"The Intuitive Approach" to Conserving Fashion at the Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Please join us for the annual Jean Druesedow Endowed Lecture for Costume & Textile Conservation, sponsored by Christopher P. Sullivan, M.D. 

 

November 9, 2022 at 6 pm, KSU Museum

 

 “The Intuitive Approach” to Conserving Fashion at the Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

This year's talk features Sarah Scaturro, the Eric and Jane Nord Chief Conservator at the Cleveland Museum of Art.  Ms. Scaturro will trace the development of fashion conservation at the Costume Institute in Metropolitan Museum of Art, which established professional standards of practice for how to care for, display, and repair historic costume. She will focus on the pioneering women professionals like Polaire Weissma, Stella Blum (former curator in charge of the Kent State University fashion collection), and Elizabeth Lawrence, and show how early conservation efforts combined cutting edge scientific techniques with time-tested domestic approaches to create the emerging discipline of fashion conservation.