AIC's 53rd Annual Meeting

Alejandra Flores is an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in The Department of Textile Conservation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she collaborates with The European Sculpture and Decorative Arts and The American Wing Textiles Collections. Her previous project focused on 19th-century Philippines’ Piña textiles and technical analysis of pineapple fiber, presented at The Association of Dress Historians International Conference: Clothing and Textiles in Art, London. This year, she will be working on 19th-century Mexican embroidery samplers, research that will be presented during the Crafting Fashion Conference in the Longue Durée Paris, Sorbonne-Nouvelle. She holds a BA from Mexico’s National School of Conservation where she graduated with a thesis on preventive conservation and care of a textile collection of XX-century Mexican Fashion.