On Exhibition Interpretation: Short Presentations

Learn more about The Costume Institute: http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/the_costume_institute Learn more about the exhibition American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity on view at the Met May 5, 2010 - August 15, 2010: http://tinyurl.com/MetAmericanWoman Moderator: Shelley Fox, Donna Karan Professor of Fashion Design, Parsons The New School for Design Speakers: Kohle Yohannan, Cultural Historian and Independent Curator; Timothy Long, Curator of Costumes, Chicago History Museum; Sharon S. Takeda, Senior Curator and Department Head, Costume and Textiles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Dennita Sewell, Curator of Fashion Design, Phoenix Art Museum A two-day symposium that celebrates and illuminates the historic collection-sharing collaboration between the Brooklyn Museum and The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.