  | NAF Private Viewing - June 25, 2010Thursday, June 25, 2009Join us for a private tour led by Curator Susan Brown and Wine Reception The Alumni Committee of the NAF invites you to attend a private viewing of The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's acclaimed exhibition Fashioning Felt. The exhibit, featured in the New York Times and on The Martha Stewart Show, offers a comprehensive overview of the varied, innovative uses of felt in contemporary design. The exhibition will display more than 70 felt works from a range of fields, including fashion, architecture, product design and home furnishings. Fashioning Felt, which took more than two years to coordinate, was organized by Susan Brown, assistant curator in the Textiles Department. The NAF tour, led by Susan Brown, will begin with historic examples of felts, showcase innovations in handmade felts, present the issue of sustainability through the re-use of waste wool and felt, and explore the recent adoption of felt by a wide variety of architects and designers. The exhibition features seven Dutch designers including Birgit Daamen, Christian Meindertsma, Claudy Jongstra, and Tord Boontje. Highlights of the exhibition are site-specific installations by two of today’s leading handfelters, Janice Arnold and Claudy Jongstra, who create an incredible range of surface textures through the inclusion of wool from sheep with different coat qualities and experimentation with natural dyestuffs and other techniques, such as felting through silk. At the Cooper-Hewitt, Arnold creates a palace yurt, inspired by the traditional dwelling of the tribal leader, in the museum’s conservatory. The yurt has a ceremonial entrance, and the surrounding glass walls and ceiling of the conservatory are draped in a soft, felted material of Arnold’s creation. For the exhibition, Jongstra, a Dutch designer, created two distinct semicircular environments out of her renowned handcrafted, long-haired felt, made with wool shorn from her own herd of sheep. To read the New York Times review, please visit: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/arts/design/01felt.html View the clip featured on The Martha Stewart Show here: www.marthastewart.com/article/cooper-hewitt-felt-exhibit?xsc=ch For more information about the exhibit, please visit: http://exhibitions.cooperhewitt.org/Fashioning-Felt/ INFORMATION: The event will run from 6 – 8 pm on Thursday June 25th, 2009. For further questions call Angela Molenaar at 212.825.1221 or email amolenaar@theNAF.org. COST: $20 per person, payable: ONLINE - Click here to pay online using PayPal or your credit card. BY PHONE - Call the NAF at 212.825.1221 with your credit card information. BY MAIL - Make your check payable to The Netherland-America Foundation and mail to: The Netherland-America Foundation SPACE IS LIMITED. PLEASE REGISTER BY JUNE 22, 2009. DIRECTIONS: The Cooper-Hewitt Museum Enter at the main entrance, just east of Fifth Avenue.The exhibit is on the first floor. We will meet at the coat check upon entering from the main door. There is a coat check available. PLAN TO ARRIVE NO LATER THAN 6PM. For more information about the Cooper-Hewitt please call 212.849.8300 or visit http://www.cooperhewitt.org NAF Alumni Committee
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