Reception
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
5:00pm – 8:00pm

​The curators hosted an opening reception at the Project Space at 80WSE gallery (80 Washington Square East, NYC). Free and open to the public.

Symposium
Sunday, January 28, 2018
12:00 – 2:00pm

This afternoon symposium at the NYU Einstein Auditorium (34 Stuyvesant Street, NYC), featured keynote speaker Kathy Peiss, professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture. Additional papers were presented by the exhibition curators, and there was a post-symposium reception and exhibition viewing at 80WSE gallery. Free and open to the public.

​​Kathy Peiss is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania.  Her work explores a variety of themes in modern cultural and gender history, including sexuality and the everyday life of working-class women; beauty, fashion, and style; leisure and popular culture; and print culture and mass acquisitions in the World War II era. She is the author of Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York; Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture; and Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style.

Symposium Program

​Welcome
Nancy Deihl, Director of the Costume Studies MA Program

Introduction & Acknowledgments
Mellissa Huber, Assistant Curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Costume Institute 
​
Bizarre Brows: An Abridge History of Notable Arches
Elena Kanagy-Loux

The Marchesa Luisa Casati: An Eye for Eccentricity
Stepanie Sporn

Masking Reality: The Eye Prosthetics of World War I
Lizanne Brown

​Married in a Blink of the Eye: Marriage Themes and Mascara in the 1940s
Laura Gust
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Glamour Boy: The Eye Dressing of David Bowie and Glam Rock Culture
Adam Hayes

Anxiety & Optimism in Y2K Eye Makeup 
Lauren Richter-Suriñach

Making-Up on Mobile: The Pretty Filters and Ugly Implications of Digital Adornment
Jessica Barker

Keynote Presentation
​The American Beauty Industry and the Problem of Eye Makeup
Kathy Peiss
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