With Simon Kelly, curator and head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art This talk explores the rise of the modern art market in 19th-century France and the role artists played in this transforming marketplace. It focuses on the Barbizon and pre-Impressionist landscape painter Théodore Rousseau and his pioneering strategies to promote his art … Continued

With Youngmin Lee, artist Since traditional Korean clothes didn’t have pockets, Korean people carried jumeoni (pouches) to transport their personal belongings. Jumeoni are drawstring pouches made with fabric, paper, or leather, and many were embroidered with plants, animals, and Chinese characters. Watch San Francisco–based artist Youngmin Lee demonstrate how to make these colorful pouches and learn … Continued

With Lee Talbot, curator, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum For millennia Korean women have invested a tremendous amount of time in textile production, from cultivating and spinning fibers to dyeing, weaving, and sewing. This lecture will present a dazzling selection of garments, accessories, and furnishings from Korean and American museum collections … Continued