wood collection

  • fire charred maple bracelet
  • african blackwood cuff

 

 

 

 

Costume Collections: A Collaborative Model for Museums

On Collection Development: Short Presentations and Panel Discussion

Gillion Carrara was invited to speak at a two-day symposium beginning May 21, 2010, that celebrates and illuminates the historic collection-sharing collaboration between the Brooklyn Museum and The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Date: May 22, 2010
2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028–0198

For a complete listing of talks and titles at the Brooklyn Museum email: academic.programs@brooklynmuseum.org or call (718)501-6214.

For a complete listing of talks and titles at the Met Museum email: lectures@metmuseum.org or call (212) 396-5460.

The symposium is free with respective Museum
admission; reservations and tickets not required.
Admission on a first-come, first-served basis.

The two-day symposium is held in conjunction
with the two exhibitions:
American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
May 5–August 15, 2010
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall, 2nd floor
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The exhibition is made possible by Gap.
Additional support is provided by Condé Nast.

American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection
May 7–August 1, 2010
Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 4th floor
Brooklyn Museum

evenings in Vogue

On Thursday, June 18, 2009, Gillion Carrara was one of four artists who joined Vogue magazine for an event to benefit of the Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Center. Special hosts were Whitney Lasky and Tara Koch. Guests were invited to shop the season’s most inspiring choices in fashion and accessories.

Pieces featured in NY Fashion Week

noteworthy from the studio -

Designer Mathew Ames selected work by Chicago Metalsmith Gillion Carrara for his New York Fashion Week runway show – Gravity’s Rainbow – Sunday 15 February – on the runway with earrings and cuffs in lead crystal and silver will compliment the fall/winter 2009 collection at Fashionhaus at 3:00pm.