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North Adams, MA
February 25, 2012 - March 01, 2013
Exhibition: "Making Room: The Space Between Two and Three Dimensions" featuring Turkish artist Inci Eviner.
Place: Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, 1040 MASS MOCA Way, North Adams 01247
Information: http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=715



Philadelphia
Ongoing - February 12, 2012
Exhibition:Vaults of Heaven: Visions of Byzantium by Turkish photographer Ahmet Ertuğ
Place:Merle-Smith Galleries, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Information:http://www.penn.museum/upcoming-exhibits/980-vaults-of-heaven-visions-of-byzantium.html



San Francisco
September 10, 2011 - June 10, 2012
Exhibition: The Art of the Anatolian Kilim: Highlights from the McCoy Jones Collection
Place: de Young Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Information: http://deyoung.famsf.org/deyoung/exhibitions/art-anatolian-kilim-highlights-mccoy-jones-collection



Washington, DC

January 25 (Wednesday), 2012
Lecture: "Monuments, Cityscapes, and People: Turkey, 1930-1945 through the lens of Nicholas V. Artamonoff" a lectue by Dr. Günder Varinlioğlu. Free.  Sponsored by American Friends of Turkey.  http://afot.us/

March 15 (Thursday), 2012
Lecture: "The Treasure Below:  Excavating at the Ancient Port of Constantinople." 
Smithsonian Associates and the American Friends of Turkey are co-sponsoring a lecture on Thursday March 15, 2012 (at 6:45 pm in the Ripley Center at the Smithsonian) by Ufuk Kocabas, director of Istanbul University's Yenikapi Shipwrecks Project.  The lecture is entitled "The Treasure Below:  Excavating at the Ancient Port of Constantinople."  Cost is $20, or $15 for Smithsonian Resident Members, or $13 for Senior Members.  More information in the January issue of Smithsonian Associate magazine, or at this link: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing//tickets/reserve.aspx?performanceNumber=223833 

Tour to Turkey:

June 4-13, 2012
Anatolian Artisans is pleased to announce its 2012 cultural tour --  "Turkish Culture, Crafts and Cuisine of Istanbul and Bursa".  The tour begins in Istanbul on the evening of June 4 and includes five days of touring in Istanbul, one day in Iznik, and three days in Bursa, before returning to Istanbul on June 13.  Highlights of the tour include visits to many historic sites in these three cities, plus visits to the studios and workshops of nearly a dozen Turkish artisans and artists.  In addition, we will sample some of the best of Ottoman and Turkish cuisine.   

A more complete description of the cultural tour is available on the anatolianartisans.org  website. 

http://www.anatolianartisans.org/pdf/2012finalbrochure.pdf 

Registration deadline is February 15.  Full payment is due by March 15.  There is a registration form in the brochure.   

Contact Yildiz Yagci (President of Anatolian Artisans) or Sandy Pfunder (T-9) if you have questions.