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SUMMARY:Victorian Hairwork and Nineteenth-Century Mourning Practice
LOCATION:Bard Graduate Center
DESCRIPTION:Victorian Hairwork and Nineteenth-Century Mourning PracticeA le
 cture by Karen Bachmann (Fashion Institute of Technology\, Pratt Institute
 )Wednesday\, September 30\, 202638 West 86th Street\, Lecture Hallgallery@
 bgc.bard.edu$15 General | $12 Seniors | Free for people associated with a 
 college or university\, people with museum ID\, people with disabilities a
 nd caregivers\, and BGC membersNo late seating\; admittance is not guarant
 eed after 6 pm.Nineteenth-century England was rife with sentimental cultur
 e. Death rates were high due to numerous factors including disease\, war\,
  and high childhood mortality. Queen Victoria became an unlikely fashion i
 con when she submerged herself in mourning after the deaths of both her hu
 sband\, Prince Albert\, and her mother in 1861. Aside from her mostly blac
 k wardrobe\, she was widely known for her love of mourning jewelry\, which
  contained the hair of loved ones inside. Victorian hairwork became popula
 r in both jewelry and shadowbox form\, transcending the concept of a weara
 ble human relic into a fashion statement of the period. This lecture will 
 explore this connection between fashion and mourning and will highlight se
 veral pieces from the largest collection of ornamental hairwork in America
 —Leila’s Hair Museum—of which many pieces are now housed at the Morb
 id Anatomy Library in Brooklyn.Karen Bachmann teaches at both Pratt Instit
 ute and Fashion Institute of Technology. She specializes in both fine and 
 bridge jewelry\, wearable art\, and decorative art. She has interests in b
 aroque\, renaissance\, memento mori\, and Victorian wearable ornament and 
 material culture. She is a practicing studio jeweler and a former master j
 eweler at Tiffany & Co. She is a past and current lecturer and workshop le
 ader with NYC Jewelry Week. Her current line of jewelry centers anatomical
 ly correct human organs and insects\, which are carved in wax and cast int
 o sterling silver or brass using the lost-wax casting technique\, a subjec
 t that she teaches. Her studio work has been published in Art Jewelry Toda
 y and the Lark 500 series books. Written published work includes “Hairy 
 Secrets: Human Relic as Memory Object in Victorian Hairwork Jewelry.” He
 r most recent publication is an essay on nineteenth-century mourning jewel
 ry in the book Death: A Graveside Companion (2017). She has delivered lect
 ures and organized workshops at the American Folk Art Museum\, Mütter Mus
 eum\, Victorian Society of America\, Morbid Anatomy Museum\, Atlas Obscura
 \, Katonah Museum of Art\, and the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities\, Fin
 e Art\, and Natural History.Image: Hair wreath\, Presque Isle\, ca. 1860.
 \n\nBoletos: https://www.simpletix.com/e/victorian-hairwork-and-nineteenth
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