Photos courtesy of Blenda FemeniasGender and the Boundaries of Dress, 2004, University of Texas Press

Thursday, April 10th, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Room L160, Chazen Museum of Art
800 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin

Free and open to the public

 

Blenda Femenias, author of Gender and the Boundaries of Dress in Contemporary Peru (2004) is a specialist in the area of Latin American textiles and culture. Her lecture explores creative transformations of the highland Andean environment through examining the embroidered textiles and garments unique to particular regions of Peru. 

Drawing on interviews with artists for whom creativity is a way of life, she will emphasize the gendered dimensions of producing and using clothes, as men and women alike persist in their devotion to creating beautiful things within a harsh world that is riddled with poverty and unrest.

For further information please call 608-262-1162

Sponsored by:  The Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, the department of Design Studies, and the School of Human Ecology

Lecture funded by: The University Lectures Committee