Upcoming Events

In this talk, Dr. Dyese Matthews explores ways that Harlem-based Black women challenge conventions of documentation and preservation by producing unconventional fashion archives through collecting, making, and wearing clothing. An award-winning researcher, author, and curator, Matthews is an assistant professor at Parsons School of Fashion in New York. 

Director of the Peabody Essex Museum, the nation’s oldest continually operating museum, Eskenazi School alumna Petra Slinkard (B.S./B.A. ’03, M.S. ’08) will share her journey from her student days at Indiana University through her 15-year career as fashion curator and museum administrator.