A Conversation with Christina Bevilacqua
“It probably started out as something fairly simple, and then it got more and more intricate. . . . I loved to stay up all night, so I think it was probably that.” Christina Bevilacqua, an accomplished milliner and entrepreneur and the current Programs and Exhibitions Director at the Providence Public Library, holds a small denim purse she richly embroidered in the 1970s while she was growing up in Richmond, Virginia. One of the powers of a handmade object is its tendency to prompt memories from the craftsperson who made it. On October 7, 2020, Bevilacqua met with Kate Irvin (curator and head of the Costume and Textiles department at the RISD Museum) and me to share stories about the purse, a recent acquisition of the RISD Museum.
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