Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Let There Be LIGHT(ening)!
10/10/2024
In the textile conservation lab, a three-piece 1890s cotton muslin ensemble arrived for treatment!
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: There! That’s better!
9/18/2024
You ever have had a project lingering around your house or work that just … bugs you? A thing that needs to be done if only someone would just DO it? This bodice was one of those projects!
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Blue Dress Boogaloo?
5/23/2024
Remember the blue dress from a few weeks ago? This week she’s back—with a secret.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: The Light Touch
4/25/2024
This week in the textile conservation lab, I am working on a day dress dating to the 1910s. It has a very delicate silk net stand-up collar edged with a metal ribbon and stiffened with wire stays.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Micromosaic Jewelry
2/22/2024
This week in objects conservation, we are working on several pieces of micromosaic jewelry made in Italy during the late-19th century.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Traveling in (Sustainable!) Style
7/27/2023
How would you like to travel in a custom “sleeping bag”? These three dresses designed by Ann Lowe (American, 1898–1981) are headed to the Winterthur Museum in Delaware for the exhibition Ann Lowe: American Couturier, snuggled in soft surrounds for a safe and comfortable trip.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Beautiful Beret
2/17/2022
It’s true that fashions come back around!
“Design is not for philosophy, but for life.”
11/12/2021
Cincinnati Art Museum x Idlewild Woman x Issey Miyake
Ann Lowe, African American Fashion Designer
11/2/2020
Born in Clayton, Alabama in 1898, Ann Lowe was an African American fashion designer, but few know her name.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: A Bird's Eye View
7/30/2020
A bird's eye view in the textile conservation lab workbench this week brings us these pajama bottoms and a little of the mid-conservation chaos that goes into making them look their best.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Storing your fashion objects safely
7/2/2020
Want to store your treasured fashion objects safely at home? If your objects are safe to hang, you can make your own padded hangers.
Cincinnati Art Museum docent wins international award
2/14/2020
Longtime Cincinnati Art Museum docent and supporter of the arts Helen Rindsberg wins international award.
Permanent Collection Highlights: Interview with Cynthia Amnéus, Chief Curator and Curator of Fashion Arts and Textiles
2/6/2020
Permanent Collection Highlights with Cynthia Amnéus, Chief Curator and Curator of Fashion Arts and Textiles
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Installing New Fashion Acquisitions
1/16/2020
In a few weeks, we are installing some recent acquisitions from CAM’s fashion collection in Gallery 150.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: 1920s Gown
7/3/2019
Can you find the conservation that has been carried out for this silk chiffon gown from the 1920s?
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Fashion Accessories come to the Paper Lab
11/6/2018
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11/23/2017
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10/20/2015
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