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Department Staff
Jill D’Alessandro, Director and Curator of the Avenir Institute of Textile Arts and Fashion
Jill D’Alessandro is the Director and Curator of the Avenir Institute of Textile Arts and Fashion at the Denver Art Museum. Prior to her appointment in October 2022, D’Alessandro served as the Curator in Charge of Costume and Textile Arts at The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) from 2002 to 2022. During her 21-year tenure in San Francisco, D’Alessandro developed over 25 exhibitions on a diverse variety of subjects, ranging from world textile traditions to twentieth- and twenty-first century fashion design. Recent projects include The Summer of Love Experience: Art, Fashion and Rock & Roll (2017), Contemporary Muslim Fashions (2018), which she co-curated, as well as co-edited the accompanying exhibition catalogue, and Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy (2022), for which she served as curator and author of the exhibition catalogue. Notable exhibitions on textile arts include The Art of the Anatolian Kilim: Highlights from the McCoy Jones Collection (2011), On the Grid: Textiles and Minimalism (2016), and Kay Sekimachi: Student, Teacher, Artist (2016).
D’Alessandro earned her bachelor’s degree from Scripps College, Claremont California and her master’s degree from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA in textile arts. In 1998, she received a Fulbright Scholarship to study in South Korea, where she focused on traditional hand papermaking techniques and their application in contemporary art. As a curator overseeing global collections of both textiles and fashion, D’Alessandro is interested in the study of textile arts as a vehicle to draw connections across cultures.
Courtney Pierce, Curatorial Assistant
Courtney Pierce is the Curatorial Assistant for the Avenir Institute of Textile Arts and Fashion at the Denver Art Museum. Before joining the department in October 2021, Pierce worked for many years as a clothing buyer and visual merchandiser for a fashion company based in Los Angeles, California. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in art history from the University of Colorado Denver, and her master’s degree in Art History from the University of Denver. Pierce has previously held internships in the Modern and Contemporary art department of the Denver Art Museum as well as with the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, where she served as a research assistant.
Stefania Van Dyke, Associate Director, Interpretive Engagement
Stefania Van Dyke is the Associate Director, Interpretive Engagement at the Denver Art Museum. Most recently, she was interpretation lead for Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature, and for previous projects like Star Wars™ and the Power of Costume, Brilliant: Cartier in the 20th Century, and Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the Studio. Stefania is overseeing the reconceptualization of the Thread Studio, an exploratory space adjacent to the Textile Art and Fashion gallery. She has her bachelor's from Columbia University, master's in art history from the University of Chicago, and master's in education in museum education from Bank Street College of Education.
Publicaciones
Desde 2013, el Departamento de Arte textil y Moda ha producido varias guías complementarias para exposiciones que han puesto de relieve los puntos fuertes de la colección permanente: la primera de ellas abarca la Colección Charlotte Hill Grant, compuesta de túnicas cortesanas y accesorios del periodo Qing tardío de China. La segunda es un análisis de colchas estadounidenses, desde el siglo XVIII a contemporáneas, que gozan de reconocimiento a nivel nacional. La publicación más reciente del departamento se centra en adquisiciones de moda contemporánea realizadas en conjunto con la exposición inaugural de la actual curadora, Florence Müller, en 2016.
Alice Zrebiec, Threads of Heaven: Silken Legacy of China’s Last Dynasty (Hilos del cielo: el legado de seda de la última dinastía china). Denver Art Museum, 2013.
Alice Zrebiec, Companion to First Glance~Second Look: Quilts from the Denver Art Museum Collection (Guía complementaria para Primera vista—Segunda mirada: colchas de la colección del Denver Art Museum). Denver Art Museum, 2014.
Florence Müller con biografías de Jane Burke, Shock Wave: Japanese Fashion Design, 1980s—90s (Onda sísmica: diseño de moda japonés, décadas de 1980—1990). Denver: Denver Art Museum, 2016.
Exhibition History
Recent exhibitions organized by the Avenir Institute of Textile Arts and Fashion department include: