There are two full-time project openings at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum. These positions are for approximately two years, with a possible extension, and include full benefits.
The Wisconsin Veterans Museum is a history museum but would welcome applications from individuals with collections experience in any type of museum.
The Veterans Museum is on the Capitol square in Madison.
Please see the link at: http://wisc.jobs/public/job_view.asp?annoid=54584&jobid=54099&index=true
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Employment Opportunity: Assistant Professor of Material and Visual Culture with Parson, The New School for Design
Parsons The New School for Design, a division of the New School, seeks applicants for Assistant Professor of Material and Visual Culture, a renewable term faculty position within the School of Art and Design History and Theory.
Applicants should demonstrate expertise in the history and interpretation of the material world from the perspective of art and design history, archaeology, anthropology, the history of science, or material culture. Candidates must be innovative in their methodologies of research in demonstrating how materiality and visuality contribute to historical understanding. Field of specialization is open, but preference will be given to specialization in a period prior to the twentieth century and/or with a non-Western focus.
Candidates must have experience with innovative pedagogical approaches that will engage students from a variety of disciplines across Parsons and the wider University community.
To apply and for full position description, please visit http://careers.newschool.edu
Applicants should demonstrate expertise in the history and interpretation of the material world from the perspective of art and design history, archaeology, anthropology, the history of science, or material culture. Candidates must be innovative in their methodologies of research in demonstrating how materiality and visuality contribute to historical understanding. Field of specialization is open, but preference will be given to specialization in a period prior to the twentieth century and/or with a non-Western focus.
Candidates must have experience with innovative pedagogical approaches that will engage students from a variety of disciplines across Parsons and the wider University community.
To apply and for full position description, please visit http://careers.newschool.edu
Monday, October 3, 2011
Employment Opportunity: Art and Design Historian of Modern and Contemporary Designed Objects
The Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) invites applications for a historian of design as a full-time, tenured or tenure-track faculty member beginning August 2012.
The ideal candidate will join an active research department of fifteen full-time historians of modern and to excellent teaching. The successful applicant will have a commitment to exceptional teaching, a doctoral degree, and a record of research and material culture studies, art history, or in other fields related to design history where designed objects are the focus. All candidates must specialize in modern and contemporary practices, though expertise is open to any geographical area within design history.
Please see the responsibilities, qualifications, required materials and application procedure on the www.saic.edu/about/jobs/faculty website.
By Monday, December 5, 2011, please submit an application at http://SAICfaculty.slideroom.com
The ideal candidate will join an active research department of fifteen full-time historians of modern and to excellent teaching. The successful applicant will have a commitment to exceptional teaching, a doctoral degree, and a record of research and material culture studies, art history, or in other fields related to design history where designed objects are the focus. All candidates must specialize in modern and contemporary practices, though expertise is open to any geographical area within design history.
Please see the responsibilities, qualifications, required materials and application procedure on the www.saic.edu/about/jobs/faculty website.
By Monday, December 5, 2011, please submit an application at http://SAICfaculty.slideroom.com
FIU Fellowship Program: The Wolfsonian
The Wolfsonian–Florida International University is a museum and research center that promotes the examination of modern visual and material culture. The Wolfsonian’s fellowship program is intended to support research on the museum’s collection, generally for periods of three to four weeks. The program is open to holders of master’s or doctoral degrees, Ph.D. candidates, and others who have a significant record of professional achievement in relevant fields.
The focus of the Wolfsonian collection is on North American and European decorative arts, propaganda, architecture, and industrial and graphic design from the period 1885–1945. The United States, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands are the countries most extensively represented. The collection includes works on paper (including posters, prints, and design drawings), furniture, paintings, sculpture, glass, textiles, ceramics, lighting and other appliances, and many other kinds of objects. The Wolfsonian’s library has approximately 50,000 rare books, periodicals, and ephemeral items.
All applicants are encouraged to discuss their project with the museum staff prior to submission to ensure the relevance of their proposals to the Wolfsonian’s collection. For more information about The Wolfsonian and its collection, visit the website at http://www.wolfsonian.org, call 305.535.2686, or email research@thewolf.fiu.edu. An electronic application form will be available through The Wolfsonian’s website after November 15, 2011. Applications for the 2012–13 academic year must be postmarked by December 31, 2011.
The focus of the Wolfsonian collection is on North American and European decorative arts, propaganda, architecture, and industrial and graphic design from the period 1885–1945. The United States, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands are the countries most extensively represented. The collection includes works on paper (including posters, prints, and design drawings), furniture, paintings, sculpture, glass, textiles, ceramics, lighting and other appliances, and many other kinds of objects. The Wolfsonian’s library has approximately 50,000 rare books, periodicals, and ephemeral items.
