Jennifer S. Griffiths, winner of a 2015 IAS Travel Grant, used her award to present her paper, “Savage Beauty: A Futurist Legacy of Self-Design” at the 103rd Annual Conference of the College Art Association (CAA) in 2015. The grant allowed her to travel from Rome to New York to speak on a panel dedicated to Fashion and the Contemporary Avant-Garde. She has yet to publish the paper, but sees it as a a first step towards a larger body of research on Futurist influences in contemporary fashion. She is currently preparing a series of critical essays on women futurist artists and teaches at The American University of Rome and Iowa State College of Design.
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Griffiths visits the grave of Giacomo Balla, Cimitero di Verano, Rome
Shalom Harlow Wearing Dress, No. 13, Spring/Summer 1999
Alexander McQueen, Prosthetic Leg, Ensemble No. 13, Spring/Summer 1999
Fortunato Depero and FT Marinetti wearing Depero’s Futurist Vests, 1924
Paralympian Aimee Mullins wears Cheetah Flex-Foot carbon legs