
Cynthia Cooper is Head, Collections and Research, and Curator, Costume and Textiles, at the McCord Museum in Montreal, where she oversees the largest museum collection of Canadian dress. She holds a M.S. in Historic Costume and Textiles from the University of Rhode Island. She received the Richard Martin Exhibition Award from the Costume Society of America in 2009 for the McCord exhibition Reveal or Conceal? and in 2004 as a member of the curatorial team of Clothes Make the MAN. She is the author of Magnificent Entertainments: Fancy Dress Balls of Canada’s Governors General (Goose Lane Editions, 1997) and has contributed to other books including The Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (Berg, 2010), The Fashion Reader (Berg, 2011), and Fashion: A Canadian Perspective (UTP, 2004). She has taught courses on the intersections between fashion and art, and on fashion history in Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts and Department of Art History.
Sessions in which Cynthia Cooper participates
Sunday 5 June, 2016
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Sessions in which Cynthia Cooper attends
Saturday 4 June, 2016
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History Museums, Heritage and Visitors
13:30 -
17:00 |
3 hours 30 minutes
Sunday 5 June, 2016
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Fashioning Heritage
9:00 -
10:30 |
1 hour 30 minutes
Monday 6 June, 2016
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Tuesday 7 June, 2016
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Thinking Through the Museum: Difficult Knowledge in Public
13:30 -
15:00 |
1 hour 30 minutes
Museums and Historical Consciousness: Emergent Themes in Theory and Practice
15:30 -
17:00 |
1 hour 30 minutes