All applicants are encouraged to discuss their project with the museum staff prior to submission to ensure the relevance of their proposals to the Wolfsonian’s collection. For more information about The Wolfsonian and its collection, visit the website at http://www.wolfsonian.org, call 305.535.2686, or email research@thewolf.fiu.edu. An electronic application form will be available through The Wolfsonian’s website after November 15, 2011. Applications for the 2012–13 academic year must be postmarked by December 31, 2011.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Material Culture Program and Kohler Foundation on the UW Homepage
Have you looked at the University of Wisconsin, Madison home page recently?
If not then you should because there is currently a story up about the UW Material Culture program through the Art History department and its fruitful relationship with the Kohler Foundation and its focus on Outsider Art.
Current UW Madison Graduate Student Emma Silverman spent seven weeks in Lucas, Kansas studying and conserving the 'Garden of Eden' site.
Samuel Dinsmoor created more than 150 handmade sculptures that represent religious, national and populist stories that set about his home in Lucas. It is currently listed on National Register of Historic Places, but due to its relatively remote location it has proven difficult to maintain.
Already well known for its preservation of folk and vernacular art environments the Kohler Foundation stepped in assist in the sites preservation and conservation.
To learn more please refer to the story at: http://www.news.wisc.edu/19793
If not then you should because there is currently a story up about the UW Material Culture program through the Art History department and its fruitful relationship with the Kohler Foundation and its focus on Outsider Art.
Current UW Madison Graduate Student Emma Silverman spent seven weeks in Lucas, Kansas studying and conserving the 'Garden of Eden' site.
Samuel Dinsmoor created more than 150 handmade sculptures that represent religious, national and populist stories that set about his home in Lucas. It is currently listed on National Register of Historic Places, but due to its relatively remote location it has proven difficult to maintain.
Already well known for its preservation of folk and vernacular art environments the Kohler Foundation stepped in assist in the sites preservation and conservation.
To learn more please refer to the story at: http://www.news.wisc.edu/19793
Exciting New Website/Blog: War and the Visceral Imagination
How does Material Culture shape our sense of War?
Share in the discussion at: http://warandvisceralimagination.wordpress.com/
This is just one of many questions that you are invited to explore on this blog and in Baltimore during the annual meeting of the American Studies Association (ASA) this October.
The blog and ASA panel is called “War and the Visceral Imagination” because it is interested in how embodied experiences of the material shape wartime notions of citizenship, obligation, and the national imaginary.
The broader aim is to inspire conversation about the multi-sensory nature of human encounters with the material world. For example:
- How do sight, smell, touch, hearing, and taste serve as means to transmit cultural values?
- What questions become possible when traditional Western classifications of the senses are challenged?
- Which scholars have influenced your work with material culture?
- What challenges do scholars of the past face in their study of embodied material experience? What approaches can help overcome these obstacles?
- How does your own work relate to the issues raised here?
The blog hopes to expand the conversation to include material culture scholars—particularly representatives of museums and archives—who are not able to attend the conference. All are welcome to pose questions, share ideas, and contribute to the discussion.
So, please, join in the conversation and sign up for the RSS feed. And, if you are on Twitter, follow @cjceglio and look for the #warvi hashtag.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Lecture: Elissa Auther talks about her work and String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art
Elissa Auther has taken on the movement from textiles as "craft" to textiles as "art" and helps us to understand the more radical contemporary craft movement.
She is an associate professor of contemporary art at the University of Colorado and the author of String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art, which presents an unconventional history of the American art world, chronicling the advance of thread, rope, string, felt, and fabric from the "low" world of craft to the "high" world of art in the 1960's and 1970's and the emergence today of a craft counterculture. She is interested in how feminist artists have embraced these homey craft materials as a critique of the prevailing hierarchies and social structure.
Her scholarly work has been supported by major research grants from the J. Paul Getty Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Georgia O'Keefe Museum and Research Center, among others.
Funding provided by the Anonymous Fund.
When: October 5th at 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Where: Room L160 Chazen Museum of Art, 800 University Ave. Madison, WI 53706.
She is an associate professor of contemporary art at the University of Colorado and the author of String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art, which presents an unconventional history of the American art world, chronicling the advance of thread, rope, string, felt, and fabric from the "low" world of craft to the "high" world of art in the 1960's and 1970's and the emergence today of a craft counterculture. She is interested in how feminist artists have embraced these homey craft materials as a critique of the prevailing hierarchies and social structure.
Her scholarly work has been supported by major research grants from the J. Paul Getty Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Georgia O'Keefe Museum and Research Center, among others.
Funding provided by the Anonymous Fund.
When: October 5th at 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Where: Room L160 Chazen Museum of Art, 800 University Ave. Madison, WI 53706.
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