DRAM 313 - Historic Costume Collection and Exhibition

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

This intensive is created to support both the research and study of clothing as artifacts. Students have the opportunity to work with objects from the Vassar College Costume Collection and another community based historical collection. For the Spring of 2022, the Vassar College Costume Collection collaborates with the historic collection of Locust Grove in Poughkeepsie, NY. Students conduct research, examine garments, learn various preservation and stabilization techniques for textile preservation, and methods for mounting historic exhibitions. This includes visits to the Locust Grove collection along with a tour of the Morse family home. The intensive is one unit and meets once a week. The course concludes with a full exhibit of the objects in the Palmer Gallery in May of 2022. Kenisha Kelly.

One 2-hour period.

Course Format: INT