{"id":39315,"date":"2021-11-05T16:34:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T20:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/?page_id=39315"},"modified":"2026-01-19T14:22:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:22:34","slug":"alexis-walker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/en\/collections\/team\/alexis-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexis Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Associate Curator, Dress, Fashion and Textiles<\/h4>\n<p><strong><em>The McCord Stewart Museum\u2019s Dress, Fashion and Textiles collection is a diverse, intriguing treasure trove. I am always amazed and inspired by the hidden histories contained within these objects, and the fascinating stories that emerge through research and study.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Alexis Walker joined the McCord Stewart Museum as Curatorial Assistant, Dress, Fashion and Textiles in 2015. She has a BFA in Textiles from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MA in Fashion and Textiles Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. She is particularly interested in the intersections of contemporary fashion with art, music, film and pop culture.<\/p>\n<p>She was curatorial assistant for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/en\/exhibitions\/expo-67-and-fashion-in-montreal-in-the-1960s\/\"><em>Fashioning Expo 67<\/em><\/a><\/strong> (2018), co-curator of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/en\/exhibitions\/jean-claude-poitras-fashion-inspiration\/\"><em>Jean\u2011Claude Poitras: Fashion and Inspiration<\/em><\/a><\/strong> (2019), a joint exhibition with the Mus\u00e9e de la Civilisation, and curator of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/en\/exhibitions\/parachute\/\"><em>Parachute: Subversive Fashion of the \u201880s<\/em><\/a><\/strong> (2021), for which the Museum won the Costume Society of America\u2019s 2023 <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.costumesocietyamerica.com\/richard-martin-exhibition-awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard Martin Exhibition Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her curatorial work, Walker is an embroidery and textile artist as well as a former fashion and costume designer and stylist. She has taught fashion history at George Brown College in Toronto and LaSalle College in Montreal. \u00a0She is a member of both the Costume Society of America and the Association of Dress Historians.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"cta\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/en\/collections\/dress-fashion-and-textiles\/\">More about the Dress, Fashion and Textiles Collection<i class=\"arrow-right-thickicon-\"><\/i><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"cta\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/collections.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/en\/collections\/155916\/dress-fashion-and-textiles\/objects\">Explore the collection online<i class=\"arrow-right-thickicon-\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Curator, Dress, Fashion and Textiles The McCord Stewart Museum\u2019s Dress, Fashion and Textiles collection is a diverse, intriguing treasure trove. I am always amazed and inspired by the hidden histories contained within these objects, and the fascinating stories that emerge through research and study. ________ Alexis Walker joined the McCord Stewart Museum as Curatorial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":21589,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-texte.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.11 (Yoast SEO v20.11) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Alexis Walker - Associate Curator, Dress, Fashion and Textiles - McCord Stewart Museum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Meet Alexis Walker, Associate Curator, Dress, Fashion and Textiles.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/en\/collections\/team\/alexis-walker\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alexis Walker\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Associate Curator, Dress, Fashion and Textiles The McCord Stewart Museum\u2019s Dress, Fashion and Textiles collection is a diverse, intriguing treasure trove.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/en\/collections\/team\/alexis-walker\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"McCord Stewart Museum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/museemccordstewart\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-01-19T19:22:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/app\/uploads\/2025\/12\/alexiswalker_20250910_ld.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1320\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@MuseeMcCordStew\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/en\/collections\/team\/alexis-walker\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/en\/collections\/team\/alexis-walker\/\",\"name\":\"Alexis Walker - 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