Gallery Talk – Stitching Seams: A Closer Look with Collections Steward Andrea Caluori

Explore our current exhibit “Stitching Seams” with SMLA’s Collections Steward, Andrea Caluori. She will give a brief overview of the Museum’s textile collection and guide visitors through the Stitching Seams exhibit’s garments. Furthermore, she will provide an in-depth look into the garments’ construction, history and stories in order to better understand the people who made and wore them.

Andrea Caluori is the Collections Steward at the Stockbridge Library, Museum & Archives. For over two decades, Andrea has worked at historic sites and museums in various roles: historical interpreter, public program manager, educator, and exhibit curator. She holds a degree from Mt. Holyoke College in Art History and a Masters Degree in Italian Cultural Studies from the University of Connecticut where she focused her research on the artists and writers of Austro-Hungarian Trieste and the relationship between cultural identity, memory, and landscape. Her current research interests have shifted towards textile production during the Arts & Crafts movement in the United States and the cultural history of the sewing machine from 1870-1960. In her spare time, Andrea organizes the Getting into Treadle project, a volunteer effort based in Ashfield, MA at the Belding Memorial Library to preserve, refurbish and put back to work antique treadle sewing machines.

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