A conversation on appropriation and appreciation in fashion

Join us for a conversation exploring the nuances of cultural appropriation and appreciation in fashion. This talk takes place on the opening day of Fashioning San Francisco: A Century of Style. Featured panelists include: Abram Jackson, director of interpretation at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and exhibition catalogue contributors Susan B. Kaiser, professor emerita, UC Davis, departments of design, and gender, sexuality, and women’s studies, and editor of Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty, Ann Marguerite Tartsinis, visiting faculty member at the California College of the Arts and PhD candidate in the department of art and art history at Stanford University, and Lewis Watts, photographer and professor emeritus UC Santa Cruz. Laura Camerlengo, exhibition curator and curator in charge of costume and textile arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, will moderate the panel. Abram Jackson (FAMSF, director of interpretation) Laura Camerlengo (FAMSF, curator in charge of costume and textile arts) Susan B. Kaiser (UC Davis, professor emerita, departments of design, and gender, sexuality, and women’s studies, and editor of Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty) Ann Marguerite Tartsinis (California College of the Arts and Stanford University) Lewis Watts (Emeritus UC Santa Cruz) About the speakers Abram Jackson joined the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco as the Museums' inaugural director of interpretation in June 2022. Jackson utilizes ethnic studies theorie