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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. I was 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 until 2008, 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 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. |
I have done consultations, 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, and local and county historical societies.I have published Textiles for Victorian Clothing (2001) and a monograph, On the Trail of a Clemens Dress as well as entries in Valerie Steele's Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion. In progress: Wearable Prints: Identification of Printed Dress Fabrics, 1760-1860 (tentative title) from Kent State University Press. For 2004-2005, I was awarded a month-long Winterthur Research Fellowship to complete the research. 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. As of May 2010, the majority of my collection, over 2200 items, was sold to the Genesee Country Village & Museum in Mumford, New York. |
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| Member of the Costume Society of America |  |
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