Art-to-Art Palette Journal

American invocation expressed in show

BENTONVILLE, AR (PNAN) – On view through January 30, 2023, “Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour” is the first exhibition dedicated to fashion and the first to present American fashion as a powerful emblem of global visual culture, amplified by movies, television, red carpets and social media at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

Teri Greeves, Abstraction: Kiowa by Design, 2014, beads on canvas high-heeled sneakers, 11 1/2 x 10 x 4 in. each. Courtesy Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas. Photo: Stephen Lang.

Cowboy boots. Bathing suits. Sneakers. Hollywood gowns. Denim jeans, including dresses worn by first ladies to art-inspired garments to iconic fashion moments that defined a generation.

The exhibit conveys uniquely American expressions of invocation, highlights the compelling stories of both designers and wearers that center on opportunity and self-invention, and amplifies the voices of those who are often left out of dominant fashion narratives.

Jordan Castell, Ourlando, 2018, oil on canvas, 90 in. × 78 1/8 in. × 1 1/2 in. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2019.16. Photography by Edward C. Robison III.

Viewers will also have the opportunity to interact between video, imagery and over 100 garments and accessories selected from across two centuries of fashion. This sweeping presentation conveys how American fashion and its contributions reflect the American spirit of ingenuity on the national and world stages.

For more information on Fashioning America as well as other programming see: https://crystalbridges.org.

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Founded by philanthropist and arts patron Alice Walton, Crystal Bridges is a public non-profit charitable organization. More on this Arkansas jewel at: https://crystalbridges.org/about

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