Artful Blending: The Textiles of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean World | HYBRIDITY Symposium

Artful Blending: The Textiles of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean World presented by Sarah Fee, PhD, Curator, Eastern Hemisphere Textiles & Costume, Royal Ontario Museum In 2009, Dr. Sarah Fee joined the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, as Curator of Eastern Hemisphere Textiles & Costume. She holds degrees in Anthropology and African Studies from the University of Oxford and the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, Paris. For over twenty years, she has studied handweaving, dress, and the social significance of cloth in Madagascar and has contributed to numerous publications and served as guest curator of the exhibit Gifts and Blessings: The Textile Arts of Madagascar, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, 2002. Most recently she has been studying the island's many historic connections to other cloth traditions in the wider Indian Ocean cultures.