BROOKINGS — The South Dakota Art Museum Guild continued its examination of different expressions of art when textiles professor Nancy Lyons shared her expertise about “Art is Wearable with Fashion.” Lyons spoke to the Guild on Tuesday in the Multipurpose room on the lower level of the art museum.
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BROOKINGS — The South Dakota Art Museum Guild continued its examination of different expressions of art when textiles professor Nancy Lyons shared her expertise about “Art is Wearable with Fashion.” Lyons spoke to the Guild on Tuesday in the Multipurpose room on the lower level of the art museum.
“I believe what we call ‘Wearable Art’ uses imagination and free expression to share personal vision,” Lyons said.
Lyons has followed clothing fashion throughout her career that began when she sketched fashions and sewed them while growing up in North Dakota. She holds a bachelor’s degree in fashion design and a master’s in textiles and clothing. Between earning her degrees, she worked as a designer for Jones of Dallas in Dallas, Texas. Since coming to teach at SDSU in 1977, Lyons has stayed immersed in the fashion industry by taking students on study trips to the New York City Garment District. The Garment District, known as the center for fashion design and manufacturing in the United States since the early 20th Century, gives students a view of cutting edge fashion design. Lyons’s expertise carries across the Great Plains as she teaches online merchandising as part of a consortium Master’s program with Oklahoma State University.
“Fashion is just the medium,” she said, “much as a visual artist chooses the material by which to create art.” In a number of published books, noted historian Anne Hollander describes dress having status as visual art because it follows the same rules to which paintings ascribe.
Guild membership is open to all. Programs are the hallmark of monthly meetings September through May.
Guild membership is not required to attend the free programs. However, $20 annual dues support these programs and the guild art acquisition fund.
The art museum is at 1036 Medary Ave. in Brookings. Designated free parking is located on Harvey Dunn Street, just west of the museum.
For more information about guild, contact Jeanne Manzer at 605-691-1018. For more information about the art museum, contact Carolyne Hart at 605-688-4313.
