KSUM exhibition

DYED IN THE WOOL: FELT & WEARABLE ART BY HORST

Alumni Gallery | Anne Bissonnette, Curator Through the action of heat, moisture, chemicals and pressure, wool is made into felt. With great zeal and imagination, Horst manipulates both the wool fiber and the felted cloth in ways that defy conventions. His medium - wool - has been widely used…

LINDA ALLARD FOR ELLEN TRACY: FASHIONING A CAREER

Broadbent Gallery | Jean L. Druesedow, Director Linda Allard for Ellen Tracy: Fashioning A Career features designs Linda Allard created during her 40 year career with the Ellen Tracy firm in New York City. Knowing from childhood that she wanted to be a fashion designer, the Doylestown, Ohio,…

AN EYE FOR DESIGN: 18TH & 19TH CENTURY FASHION AND DECORATIVE ARTS

Higbee Gallery | Anne Bissonnette, Curator Eighteenth-Century Styles (1700-1799) Fashion and decorative arts have long been subject to similar design influences. Although these aesthetic links are not always apparent, they are often part of a greater artistic scheme that applies to other …

FASHION ON THE OHIO FRONTIER, 1790-1840

Broadbent Gallery | Anne Bissonnette, Curator Are there surviving garments which can indicate that fashionable clothes were worn in the Ohio territory from 1790 to 1840, and what can these artifacts convey about late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Ohio history? This research is obje…

THE ARTISTRY OF ADRIAN: HOLLYWOOD'S CELEBRATED DESIGN INNOVATOR

Palmer and Mull Galleries | Noël Palomo-Lovinski, Guest Curator The artistry of Adrian is displayed in the clean lines, dexterity with fabric and his consummate expression of imagination and humor that exists in every piece of clothing, costume, or creation. Adrian effortlessly combined garm…

OF MEN & THEIR ELEGANCE

Higbee Gallery | Anne Bissonnette & Dr. Debbie Henderson, Curators Elegance rarely comes without effort. Throughout the centuries, a great deal of time, energy and resources has been devoted to this quest. Mastered by those with financial means, fashion was once the privilege of the few.…

DESIGNING DOMESTICITY: DECORATING THE AMERICAN HOME SINCE 1876

Broadbent Gallery | Dr. Shirley Teresa Wajda and Dr. Terrence L. Uber, Guest Curators What makes a house a home? For nearly two centuries, American critics and reformers have wrestled with that question. Although Americans at the beginning of the nineteenth century lived in a variety of dwel…

PULITZERS AND PORTRAITS: TREASURED PHOTOGRAPHS BY PAUL TOPLE

Alumni Gallery | Label text prepared by Lori Harris and Paul Tople When Paul Tople's parents gave him a photograph processing kit for Christmas when he was 14 years old, he thought that was the "dumbest gift" ever. His mother and father weren't photographers, and he had never taken a picture…

MANDALA AND TEMPLE: SACRED ARCHITECTURE IN TIBET; PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN MILTON LUNDQUIST

East Gallery | Dr. John Milton Lundquist, Guest Curator In Tibet theories about religion, its spiritual power and tenacious hold on the human imagination become reality. Tibet is a repository of some of the most ancient beliefs and rituals. It houses temples such as the magnificent Jokhang i…

THE HOURS OF THE WOMAN OF LEISURE

Stager Gallery | Anne Bissonnette, Curator This exhibition examines the variety of garments that were appropriate to wear in different surroundings and times of day in the nineteenth century by women who followed fashion and lived a life of leisure. The nineteenth-century witnessed the propa…