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DESCRIPTION:What is your most cherished piece of clothing? What stories doe
 s it hold\, and how do you care for it? Artist and fashion scholar Kate Se
 kules leads a few lucky patrons through a process of storytelling and visi
 ble mending\, giving new life to beloved garments in need of repair. This 
 interactive experience brings the themes of Conserving Active Matter to a 
 human scale through storytelling\, demonstration\, and dialogue with curat
 or Soon Kai Poh and Ann Coppinger\, senior conservator at the Museum at FI
 T.Proof of COVID vaccination\, photo ID\, and the use of masks are require
 d of all visitors to BGC Gallery. Please see our visitor policies for all 
 up-to-date COVID policies.We are also pleased to extend complimentary need
 -based community tickets by request to all ticketed events. To learn more\
 , please email public.programs@bgc.bard.edu.Additional Events:June 8\, 202
 2 at 6 pm with Sarah ScaturroMeet the SpeakersKate Sekules is a PhD candid
 ate at Bard Graduate Center. She researches mending cultures and related f
 ields. She has lectured on the history\, methodologies\, and contexts of t
 extile repair at institutions including Parsons\, New York University (NYU
 )\, Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)\, and Tufts\, and taught mending
  workshops at Rhode Island School of Design Museum\, Winterthur Museum\, a
 nd the Textile Arts Center in New York\, among many others. She is a board
  member of the Ethical Fashion Forum\, UK\, and sits on the advisory counc
 il of the New Standard Institute in New York. Sekules holds an MA in costu
 me studies from NYU. Her book\, MEND! A Refashioning Manual and Manifesto\
 , was published by Penguin in fall 2020.Soon Kai Poh is a recent graduate 
 of the dual MA/MS program in the History of Art and the Conservation of Hi
 storic and Artistic Works at the Conservation Center\, Institute of Fine A
 rts\, New York University\, specializing in objects conservation with a pa
 rticular interest in Asian and Near-Eastern works of art. He has completed
  internships and worked on projects in the conservation labs of the Freer 
 Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery\, the Peabody Essex Museum\, 
 the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library\, and the 
 Philadelphia Museum of Art. As part of his graduate training\, he worked o
 n-site at New York University’s Excavations at Aphrodisias in Turkey\, and
  participated in multiple conservation projects at Villa La Pietra\, New Y
 ork University’s academic center in Florence\, Italy.His professional inte
 rests include the interpretive and technological implications of material 
 culture arising from trans-geographical interactions\, theory and practice
  in conservation\, and in sharing the privilege of participating in the hi
 stories of objects with others. At Bard Graduate Center\, he will continue
  to explore these multi-variate interests through the Conservation as a Hu
 man Science Fellowship\, particularly in reconsidering the relationship be
 tween the conservator and the objects under their care\, as definitions of
  the (former and) latter continue to shift and broaden.Ann Coppinger has d
 irected the conservation department of the Museum at FIT for more than fif
 teen years and has overseen its reorganization. She has worked diligently 
 to advance the role of conservation in the museum and throughout the colle
 ge community. Coppinger holds an MA in museum studies with a specialty in 
 costume and textile conservation from FIT. She was the 2001–02 NEA Master 
 Apprentice at the Textile Conservation Workshop in South Salem\, NY\, wher
 e she continued as a staff conservator for four years. Coppinger currently
  teaches a graduate course on collections care of costumes in the costume 
 studies program of NYU’s Steinhart School\, as well as an online short cou
 rse on the care of textiles for the Northern States Conservation Center. P
 rior to taking her museum studies degree\, she worked for 22 years in the 
 fashion industry in New York City. She holds additional degrees in fashion
  design and patternmaking from FIT as well as a BS in marketing from Saint
  John’s University.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Conserving Clothing\, Preserving Memories
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