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| In 1968 I
received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Art Education, with honors, from the School of
the Art Institute
of Chicago. I received a Fellowship to pursue a Master of Arts degree in
historic costume studies from Cornell
University, which was awarded in 1994. Since then, I have been on staff at Cornell, either as a Visiting Fellow or paid consultant, working in the Cornell Textile and Costume Collection in the College of Human Ecology -- most recently working to develop the data base and to make it available on the World Wide Web. For three years, I was the costume curator at the Holland Land Office Museum in Batavia, New York. I left that position in order to be able to finish research on printed dress fabrics for publication. At both places I prepared numerous exhibits. |
I have done workshops and presentations for such organizations as the Western New York Association of Historical Agencies, Upstate History Alliance, the Hagley Museum in Delaware, Historic Deerfield, the Winterthur Museum, Saundra Altman's (Past Patterns) 1999 workshop in California, and local and county historical societies. For 2004-2005, I was awarded a month-long Winterthur Research Fellowship to complete the research for my book. I participated in a week-long team research project ("From Stays to Corsets: The Changing Shape of Copp Family Women") at the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution in July 1999. Local history has long been an interest, and for many years I have served on the board of the Baker's Bridge (Alfred Station) Historical Association. I am knowledgeable about the material culture of the 19th century. |
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| Member of the Costume Society of America |  |
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