Spring 2007 News Professor Beverly Gordon (Environment, Textiles, and Design) published a new book: The Saturated World: Aesthetic Meaning, Intimate Objects, and Women's Lives 1890-1940 (University of Tennessee Press). Professor Virginia (Terry) Boyd (Environment, Textiles, and Design) also published a book / exhibition guide in conjunction with her ongoing exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright and The House Beautiful. Professor Ann Smart Martin (Art History) has a new book going to press: Buying Into the World of Goods: Early Consumers in the Virginia Backcountry from Johns Hopkins Press (2008). Professor Anna Andrzejewski (Art History) just finalized a book contract for Building Power: Architecture and the Ideology of Surveillance in Victorian America with the University of Tennessee Press. Fall 2006 News Professor Virginia (Terry) Boyd (Environment,
Textiles and Design) was presented a 2006
Excellence in Outreach Award by the School of Human Ecology. This award is
given in recognition of Professor Boyd's for exemplary service through curating
exhibitions, giving presentations and contributing to historic preservation
projects. Spring 2006 News M.S.. student
Margaret Ordon (Environment, Textiles, and Design) presented
"Curatorial Fasions: Exploring the Interactions between Historiography
and Dress at Exhibitions" at the symposium You Count The Centuries,
I Blink My Eyes held in conjunction with held in conjuction with
visiting artist Matthew Buckingham's seminar and workshop Representing
the Past in Media & Art held at UW-Madison on May 3, 2006. Ph.D. student Cory Pillen (Art History) presented "Looking Outside from Within: Scholarship on Self-Taught Artists" at the Indiana University 16th Annual Art History Graduate Symposium on April 8, 2006. On March 28 and 29, 2006, Professor Anna Andrzejewski (Art History) gave two lectures for the American Arts Course at the Sotheby's Institute of Art in New York. The exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright and the House Beautiful, curated by Professor Virginia T. Boyd (Environment, Textiles, & Design) opened in February 2006 at Florida's Naples Museum of Art and is scheduled to tour nationally through 2007.
It is the premise of the exhibition that throughout his career, Wright was guided by a central motivating force, that architecture was essentially about creating a way to live. He said, “A building is not just a place to be. It is a way to be.” For a full description of the exhibition and a list of scheduled venues, click here. On January 4, 2006, Professor Janet Gilmore (Folklore and Landscape Architecture) presented at the monthly meeting of the Culinary Historians of Wisconsin (CHEW). Her talk,
"Cook, Cook, Cook, Cook: Wisconsin's Farm Foodways," drew from interviews with farming people in northwestern Wisconsin, conducted for the Chippewa Valley Museum's new "Rural Life" exhibition. Fall
2005
News Art History Ph.D candidate Cory Pillen presented a paper on November 10, 2005 at the Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression, held at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga. The paper, which she co-authored, was entitled "Art and the Domestic Ideal in the Antebellum Illustrated Magazine." Professor Ann Smart Martin (Art History) presented her paper "The Wonders of Reflection: Early American Furniture, Portraits and Silver" at the symposium Creating an American Style at the University of Virginia on October 8, 2005. Professor Martin has also recently been appointed to the editorial board of the new series Guides to American Artifacts, edited by Carolyn L. White and Timothy James Scarlett and published by Left Coast Press, Inc. Molly Greenfield, M.S. student in ETD, attended
The Senses and Sentiments of Dress, a symposium to honor anthropologist Dr. Joanne Eicher the weekend of September 17-18, 2005 at the College of Human Ecology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul. Professor Anna Andrzejewski (Art History) spent the month of July as the Neville Thompson Research Fellow at the Winterthur Museum and Library in Delaware. She researched materials in preparation for an article examining images of rebellious domestic servants in the context of women's traditions in humor in nineteenth-century America. Professor Beverly Gordon (Environment, Textiles, & Design) presented “The Fiber of Our Lives: Why Textiles Matter” as featured speaker at the national conference of the Surface Design Association. Professor Gordon also completed her heavily-illustrated manuscript, The Saturated World: Aesthetic Meaning, Intimate Objects, Women's Lives, 1880-1940 which will be published by the University of Tennessee Press in 2006. Cory Pillen, Ph.D. student in Art History, worked as an intern with the Kohler Foundation, cataloging works in the home of artist Mary Nohl of Fox Point, WI. The internship will continue through the school year. Emily Pfotenhauer, M.A. student in Art History, attended the Summer Institute of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina from June 24-July 22, 2005. She also worked as a curatorial intern at Ten Chimneys Foundation in Genesee Depot, WI. In May, Environment, Textiles, & Design M.S. student Molly Greenfield attended the 31st annual Costume Society of America symposium, "Dress Scholarship Unlimited: From Fig Leaves to Bling-Bling, Let Research Ring!" in Philadelphia. She was also awarded a scholarship to attend Meg Swansen's Knitting Camp in Marshfield, WI this summer. Faculty & Student News, 2004-2005 Meghan Doherty, now a Ph.D. student in Art History, presented her master's paper, "Robert Thornton's New Illustration: Imaging and Imagining Nation and Empire" at the Art Institute of Chicago's annual Graduate Student Symposium in April 2005. Ellen Hickman, M.A. student in History, accepted a position as Editing/Research Assistant at the Papers of Thomas Jefferson:
Retirement Series in Charlottesville, Virginia. On October 29-30, 2004, Professor Anna Andrzejewski and several graduate students attended the 2004 Harvard Symposium in American Art, organized around the topic "Surface, Space, and Interface." Besides Prof. Andrzejewski, Elizabeth Hooper-Lane, Saadia Lawton, Martha Monroe, Nancy Palm, and Cory Pillen travelled to Cambridge; they were met there by former students Daryl Haessig (M.A. 2003), Elizabeth McGoey (B.A. 2003), and Keely Orgeman (B.A. 2003). On October 29-30, 2004, Glenn Adamson and graduate student Meghan Doherty attended the Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque Memorial Symposium, American Moderinst Design at Yale University. The symposium was organized in conjunction with the exhibition Livable Modern: Interior Decorating and Design During the Great Depression, at the Yale University Art Gallery. On April 23, 2004, Professor Beverly Gordon (Environment, Textiles & Design) sponsored a one-day experiential symposium entitled The Second Life of Fashion: The Global Re-circulation of Our Cast-Off Clothing, with funding awarded by the Border and Transcultural Studies Research Circle and its "Material Culture in the Global Cultural Economy" initiative. Beverly Gordon (Environment, Textiles & Design) has been awarded the Kellett Mid-Career Award. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation sponsors the $60,000 awards to promote the continued scholarly efforts of established faculty. Gordon studies material culture with a focus on aesthetic, social and spiritual meanings of textiles and other intimate objects. She bridges the academic, artist and museum communities. Her innovative, interdisciplinary teaching addresses global design and culture.
Summer 2005 News
In July, Lindsey Housel, M.S. student in Environment, Textiles, & Design, attended the one-day conference Presenting Data and Information, sponsored by scholar and author Edward Tufte in Portland, Oregon. She also attended the
AAM annual meeting of museum professionals in May in Indianapolis, IN.
