Alden O’Brien has a BA in art history from Barnard College and an MA in Museum Studies in Costume and Textiles from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She has been curator of costume at the DAR since 1990, and over time she has been given charge of the dolls and toys, quilts, and most recently the samplers and needlework. She has curated nearly a dozen exhibitions.
In the third of a three-part series, the author looks at the various meanings behind items created over time—part of an upcoming exhibition at the DAR Museum in Washington, DC.
In the second of a three-part series, the author looks at the many sewing duties most women performed regularly, and the technology developed in the nineteenth century to assist them—part of an upcoming exhibition at the DAR Museum in Washington, DC.
In this first part of a three-part series, the author looks at the first concept—how and where girls learned their sewing skills—that is examined in an upcoming exhibition at the DAR Museum in Washington, DC.