Curated by Jenny Leigh Du Puis, PhD candidate '22, Apparel Design, Dressing the Circus explores the history, fashion, function, and labor behind circus costume, including garments from circus performers, showstopping costumes loaned from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Circus Smirkus, the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Archives, and the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection. This exhibition is funded in part by the Cornell Council for the Arts, the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection, and the Department of Human Centered Design.