Hudson Museum
Maine Center for the Arts, University of Maine
207-581-1901
http://www.umaine.edu/hudsonmuseum/
Ustamdan Ogrendim, 'I Learned from My Master': Traditional Turkish Occupations
"Ustamdan Ogrendim,
'I Learned from My Master': Traditional Turkish Occupations" is the
result of several years of photographing and documenting the history and
current lives of Turkish craftsmen by University of Maine graduate and 
Rockland
resident Angela Waldron. The exhibit, which opened at the Hudson Museum
on September 26, 2000, centers on Waldron's research into traditional Turkish
crafts such as copper, tin, and iron smithing, cloth weaving, shoe making
and felting. Waldron interviewed the artisans of more than fifty crafts
and photographed the various stages of the work and object being made, and
when possible purchased the resulting item.
Both photographs and objects will be on display at the Hudson Museum through June 3, 2001. The Temporary Exhibit gallery will hold such diverse items from Turkey as a copper mosque standard, wooden clogs, a leather horse bridle, musical instruments, felt dervish hats, and spoons, as well as photographs. (left: Almeci Faik Karayavuzoglu, standard maker, in Trabzon, Turkey.)
The Hudson Museum is located in the Maine Center for the Arts building on the University of Maine Campus, Orono, Maine. (information as of 10/00)
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