Faculty and staff recognize the importance of vernacular experience in the examination of the material world. They continually strive to develop outings that provide opportunities for students to engage with the material culture of areas in and around the University of Wisconsin campus. In October 2006, Prof. Beverly Gordon brought a group of French and Indian War re-enactors to her Comparative World Costume class (ETD/Folklore 655) to discuss the material culture aspects of their costumes and re-enactments. In summer 2006, Prof. Beverly Gordon (ETD) took her class to the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, where they participated in the "Dig and Save" initative with curator Bill Brewster. In conjunction with the visit from Tom Carter of the University of Utah, faculty and students took a tour of the landscape and built environment of southwestern Wisconsin on December 6, 2005. Organized by Professor Anna Andrzejewski (Art History), participants included Professors Arne Alanen (Landscape Architecture), William Tishler (Lanscape Architecture), and Ann Smart Martin (Art History) as well as Art History graduate students Christine Gesick and Emily Pfotenhauer. Several students accompanied Art History faculty members Ann Smart Martin and Gail Geiger to the Milwaukee Art Museum on October 21, 2005 to see lectures presented by Richard D. Ralston, Professor Emeritus in Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and J. Ritchie Garrison, Professor of History and American Studies, University of Delaware and the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, on the subject of the 19th c. slave revolt in Haiti and the legacy of its martyred leader, Toussaint L'Overture in the emotional fight against slavery in pre-Civil War America. The lectures were sponsored in conjunction with the exhibition About Face: Toussaint-L'Overture and the African-American Image at the MAM, co-curated by former Art History student Michelle Craig (M.A. 2005). On November 13, 2004 Professor Beverly Gordon and her Material Culture Analysis class visited the Milwaukee Art Museum to look at the ways material culture was presented and interpreted in the museum context.     On November 10, 2004, Professor Ann Smart Martin took her Ceramics in America seminar students to Professor Emeritus Frank Horlbeck's house to see his amazing collection of 19th-century relief molded jugs. This was the second time Professor Martin had taken one of her classes to see his collection. On October 8-9, 2004 Professor Glenn Adamson took members of his "Object Lessons: Case Studies in Material Culture" class to Minneapolis for the weekend to see the exhibition Currents of Change: Art and Life Along the Mississippis River at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. The weekend also included a visit to the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum and the Purcell-Cutts House. On October 22, 2003, Professors Arne Alanen (Landscape Architecture) and Jim Draeger accompanied Professor Anna Andrzejewski's "History of Vernacular Architecture" class on a day-long tour of southwest Wisconsin area sites including: Grandview (outsider art), several Lutheran churches and a large-scale mechanized dairy farm. Click here to view more photographs.	Teaching Fieldtrips Workshops Exhibitions Conferences                 Exhibition view. Pitcher, ca. 1840. Earthenware. Chipstone Foundation.
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