Sustainable Design with RISD curator Laurie Brewer

10 Prospect Street,Providence RI 02912

11 April, 2023

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Join F@B and Laurie Brewer to learn more about Sustainable Design and how students could respond creatively to the questions it poses in education! We will discuss the intersection of apparel and ecology, and get to learn more about Brewer's forthcoming 2024 RISD Museum exhibition exploring transnational fashions. Join F@B for its first-ever Sustainable Fashion Conference to challenge your views of fast fashion, learn more about sustainability, offset carbons through our clothing swap, and join a raffle for three gift cards of $150 for Reformation, Mejuri, and Everlane, and $100 card for Vault Collective! "Sustainable Design with Laurie Brewer" is the first event of our Sustainable Fashion Conference this year. The Conference aims to highlight sustainability in the fashion industry and how it interacts with accessibility. Sustainability in the fashion industry has many moving parts and F@B wants to showcase the work that is being done and encourage the next generation of fashion figures to practice sustainability with intention. A bit about Laurie: Laurie Anne Brewer is a curator in the Department of Costume and Textiles at the RISD Museum, where she recently presented The Art and Design of Spider Silk (2019). Previous exhibitions at the museum include Luminous Lace: Metallic Trims 1500-Now (2016), Golden Glamour: The Edith Stuyvesant Gerry Collection (2015), Indische Style: Batiks for the International Market (2015), Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion (2013, with Kate Irvin) and Queen of the Insects: The Art of the Butterfly (2009–10). Brewer’s forthcoming exhibition Seal: Circumpolar Fashions (working title) explores the applications of sealskin in Inuit and global dress. Brewer also serves as a lecturer in the Theory and History of Art and Design department and in the Apparel Design department. Prior to her post at RISD she worked in the Textiles department at the Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology. She was awarded her MA in Museum Studies: Costume and Textiles from State University of New York, Fashion Institute of Technology and her BA in Human Ecology from the College of the Atlantic. Her research often explores the intersections of nature and art, focusing on the ecology of fashion from the 19th century to the present day. In addition to her curatorial and teaching practices, she is an avid hand spinner, knitter, papermaker, and hen mother to thirteen heritage breed chickens. WHEN // Tuesday, April 11, 2023, 5.00 pm TICKETS // Free but required WHERE // Digital Scholarship Lab @ The Rock 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞, 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐮𝐬? 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦: tinyurl.com/fabinsta 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤: tinyurl.com/fabfb 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝𝐈𝐧: tinyurl.com/fablinkedin (𝘞𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘭𝘭 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘦𝘦!)