Theme ideas:
From Waulking to Running (or Sleep) Fibers & MusicBroader theme: Fashioning Music - rolling exhibits, each with a different focus. These could tie into other exhibits. Ideas include:
- Fashion of protest
- Punk
- Other movements?
- Labor-related
- Plantation work songs
- Pick a bale of cotton, Cottonfields
- https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/slavery/experience/education/feature.html
- https://balladofamerica.org/pick-a-bale-of-cotton/
- Jazz age (shorter skirts...) Did fashion change to accommodate dances?
- Costumes (ballet, opera) Is it possible to collaborate with theatre/dance depts?
- Songs involving weaving, spinning, knitting, sewing, stitching, etc.
- Instructional sewing songs
Hebridean folksongs: a collection of waulking songs
https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/394043- https://www.scotslanguage.com/Work_Songs_uid138/Weaving_Songs
- Weave Little Stars Into My Sleep: Native American Lullabies - acquire
- "Gretchen am Spinnrade" Schubert
- Songs/music from other cultures
- Ask student staff for ideas?
Fibers & Music
Performance element:
Ask student a capella groups to participateOpera/ballet costumes? Collaborate with Dance/Theater Depts?
Opening date:
Curator/s"
Lenora Schneller
Presenters/Performers ideas:
Consider a performance element for opening: concert in library, Midday Music, see if there are composers doing sound installations involving textiles