A Conversation on Appropriation and Appreciation in Fashion (de Young)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Join us for a conversation exploring the nuances of cultural appropriation and appreciation in fashion. This talk takes place on the opening day of Fashioning San Francisco: A Century of Style.

This panel will feature Abram Jackson, director of interpretation at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and exhibition catalogue contributors Susan B. Kaiser, professor emerita, UC Davis, departments of design, and gender, sexuality, and women’s studies, and editor of Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty, Ann Tartsinis, visiting faculty member at the California College of the Arts and PhD candidate in the department of art and art history at Stanford University, and Lewis Watts, photographer and professor emeritus UC Santa Cruz. Laura Camerlengo, exhibition curator and curator in charge of costume and textile arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, will moderate the panel.

• Abram Jackson (FAMSF, director of interpretation)
• Laura Camerlengo (FAMSF, curator in charge of costume and textile arts)
• Susan B. Kaiser (UC Davis, professor emerita, departments of design, and gender, sexuality, women’s studies, and editor of Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty)
• Ann Tartsinis (California College of the Arts and Stanford University)
• Lewis Watts (Emeritus UC Santa Cruz)

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