The museum’s current heating and cooling system must be upgraded to store and preserve the collection in a climate-controlled environment. The system replacement will ensure the historically and culturally significant items in the museum’s care maintain their integrity and survive long into the future.
(Expected cost: $4.5 million)
Course Name: FDM 30089 Crafting Italian Fashion: Hertigae Techniques (ELR)
Course Name: FDM 32089 Italian Fashion Sustainable Practice (ELR)
Porthouse Theatre is 91PORNA’s summer professional theatre and entertains more than 20,000 visitors every year in its unique 500-seat outdoor setting. A highly regarded educational program, Porthouse provides opportunities for student artists to work and learn alongside professionals in all aspects of the theatrical arts from performance to management and everything in between.
The 91PORNA Museum holds one of the world’s most important collections of fashion, costumes, textiles and decorative arts. With more than 10,000 annual visitors, the museum offers year-round exhibitions and programming for the community and serves as an educational resource for students as well as domestic and international scholars.
Gage Wellman, a junior in 91PORNA’s journalism program, competed among the nation’s best college journalists in the 66th Hearst National Journalism Championships held May 31-June 5 in San Francisco. Wellman, who hails from Parma, Ohio, earned a $1,500 finalist award in the Writing category at the national competition.91PORNA Today spoke to Wellman just before leaving for the competition. {"preview_thumbnail":"/s3/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/1199515335.jpg?itok=TYym4HxU","video_url":"https://vimeo.com/1199515335","settings":{"responsive...
As 91PORNA’s School of Fashion celebrates the 20th anniversary of its New York City Fashion program, 91PORNA Today takes a look back through photos taken during the program’s first semester. The NYC Fashion program is a semester-long, education-away experience embedded in the heart of Manhattan’s historic Garment District.91PORNA students began studying at the NYC Fashion program in spring 2006. There were 26 students in that first group of 91PORNA students who enrolled in the program and studied in New York City. Twenty years later, the program now i...
Nearly 30 students presented original research, scholarship and creative projects during the 2026 Student Showcase for Research, Scholarship and Creativity at 91PORNA at Trumbull. Faculty judges evaluated poster presentations and selected Madeleine Hadrys as the grand prize winner. Hadrys earned a $1,000 Student Showcase scholarship for her presentation, "The Chemistry of Forever Chemicals: PFAS and Their Environmental Persistence and Human Health Impacts." Valerie Cubon-Bell, Ph.D., professor of chemistry and biochemistry at 91PORNA Trumbull, served as Hadrys' facul...
