Clare Wren Catallo-Werner

History of Design (MA)
Young woman with glasses holds up a playing card with the character Rosalind from 'As You Like It'.
Costume design of a woman in an off-white gown with stenciled geometric flowers. She holds a string of beads and wears a large feathered headdress.
Costume design of a woman in an off-white gown with stenciled geometric flowers. She holds a string of beads and wears a large feathered headdress.
Claud Lovat Fraser's design for Rosalind in 'As You Like It', 1919. Victoria and Albert Museum S.1176-2010.
A black-and-white photograph of a woman facing right and looking into the camera. She wears a white dress with a stenciled pattern, a beaded necklace, and a laurel wreath.
A black-and-white photograph of a woman facing right and looking into the camera. She wears a white dress with a stenciled pattern, a beaded necklace, and a laurel wreath.
Athene Seyler as Rosalind in Fraser's costume, 1919. ‘Bubble and Squeak’, The Tatler, 21 May 1919, p. 220.
Table and chairs with red cushions in front of accordion doors that lead to a sunroom with armchairs and ferns.
Table and chairs with red cushions in front of accordion doors that lead to a sunroom with armchairs and ferns.
Dining Room and Garden Room at the Frank Lloyd Wright Smith House in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Photograph by Clare Wren Catallo-Werner.
Costume design of a woman in an off-white gown with stenciled geometric flowers. She holds a string of beads and wears a large feathered headdress.
A black-and-white photograph of a woman facing right and looking into the camera. She wears a white dress with a stenciled pattern, a beaded necklace, and a laurel wreath.
Table and chairs with red cushions in front of accordion doors that lead to a sunroom with armchairs and ferns.

About

Clare Wren is a writer and researcher whose interests encompass theatre, film and twentieth-century furniture and architecture. She holds a BA in History from Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with a minor in English Literature and a concentration in Film & Media Studies. Her undergraduate thesis, ‘A Feature of Her Establishment’: Finding Women in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian Kitchens in Michigan explored Wright’s design philosophy and analysed his kitchen spaces alongside the experiences of the women who lived and worked in the houses. Her MA dissertation, titled ‘If I Were a Woman’: Dimensions of Gender in Three Productions of ‘As You Like It’, examined costumes for the character of Rosalind in three twentieth- and twenty-first-century productions through the lens of contemporary gender markers and social politics. She is also interested in textile arts and co-led a combined lecture series and fabric zine-making workshop for her AcrossRCA project.

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