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Bryn Mawr College
Jan. 23–May 30, 2004

Library Company of Philadelphia
Jan. 28–April 30, 2004

Rosenbach Museum & Library
Jan. 28–April 30, 2004

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or for information about these and other programs at the three venues, please contact each institution via phone or email.

For events at:
Rosenbach Museum & Library
rsvp@rosenbach.org
(215) 732-1600 x113

Library Company of Philadelphia
publicity@librarycompany.org
(215) 546-3181

Bryn Mawr College
SpecColl@brynmawr.edu
(610) 526-6576

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All events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise specified. RSVP's suggested.

Figuring Women

Friday, February 6 | Bryn Mawr College

ARTIST TALK at 4:00PM
Canaday Library

Artist Maureen Connor will discuss her work in the context of the Picturing Women exhibition, highlighting her own poignant, provocative responses in such cross-media works as "Growing Older" (on view in Canaday Library Gallery) to historical, gendered patterns of "figuring" women as the objects of others' imaginings.

Fashioning Women

Friday,March 5 | Library Company

PUBLIC LECTURE at 3:30PM

Fashion, Fetish, Folly: Corsets and the Feminine Ideal In this generously illustrated slide talk, Kristina Haugland , Asst. Curator of Costumes and Textiles, Philadelphia Museum of Art will briefly examine the historical context for the development of the corset before focusing on corsets of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and discussing ideals of beauty and attitudes towards the corset, the practice of extreme 'tight lacing,' zealous attempts at reform, and ways in which each of these manipulated the picturing of female identity.

PUBLIC LECTURE at 4:30PM

The Bride Wore Trousers : Transgressing the Rules of Dress and Undress in the World of New Eden

Artist/author Cynthia Greig will discuss her installation The Bride Wore Trousers and how she came to invent the fictional town of New Eden and the character of artist Isabelle Raymond in order to examine the visual conventions for representing gender.

The installation offers a kind of alternative archive and perspective from which to reconsiderstereotypical images of the body. (A portion of The Bride Wore Trousers is on display at the Library Company as part of the Picturing Women exhibition.)

PUBLIC PERFORMANCE at 7:30PM

Unlacing the Victorian Woman

Costume designer/historian Barbara Darlin presents a look at the private life of a fashionable turn-of-the-century society lady--with an onstage costume change, right down to her chemise. She talks about daily routines, social customs,women's role in the family, and etiquette, performing the "fashioning" of female identity within the conventions of a certain class at a certain time.

Portraiting Women

Wednesday, February 25 | Rosenbach Museum & Library

PUBLIC LECTURE at 6:00PM

"Phyllis without a frown or smile": Picturing Women in Late 17th-Century English Song | Denworth Room, 2nd floor

An evening filled with the music of the Restoration courts of Charles II and James II, both on the throne during the time that the Duchess Mazarin--the focus of the Picturing Women installation at the Rosenbach--captured the hearts of English royals and courtiers alike. Professor Andrew Walkling of SUNY Binghamton will explore how the lyrics and music of English song and ode defined textual and musical conventions for the 'picturing' of women at the English court.

Wednesday, March 17 | Rosenbach Museum & Library

SPECIAL ENCORE PERFORMANCE
Spiral Q Puppet Theater - 6:00-6:30


A final opportunity to experience this performance by Philadelphia's own Spiral Q Puppet Theater, specially commissioned for the Picturing Women project.

The Spiral Q troupe will present for the last time a sometimes caustic, sometimes poignant, always engaging riff on the Picturing Women exhibition currently installed at Bryn Mawr College, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the Rosenbach Museum & Library, mining all three collections to "critique" the exhibition from within.

Special encore performance, by popular demand:

Wednesday, March 17,
Rosenbach Museum & Library
2008-10 DeLancey Place
Philadelphia, PA

Reservations only, please! Space is limited, so call now to reserve your seat: 215-732-1600 x113

Thursday,March 25 | Bryn Mawr College

PUBLIC LECTURE at 4:30PM

Subjects and Objects:Women in the History of Visual Representation | Carpenter Library 21

Lecture by Lisa Saltzman ,Associate Professor,History of Art and Director, Center for Visual Culture at Bryn Mawr College

Telling Women

Friday, April 16 | Library Company

PUBLIC PERFORMANCE at 7:30PM

Yonder Come Day , one-woman show commissioned for Picturing Women project

Renowned storyteller Charlotte Blake Alston will mine the collections of the Library Company to craft a new, one woman show commissioned for the Picturing Women project. Telling stories from the lives of women of color represented in 19th-and 20th-century biographies, political lampoons, diaries, and a range of other source materials, Alston will bring to life a new set of voices--a new set of portraits--in her own rich,magical telling.

Thursday, April 22 | Bryn Mawr College

GALLERY TALK at 4:30PM
Rare Book Room, Canaday Library

Philadelphia-based artist Merrill Mason will discuss her work in the context of the Picturing Women exhibition, focusing in particular on her Red Robe and Personal Effects series, on view at Bryn Mawr, as telling narrative portrayals of identity across media.

 

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