Gabrielle Berlinger will present a paper at the Heritage 2014: Heritage Preservation and Safeguarding Conference in Guimarães, Portugal, July 22-25. She also plans to attend the New York Folklore Roundtable in Schenectady, NY in August.
Jeffrey Collins is working on several topics regarding papal art collecting and patronage, based on documents from the Vatican Secret Archive, the Biblioteca Apostolica, and the archives of the Reverenda Fabbrica di San Pietro. Inspired in part by the Waterweaversexhibition, this August he will visit Colombia to study colonial works from the Viceroyalty of New Granada, including some he discussed in History of Design, the BGC survey spanning six centuries of global design, published this year.
Ivan Gaskell has been awarded a fellowship at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg (Institute of Advanced Study), University of Göttingen, to research the university collections, to advise on their future uses, and to continue work on a book manuscript on philosophy of museums. He is away from May 15 to July 30.
Aaron Glass gave a public lecture on April 22 on totem poles as part of the programming for a small Northwest Coast exhibit being held at the Arthur Ross Gallery on the University of Pennsylvania campus. On June 8 at the Portland Art Museum (Portland, Oregon), he introduced and screened the 1914 Edward Curtis film, In the Land of the Headhunters.
Hanna Hölling is continuing research on Fluxus, at the archives of the Gilbert and Lila Silverman at MoMA in New York, but also at other Fluxus archives and collections in Germany and London in hopes of completing a portion of the writing on her project. She will also start the preparations for the Focus Gallery project planned for fall 2015 and finish two essays related to changeability and impermanence of works of art—themes that are currently the center of her research. Hanna is planning a land art trip though the American southwest to visit Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970s) and further land interpretations.
David Jaffee is working on his Visualizing New York Focus Gallery project that will open in September. In addition, he is one of the history faculty on the CUNY NEH Summer Institute “The Visual Culture of the American Civil War” in July.
Deborah Krohn is editing the final manuscript of her book, Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy: Bartolomeo Scappi’s Paper Kitchens, and writing a paper for a conference in Berlin in September. She is also crafting the syllabus for a new course she is co-teaching with Andrew Morrall next term called Artists, Craftsmen, and the Pursuit of Nature.
François Louis is spending June with the final editing of the conference volume Perspectives on the Liao, which will appear as Volume 43 of the Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies, and also with the preparation for publication of an article on the Sanli tu, a tenth-century illustrated reference book on the Chinese classics on ritual.
Pat Kirkham is spending part of the summer at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC researching in the huge Eames Archive. She is working on a new book about the Eameses that focuses on their networks of friends, their concept of good design as like a good host/guest relationship, gift giving, and their relationship to Hollywood.
Peter N. Miller will be writing an essay on Goethe’s notion of research as a way of life for a festschrift, and he is also working on a preface to a new French translation of his book, Peiresc’s Europe, that is being published by Albin Michel in spring 2015. But his main project for the summer is the ongoing work to prepare the final version of a manuscript destined for Cornell University Press: An Intellectual History of Material Culture.
Andrew Morrall is giving the keynote lecture at a three day-symposium organized by INHA, Centre André Chastel, Paris, June 19-21, on the theme of Civic Artists and Court Artists (1300-1600). On June 28, he is giving a talk: “Education, Ethics, and Identity in the Making of English Seventeenth-Century Domestic Embroidery”, in a conference on Cultural Production in Early Modern England at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford upon Avon, University of Birmingham.
Elizabeth Simpson is planning a research trip to Turkey in August, to work at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara on the reinstallation of the Gordion wooden artifacts in the renovated museum galleries.
Paul Stirton is speaking at “One Design Week” at Plovdiv, Bulgaria, the week of June 19. His talk is on publishing design history, and is entitled “Who Writes the History of Design?”
Earlier this month, Professor Stirton had coffee with Amber Winick (MA 2013) in
Budapest where Amber is a Fulbright Scholar researching Hungarian designs
for children. Paul relates that they were “actually in a famous cafe
in Buda called Bambi, well known for its ceramic murals from the 1950s, but
unfortunately you cannot see them from this image.” The photographer was
Juliet Kinchin, former BGC faculty member and current curator at MOMA. The
little one is Amber’s daughter, Alice.
Catherine Whalen will lead the 2014 Craft Research Fund selection panel at the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design in Asheville, North Carolina. www.craftcreativitydesign.org/2014-craft-research-fund/
The mission of the Center for Craft, Creativity & Design is to advance the understanding of craft by encouraging and supporting research, critical dialogue, and professional development. This will be the Center’s ninth year of awarding Craft Research Fund Awards. Each year $95,000 is granted to academic researchers, independent scholars, curators, and graduate students who apply according to three categories: project grants, exhibition grants, and graduate research grants.
