STUFF: THE MEANINGS OF MATERIALS
The Twentieth Annual Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium on The Decorative Arts and Design
April 14 and 15, 2011
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
2 East 91st Street , New York, NY
Target National Design Education Center (Ground Floor)
Program:
Thursday, April 14
6:30 p.m.
The Catherine Hoover Voorsanger Keynote Address
"Thinking about Materials: A Case Study in Plywood"
Christopher Wilk, Keeper of Furniture, Textiles, and Fashion Victoria and Albert Museum, London
7:30 p.m.
Reception
Friday, April 15
Session I, 10:30–12:00 p.m.
"The Significance of Bronze to the Reinvention of the Independent Statuette in Renaissance Italy,"
Peter Jonathan Bell, Ph.D. candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Research Associate, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
"Materials and Microscopes: An Examination of The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo,"
Abigail Nova, Tiffany & Co. Foundation Curatorial Intern in American Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
"The Symbolic Materiality of Bernard Palissy: A Case Study of a Platter in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,"
Renée DeVoe Mertz, Ph.D. candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York
Discussion
Break, 12:00–2:00 p.m.
Session II, 2:00–3:30 p.m.
"The 1925 Siégel and Stockman Mannequin: Papier-mâché and the Artificial Ideal,"
Ashley Homitz, Master of Art History, Theory and Criticism candidate, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
"The Politics of Materials: Italy’s ‘Anti-Design’ and Memphis,"
Martina Tanga, Ph.D. candidate in Art History, Boston University, Boston
"From Snow to Plywood: The Material’s Role in Green Furniture,"
Claudia Mooney, Assistant Curator and New Media Manager, Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee
Discussion
3:30 p.m.
Reception
This symposium is free and open to the public.
For more information, please call 212-849-8344.
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