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DESCRIPTION:Nineteenth-century England was rife with sentimental culture. D
 eath rates were high due to numerous factors including disease\, war\, and
  high childhood mortality. Queen Victoria became an unlikely fashion icon 
 when she submerged herself in mourning after the deaths of both her husban
 d\, Prince Albert\, and her mother in 1861. Aside from her mostly black wa
 rdrobe\, she was widely known for her love of mourning jewelry\, which con
 tained the hair of loved ones inside. Victorian hairwork became popular in
  both jewelry and shadowbox form\, transcending the concept of a wearable 
 human relic into a fashion statement of the period. This lecture will expl
 ore this connection between fashion and mourning and will highlight severa
 l pieces from the largest collection of ornamental hairwork in America—Lei
 la’s Hair Museum—of which many pieces are now housed at the Morbid Anatomy
  Library in Brooklyn.Karen Bachmann teaches at both Pratt Institute and Fa
 shion Institute of Technology. She specializes in both fine and bridge jew
 elry\, wearable art\, and decorative art. She has interests in baroque\, r
 enaissance\, memento mori\, and Victorian wearable ornament and material c
 ulture. She is a practicing studio jeweler and a former master jeweler at 
 Tiffany & Co. She is a past and current lecturer and workshop leader with 
 NYC Jewelry Week. Her current line of jewelry centers anatomically correct
  human organs and insects\, which are carved in wax and cast into sterling
  silver or brass using the lost-wax casting technique\, a subject that she
  teaches. Her studio work has been published in Art Jewelry Today and the 
 Lark 500 series books. Written published work includes “Hairy Secrets: Hum
 an Relic as Memory Object in Victorian Hairwork Jewelry.” Her most recent 
 publication is an essay on nineteenth-century mourning jewelry in the book
  Death: A Graveside Companion (2017). She has delivered lectures and organ
 ized workshops at the American Folk Art Museum\, Mütter Museum\, Victorian
  Society of America\, Morbid Anatomy Museum\, Atlas Obscura\, Katonah Muse
 um of Art\, and the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities\, Fine Art\, and Nat
 ural History.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Victorian Hairwork and Nineteenth-Century Mou
 rning Practice
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