Women Empowered: Fashions From the Frontline Cornell
THIS Consequence IS SOLD OUT
Wednesday, August xiv, 2019 | Boston, MA | six:thirty-eight:30 p.one thousand. This multi-media showroom volition challenge you to reconsider fashion traditions. Gender Bending Way is nearly gender and identity self-expression gratuitous from conformity. Denise and Katherine will deconstruct the historical and contemporary context and ideologies behind this acclaimed exhibit. Their dynamic commutation provides a unique, individual feel only bachelor for Cornell alumni and guests. After the tour, savor a reception with Denise, Katherine, and attendees. Event questions? Contact Karen Barnes Professor Dark-green received a PhD in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from the University of British Columbia. With the Ethnographic Picture Unit at UBC and Nuu-chah-nulth Outset Nations communities, she directed a series of documentary films exploring textiles, identity, and Aboriginal title. Prior to this, she earned a Master of Scientific discipline in Textiles from the University of California-Davis where she researched style and gender expression at the Burning Man Festival. During her undergraduate program at Cornell Academy she studied fashioned youth subcultures and completed an honors thesis about redesigning 4-H clothing guild curriculum for the 21st century. In her curatorial exercise, Professor Green uses fashion to appoint with important social, cultural, and political issues. Her award-winning exhibitions include The Biggest Little Fashion City: Ithaca and Silent Film Style (2016, recipient of the Richard Martin Award) and Union-Made: Fashioning America in the 20th Century (2017, recipient of the Betty Kirke Excellence in Enquiry Honor). She was the kinesthesia advisor for WOMEN EMPOWERED: Fashions from the Frontline (2018), which received international media attention and was part of the Cornell Council for the Arts 2018 Biennial. Professor Greenish also serves as the kinesthesia advisor for the Charlotte A. Jirousek Undergraduate Fellowship in the Cornell Costume & Textile Collection and mentors undergraduate students curating historical fashion exhibitions. Curatorial and research aspects of the Cornell Costume & Material Collection are chronicled on social media, including a Facebook, Instagram (@cornellcostumecollection), and the CCTC blog. An award-winning documentary filmmaker, Professor Green runs a media production lab in the Human Ecology Building. Katherine Sender is a professor in the Department of Advice and the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Programme at Cornell Academy. Her research and educational activity focus on gender, sexuality, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer media. Her research areas bridge television, audiences, cultural production, consumer civilization, and globalization. Katherine is the writer of Business not Politics: The Making of the Gay Market (2004) and The Makeover: Reality Tv and Reflexive Audiences (2012). She has as well produced documentaries almost media representation, including Off the Straight and Narrow: Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Transgender People on US Goggle box (1998, 2006, and in post-production), and Brand New You: Makeover Television and the American Dream (2012). She is currently editing a documentary on Indian traditional textile techniques in the context of a globalizing fashion industry. Superlative image credit: Bank of America Plaza on the Avenue of the Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Cornell University Northeast Corridor Alumni Affairs, The College of Human Ecology, and Variety Alumni Programs invites yous to:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Gender Bending Fashion
Exhibition Tour, Talk and Reception
Join Cornell in Boston this summer and hear how Cornell expertise applies to your local, cultural experiences! Tour the Museum of Fine Arts Gender Angle Manner exhibition led by two Cornell faculty: Denise Dark-green (HumEc) '07, Banana Professor, Human Ecology and Director of the Cornell Costume and Textile Collection; and Katherine Sender, Professor, Section of Communication, CALS and the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.
Engagement: Wed, August, 14, 2019
Time: 6:thirty-8:30 p.g. - Exhibit tours and 2 hour reception
Meet: 6:15 p.m. Tour one starts at 6:30 p.m. sharp
Tours: When registering, please select Tour 1: half dozen:30-7:xxx p.m. or Bout two: seven:00-7:30 p.g. N OTE: Tour 2 is SOLD OUT
Each tour can arrange 25 persons.
Location: Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115.
Cost: $xl per person. Includes museum archway until 10 p.m., private tour, wine, beer, and heavy appetizer reception.
Note: The museum is open until x p.1000. on Wednesday evening and you are gratuitous to tour the museum afterward the outcome.
Registration questions? Contact Erika Axe
Nigh our Speakers: 
L to R: Denise N. Dark-green (HumEc) '07 and Katherine Sender
Denise Green HumEc '07 is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cobweb Science and Apparel Design and Managing director of the Cornell Costume and Textile Drove. Professor Green's research uses ethnography, video production, archival methods, and curatorial practice to explore production of fashion, textiles, identities, and visual blueprint. She is likewise a kinesthesia member in American Indian and Indigenous Studies and the Cornell Plant of Archæology and Material Studies too as a graduate field member in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell.
July 2004
*Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
*Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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