MINI SYMPOSIUM: CLOTHING & IDENTITY (onsite program)
September 25, 2021 | 1 p.m. (PDT)
Join us for an afternoon to explore the interplay between clothing and identity as seen through Maryhill Museum of Art’s varied collections. Speakers are Simona Laiu (Romanian folk clothing), Sandra Ericson (haute couture), Steve Grafe (historic Native American attire). FREE with museum admission.
Note: this program will be held at the museum, not online.
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Simona Laiu holds an MLA from Stanford University. For the last 20 years, she has been owner of Gradina Hestiei, through which she researches, collects, restores, and promotes 19th and early-20th-century Romanian folk textiles.
Sandra Ericson is an educator who taught fashion design, pattern making, draping, and other courses at City College of San Francisco for more than 30 years. She is founder of Antiquity Press, a small publishing company for out-of-print fashion books. Until 2017, she was co-owner of the Center for Pattern Design.
Steve Grafe is Curator of Art at Maryhill Museum of Art and a longtime student of Indigenous American art. He authored the essay about historic Columbia River Plateau dress in Vol. III (United States and Canada) of the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (2010).
