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 will have the opportunity to work with objects from the Vassar College Costume Collection and another community based historical collection. For the Spring of 2020, the Vassar College Costume Collection will collaborate with the historic collection of Locust Grove in Poughkeepsie, NY. Students will conduct research, examine garments, learn various preservation and stabilization techniques for textile preservation, and methods for mounting historic exhibitions. This will include visits to the Locust Grove collection along with a tour of the Morse family home. The intensive will be one unit and will meet once a week. The course will conclude with a full exhibit of the objects in the Palmer Gallery in May of 2020. Kenisha Kelly

1 2-hour period

Course Format: INT