Events

Sat, 13 Oct 07 -- 12-1pm, Public Lecture concluding Moving Worlds of the Baroque

Latin American Studies Speaker Series

Imported Brilliance: Silk and Metal Yarns in the Colonial Andean Weaving Tradition

Focusing on the materials imported both from Spain and China into the Andes beginning in the late16th century, the lecture will examine the way in which Andean weavers incorporated these newfound materials into their specific weaving traditions, creating hybrid textiles that exhibited qualities of brilliance and luminescence as part of a Colonial aesthetic.

Elena Phipps, Senior Museum Conservator, has her PhD from Columbia University in Pre-Columbian Art History, and has worked as a textile conservator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for thirty years. She was co-curator of the 2004 exhibition, The Colonial Andes: Tapestries and Silverwork 1530-1830 at the MMA, and co-author of the exhibition catalogue, which was awarded the CAA Alfred Barr Jr. Award for best exhibition catalogue, in 2004-2005, and the Mitchell Prize, in 2006.