Theme ideas:

Broader theme: Fashioning Music - rolling exhibits, each with a different focus. These could tie into other exhibits. Ideas include:

• Fashion of protest
  • Punk
  • Other movements?
  • Labor-related
• Plantation work songs
  • Pick a bale of cotton, Cottonfields
  • https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/slavery/experience/education/feature.html
  • https://balladofamerica.org/pick-a-bale-of-cotton/
• Jazz age (shorter skirts...) Did fashion change to accommodate dances?
• Costumes (ballet, opera) Is it possible to collaborate with theatre/dance depts?
• Songs involving weaving, spinning, knitting, sewing, stitching, etc.
  • Instructional sewing songs

  • Hebridean folksongs: a collection of waulking songs

    https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/394043
  • https://www.scotslanguage.com/Work_Songs_uid138/Weaving_Songs
  • Weave Little Stars Into My Sleep: Native American Lullabies - acquire
  • "Gretchen am Spinnrade" Schubert
• Songs/music from other cultures
  • Ask student staff for ideas?

Fibers & Music

Performance element:

Ask student a capella groups to participate?

Opening date:

Curator/s"

Lenora Schneller

Presenters/Performers ideas:

Consider a performance element for opening: concert in library, Midday Music, see if there are composers doing sound installations involving textiles