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behind the seams
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Behind the Seams: Noticing Lives in the Details of Old Clothes
A Public Talk by Kiki Smith
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 | 4:30 pm
Neilson Library Browsing Room, Smith College
A hybrid event - in-person and online. To attend virtually, register here.
A hybrid event - in-person and online. To attend virtually, register here.
Smith College Professor of Theatre Kiki Smith will discuss her work developing, preserving, and teaching with the Smith College Historic Clothing Collection, which includes over 4,000 items from the early 1800s to the present. Smith’s recent book, Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore, provides insights into women's lives and their evolving roles at home and in the workplace. Introduction by fashion historian Lynne Zacek Bassett.
This free event will be in person and online.
To attend virtually, register here.
A book signing & reception will follow the talk.
Copies of Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore
will be available for sale
Presented by the Friends of the Smith College Libraries Oculus Society,
in partnership with Historic Northampton.
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Catherine (Kiki) Smith is professor of theatre and head of The Smith College Historic Clothing Collection. She is also a costume and set designer for Shakespeare & Co. in Lenox, Massachusetts, where she is a founding member. In 2003, Kiki Smith won a Village Voice OBIE award for designs of the Talking Band's premiere of Ellen Maddow's play “A Painted Snake in a Painted Chair.”
An exhibit based on Smith’s new book will travel in 2024, with the New-York Historical Society serving as the first venue. Kiki Smith served as President of the Board of Trustees of Historic Northampton from 2014 to 2019. |