Margot Blum Schevill | |||
 Rafaela Godinez/Guatemala Mayan weaver, seller of textiles, teacher  Quechuan woman and child, Cuzco, Peru sellers and weavers of textiles  Chichicastenango, Guatemala backstrap loomed blouses or huipils |
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Margot Blum Schevill is a museum anthropologist, textile scholar, author of books on Maya and Andean textiles, former curator at the San Francisco Airport Museums, and educator. Research interests include the ramifications of marketing indigenous textiles both within the country of origin and abroad. She has a Master of Arts from Brown University in Anthropology and a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in Music and Spanish. After 25 years of working in museums, she has her own business as a Textile and Folk Art Consultant, Collections Manager, Textile Tour Study Guide, Researcher and Appraiser. She can be reached at mschevill@aol.com
RESEARCH ABSTRACT I collect and study indigenous textiles with a concentration on Maya textiles of Guatemala. I have curated several exhibitions on this topic looking at women’s lives as weavers, providers for the family, and as successful entrepreneurs in a country that was engaged in a civil war since the 1950’s. In addition, I have taught Textile History of Oceania, Asia, and Africa. As a former weaver, I am interested in the relationship of textile structure, form, and function to the weaver’s role in the community.
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