Online Program: Drawing with the Dress Detective

General $30 Member $25 Student $20 

This workshop introduces participants to methods of examining and interpreting garments through drawing. Dr. Ingrid Mida, author of The Dress Detective (Bloomsbury 2015) and Reading Fashion in Art (Bloomsbury 2020), will lead participants through a series of drawing exercises that are intended to encourage slow looking and refine skills of observation. Participants will have the opportunity to draw from selected artifacts from the Textile Museum of Canada or garments in their possession.  

Dr. Ingrid Mida is an art and dress historian and also an artist and author with a PhD, Art History and Visual Culture. She is presently is a Research Fellow at the Modern Literature and Culture Centre at Ryerson University, where she is currently working on a monograph called Dressing and Undressing Duchamp. 

Dr. Mida is sometimes called The Dress Detective – which is also the title of her first book. She has acted as a consultant to museums and private collectors in helping date and interpret photographs, artworks and dress artifacts. She is responsible for the revival of the Ryerson Fashion Research Collection – bringing the dormant archive back to life in 2012 and making it into a vibrant hub for object-based research in the School of Fashion. 

Class size is limited to 10, registration is required. You will receive an email with the Zoom meeting access link prior to the event.  

Type: Program

Date: Feb 13, 2021, 2pm - 3:30pm

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Dr. Ingrid Mida

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