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Actor Glenn Close as the Marquise de Merteuil.

Monday, January 01, 2024, 10 a.m.—Monday, September 02, 2024, 5 p.m.

Costumes and accessories donated by Anne H. Bass will be on display at University Collections at McCalla through the end of June.
Actor Glenn Close as the Marquise de Merteuil.

Tuesday, July 30, 2024, 10 a.m.—Saturday, December 28, 2024, 5 p.m.

Senior cords, decorated corduroy pants and skirts popular with high school and college seniors, are a unique piece of Hoosier heritage. Drawn from the collections of both the History Center and the Sage Collection, this exhibition opens with a reception September 5 featuring a gallery talk by guest curator Kelly Richardson, Sage Director and Curator.

Past Exhibitions

The Art of the Character: Highlights from the Glenn Close Costume Collection, Eskenazi Museum of Art, 2021

Heads and Tales with the Mathers Museum of World Cultures, 2017–2018

Celebrating a Jazz Icon: 100 Years of Ella Fitzgerald, Kirkwood Hall Gallery, 2017

Eye of the Beholder: Fashion and Transforming Ideals of Beauty, IU Center for Art + Design, 2016

The Illustrated Woman: Fashion Images from the Sage Collection, Wells Library, 2016

Halston: Line and Legacy, Grunwald Gallery, 2015

Ubiqui-tee: Fashion, T-shirts, and Popular Culture, IU Center for Art + Design, 2013

Garden Glamour: A Floral Fashion Frenzy! student-curated exhibition, Monroe County History Center, 2012

Fashioning a Legacy: The Irwin Sweeney Miller Family, IU Center for Art + Design, 2011

Child’s Play: Aesthetics, Gender, and Children’s Clothing, Monroe County History Center, 2009-2010

Was there a Mrs. Kinsey? Monroe County History Center, 2009

Fantasia: Fans from the Sage Collection, Monroe County History Center, 2007

Bijoux: Jewelry from the Esther Collyer Collection, Fine Arts Library Foyer, 2006

The Allure of Clothing: Function, Fantasy, Fetish, Fashion with the Kinsey Institute and the Mathers Museum of World Cultures, 2004

Bill Blass: An American Designer, IU Museum of Art, 2001-2002

Flights of Fancy: The Art of Fashion’s Surface Design, at the IU Museum of Art, 1999

Stitches in Air: Five Centuries of Lace, IU Museum of Art, 1993