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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\, historian
 s and fashion scholars Hazel Clark\, Sandra Markus\, Kathy Peiss\, and Ale
 xis Romano lead a conversation about fashion and female suffrage.Music Pro
 vided by:Scott Robinson Dave Stryker (Guitar)Gene Perla (Bass)McClenty Hun
 ter Jr (Drums)More BGC Late: Jazz & Conversation in the Gallery Thursday\,
  October 10Jazz at 6 pmConversation at 7 pmWomen Designers: Chanel\, Lanvi
 n and Boué SœursWith Waleria Dorogova\, Rhonda Garelick\, Mellissa Huber a
 nd Jan Glier ReederThursday\, December 5Jazz at 6 pmConversation at 7 pmFa
 shion\, War\, Displacement\, and ImmigrationWith Nancy GreenMeet the Speak
 ersHazel Clark\, PhD is professor of design studies and fashion studies at
  Parsons School of Design\, The New School. Her recent books have included
  Fashion and Everyday Life: London and New York\, with Cheryl Buckley (201
 7)\, and the anthology Fashion Curating: Critical Practice in the Museum a
 nd Beyond\, with Annamari Vanska (2018). In Spring 2020\, she will be Visi
 ting Fellow at the Bard Graduate Center.Sandra Markus is a professor in th
 e School of Art and Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her res
 earch interests include craftivism\, participatory culture\, and civic and
  political participation in creative online spaces. Her dissertation\, (20
 19) Through the Eye of the Needle: Craftivism as an Emerging Mode of Civic
  Engagement and Cultural Participation\, examined the political expression
  and engagement of women in three offline and online craftivist groups. Sh
 e recently co-authored a paper\, 'Crafting a Way Forward: Online Participa
 tion\, Craftivism and Civic Engagement in Ravelry’s Pussyhat Project Group
 ' in Information\, Communication and Society. When not in front of a compu
 ter\, you can find her stitching. Kathy Peiss is the Roy F. and Jeannette 
 P. Nichols professor of American history at the University of Pennsylvania
 .  Her research and teaching center on the 20th century United States and 
 the making of modern culture. She is the author of Cheap Amusements: Worki
 ng Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (1986)\, Hope in a Ja
 r: The Making of America's Beauty Culture (1998)\, and Zoot Suit: The Enig
 matic Career of an Extreme Style (2011).  Her latest book is Information H
 unters: When Librarians\, Soldiers\, and Spies Banded Together in World Wa
 r II Europe\, appearing in early 2020.Alexis Romano is a writer\, editor\,
  and lecturer within the fashion industry and visual culture\, with intere
 sts in 20th-century fashion\, fashion imagery\, and everyday\, subjective 
 aspects of dress. She is an adjunct assistant professor at New York City C
 ollege of Technology\, and Parsons\, the New School for Design\, co-founde
 r of the Fashion Research Network and US Editor of WeAr Global Magazine. S
 he completed her PhD at London's Courtauld Institute of Art\, and is curre
 ntly writing a book on the development and image of French ready-to-wear\,
  due out from Bloomsbury in 2020.Music for BGC Late: Jazz & Conversation i
 n the Gallery is guest curated by musician Gene Perla. Perla was raised in
  New Jersey where he studied classical piano and trombone. After attending
  Berklee School of Music\, he moved to New York and began his musical care
 er as a jazz bassist. He has performed and/or recorded with Chick Corea\, 
 Miles Davis\, Dizzy Gillespie\, Woody Herman\, Elvin Jones\, Thad Jones/Me
 l Lewis Orchestra\, Chuck Mangione\, Joni Mitchell\, Buddy Rich\, Sonny Ro
 llins\, Nina Simone\, Frank Sinatra\, Stone Alliance\, Sarah Vaughan\, Nan
 cy Wilson\, and others. In the early 1970s he formed music publishing and 
 record companies\, and his group “Stone Alliance” traveled to South Americ
 a and Europe\, through which he developed experience in management and boo
 king. Perla is also a Broadway sound designer (Tony Award for City of Ange
 ls)\, has expertise in recording studio operations\, and is the webmaster 
 for the Jazz Education Network.Leading support for Public Programs at Bard
  Graduate Center comes from Gregory Soros and other generous donors.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: BGC Late: Jazz & Conversation in the Gallery
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