Material Culture Certificate Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database Now Online In 2006, the Material Culture Program at UW-Madison, the Wisconsin Historical Society, and the Chipstone Foundation initiated a unique collaborative project to find and document decorative arts made in Wisconsin . As the Chipstone Foundation's Charles Hummel Fellow, Emily Pfotenhauer (Art History MA '06) worked with museums and historical societies across the state to photograph, research, and post online the work of early Wisconsin craftspeople. We are excited to announce that the Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database now features 800 catalog entries for furniture, ceramics, quilts, needlework, beadwork, metalwork, basketry, and more, from the collections of 30 Wisconsin institutions. In addition to photographs and physical descriptions of each artifact, every catalog entry includes a description that places the object in its historical context and provides sources for further reading. This detailed information makes the database a valuable resource for the study of 19 th and early 20 th century American material culture as well as local, state and regional history. Some of the important collections that have been made available online for the first time include: --Wrought iron work and needlework samplers made by the Jourdain family, a French-Canadian and Menominee family in fur trade-era Green Bay, from the Neville Public Museum of Brown County --Utilitarian earthenwares and stonewares produced by early potters throughout the state, collected by the Kenosha Public Museum --Bandolier bags beaded by Great Lakes Indian women, now in the collections of the Wisconsin Historical Museum --Decorative metal work by master blacksmith Cyril Colnik of Milwaukee , from the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum --Pauline Pottery and other Edgerton art pottery from the Rock County Historical Society and the Wisconsin Historical Museum --Furniture made by immigrant cabinetmakers from Great Britain, Norway, Germany, and Finland, from the Mt. Horeb Area Historical Society, the Mineral Point Historical Society, the Douglas County Historical Society, and Pendarvis State Historic Site In the coming months, Emily will continue to work with public collections and also with several important private collections of early Wisconsin artifacts. She'll share my new findings and new database additions regularly in her project blog. http://wisconsinobject.wordpress.com Art History Faculty Member Departs for London New internship opportunities and funding made possible by Kohler.
Now Available!
See the Program page for a description and list of requirements. For more information, contact Ann Smart Martin of the Department of Art History (asmartin@wisc.edu) or Terry Boyd of
the Department of Environment, Textiles, and Design (vtboyd@wisc.edu).
http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm4/index_wda.php?CISOROOT=/wda
Glenn Adamson, adjunct faculty member of the Department of Art History and curator at the Milwaukee Art Museum, has taken a new position as head of Graduate Studies in the Research department at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, which will include leadership of a course on the history of design and decorative art co-administrated with the Royal College of Art as well as the planning of temporary exhibitions and permanent collection installations at the V&A.
The Kohler Foundation and the John Michael Kohler Art Museum have multiple internships and fellowships for both graduate and undergraduate students of the Material Cultural Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Internships are available for the summer, working in exhibitions and education at the John Michael Kohler Art Museum. (For further detail, see the museum web site.)
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