New & Ongoing Events
LECTURE:
Murray Zimiles , professor of art and design, SUNY Purchase
April 28, 2008, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Chazen Museum of Art
L140. This lecture is is conjunction with two exhibitions related to the circus on view at the Chazen Museum of Art April 19-June 29, 2008. Chazen Museum of Art
“Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: From the Synagogue to the Carousel, from the Sacred to the Secular”
Professor Zimiles will discuss the migration of East European Jewish artisans and their woodcarving practices to the United States, comparing rare photographs of Eastern European synagogues with carousel horses produced in the New York area to show how artistic traditions were transformed and secularized. Sponsored by the Material Culture Program; cosponsored by the Chazen Museum of Art, the Department of Art History, the Folklore Program, the Conney Project on Jewish Arts through the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, and the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA).
The World at Hand is an on-line exhibition exploring the transcultural influences in materials and technology of eighteenth century British pottery.
Take a scenic tour of southwestern Wisconsin with our new online Vernacular Architecture Tour.
The UW Material Culture Program, the Chipstone Foundation, and the Wisconsin Historical Society recently teamed up to launch the Wisconsin Decorative Arts Databse, a great resource for the study of craft traditions and material culture in Wisconsin. See the database here.
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"Equal to
any in the Market:
The Furniture Trade of Mineral Point, Wisconsin." |
May 9-October 31, 2007:
Equal to any in the Market is showcased at the Pendarvis Historic Site in Mineral Point, WI.
This exhibition examines furniture and furniture makers in the
southwest Wisconsin community of Mineral Point, including basic furnishings made for early settlers in the 1830s and 40s, elaborate painted and cast-iron furniture produced in the 1870s and 80s, and revival forms created by local artisans in the twentieth century. This exhibit was curated by recent Art History graduate Emily Pfotenhauer (MA 2006).
Sublime Spaces & Visionary Worlds: Built Environments of Vernacular Artists is currently at the John Michael Kohler Art Center in Shebogan, WI through January 2008. Many of the 22 artists represented are from Wisconsin, including Tom Every, Mary Nohl, and Fred Smith. This beautiful book with 400 color plates accompanies the exhibition.
Art and Reform: Sara Galner, the Saturday Evening girls, and the Paul Revere Pottery is on exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum October 25, 2007-February 10, 2008. The exhibition features over one hundred works from the early years of this pottery, following Sara's life and career and offering a unique, personalized view into this turn-of-the-century pottery, the Arts and Crafts movement, and immigrant life in America.
*An Opening lecture will be given Thursday, October 25 at 6:30 p.m. by exhibition curator Nonie Gadsden from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Crafting Kimono runs October 31, 2007 - February 3, 2008 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Design Gallery. The Design Gallery is located in the School of Human Ecology at 1300 Linden Drive. Click here to access their website and find out more about related events.
Check out the Wisconsin Historical Society's "Museum Object of the Week" here.
Upcoming Events
Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars
Presented by the Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware and Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, Winterthur, Delaware
Sixth Annual Symposium
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Copeland Lecture Hall
Winterthur Museum & Country Estate
Winterthur, Delaware
This annual symposium, organized entirely by University of Delaware graduate students, provides emerging scholars—graduate students and recent PhDs from a variety of academic disciplines as well as museum professionals—with a venue for interdisciplinary conversations centering on material culture. We encourage discussion across perceived boundaries of discipline, medium, and methodology; past symposia have included scholars and professionals from such fields as anthropology, art history, historical archeology, history, and American studies. Each fall, we welcome paper proposals from graduate students and professionals early in their careers on any topic related to material culture. Please see the Call for Proposals for compete details.
At the conference, distinguished scholars provide comments on the papers and lead discussion sessions. Participants also have the opportunity to participate in roundtable discussions and special tours of Winterthur's collections with graduate students in the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, including tours of the Winterthur library and conservation labs.
Online registration begins in March. This symposium is free and open to the public.
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