Batik Collection Mother Obama

Liputan6.com, New York: As many as 22 pieces of batik cloth belonging to the mother of President of the United States, Barack Obama, Ann Dunham, recently exhibited in Los Angeles (LA), United States. LA is the second of a total of six cities in the United States become a place for the collection of antiques.
Through the feature "A Lady Found A Culture: Barack Obama` s Mother in India ", private collection of Ann that attract visitors in the positive four-day exhibition at the Consulate General of Indonesia in Los Angeles, which ended on Thursday (4 / 6). "They do not think that the mother of a president of the United States has a collection of batik," said spokesman KJRI LA Agusti Anwar.

Exhibition that took place on 1-4 June 2009 was visited by around 150 people, the majority of U.S. citizens. "Many who had not seen the exhibition and spare time is too short. But what may make, because his batik-batiknya should immediately take it in to San Francisco," said Agusti.

Once out of LA, batik-batik Ann Dunham was and will be on display in San Francisco (June 9-11), Houston (July 2-5), New York (21-24 July) and last in Washington DC

Opening a series of exhibitions Ann Dunham batik itself is done in Chicago on 16 May 2009 by the Minister of Trade Mari Elka Pangestu. In Chicago, to 22-batik heritage exhibited in Ann Walton Room, Drake Hotel on May 17-20.

Series of exhibitions batik Ann Dunham in six cities in the U.S. is a collaboration between the representatives of Indonesia and the family of step-brother Obama, Maya Soetoro. Collection of traditional batik heritage Ann submitted family, among others, Maya Soetoro cloth glove, scarf and cloth pickaback made in Yogyakarta, Indramayu, Cirebon, Pekalongan and Madura.