Christine Shaw-Checinska is a British Jamaican womenswear designer, curator and art historian. She is the inaugural Senior Curator of African and African Diaspora Fashion and Textiles at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Her work considers the relationship between cloth, culture and race. She is also a fabulous teacher and dancer of swing and related styles in the African American vernacular family, and is interested in the history and heritage of dance and music from every angle. She will be giving a talk, followed by open informal discussion, in the Edward Hopper Lounge.
