Credits
This digital exhibition is the result of a collaboration between the Center for Virtual/Material Studies and the School of Theatre Fashion Archive.
Published with support from the George Dewey and Mary J. Krumrine Endowment.
The following individuals have contributed to this project:
Charlene Gross, Director of the Fashion Archive, is an associate professor in the School of Theatre in the College of Arts and Architecture at Penn State. Research includes painting pigments and techniques, integration of technology in design, history of fashion studies, stage makeup/SFX, costume design, and fabric painting/dyeing. Charlene's design work has been seen both on and off Broadway, across the United States and on London’s West End encompassing more than 150 professional productions in dance, theatre, musicals, and opera. She is a member of USA Local 829, United States Institute of Theatre Technology (USITT), Costume Society of America (CSA), founding member of the American Theatrical Costume Association (ACTA), and Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE). As Director of the Fashion Archive, she works closely with the Center for Virtual/Material Studies curating a hands-on teaching archive alongside an open resource in fashion studies using new technologies. For more information, please see Charlene's professional website: https://charlenegross.weebly.com/about
Sarah Rich is the Director of the Center for Virtual/Material Studies, and associate professor in the Department of Art History. She has been directly engaged in developing expertise in fiber and textiles in art history. In preparation for the Center’s emphasis on fiber and textiles in the coming years, she has added textile units to all her courses.
Alexander Coberly is a second-year master’s student in the Department of Art History, with a primary focus on Chinese art history. However, he is passionate about exploring art and visual culture from diverse perspectives, and was excited to conduct research for the Fashion Archive. As a graduate assistant for the Center for Virtual/Material Studies, Alexander also worked on a project related to the replication of historic gall ink.
Marie Huard is a second-year doctoral candidate in art education and a graduate assistant in art history. An avid maker, Marie has enjoyed working in the Center for Virtual/Material Studies where she learned to spin flax into linen and hosted weaving workshops. Marie is also active with Prints Link Philadelphia, a group of art educators who promote printmaking in schools through professional development.
Megan Neely is currently a fourth-year student at Penn State majoring in art history and minoring in Italian and international and global studies. While working at the Center for Virtual/Material Studies in 2022, Megan began research for the linen exhibition. In addition, she contributed to the cataloguing and photographing of the School of Theatre’s Fashion Archive. With her experience, she hopes to continue her study of textiles and fashion in graduate school and beyond.
Catherine Adams is the digital support specialist for the Center for Virtual/Material Studies. She has experience in metadata, digital image and dataset creation and curation. She manages the Art History Department Visual Resource Collection and Palmer Museum of Art online collections in CONTENTdm. She aided in the creation of the Arts and Architecture Resource Collaborative (AARC) and in several Omeka and Omeka S sites. She holds a B.A. from Penn State and an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh.
Carolyn Lucarelli is the manager of the Center for Virtual/Material Studies in the Department of Art History. Before coming to Penn State, she was assistant museum librarian in the Photograph and Slide Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and assistant curator of visual resources in the Department of Art History at Dartmouth College. She has experience in digital humanities, imaging technologies, metadata standards and controlled vocabularies, digital image collections and virtual exhibitions, and copyright and intellectual property. She holds a B.A. in art history from Columbia University and an M.A. in art history from Dartmouth College.
Cody Goddard is the Office of Digital Learning’s multimedia specialist. His primary job responsibilities include creating media for online courses and managing student media developers. Cody received his B.F.A. in art with concentration in photography and B.A. in integrative arts with honors from Penn State in 2010. Cody has wide-ranging interests that influence his work, including alternative and antique photography, woodworking, metalworking, new media art, and sculpture. He frequently gives guest demonstrations and lectures for photography classes at Penn State.
Valerie Marcus Ramshur costume designer and educator has produced critically acclaimed costume designs on stage and screen. As dress historian, project archivist, curator, and multi-disciplinary artist her works embody the intersection of dress, material culture, and art. Her study of clothing, culture and adornment from a variety of practices, disciplines, is the foundation of her professional and academic practice. Her speaking engagements, researching, and archivism works with various cultural institutions, individual researchers, and curators to promote and exhibit the work and art of the costume design community and preserve artists’ legacies. The founder of the Costume Educators Forum, as well as a founding member of the American Theatrical Costume Association (ATCA), she is a member of Costume Society of America (CSA), The Association of Dress Historians (UK), and United Scenic Artists Local 829. Ramshur currently serves as the Head of Costume Design at Rutgers University at Mason Gross School of the Arts.
Copyright
This digital exhibition, Strong and Soft: Linen from the Penn State Fashion Archive, is copyrighted by Penn State.
Cody Goddard is responsible for all still photographs and 360-degree videos of the Fashion Archive garments, which are copyrighted under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
Photo Credit for "Linen Lean-To" Tapestry Bas-Relief, by Sheila Hicks: Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source: Art Resource, NY (Asset Image Number: ART391940). Used by permission of the artist. © Sheila Hicks.
Individual items displayed in this digital exhibition may be subject to different copyrights; see item pages for credits.
When using any of this material, it is your responsibility, as the user, to secure permissions and adhere to the stated access policy, copyright laws, and educational fair-use guidelines.
Efforts have been made to contact and acknowledge copyright holders for all reproductions.
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Contact
Submit your comments or questions to virtualmaterial@psu.edu