Keeping Our Dress Alive
Keeping Our Dress Alive is an exhibit occurring at MC Gallery in Manhattan on May 3rd, from 6:00-10:00 PM, in partial fulfillment of M.A. requirements of the Oral History Master of Arts Program at Columbia University, 2025.
Exhibition Design by Carter S. King. Technical Production Managed by Carson White. Lighting Design by Alison Calkins. Audio Design & Engineering by Zahra Crim. Graphic Design by Kemper Rodi.
Keeping Our Dress Alive, in partnership with OHMA at Columbia University and MC Gallery, offered an exploration of how oral history exists in material culture and process oriented thinking.
The exhibit featured audio designed from the process of stitching, projected flat patterns, a staged cutting table, muslin samples, and a reproduction of a 19th century Seneca overdress.
Keeping Our Dress Alive explored the complexities and duties of the “aliveness” experienced in indigenous material culture.
Featured left is a pedestal label from Keeping Our Dress Alive, illustrating the flat pattern and complexities of the muslin sample on the corresponding dress form.
Featured right is Zahra Crim’s label explaining the design and remixing of process oriented audio produced for Keeping Our Dress Alive. Audio is available below.
