Alexandra Palmer
First Name:
Alexandra
Last Name:
Palmer
Title:
Associate Professor, Status Only, Department of Art History, University of Toronto; Senior Curator, Nora Vaughan Curatorship, Royal Ontario Museum
Biography :
Alexandra Palmer is the Nora E. Vaughan Fashion Costume Senior Curator and Chair of the Veronika Gervers Research Fellowship in Textiles & Costume at the ROM, and a Co-curator of BIG, the latest exhibit in the Patricia Harris Gallery of Textiles & Costume. She is cross appointed and teaches in Fine Art History at the University of Toronto, and the Graduate Programme in Art History at York University, and the School of Graduate Studies at Ryerson University.
Education:
PhD, University of Brighton, Design History, 1995
MA, New York University, History of Costume and Textiles (in conjunction with the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art), 1981
BA, University of Toronto, Art History, 1979
Personal Website:
https://www.rom.on.ca/en/collections-research/rom-staff/alexandra-palmer
People Type:
Areas of Interest:
- Art and culture
- Textiles and fashions
