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Celebrate Women’s History Month with suffrage-themed exhibit at Avenir Museum By Jeff Dodge
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, the Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising has created a suffrage-themed exhibition examining how women’s attire in the U.S. has changed in response to the activism of the times. The Colorado State University museum also has reinvented two exhibits launched last fall to commemorate CSU’s 150th birthday: “Proud to Wear: CSU150” and “Women Wear at CSU.” Both now feature new items that weren’t on display in the fall. “R.E.S.P.E.C.T. the Dress: Clothing and Activism in U.S. Women’s History,” opened Jan. 21 in the Avenir Museum Large Gallery and runs through May 23. Students in Curator Katie Knowles’ spring 2019 graduate course, “Care and Exhibit of Museum Collections,” helped research and plan the exhibit, determining the chronological order of the displays, finding historical photos and compiling text for the labels.
Libbie Coy dress
Visitors are greeted in the Avenir lobby with the perfect item to introduce all three exhibits: the 1890 wedding dress of Elizabeth “Libbie” Coy, who in 1884 was the only female among the first three graduates of CSU, then known as the State Agricultural College. Coy, who was the first woman to graduate from any institution of higher learning in the state, remained active at the college after graduation, founding the alumni association and working as an instructor. “R.E.S.P.E.C.T. the Dress” moves through U.S. history, documenting the clothing changes that came with the beginning of the suffrage movement at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, where 68 women and 32 men signed the “Declaration of Sentiments.” There are photos of a Native American woman wearing traditional dress as well as non-native school attire, and a self-portrait by photographer Frances Johnston in a most unladylike light for the times: wearing a boy’s cap and hiked-up skirts, smoking a cigarette and holding a beer stein. “Fashion as Self-Defense” features a blue picture hat that would have been held in place by a long hat pin, “which women discovered make great self-defense weapons,” Knowles said.
Proud to Wear, Women’s Wear
The spring version of “Proud to Wear: CSU150,” which runs through June 27, features a new collection of items that have a decidedly female bent, from a rodeo queen jacket and cheerleader outfit to former CSU basketball player Katie Cronin’s jersey and uniforms worn by the Hutton sisters, who all played softball for CSU. “Women Wear at CSU,” which runs through May 23, also features an all-new collection of attire and accessories on loan from women at the University. They include a dress made by the grandmother of Silvia Minguzzi of the Allicar Museum of Art; a suit from Erica Suchman of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology; a wrap skirt made by Avenir Director of Operations and Engagement Doreen Beard in junior high; and a scarf from Suzanne Hale of the Allicar.
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The Avenir Museum is celebrating Women’s History Month with an exhibition that includes the wedding dress of Libbie Coy, the first woman to graduate from CSU. There is a Spanish cat dress from Tracy L. Webb of the Research Integrity and Compliance Review Office, spurs and boots from Brittany Johnson of University Advancement, a handbag from Kristin Stephens of the Department of Statistics, and a red Talbot’s jacket that College of Health and Human Sciences Dean Lise Youngblade bought in 2005 for her first job interview at CSU.
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