Exhibiting Fashion Symposium: Elizabeth Way and Joy L. Bivins "The African Diaspora in Fashion Exhibitions"

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Exhibiting Fashion Symposium: Elizabeth Way and Joy L. Bivins "The African Diaspora in Fashion Exhibitions"
Contributor Names
Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). Museum
Way, Elizabeth (Writer on fashion)
Bivins, Joy L., 1976-
Date
2019-03-08
Description
The Museum at FIT presented Exhibiting Fashion, its twenty-first academic symposium on Friday, March 8, 2019. This symposium explored the history of fashion curating, the different ways fashion is displayed in museum settings, and how national and regional identities influence fashion exhibitions. The symposium was organized in conjunction with Exhibitionism: 50 Years of The Museum at FIT, which commemorated the rich history of the museum, the site of more than 200 exhibitions since the 1970s.
Elizabeth Way is an assistant curator of costume at MFIT. She co-curated the exhibitions Global Fashion Capitals and Black Fashion Designers and curated the current exhibition Fabric In Fashion.
Joy L. Bivins is the chief curator of the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina. As director of curatorial affairs at the Chicago History Museum, she collaborated on projects such as Teen Chicago and Inspiring Beauty: Fifty Years of Ebony Fashion Fair.
Type
Moving Image
Lectures
Subject
Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). Museum
Costume museums
Museum exhibits
Museums
Curatorship
African Americans
Clothing
Rights
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FIT Repository ID: aod_000227

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Exhibiting Fashion
Exhibitionism: 50 Years of The Museum at FIT

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Fashion Institute of Technology. (2019, March 8). Exhibiting Fashion Symposium: Elizabeth Way and Joy L. Bivins "The African Diaspora in Fashion Exhibitions" [Video]. Archive on Demand. https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/item/23193
Fashion Institute of Technology. "Exhibiting Fashion Symposium: Elizabeth Way and Joy L. Bivins "The African Diaspora in Fashion Exhibitions"." Archive on Demand, 8 Mar. 2019, https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/item/23193
Fashion Institute of Technology, "Exhibiting Fashion Symposium: Elizabeth Way and Joy L. Bivins "The African Diaspora in Fashion Exhibitions"," Archive on Demand, March 8, 2019, video, https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/item/23193