Jen Eggleston
100 DAYS OF TINY COSTUMES
I originally drew 30 tiny movie costumes as a mini sketchbook for the Brooklyn Art Library’s Sketchbook Project, so I started posting those ones. Then #BlackoutTuesday happened and, like a lot of Instagram, I went quiet for a day to help amplify Black voices. When I came back to post the next day, I re-evaluated the list of costumes I was planning to draw and I realised that only a couple of the actors were Black. So I threw it out and started again.
Between June 3 and September 9, I drew 100 tiny costumes worn by Black women in movies. Some were costumes I knew and loved already (Dionne’s suit and hat from ‘Clueless’, Deloris Van Cartier’s purple mink from ‘Sister Act’), others were from movies that I watched for the first time for this project (‘Miss Juneteenth’, ‘Sidewalk Stories’ and ‘Bessie’ were particular favourites).
