The Design Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison  
is seeking a curator for the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection,  
who will take leadership in managing all phases of collection  
operations in addition to facilitating the integration of this  
outstanding textile collection within the intellectual and cultural  
life of the campus and community. As one of the largest university- 
based collections in the United States, the HLATC includes  
approximately 12,000 artifacts, with particular strength in  
ethnographic textiles, and a commitment to developing the collection  
of twentieth and twenty-first-century textiles. The size and scope of  
the collection, along with the related Ruth Ketterer Harris textile  
library, constitute a major resource for textile students and  
scholars. We take particular pride in the fact the collection is  
strongly integrated into the teaching mission of the university.  
Classes and individual students are allowed access to collection  
holdings
on a regular basis. In the near future, the collection will be moving  
into a new facility, affording the curator an opportunity to play a  
major role in conceptualizing the physical aspects of collection  
storage and operations. Within the next year a new textile study  
center will be created, drawing on the department's considerable  
strengths in textile history, textile science, and textile art/ 
design, and a growing base of community volunteers.

For more information please seeing posting at http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/ 
pvl/pv_058430.html

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