This is Beth. Celebrating.
Exhibit opening 2012:
(That’s me on the left.)
Exhibit opening 2013:
(That’s Liz on the right, me next to her sporting a spiky version of this month’s do.)
What strikes me (besides dramatic do change): how fortunate I am to work on projects like these, with fabulous people.
This is Beth. It was a happy accident – Liz says fate – that we ended up with Orange and Blue January dos.
We’re both Denver natives, born to support the Broncos.
D is for Devoted! At the Denver A to Z exhibit at the History Colorado Center (Be the Barrel Man).
This is Beth. When I tell people about this little hair/blog project, they often have their own do-related tale to tell. It often has something to do with how their hair has something to do with their identity.
Liz and I both work at museums; we recently saw this in an exhibit in Minnesota:
The label: “To many American Indians like the Dakota, long hair is culturally significant. By forcing children to have their hair cut, boarding schools were destroying a piece of the student’s identity.”
The reference to an enormously tragic part of history brought a few things to mind:
Changing the Locks 