A conversation on appropriation and appreciation in fashion

Join us for a conversation exploring the nuances of cultural appropriation and appreciation in fashion. This talk takes place on the opening day of Fashioning San Francisco: A Century of Style.

Featured panelists include: Abram Jackson, director of interpretation at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and exhibition catalogue contributors Susan B. Kaiser, professor emerita, UC Davis, departments of design, and gender, sexuality, and women’s studies, and editor of Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty, Ann Marguerite Tartsinis, visiting faculty member at the California College of the Arts and PhD candidate in the department of art and art history at Stanford University, and Lewis Watts, photographer and professor emeritus UC Santa Cruz. Laura Camerlengo, exhibition curator and curator in charge of costume and textile arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, will moderate the panel.

Abram Jackson (FAMSF, director of interpretation)
Laura Camerlengo (FAMSF, curator in charge of costume and textile arts)
Susan B. Kaiser (UC Davis, professor emerita, departments of design, and gender, sexuality, and women’s studies, and editor of Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty)
Ann Marguerite Tartsinis (California College of the Arts and Stanford University)
Lewis Watts (Emeritus UC Santa Cruz)

About the speakers

Abram Jackson joined the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco as the Museums' inaugural director of interpretation in June 2022. Jackson utilizes ethnic studies theories and DEIA practices in partnership with staff to incorporate more inclusive narratives into didactics. One of Jackson’s contributions to this effort is the interpretation partners program, which incorporates local voices into the interpretive framing for special exhibitions with themes connected to lived experiences of local and global communities.

Laura L. Camerlengo is curator in charge of costume and textile arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and curator of the exhibition Fashioning San Francisco: A Century of Style. Since 2010, Camerlengo has organized, co-organized, and presented numerous costume and textiles exhibitions for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with a focus on sharing the stories of women and artists of color.

Ann Marguerite Tartsinis is a visiting faculty member at the California College of the Arts and a PhD candidate in the department of art and art history at Stanford University. From 2010 to 2016, she was an associate curator at the Bard Graduate Center, New York, where she organized several fashion history and material culture exhibitions.

Lewis Watts is a photographer, archivist/curator, and professor emeritus of art at UC Santa Cruz. His artwork centers around the “cultural landscape” primarily in the African Diaspora. He is the co-author with Elizabeth Pepin of Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era (Heyday Books Berkeley, 2020) as well as New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition (UC Press, 2013) and Portraits (Edition One Press Berkeley, 2020).

Susan B. Kaiser is professor emerita at UC Davis, having served in the departments of textiles and clothing; design; and gender, sexuality, and women’s studies. She was a founding member of the cultural studies PhD program and served as the interim dean of humanities, arts, and cultural studies from 2015 to 2018. Her research centers on the interplay between fashion studies and intersectional, feminist cultural studies, with a current interest in rethinking time and place through fashion.

Learn more about the exhibition: https://www.famsf.org/exhibitions/fashioning-san-francisco

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