Keynotes, Special Sessions, and Workshops

Elevating and Evaluating Curatorial Scholarship

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Abstract

Fashion curation is an integral form of public scholarship within our field and yet has historically been overlooked as such. Unlike creative design scholarship, we have not collectively developed nor agreed upon methods for peer review. As a result, curatorial work is often not considered in tenure-review processes, despite fashion exhibitions meeting the core principles of disseminating scholarship beyond the academy. A recent article in the Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, “Fashion Exhibitions as Scholarship,” challenged members of our field to implement peer review of fashion curation as a way to encourage and elevate this important form of scholarship (Green, et al., 2019). In this experimental salon session, we built upon Green et al.’s (2019) work by using the innovative salon session format as a juried venue for presenting fashion exhibitions rooted in rigor and research. Five fashion exhibitions were presented and discussed during the session.

Keywords: Fashion Collection, Museum Studies, Curatorial Studies, Fashion Studies, Creative Scholarship, Exhibition, Curatorial Scholarship, Fashion Exhibition, Curation

How to Cite:

Green, D. N., Reddy Best, K. L., Welters, L., Knowles, K., Nicholas, C., Delong, M. R., Shields, A. V., Smith, A., Oberg, C. & Striebel, H., (2020) “Elevating and Evaluating Curatorial Scholarship”, International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Conference Proceedings 77(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.31274/itaa.12213