CostumeStudies.com
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American Costume Studies
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In 1968 I received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Art Education, with honors, from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I received a Fellowship to pursue a Master of Arts degree in historic costume studies from Cornell University, which was awarded in 1994.
Since then, I have been on staff at Cornell, either as a Visiting Fellow or paid consultant, working in the Cornell Textile and Costume Collection in the College of Human Ecology -- most recently working to develop the data base and to make it available on the World Wide Web. For three years, I was the costume curator at the Holland Land Office Museum in Batavia, New York. I left that position in order to be able to finish research on printed dress fabrics for publication. At both places I prepared numerous exhibits.
I have done workshops and presentations for such organizations as the Western New York Association of Historical Agencies, Upstate History Alliance, the Hagley Museum in Delaware, Saundra Altman's (Past Patterns) 1999 workshop in California, and local and county historical societies. I have taught classes for Sandy Katz's Textile Talks in Boston.
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- American Costume Studies (COSTUMESTUDIES-DOM)
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