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Folklife Festival T-Shirt Collectors
Visitors, volunteers, and staff who make the Smithsonian Folklife Festival an annual event in their lives often collect Festival T-shirts. Here are photos of T-shirts from the past. Most of the ones shown are from the collection of Arlene and Pete Reiniger, both staff at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.
T-shirt models are:
Meredith Adhikari, Peace Corps Participant Assistant
Diana Bossa-Bastidas, Colombia Participant Assistant
Anna F. Kaplan, Rhythm and Blues Participant Assistant
Jeannette Lara, Housing Coordinator
Arnie Malin, Foodways Coordinator
Pamela Rogers, IT Specialist
Reshma Sinanan-Hill, Production Manager
Laura E. Smith, Participant Coordinator
Claudia Telliho, Financial Management Specialist
6 comments
Enjoy the festivities, and keep up the wonderful work. Lady in the blue T, I love you.
The lady in blue says love you back!
loved seeing the T-shirts – I wish I had started my collection sooner. I have just begun to cut the shirt images in preparation for making a T-shirt quilt. Some of the shirts are Folkways shirts, and one is the SI 150th birthday shirt. I hate cutting them, but there are so many, I don’t have time to wear them all. Thanks Ann and Pete for sharing.
Correction to message of 7/07/2011 – THANKS Arlene and Pete (not Ann) – my lapse in memory.
QUESTION: Is there a T-shirt archive of any kind that would provide identification as to year of a particular T-shirt, since many do not have a year printed. For instance, the shirt in image 14 above (orange with dragon), does not have a year, or program identification – and of course, I did not bother to record that information myself. I hope someone can help regarding this shirt, as well as others.
Thanks.
The shirt you asked about is from the 2007 “Mekong River: Connecting Cultures” program.
Correction! Our designer reports that the orange T-shirt with the dragon is from the 2008 Bhutan program.
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