Textiles & Clothing Museum, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
September 2014 - November 2014
Curator: Jennifer Farley Gordon
Textiles, Teaching, and Travel: The Life and Work of Agatha Huepenbecker Burnet discussed the career of Dr. Agatha Huepenbecker Burnet (1930 – 2012), a dedicated Iowa State University (ISU) professor and administrator. Burnet championed the creation of a museum collection of textiles and clothing at ISU. Through travel, she built a museum-quality personal collection of ethnographic textiles and clothing, especially strong in its holdings from Central and South America. This collection, bequeathed to the Textiles and Clothing Museum (TCM), formed the core of the exhibition, which was curated in honor of this donation and the inaugural year of the Agatha Huepenbecker Burnet Endowed Assistantship with the TCM.
The Museum at FIT, New York, NY
May 2013 - November 2013
Curator: Jennifer Farley Gordon
RetroSpective examined fashion’s fascination with its own history by presenting an overview of historical references in fashion, paying particular attention to recurrence of silhouette. On display were groupings of period fashions and their more recent reincarnations, spanning 250 years of fashion, beginning with the 18th century. The cycle of revival in contemporary fashion has accelerated rapidly, but this exhibition demonstrated that the reinterpretation of historical silhouettes or details is far from a modern phenomenon.
The Museum at FIT, New York, NY
May 2012 - November 2012
Curators: Colleen Hill, Jennifer Farley, Fred Dennis, Valerie Steele
Fashion, A-Z: Highlights from the Collection of the Museum at FIT, Part Two was the second of two exhibitions that highlighted modern and contemporary pieces from the Museum's permanent collection.
The Museum at FIT, New York, NY
November 2011 - May 2012
Curators: Colleen Hill, Jennifer Farley, Fred Dennis, Valerie Steele
Fashion, A-Z: Highlights from the Collection of the Museum at FIT, Part One was the first of two exhibitions to highlight modern and contemporary pieces from the Museum's permanent collection.
The Museum at FIT, New York, NY
May 2011 - November 2011
Curators: Jennifer Farley and Colleen Hill
Sporting Life explored the relationship between active sportswear and fashion over the past 150 years. Participation in sports, for recreation as well as competition, has increased dramatically since the late nineteenth century. The clothing worn for such pursuits has often been influenced by fashion—and vice versa.
The Museum at FIT, New York, NY
November 2010 - May 2011
Curators: Jennifer Farley and Colleen Hill
His & Hers explored the relationship between gender and fashion over the past 250 years. Clothing can act as an immediate signifier of gender – however, while making distinctions between “masculine” and “feminine” styles of clothing may seem natural, gendering is not a biological phenomenon. While much of the show discussed the changing ideas of “appropriate” attire for each gender, it also included examples of so-called unisex and androgynous fashion.
The Museum at FIT, New York, NY
May 2010 - November 2010
Curators: Jennifer Farley and Colleen Hill
Eco-Fashion: Going Green explored fashion's complex and multi-faceted relationship with the environment, discussing both bad and good ecological practices of the past 250 years. The exhibition used contemporary concepts of sustainability as a framework to study the past, discussing the following themes: the re-purposing and recycling of materials, material origins, textile dyeing and production, quality of craftsmanship, labor practices, and the treatment of animals.
The Museum at FIT, New York, NY
July 2009 - November 2009
Curators: Jennifer Farley and Melissa Marra
Fashion & Politics discussed the history politics as expressed through fashion, with the term politics encompassing the maneuverings of government, as well as cultural change, sexual codes, and social progress. Throughout history, fashion has been a medium for conveying political ideologies and related social values by addressing such important themes as nationalism, feminism, and ethnic identity, as well as significant events and subcultural movements.
Graduate Student Exhibition for The Museum at FIT, New York
March 2007 - April 2007
Researcher: Jennifer Farley
Organized in conjunction with the graduate program in Fashion & Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice, Lilly Daché: Glamour at the Drop of a Hat discussed the career and style influence of the famed twentieth-century milliner.