Theme: "On the Bias"
Opening: October 2022
Curators:
Marcie Farwell
Eric Acree
Dr. Denise Green
CPEP (in discussion)
Others TBD
Ideas:
Invite other curators tell the story of textile and garment industries from the viewpoint of the communities those industries historically and currently impacted. This might include the indigenous communities that lived along the river valleys in New England where those industries sprang up (and made the industrial revolution possible in the US), enslaved people/sharecroppers in the South that grew the cotton that fed the mills, immigrants that worked in the mills who fought for worker's rights through unions, to currently incarcerated people that continue to make clothing and textiles in American prisons.