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“Blow some my way”: Jazz Age Women and Cigarette Holders Video Event

Start
Thursday, November 21, 2024
End
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Location
A link and unique password to view this Video Event is emailed to those who register

Registration

ADSNY Member – $15.00
ICADS Member – $15.00
Special discount for members of fellow Art Deco Societies
Jazz Age Order – $12.00
Non-Member – $20.00

About the Program:

Cigarette holders, while small in size, hold a multitude of history. In the first half of the twentieth century, the rise in popularity of cigarette holders coincided with the women’s rights movement—by the 1920s, smoking for women became a signal of freedom, away from restrictions on how femininity should be defined—as well as improved plastics technology, as costume jewelry became all the rage.

Beginning with a brief history of smoking culture and its accoutrements, this talk will explore the popularity of the cigarette holder in the Jazz Age and examine specific holders in a range of colors, materials, and styles, including those by well-known designers like Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, and more.

This recorded Video Event includes the original PowerPoint––with wonderful images that you will be able to see directly on your computer screen, tablet, or mobile device.

About the Speaker:

Rebecca McNamara is Associate Curator at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College and was an inaugural Lenore Tawney Fellow at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in 2023. A scholar of 19th-century through contemporary American art, with a focus on fiber art and craft-oriented practices, she centers her curatorial practice on interdisciplinary engagement, close collaboration, and facilitating new perspectives on art and urgent issues. Her exhibitions include Yvette Molina: A Promise to the Leaves (2023–ongoing), Paula Wilson: Toward the Sky’s Back Door (2023), Where Words Falter: Art and Empathy (2022), Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science (2022), Give a damn. (2018), and Crazy Quilts: Stitching Memories (co-curator; Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2017), among other projects. She is editor and author of numerous publications, including the e-book Widows Unveiled: Fashionable Mourning in Late Victorian New York (2016) and co-author of A Token of Elegance: Cigarette Holders in Vogue (2015). She has held curatorial positions at the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. She received a BA in art history and BS in journalism from Boston University and an MA in the history of decorative arts and design from Parsons the New School for Design/Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.

Registration:

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