The
second
President's
Lecture
Series
features
Academy
Award
Winning
Costume
Designer,
Ruth
Carter.
Stay
tuned
for more
details!
President’s
Lecture
Series
with
Academy
Award
winning
American
film
costume
designer,
Ruth
Carter.
| March
23, 2023
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by
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Bryant
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The
second
President's
Lecture
Series
featuring
Academy
Award
Winning
Costume
Designer,
Ruth
Carter.
Ruth
E.
Carter
is the
Academy
Award
winning
American
film
costume
designer
known
for
turning
the
Black
Panther
superhero
into an
African
King;
making
history
as the
first
Black
person
to win
in the
category
and
earning
Marvel
Studios
their
first
Oscar
recognition.
Carter
pays
tribute
to the
people
of
Africa
through
the
costumes
in BLACK
PANTHER
and
BLACK
PANTHER
2:
WAKANDA
FOREVER.
She
fuses
traditional
and
contemporary
while
incorporating
technology
to
deliver
fashion
and
function,
creating
Afrofuturistic
pieces
that
empower
the
female
form,
honor
ancient
cultures,
and
invoke a
deep
sense of
representation
unlike
any
other
costumes
experienced
on
screen.
For
WAKANDA
FOREVER,
Carter
masterfully
raises
costume
design
to new
levels
while
introducing
new
superheroes
and the
underwater
world of
the
Talokan
into the
Marvel
Cinematic
Universe.
Carter
was
tasked
with
creating
hundreds
of looks
and
multiple
builds
for
superhero
characters
steeped
in
symbolism
and
storytelling
from two
civilizations
that
battle
on land,
in air,
and
underwater.
She adds
more
brilliance
and
depth of
culture
and
emotion
to
elevating
the
groundbreaking
Afrofuturistic
Wakandan
looks
with
compelling
new
costumes
and
super
suits
for the
characters
from the
first
film;
and
creates
wearable
art with
breathtaking
pieces
that
honor
post
classic
Mesoamerican
Maya
culture
for the
Indigenous
futuristic
Talokan
leaving
audiences
and
critics
captivated.
Over
three
decades
in film,
television,
and
theater,
Carter
has
earned
seventy
credits
and
collaborated
with
prolific
directors,
including
Spike
Lee,
Steven
Spielberg,
Ava
DuVernay,
and Ryan
Coogler.
Carter’s
costumes
based on
real and
imaginative
characters
provide
an arc
to the
narratives
of
African
Americans.
From DO
THE
RIGHT
THING,
MALCOLM
X,
WHAT’S
LOVE GOT
TO DO
WITH IT,
AMISTAD,
THE
BUTLER,
MARSHALL,
SELMA,
DOLEMITE
IS MY
NAME,
COMING
AMERICA
to BLACK
PANTHER;
her
devotion
to
retraining
the eye
to see
beauty
through
costume
design
and
telling
stories
that
enrich
the
humanity
of the
Black
experience
cements
her
legacy
as a
preeminent
voice
and
expert
on
period
genres
and Afro
aesthetics.
Carter's
outstanding
costume
design
work has
been
honored
with
Academy
Award
nominations
for
MALCOLM
X (1993)
and
AMISTAD
(1998)
and an
Emmy
nomination
for the
miniseries
reboot
of ROOTS
(2016).
The
impact
of her
career
in
filmmaking
has been
recognized
with the
Costume
Designers
Guild's
Career
Achievement
Award
(2019)
and a
star on
the
Hollywood
Walk of
Fame
(2021).
Carter
is a
member
of the
board of
governors
for the
Academy
of
Motion
Pictures
Arts and
Sciences.
Stay
tuned
for more
details!
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