Tea Party in the Garden
*The event has already taken place on this date: Sun, 04/14/2024
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About our Speaker:
We are delighted to welcome our presenter, Paige Myers. Ms. Myers is the Textile Conservator at the North Carolina Museum of history in Raleigh, NC. Having been a conservator for over 28 years, Ms. Myers has done contract work for the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, worked with a private conservator in Washington, DC and completed internships at the American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA; Smithsonian Institution, and Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC. She has a post-graduate degree in Textile Conservation from the University of Alberta, Canada, Bachelor of Science degree in Clothing and Textiles from East Carolina University and an Associate degree in Liberal Arts from Chowan University.
In addition to being a conservator, Ms. Myers has been a professional costumer for over 30 years and has worked for Raleigh Creative Costumes and Troika, Inc. She has been involved with several local filmmakers as a wardrobe assistant, FX makeup artist, properties master and production manager. Films include the award- winning Dar He: The Lynching of Emmett Till and Box Brown: A Box Marked Freedom.
Paige often volunteers as a living historian at different historic sites throughout NC., including Joel Lane house in Raleigh, House in the Horseshoe in Sanford, NC, and Historic Hope Plantation in Windsor, NC.
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