Willamette Institute for Continued Learning - Clothing & Memory: A Pedagogical Approach to Teaching first-year students

"Clothing & Memory” which explores the multiple ways the clothes we wear tell stories about our life’s journey and are embedded with meaning and memory. Bobby Brewer-Wallin (he | him) has worked in the field of theatre design for 30+ years. With an MFA in costume design from CalArts, he joined the faculty at Willamette University in 2000. He teaches courses in Costume Design, Global Fashion History, and seminars on the subjects of Clothing + Memory, Protest Clothing, The Material Culture of Resistance, Material Culture & The Art of Storytelling, and Voices of the Pacific Northwest. He spent spring 2022 teaching in Ireland at The University of Galway. Brewer-Wallin is a Resident Artist at Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, Oregon."