Program Night – Fiber and Textile Preservation with Jill Morena
April 11, 2019
6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Northwest Recreation Center
2913 Northland Dr.
Austin, TX 78731
Please join us for our April meetings. Jill Morena will talk to us about textile preparation, covering everything from hanging, to bugs, to flat storage and rolling. We will discuss chemistry, how light affects fabric and look at pictures from Harry Ransom Center’s collection.
Jill Morena has worked at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin for over 15 years. She currently works as a technician in the Preservation Lab, where she co-designs and creates storage solutions for books, paper, objects, and photographs, as well as display options for film and theater costumes. She also works as an archivist, cataloging and describing works in the Center’s Art Collection.
Previously, as Assistant Curator of Costumes and Personal Effects, she managed storage, cataloging, and public access for over 10,000 costume and textile pieces and objects in the collection.
Jill has an MA in Art History with an emphasis on the intersection between 20th century fashion and avant-garde art, and an MSIS in Information Science with a concentration in preservation and archives.
Picture from http://costumesociety.org.uk/blog/post/textile-conservation-dos-and-donts-for-preservation-storage-of-your-own-col
Hands-on Night
April 25, 2019
7 – 9 PM
Austin Recreation Center
1301 Shoal Creek Blvd
Austin, TX 78701-1790
The spinning circle will be active as usual and the library will be open for reading or checking out of materials. If you have any other projects you’d like to work on, feel free to bring them instead, the more the merrier.