Please join us for a lecture and workshop with guest speaker Kim Jenkins!

 

As a Black woman and fashion professor teaching fashion history and theory, Kimberly M. Jenkins spent years combing through resources to teach and enhance her broad range of courses, including her Fashion and Race course at Parsons School of Design. During this process (which began in 2015), she discovered that research about diverse fashion history was scattered, and dedicated research on the intersection of fashion and race was sparse. Kimberly decided to build her own library of diverse content and resources, and in 2017, The Fashion and Race Database was born. In 2020, the database expanded, and she was able to assemble a team, creating new employment and academic opportunities for fashion students and graduates. Join us to learn from Kimberly about how the intersection of fashion and race, and how the Fashion and Race Database can support design research and support and inspire stronger, more meaningful work.

Workshop will engage the database in a short lesson with discussion and Q&A.
 

 

SCHEDULE

• The lecture will be held in the URBN Annex Screening Room from 11:15am - 12:00pm.

• The workshop will be held in URBN 345 from 1:00pm - 3:00pm.

 

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