This course sounds very interesting and is being taught by one of our
members. Please look it over and forward it on to anyone who will also be
interested.


Christina A. Pappas
Graduate Student
Department of Anthropology
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky 40506 USA
capappas@...


November 28, 2006 : Community Invited to Enroll in Florida Tech Spring
Textiles Course

MELBOURNE, FLA.—Florida Tech will introduce a new visiting professor and
offer a new spring course, “Native North American Textiles and Material
Analysis,” in spring 2007. The course is open to the community for a reduced
fee of $300 for audit credit only.
“Native North American Textiles and Material Analysis,” presented through
the university’s new Textile Art and Industry program, will be taught by
Christel Baldia, Ph.D., the premier Ruth Funk Visiting Professor in
Textiles.
The course will cover the materials used to assemble textiles before the
Europeans arrived in North America. Content includes yarn and textiles
structure, and the use of dyes and pigments.
Baldia holds graduate degrees in textiles sciences from Ohio State
University and undergraduate degrees in anthropology and archaeology. She
blends the hard and social sciences with art and history in her
interdisciplinary approach and shares her research specialty, the use of
colorants in Native American prehistoric textiles.
The course begins Jan. 8. It meets Mondays and Wednesdays, from 5:15 to 6:30
p.m. in the Crawford Building, Room S112. For more information, call (321)
674-8082.

_________________________________________________________________
Get free, personalized commercial-free online radio with MSN Radio powered
by Pandora http://radio.msn.com/?icid=T002MSN03A07001