Talks & lectures





Material Culture



Material Culture: Form, Function & Fashion


Turtle Bay Exploration Park & Museum

Volunteer/staff exhibition talk and tour. November 8, 2017.



Costume Etchings



Foreign Treasures: Elizabeth Ginno’s Costume Etchings from the 1940 Exposition on Treasure Island.


“Body as Agent: Changing Fashion Art, Wearable Art and Sculpture” symposium, Richmond Art Center

October 10, 2015.


Working Girls Conference at Saint Mary’s College of California in Moraga, CA, October 2007.


33rd Annual National Symposium of the Costume Society of America in San Diego, CA, May 2007.



Hidden Treasure



Hidden Treasure: Clothing Collections at Turtle Bay Exploration Park


Costume Society of America's 41th Annual Meeting & Symposium

May 27- 30, 2015.



ICON: THE Shirtwaist



Icon: The Shirtwaist Dress in Good Housekeeping and other media


"Women in Magazines: Research, Representation, Production and Consumption," Kingston University, London

June 22-23 2012


Popular Culture & American Culture Ass. National Conference in San Francisco, CA, March 2008.





Natacha Rambova



Personality & Style: The Fashion Career of Natacha Rambova


Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Docent Enrichment Lecture, October 7, 2010.


Armchair Tour at the 31st Annual National Symposium of the Costume Society of America, in Philadelphia, PA, May 2005.


In Search of Content Lecture Series of the Costume Council for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, October 2005.


Presented in tandem with the exhibit at the Phoenix Art Museum, Fashion Gallery (two lectures), September 2004


Annual Richard Martin Costume Symposium at New York University, NY, April 2004. (Thesis Presentation)



Madame Baer



Madame Baer and her Gowns: A Study in San Francisco High Society


35th Annual National Symposium of the Costume Society of America in Tempe, AZ, May 2009.



1930s Fashion design



1930-1938: Influences & Designers


Educational Lecture

Drexel University, The Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design in Philadelphia, PA, January 2008.



Shoe Design History



The Fine Art of Shoe Design, 1920 – Present.


The Bellevue Club, Oakland, CA,

August 2005.





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Heather Vaughan Lee