NYC Free Arts Excursion: The Tenement Museum

Join us on a trip back in time to the New York City Tenement Museum!

Co-Curated by Assistant Professor of Public Health, Bridget Hussain and Theatre Program Costume Director, Julie Leavitt Learson, travel, museum fees, a guided tour, and lunch will all be provided to students AT NO COST!

The Tenement Museum is a dynamic and interactive museum site which allows visitors to explore the lives of people who lived and worked in Manhattan's diverse Lower East Side. Each preserved apartment or shop focuses on a different family and a different period.

Our tour will focus on a young dressmaker and his family who managed a clothing "factory" out of their home at the turn of the 20th century. Their unique story weaves together fashion history, labor relations, food insecurity, public health, period aesthetics, domestic life, childbirth/rearing, and community building, all in one tiny apartment!

This special, interdisciplinary excursion is open to all Fairfield students (undergraduate or graduate), with twelve slots available on a first-come, first-serve basis.

To sign up, email Arts Institute Senior Coordinator, Kerry Lunn: klunn@fairfield.edu

Excursion details:

WHEN: Friday, February 20th. The group will travel by Metro North train that morning, leaving at approximately                      8:30am.

WHERE: The Tenement Museum, and a restaurant where lunch will be provided.

WHO: Curated by Bridget Hussain, PhD, and Julie Leavitt Learson, MFA, and funded by the Fairfield University 

            Arts Institute. Open to all Fairfield University Students.

COST: FREE

Further questions may be addressed to Arts Institute Director, Sean F. Edgecomb, PhD: sedgecomb@fairfield.edu