel and tents and for settled life.