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Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design

TMD 402 Spring 2010 "The Art of Fashion and Textiles"

Every year the TMD Department focuses on a new theme for the spring seminar. For Spring 2010 the focus is The Art of Fashion.
The class meets Wednesday afternoons from 4-5:30 p.m. in Quinn Auditorium. Lectures are open to the public.

Date Topic Speaker
January 27 Introduction  

February 3

Two-credit registrants only

Project Instructions

February 10

Two-credit registrants only

Library Research

Meet in Lobby of Library
Mimi Keefe, Librarian
February 17 Art & Fashion: The Art Historian’s Perspective Pamela Warner, Assistant Professor, Art Department, URI
February 24 Fashion and Photography: A South African Example Abby Lillethun, Associate Professor, Montclair State University
March 3 Isoude Katie Brierley, Owner and Designer, Isoude
March 10 Indian Art and Fashion Blaire Gagnon, Assistant Professor, TMD, URI
March 17 Alden Interiors

Alison Comstock, TMD '77

March 24

   

March 31 

[Flood day!]  

April 7

Matisse and the Romanian Blouse Linda Welters, Professor and Chair, TMD
April 14 Fashion at the RISD Museum Kate Irvin, MS, TMD

April 21

Jewelry Design

Jennifer Brousseau, Product Development, LDC Inc.

April 28

Corinne Kolbe

Jenna Boyers

Katrina Meehan

Rafael Blanco

Film & Fashion

Classical Art's Influence on Modern Fashion

Is Fashion Photography Art?

Urban Artists & Fashion

May 12

Alexandra Burke

Ashley Leafer

Maureen Walsh

Lindsay Siegel

Meaghan Curran

Abigail Wade

Couture: The State of the Art

Yves Saint Laurent: The Artist

Fashion Designers Collaborating with Artists

Pop Art & Fashion

Kimonos as Art

Art-to-Wear

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