Middlebury College artist-in-residence Jule Emerson will discuss the fashions worn by Lady Mary and her family in the popular PBS series Downton Abbey in a talk at Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro on December 3 at 7:00 pm.
Her talk, “The Costumes of Downton Abbey,” is part of the Vermont Humanities Council’s First Wednesdays lecture series and is free and open to the public.
Emerson has been an Artist-in-Residence, costume designer, and professor at Middlebury College since 1990. Prior to coming to Middlebury, she worked professionally as a costume artist for television, feature films, commercials, and the professional theatre.
Her professional credits include The Wonder Years, Saturday Night Live, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Private Lives for the California Repertory Theatre, and The Importance of Being Earnest at the Olney Theatre Center (which was a 1998 Helen Hayes award nominee for Outstanding Costume Design). She is a recipient of the J.S. Seidman Award and earned her MFA at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Location Library Main Room. This event is free and open to the public. For more information contact Brooks Library by phone at 802-254-5290 ext 0, by email at info@brookslibraryvt.org, or on the web at brookslibraryvt.org
Circus Costumes, next time, perhaps?
I’m sure this will be popular.
A highly useful return visit someday would be a discussion of making circus costumes – it’s a rather specialized skill and Brattleboro has quite a few circus performers.
Emerson’s work at Ringling Bros could prove informative and useful for many in town, after we learn about Downton, of course.