Gilding Northeast Ohio: Fashion and Fortune 1870–1900 – Opening Reception

June 9, 2024 2:00 PM –5:00 PM

Overview

Gilding Northeast Ohio: Fashion and Fortune, 1870–1900 (June 8–October 13, 2024) is a unique exhibition that will highlight just what made Ohio sparkle so bright in the Gilded Age. This project will showcase fashion from the permanent collections of the Massillon Museum and the Western Reserve Historical Society as well as loans from various regional museums. The garments and objects in the show will tell the story of politicians, titans of industry, socialites, and the workers who helped gild Ohio. The Massillon Museum Main Gallery will be dramatically transformed to create an immersive experience.

Exciting features of the exhibition will be inclusion of original costumes designed for the HBO series The Gilded Age.

The exhibition is guest-curated by Brian Centrone, who has long partnered with Massillon Museum. Brian Centrone is a fashion historian specializing in late nineteenth-century British and American menswear, twentieth-century American menswear, queer fashion, pop culture fashion, and Barbie and Ken fashion and history. He co-curated the exhibition Gray Area: Authenticity, Value, and Subversion in Fashion at the 80 WSE Gallery, New York (2018) and guest curated the exhibition The Cunning Wrinkle of Newness: 19th Century Origins, Implications, and Adoptions of the Trouser Crease at the Harold L. Drimmer Library in Valhalla, New York (2022).

Funded in large part by a Major Arts Enhancements and Exhibitions Grant facilitated by ArtsinStark and Visit Canton, the project includes collaboration between dozens of regional partners to highlight the time period on which the exhibition focuses. Throughout the summer and into fall, programming in the form of concerts, performances, lectures, themed dinners, complementary exhibitions, and more will take place. A complete list of events will be published soon. The opening reception will take place the afternoon of Sunday, June 9, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

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Gilding Northeast Ohio: Fashion and Fortune 1870–1900 – Opening Reception
Massillon Massillon Museum 121 Lincoln Way East Massillon, Ohio 44646
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