About: Arianna

Contributor Arianna Funk is covering Sweden for Worn Through.

Arianna received her Master's degree from the Visual Culture: Costume Studies program at NYU in 2011.

She has explored costume through many avenues, from building 1620s outfits for interpreters at Plimoth Plantation to working Off-Broadway as a wardrobe supervisor, as well as collections work at Mystic Seaport, the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Vasa Museum in Sweden.

She is currently an independent researcher, using a material culture approach to study the visual identity of nineteenth-century New England suburbanites and the use of clothing and "costume" in living/history museums. This year she presented on the former at the Richard Martin Symposium at NYU and the Spring Conference of the New England Historian's Association, and next year will present on the latter at the ALHFAM New England Regional Conference. She also serves as the Bookstore Manager for the CSA. Look for her Worn Through column, Objektet och Museet (The Object and the Museum) every other Thursday.

Are Clothes Modern? is Arianna's personal blog, focused on linguistic descriptions of dress and appearance.

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