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Scholarship, Community Programming, and Awards

Scholarship

In conjunction with the exhibition, we produced numerous academic presentations and publications that are listed below.

Reddy-Best, Kelly L., & Goodin, Dana. (2020). Queer fashion and Style: Stories from the Heartland – Authentic Midwestern queer voices through a museum exhibition. Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1080/03612112.2019.1686875

Reddy-Best, Kelly L., Goodin, Dana, & Sanders, Eulanda. (2019). Queer Fashion and Style: Stories from the Heartland – A museum exhibition. Presentation at the 45th Annual Meeting and National Symposium of the Costume Society of America, April 15-20, Seattle, WA.

Goodin, Dana, & Reddy-Best, Kelly L. (2019). Queer bodies: A case study of mounting and conservation ethics and practice exhibiting queer and non-binary dress and fashion. Presentation at the International Council of Museums Textile Working Group Meeting, June 20-22, Abegg Stiftung, Riggisberg, Switzerland.

Reddy-Best, Kelly L. (Oct 22-23, 2019). Central Michigan University, Lansing, MI. Public university presentation titled Queer women’s fashion & style: Collecting and telling histories from the Midwest.

 

Kelly Reddy-Best (left) and Dana Goodin (right) presenting the paper titled Queer Fashion and Styles: Stories from the Heartland - A Museum Exhibition at the Costume Society of America national conference in 2019 in Seattle, Washington
Kelly Reddy-Best (left) and Dana Goodin (right) presenting the paper titled Queer Fashion and Styles: Stories from the Heartland – A Museum Exhibition at the Costume Society of America national conference in 2019 in Seattle, Washington. Photo courtesy of Denise Green, 2019.

 

Flyer for public lecture at Central Michigan University in 2019
Flyer for public lecture at Central Michigan University in 2019. Flyer courtesy of Central Michigan University.

Community Programming

We held numerous public programs to accompany the exhibition. Three of these events are listed below. We had an opening event where Christian from the brand All is Fair in Love and Wear, a binder company, discussed and showed binders worn by trans and gender non-conforming people. We also did numerous public lectures around campus including one for the Feminist Friday series at the Margaret Sloss Center for Women and Gender Equity. Last, we created a pop-up exhibition at the Ames Public Library during the All Ages Drag Show, Ames IA.

Reddy-Best, Kelly L. (2019). Queer fashions and styles: Telling stories about our identities through objects. Presentation in the Feminist Friday series at the Margaret Sloss Center for Women and Gender Equity, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.

Reddy-Best, Kelly L., & Goodin, Dana. (2018). Queer Fashion & Style: Stories from the Heartland. Presentation for opening event of exhibition at Textiles and Clothing Museum, Ames, IA.

Reddy-Best, Kelly L. (2018). Queer Fashion & Styles: Stories from the Heartland. Extension pop-up exhibit at the Ames Public Library during the All Ages Drag Show, Ames IA.

Christian from the brand All is Fair in Love and Wear, a binder company, at the opening event discussing and showing binders worn by trans and gender non-conforming people.
Top left: Photo of opening event flyer. Top middle and right: visitors at the opening event. Bottom: Christian from the brand All is Fair in Love and Wear, a binder company, at the opening event discussing and showing binders worn by trans and gender non-conforming people. Photos courtesy of Kelly L. Reddy-Best, 2018.

 

Pop-up exhibition of Queer Fashion and Style: Stories from the Heartland during the All-Ages Drag Show at the Ames Public Library in 2019.
Pop-up exhibition of Queer Fashion and Style: Stories from the Heartland during the All-Ages Drag Show at the Ames Public Library in 2019. Photo courtesy of Kelly L. Reddy-Best, 2018.

Awards

In 2019, the Costume Society of America nominated the research abstract based upon the exhibition titled Queer Fashion and Style: Stories from the Heartland – A Museum Exhibition for the Betty Kirke Excellence in Research Award.

In 2019, the Costume Society of America awarded the exhibition the Richard Martin Exhibition Award, one of the top awards a mounted fashion exhibition can received.

 

Eulanda Sanders (left), Kelly Reddy-Best (middle), and Dana Goodin (right) in front of the Textiles and Clothing Museum gallery holding the Richard Martin Exhibition Award certificate.
Eulanda Sanders (left), Kelly Reddy-Best (middle), and Dana Goodin (right) in front of the Textiles and Clothing Museum gallery holding the Richard Martin Exhibition Award certificate. Photo courtesy of Sara Marcketti, 2018.

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Queer Fashion and Style: Stories from the Heartland Copyright © 2020 by Kelly L. Reddy-Best, Dana Goodin, and Eulanda Sanders is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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