In 2025, Mount Mary University was awarded a Save America's Treasures grant from the National Park Service. The main objectives of this two-year grant include hiring a conservator to conduct a preservation assessment of the physical collection, digitizing hundreds of items for the Digital Fashion Archive, deaccessioning items from the physical collection, and connecting with the community through Hidden Treasures talks.
When work is completed in 2027, we will publish a list of the collections digitized through the support of this grant. Currently the list includes Oscar de la Renta, Marimekko, and Donald Brooks, but work is ongoing and new items are being digitized and added to the Digital Fashion Archive regularly.
The Grant Team
Amanda Cacich, Principal Investigator and Curator/Stylist
Marshall Lee, Photographer
Laura Vavrosky, Archivist
Contact Us
For questions about the project, please contact Amanda Cacich: cacicha@mtmary.edu.
