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6 ORNAMENT 38.1.2015 c ontributors Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell is an art historian specializing in fashion and textiles. She has worked as a curator, consultant, and educator for museums and universities around the world. Her most recent book is Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette (Yale University Press, 2015). In this issue, she interviews the Phoenix Art Museum's Curator of Fashion Design, Dennita Sewell, regarding the museum's latest exhibition titled "Fashioned in America." The exhibit explores domestic American designers and how ecology and the international economy affects homegrown fashion. p. 18 Glen R. Brown Glen R. Brown is an art historian and frequent contributor to Ornament and Ceramics Monthly, who specializes in craft media. His recent encounter with jewelry artist Daniel DiCaprio turned into an avid exploration of object and art. With DiCaprio's background serving mainly to accentuate and deepen the investigation, Brown involves himself in an exquisite preoccupation with the brooches themselves; the materials, the process, their origins and underlying concepts. While wood is currently DiCaprio's selected medium, the artist finds the ideas expressed as more important than the material in which they are rendered. Brown is a Professor of Art History and Associate Head of the Art Department at Kansas State University. p. 24 Carolyn L. E. Benesh Carolyn L. E. Benesh is Coeditor of Ornament and the magazine's resident expert on contemporary wearable art. This issue she provides a comprehensive tour of the renowned Smithsonian Craft Show, a venue for the arts and crafts in Washington, D.C., with which she has extensive experience. Benesh also covers a compelling exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art titled "Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire," wherein she reflects upon the cultural traditions deriving from the end of life in Victorian and Edwardian England. She also, as always, gives her own personal take on the issue in Postscript. p. 20, 30 Patrick R. Benesh-Liu Patrick R. Benesh-Liu is Associate Editor of Ornament and continues to find time to enjoy craft in between writing, travel and the post office. His contribution to the current issue details the marvelous narrative creation of African-American beadworker Joyce J. Scott, in a recent exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. A combination retrospective with new collaborative glass sculpture done in cooperation with Murano glassworkers, Scott's visual stories are expansive and evocative. Benesh-Liu also provides a zesty compilation of the latest craft news, where you can find out what's happening with craft in your local corner of the world. p. 12, 50