Welcome Curator Katie Knowles, Ph.D. to CSU and the Avenir Museum! Join us on Thursday, Sept. 14 at 7 p.m. in the Avenir Museum Classroom 157 to meet Dr. Knowles. She will give a talk on Expressions of Self and Belonging: Enslaved People and Race-Based Fashion in the United States.

Based on years of extensive research, Knowles will discuss how clothing and textiles reveal a colorful and diverse group of sources that complicate perceptions of slave clothing as monotone and uniform. In particular, she examines two aprons, a skirt, a handkerchief, and a dress – all of which survived into the twenty-first century and are now in museum collections across the U.S., and which speak volumes to us about the value placed in them as special documents of the lived experience of American slavery. Reception to follow.

For more information, contact:

• Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising
• University Center for the Arts East, 216 E. Lake St.
• Phone: (970) 491-1983

The Avenir Museum is part of the Department of Design and Merchandising in CSU’s College of Health and Human Sciences.