2013 Meeting at the Bard Graduate Center

Consortium for American Material Culture

7th Annual Meeting
Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
New York, NY
May 9-10, 2013


Attendees

Attendees List PDF (link). You will receive a copy in your packet
upon arriving at the BGC Academic Programs Building on Thursday.

Deborah Andrews, University of Delaware
Sarah Anne Carter, Chipstone Foundation
J. Ritchie Garrison, Winterthur Program
Katherine C. Grier, University of Delaware
Ethan Lasser, Harvard Art Museums
Steven Lubar, Brown University
Ann Smart Martin, University of Wisconsin-Madison (tbd)
Jonathan Prown, Chipstone Foundation (arriving Thurs. evening)
Fath Davis Ruffins, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

David Jaffe, Bard Graduate Center
Catherine Whalen, Bard Graduate Center
Ivan Gaskell, Bard Graduate Center

NOTE: Events held at 38 West 86th Street are open to BGC faculty.
The following will attend some of the events held on these day(s):
Kimon Keramidas (Thurs. & Fri.)
Aaron Glass, Bard Graduate Center (Fri.)
Erin Hasinoff (Fri.)
Deborah Krohn (Fri.)
Dean Peter Miller (Fri.)
Pat Kirkham (tbd)


Schedule of Events

Schedule of Events PDF (link). You will receive a copy in your packet
upon arriving at the BGC Academic Programs Building on Thursday.

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Unidentified makers, Milliners’ heads, Mid-19th century. Carved wood, papier-mâché. New-York Historical Society,
Purchased from Elie Nadelman, INV.8707, INV.8708, INV.8709.

Thursday, May 9

9:30-11:30 AM - MORNING SESSION
The New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West (between W. 76th and W. 77th Streets).
Meet at the W. 77th Street entrance. NOTE: If you wish to travel as a group from Bard Hall (via subway),
meet Catherine Whalen and Ivan Gaskell in the lobby at 8:50 AM. Directions to N-YHS (link).

• Curators Margi Hofer and Roberta Olson will lead a tour of the Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture, discuss their upcoming exhibition The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman: Making It Modern (link),
and facilitate an object study session

12:30-2:00 PM - LUNCH
BGC, 6th Fl., 38 W. 86th Street

2:00-5:00 PM - AFTERNOON SESSION
BGC, Lecture Hall, 38 W. 86th Street
• General Discussion, moderated by David Jaffee
• Curriculum Discussion, moderated by Catherine Whalen and J. Ritchie Garrison
See 2013 Curriculum Postings (link)

5:00-6:00 PM - RECEPTION
BGC, Lecture Hall, 38 W. 86th Street

6:00-7:30 PM - DINNER
BGC, 6th Fl., 38 W. 86th Street

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Georges Hoentschel Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Basketry Helmet (Hat) with Crest of Hair, Naga, Upper Chindwin, Burma. Bamboo, rattan, orchid skin, goat's hair, pigment, plant fiber cord.
Collected by the Vernay-Hopewood Chindwin Expedition, 1935. American Museum of Natural History, 70.0/63.74.

Friday, May 10

8:30-9:00 AM - BREAKFAST
BGC Gallery, Rm. 4 South, 18 West 86th Street

9:00-11:00 AM - MORNING SESSION I
BGC Gallery, 18 West 86th Street
• Tour of the Main Gallery exhibition, Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts
from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(link), led by co-curator Deborah L. Krohn, Associate Professor and Coordinator of History and Theory of Museums, BGC
• Tour of the Focus Gallery exhibition, Confluences: An American Expedition to Northern Burma, 1935 (link),
led by curator Erin Hasinoff, BGC-AMNH postdoctoral fellow

11:15-12:45 PM - MORNING SESSION II
BGC, Lecture Hall, 38 W. 86th Street
• Exhibitions Discussion, moderated by Ivan Gaskell and Ethan Lasser
See 2013 Exhibitions Postings (link)

12:45-2:00 PM - LUNCH
BGC, 6th Fl., 38 W. 86th Street

2:00-5:00 PM - AFTERNOON SESSION
BGC, Lecture Hall, 38 W. 86th Street
• Digital Humanities Discussion, moderated by David Jaffee and Steven Lubar
See 2013 Digital Projects Postings (link)


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