Thursday, November 12, 2020
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST
Zoom
Join us for the second installment of The Sigur Center for Asian Studies webinar series, “Handmade in South Asia,” in collaboration with The George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum in honor of their upcoming exhibition Handmade: Creating Textiles in South Asia. In this three-part virtual series, meet the artists and organizers featured in the exhibition Handmade: Creating Textiles in South Asia through dynamic conversations moderated by curator Cristin McKnight Sethi and faculty from GW.
Organized by GW art history professor Cristin McKnight Sethi, the exhibition shares artist stories alongside vibrant examples of handmade saris, scarves, and other garments inspired by centuries-old traditions that are being made across Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan.
Meet some of the women of SABAH Pakistan who are featured in the exhibition Handmade: Creating Textiles in South Asia. SABAH Pakistan is an organization that provides women embroiderers in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region with skills training and retail spaces where they can sell their work at fair prices. In this online program, the organization’s leaders Samina Khan and Asma Rajiv, SABAH textile artist Gohar Sajid, and GW’s Deepa Ollapally, whose research includes domestic and foreign policy in India, come together for a discussion of textile economies in South Asia. The discussion will be moderated by exhibition curator Cristin McKnight Sethi.
