Costume designer Summer Jack and exhibit curator Eva Garcelon-Hart will present an informal tour of the “From Homespun to Couture: Fashion in Historic Middlebury” exhibit. They will discuss how the local 19th-century women dressed, how they learned about fashionable trends, and reveal the intricacies of fashionable dress wearing and making.   

Summer Lee Jack is a faculty member of the Theater Department at Middlebury College. She has been designing costumes for over 20 years and has worked on over 125 productions from operas and new plays to musicals, TV series, motion pictures and short films in the New York City area.

Eva Garcelon Hart is the Stewart-Swift Research Center Archivist. She earned her Master’s Degree in History of Art and MLIS from the University of California at Berkeley. Since the mid-1980s, she has worked for institutional and private archives, including that of Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz and The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. In her work at the Research Center, she is particularly interested in bringing to public attention its overlooked stories and collections through exhibits and public programing.