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Press image from All That Glitters... Conservation and Sustainability of Fashion Collections. Photo by Eileen Costa.
Upcoming
The UK Plastics Historical Society, September 2026
Natural and Synthetic Plastics: Tortoiseshell in Fashion Accessories
The Unseen Art: Fashion Conservation and Display, Spring 2027
Co-author chapter titled “Polyurethane Synthetic Leather” with Alison Castaneda
Uppsala University, Sweden, December 2026
Guest Lecturer, Materials and Techniques of Objects in Fashion Collections: Tortoiseshell and Early Plastics
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2026
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellows Panel
The Costume Society of America Conference, June 2026
Comparative Study of Physical and Digital Recreation Processes of Museum Garments
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2026
Fellows Looking Group, Re-Pleating a Fortuny
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2026
Interactive gallery activation, Tortoiseshell: Faux or Genuine?
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2026
Met Speaks Research out Loud, Tortoiseshell in The Costume Institute
American Institute for Conservation Conference, April 2026
Late Bloomer: Gel Cleaning of a 1971 Courrèges Ensemble
Association of North American Graduate Programs in Conservation, April 2026
Late Bloomer: Gel Cleaning of a 1971 Courrèges Ensemble
Emerging Conservation Professionals New York City Forum, March 2026
Tortoiseshell in Fashion Accessories: Methods of Identification
The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Departmental Meeting, November 2025
Tortoiseshell in the Costume Institute Collection
FIT Fashion & Textile Studies Graduate School Symposium, Imagined Worlds: Costume Design for Fantasy Film, May 2025
Danse Macabre: Costume Design and World Building in Suspiria
The Museum at FIT, April 2025
Exhibition tour, All That Glitters ... (Spring 2025)
The Museum at FIT Fashion Culture Series, March 2025
All That Glitters... Conservation and Sustainability of Fashion Collections
Panel conversation with Alison Castaneda, Callie O'Connor, and Whitney Crutchfield
Publications
The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Conservation Research Article, September 2026
Textile Specialty Group Postprints, 2026
Late Bloomer: Gel Cleaning of a 1971 Courrèges Ensemble
All that Glitters... exhibition catalog, May 2025
Keeping Fashion Glittering: the Role of Conservators
Fashion Studies Journal, Fashion and Politics Special Issue, September 2024
Interview with 19/99 Beauty
Workshops
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2026
Introduction to Conservation Dyeing
Taught high school and undergraduate interns the fundamentals of dye chemistry and led two rounds of conservation dyeing with the interns to color match an object for an underlay.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2026
Conservation Stitch Techniques
Taught high school and undergraduate interns the fundamentals of conservation stitching and led a stitch sampler workshop.