Designing Domesticity: Decorating the American Home Since 1876
An Exhibition at Kent State University Museum, 5 December 2001-15 December
2002
And
A Symposium, Friday, 15 March 2002 and Saturday, 16 March 2002
Murphy Auditoriam, Kent State University Museum
Kent, OH
This symposium brings together speakers in American studies, museum studies,
costume history, consumerism, interior design, art history, and the
decorative arts to explore the historically changing relationship between
interior design and family life through the decoration of American houses
from 1876 to the present.
Keynotes and Papes:
Friday, 15 March 2002, 5 p.m.
"Rx Design"
Mary Anne Beecher, University of Oregon
Professor Beecher will focus on the ways that interior design has been used
to address particular issues in middle-class American culture: the
designer's role as tastemaker, designing for the invasion of technology in
the home, the changing roles of middle-class women, and the promotion of
national identity.
The opening keynote will be followed by a reception and curators' tour of the
exhibition.
Saturday, 16 March 2002
9-9:45 a.m. Continental Breakfast and Welcome
10 a.m. "Door Curtains from Castle to Bungalow," Terrence L. Uber, Kent
State University
10:45-11:15 a.m. "Aesthetic Dress: An Expression of Reform in Art and
Fashion," Patricia Cunningham, Ohio State University
11:15-11:45 a.m. "Wallace Nutting's Interiority Complex: Shooting Women
Close to Hearth and Home," Marianne Berger Woods, Independent Scholar
1-1:45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
"Fashion Mediation"
Regina L. Blaszczyk, Boston University
Professor Blaszczyk will speak about ways to expand the canon of design
history to redefine design as process and to broaden the parameters of who
designs and how.
2-2:30 p.m. "The Room That Did It All: The 1950s Rec Room," Pamela Dorazio
Dean, Kent State University
2:30-3 p.m. "Oldfields: An American Contry House in the 20th Century,"
Bradley Brooks, Indianapolis Museum of Art
3-3:30 p.m. Closing Roundtable Discussion
The symposium is free and open to the public, but due to limited seating
registration is required. The registration deadline is Friday, 8 March 2002.
For more information (on lunch, transportation, lodging, etc.) please
contact Shirley Wajda, Department of History, kent State University, P.O. Box
5190, Kent, OH 44242-0001. Email: [log in to unmask] Telephone (voicemail):
330.672.8913.
Shirley Teresa Wajda
Department of History
Program in American Studies
Kent State University
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