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DESCRIPTION:Join us for BGC Late: Jazz & Conversation in the Gallery (the s
 eries formerly known as First Wednesdays)! Enjoy cool jazz\, warm vibes\, 
 and a glass of wine\; see our fascinating exhibitions and learn from provo
 cative conversations about the objects on view. Gene Perla and the fantast
 ic musicians he brings together start playing at 6 pm. At 7 pm\, fashion s
 cholars Waleria Dorogova\, Rhonda Garelick\, Mellissa Huber and Jan Glier 
 Reeder lead a conversation about women designers\, including Gabrielle Cha
 nel\, Jeanne Lanvin\, Boué Sœurs and Jeanne Paquin.Music Provided by:Troy 
 Roberts (Sax)Rachel Z ( Piano)Gene Perla (Bass)Clarence Penn  (Drums)More 
 BGC Late: Jazz & Conversation in the Gallery Thursday\, November 7Jazz at 
 6 pmConversation at 7 pmFashion and Female SuffrageOrganized by Aelxis Rom
 ano of Fashion Research NetworkThursday\, December 5Jazz at 6 pmConversati
 on at 7 pmFashion\, War\, Displacement\, and ImmigrationWith Nancy GreenWa
 leria Dorogova is a historian and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Bon
 n\, where she studied Art History and Classical Archaeology. Now based in 
 Vienna\, she currently works at the interdisciplinary project Austrian Cen
 ter for Fashion Research at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Prior to this
  she was curator of the Goldsmiths Textile Collection and worked for Kerry
  Taylor Auctions\, as well as an independent researcher. Her research and 
 publications center around early twentieth-century haute couture\, Russian
  diaspora in Paris fashion and international relations in fashion. The sub
 ject of her dissertation is the history of the Franco-American fashion hou
 se Boué Sœurs (1897-1957). Rhonda Garelick is the Dean of the School of Ar
 t and Design History and Theory at Parsons/The New School.  She is the aut
 hor of Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History (Random House\, 
 2014)\; Electric Salome: Loie Fuller’s Performance of Modernism (Princeton
  University Press\, 2007)\; Rising Star: Dandyism\, Gender\, and Performan
 ce in the Fin de Siècle (Princeton University Press\, 1998)\; and co-edito
 r of Fabulous Harlequin: ORLAN and the Patchwork Self (University of Nebra
 ska Press\, 2010). Her column\, 'Reading the Signs' appears regularly in T
 he Cut (New York Magazine)\, and she her cultural criticism appears often 
 in the New York Times\, the Wall Street Journal\, the Los Angeles Times\, 
 the Brooklyn Rail\, and other venues. Rhonda has also held professorships 
 at Connecticut College\, CUNY Graduate Center\, Princeton\, and NYU/Gallat
 in. She is a Guggenheim fellow and has also received awards from the NEA\,
  the NEH\, the Getty Research Institute\, the Dedalus Foundation\, the Ame
 rican Association of University Women\, the Whiting Foundation\, and the A
 merican Council of Learned Societies. She received her B.A. and Ph.D. in c
 omparative literature and French from Yale University and is a fellow of t
 he New York Institute for the Humanities.Mellissa Huber is assistant curat
 or of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute and specializes i
 n twentieth-century fashion. Since joining the Museum in 2012\, she has as
 sisted the department with research and content development for numerous s
 pecial exhibitions\, including Punk: Chaos to Couture (2013)\; Charles Jam
 es: Beyond Fashion (2014)\; Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attir
 e (2014)\; China: Through the Looking Glass (2015)\; Jacqueline de Ribes: 
 The Art of Style (2015)\; Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology
  (2016)\; Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion (2016)\; Heavenly Bodies: Fashion
  and The Catholic Imagination (2018)\; and the forthcoming In Pursuit of F
 ashion: The Sandy Schreier Collection (2019). Mellissa graduated from the 
 Fashion Institute of Technology with a BFA and minor in art history. She h
 olds a certificate in curating fashion from the Victoria & Albert Museum\,
  London\, and an MA in visual culture from New York University\, where she
  is an adjunct professor in the Costume Studies graduate program.Jan Glier
  Reeder is a fashion historian and consulting curator for the Brooklyn Mus
 eum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Music for BGC La
 te: Jazz & Conversation in the Gallery is guest curated by musician Gene P
 erla. Perla was raised in New Jersey where he studied classical piano and 
 trombone. After attending Berklee School of Music\, he moved to New York a
 nd began his musical career as a jazz bassist. He has performed and/or rec
 orded with Chick Corea\, Miles Davis\, Dizzy Gillespie\, Woody Herman\, El
 vin Jones\, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra\, Chuck Mangione\, Joni Mitchel
 l\, Buddy Rich\, Sonny Rollins\, Nina Simone\, Frank Sinatra\, Stone Allia
 nce\, Sarah Vaughan\, Nancy Wilson\, and others. In the early 1970s he for
 med music publishing and record companies\, and his group “Stone Alliance”
  traveled to South America and Europe\, through which he developed experie
 nce in management and booking. Perla is also a Broadway sound designer (To
 ny Award for City of Angels)\, has expertise in recording studio operation
 s\, and is the webmaster for the Jazz Education Network.Leading support fo
 r Public Programs at Bard Graduate Center comes from Gregory Soros and oth
 er generous donors.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: BGC Late: Jazz & Conversation in the Gallery
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