Free admission and hands-on activities in the Weston Howland Textile Learning Center sponsored by The Highland Street Foundation. Visit www.highlandstreet.org for the full schedule of all museums offering Free Fun Fridays this summer.
Free admission all day to everyone presenting a Museum Day ticket. Visit www.smithsonian.com/museumday to get your ticket for ATHM and other participating museums.
ATHM is one on many museums and galleries participating in this city-wide event. Visit www.lowellopenstudios.org for more information.
Carolyn Jamerson, Study Collections Manager and Mount Maker, FIDM Museum and Galleries
Carolyn Jamerson will conduct a presentation and workshop on three different techniques for creating “invisible” garment mounts: plastic forms, wire armature, and polyester felt. These different materials can be used to create mounts that fully support most garment types and, depending on long-term requirements, can work for both exhibition and storage needs. See the Costume Society of America’s website, www.costumesocietyamerica.com, for more information.
To register, visit: http://www.costumesocietyamerica.com/RegionI/event_workshop_sym.htm
Kevin Jones, Curator, FIDM Museum and Galleries
Kevin Jones, FIDM Museum Curator and co-curator of the exhibition High Style: Betsy Bloomingdale and the Haute Couture, will present insights and behind-the-scenes aspects of the creation of this award-winning exhibition celebrating donations of more than 100 haute couture garments to the FIDM Museum over thirty years by Best Dressed Hall of Fame icon Betsy Bloomingdale. The exhibition describes the process of haute couture, showcases Mrs. Bloomingdale's favorite designers, and examines her personal fashion style and lifestyle.
The moulage is the foundation of the couture pattern drafting system taught by the Ecole Guerre-Lavigne in Paris. This is a system of measuring the figure, calculating, and drafting a pattern that will fit the torso like a second skin, incorporating any of the infinite variations of shape the human figure can take.
In this 3 day class with Kenneth King, after a series of measurements are taken, and calculations are done, you will draft a pattern that will fit like a second skin. Once you have this pattern (also called a sloper) you'll be able to alter commercial patterns to fit your body or add design details to this sloper to make your own original design.
Class is limited to 30 students. Cost $399 (includes lunch on Fri, Sat & Sun) ( Friends of PR and ATHM members pay $359 )
About Kenneth D. King
Haberdasher to the stars, Kenneth D. King has designed clothing, home furnishings, and accessories for Elton John, Jim Carrey, and others. He is professor of haute couture at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City and sewing expert on the PBS series Sewing Today. He is also the author of Designer Bead Embroidery (CPi, 2006). Kenneth also teaches online sewing classes on PatternReview.com
To reserve your spot for this class visit http://sewing.patternreview.com/athm-class-10
We are very pleased to showcase a series of paintings created for the ATHM by up and coming visual artist Camomile (Molly) Hixon, who exploded onto the New York art scene in 2010 with her collection of “sparkle” paintings on canvas using glitter as the primary medium.
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For view in our TLC, the multi-talented Hixon created a series of glittering textile studies paintings of designer fabrics, as well as a series of vintage boy and girl paper doll paintings with outfits, paper tabs and all, to complement the Bloomingdale high fashion theme in our main galleries. Hixon’s work can also be seen this fall at the Tria Gallery, the El Taller Latin Cultural Center, and the Children’s Museum of Art in Manhattan, as feature artwork on the hit Bravo television show “Nine by Design”, and the Diane Birdsall Gallery in Old Lyme, Connecticut year’s end.
Now, and ongoing
Get your own guided tour without paying the guided tour price! Free with general admission, just follow the list of cell phone tour stops, and dial up for a teens’ perspective on our displays – includes historic songs, original poetry, and more. Created for the ATHM by teens from Lowell’s United Teen Equality Center - check it out!
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Lowell Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
In the Textile Learning Center (TLC)
For ages 3-6 years old
Please join us for our NEW monthly children’s program, Learning with Lulu, at 2 PM on second-Sundays of the month! Our museum mascot, Lulu the Lamb, and friends will take you on a journey to new experiences through literature and hands-on creativity right in the Museum’s play area. Children ages 3-6 will hear entertaining stories and make fun and easy crafts that will also introduce them to a world of literature, culture, geography, and history via topics such as the rich silks of China or the colorful cloth of Africa. Free for museum members, non-members with paid admission, and those only attending the story hour – donations appreciated.
