KSUM exhibition
RAIMENT FOR RECEPTIONS: A JAPANESE BRIDE'S LAST FURISODE
Alumni Gallery | Jean L. Druesedow, Director The furisode, or "swinging sleeve" kimono, is traditionally worn only by women before marriage. The last time a Japanese bride wears these long, swinging sleeves is at her wedding reception. On this occasion, elaborately embroidered furisode, call…
THE RIGHT CHEMISTRY: COLORS IN FASHION, 1704-1918
Higbee Gallery | Anne Bissonnette, Curator Wearing color is part of the human experience. From time immemorial, colors were an integral part of the fiber of society and their presence, or absence, served a social function. They contribute to making us who we are as individuals and …
YVES SAINT LAURENT
Broadbent Gallery | Jean L. Druesedow, Director For forty years, from 1962-2002, the Yves Saint Laurent label was one of the most coveted labels in haute couture, available to those 25-women in the world with the means to possess garments of the quality it represented. Superb design and hand…
ORIGIN AND SYNTHESIS: SELECTED WEAVINGS BY JANICE LESSMAN-MOSS, 1994-2004
Mull and Palmer Galleries | Anne Bissonnette, Curator Janice Lessman-Moss is a weaver who teaches. During the past twenty-three years, she has produced an astonishing body of work while transmitting her passion for the textile arts to students at Kent State University. Her commitment to her …
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.…
