A Panel Discussion March 6, 2019, noon-1:30pm
CVPA Star Store campus, 715 Purchase Street New Bedford, MA 02740
This panel will consider the relationship between fashion production/design and issues in environmental and social justice. Featuring: Dr. Nikolay Anguelov, author of The Dirty Side of the Garment Industry: Fast Fashion and its Negative Impact on Environment and Society (CRC Press, 2015); Dan Borelli, artist featured in Chasing Color (on view in CVPA Campus gallery Feb 21-April 1, 2019), and Ranger Andrew Schnetzer, a National Park Service (NPS) Servicewide Uniform Committee member and former technical adviser to the NPS uniform program manager. Moderated by Petra Slinkard, Nancy B. Putnam Curator of Fashion and Textiles, Peabody Essex Museum. This program is associated with the exhibition Chasing Color, and is supported by the CVPA Dean’s office.

Dan Borelli, The Ashland-Nyanza Project: Illuminating Futures, 2016.