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New📽: join design historian @besswww, design strategist & disability advocate @elizejackson, & Chipstone curatorial fellow Natalie Wright as they discuss the #FunctionalFashions clothing line, histories of rehabilitation, & the disability rights movement chipstone.org/module.php/73/…
DYK that under the Functional Fashions label (1955-1976) nearly 30 of the United States’ top designers created clothing by, with, and for disabled persons? Visit the #FunctionalFashions display in the 20th and 21st Century Design Galleries at @MilwaukeeArt to learn more.
What are the origins of material culture methodologies, and how can they help us better understand these practices today? @wuwmlakeeffect speaks with @Retracharas about her @OUPHistory book #objectlessons and how it addresses these questions. wuwm.com/post/radio-chipston… @UWSoHE
How can our close relationships with material things change the #tariff debate? @Retracharas wrote about this for @washingtonpost: “When it comes to dense political matters that are hard to understand, our connection to familiar intimate things matter.” @UWSoHE
Avocados shape Americans’ views on trade policy, @Retracharas writes wapo.st/2Ks8pcL
This research is drawn from her book Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World bit.ly/2LYf0yo. [“A McKinley Tariff Object Lesson,” DiSalle 315264.3557, Reverse (NMAH, Smithsonian Institution)]
Exciting news for all curious minds: @HarvardX has relaunched the FREE online course @tangiblethings with new units! Instructors include Chipstone Curator and Director of Research @Retracharas. Enrolment is now open! @edXOnline #tangiblethings edx.org/course/tangible-thin…
New on Radio Chipstone: how one organization dedicated to ecologically driven land-use solutions is growing historically native plants in Wisconsin and discovering tasty outcomes.🌾🍞 #regenerativefarming #ecorestoration #ecology #climatesolutions
What if you could actually step back in time and taste a bit of history? Well, Steven Apfelbaum has a way. ow.ly/gT1j50vbEku
Chipstone Curator and Director of Research @Retracharas was one of three guest jurors for #Furnished. Jurors chose over 50 pieces by 15 artists whose work examines the contemporary spirit of furniture, design, and functional sculpture. Furnished is now open @SECCAcontempart!
Join us this Thursday at 6:00 pm for the opening of Furnished! This exhibition presents more than 50 works by 15 contemporary artists that explore furniture-based sculpture. Image: Process, by Tom Shields.
#seccafurnished #furniture #art #wsnc #myws #winstonsalem
In 1775 a mob of rebellious colonists forced Solomon Stoddard, the owner of this chest and a leading Tory in MA, to “sign a confession and repent” for his loyalty to the Crown. “They act like mad people, tho well for a Mob” noted an ally of Stoddard’s. #July4th #IndependenceDay
đź—Ł Chipstone is thrilled to announce the arrival of new Curator Ruthie Dibble. Ruthie joins us from @Yale where she researched the intersection of memory, gender, and the material world for the dissertation, "Wounded Home: Craft, Trauma, and Domestic Life in the Civil War Era."
Prior to Yale she received a master’s degree from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art, and she was the Tiffany & Co. Foundation Curatorial Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Some may already be familiar with Ruthie's work via her American Furniture essay, “The Hands that Rocked the Cradle: Interpretations in the Life of an Object.” chipstone.org/article.php/63… Welcome to Chipstone, Ruthie!
Apartment 4: Iris Häussler and The Chipstone Foundation closes tomorrow at the @JMKAC. Curious readers keen to know more about the full-scale period apartment and its mysterious occupant are encouraged to peruse the essays on the #Apartment4 website: jmkac.org/open-house-project…
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NOW ON VIEW IN THE GALLERIES—Functional Fashions
Explore some of the designs from America’s largest collaborative clothing line for people with disabilities in the Museum’s 20th- and 21st-Century Design Galleries now through early 2020. Learn more: ow.ly/znmK50ulJ5Y
The @furnsoc conference FS19: GROUNDWORK will be at @MIAD_edu from June 19-22, 2019. Speakers include @Retracharas and @GlennAdamson. Key themes will be research and where inspiration is drawn from. Visit the conference website for info and registration: furnsoc.org/inspiration/annu…
Chipstone Curatorial Fellow Natalie Wright recently opened the @MilwaukeeArt display "Functional Fashions," which introduces the largest collaborative clothing line for disabled persons in American history. This project is itself a collaboration with @elizejackson. #Cripstone
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"Still, the soundest starting point seems to be the late 17th and early 18th century, because of that period’s extraordinary feeling for artifice, for surface, for symmetry […] #Camp art is often decorative art, emphasizing texture, sensuous surface, and style." #SusanSontag
In honor of #NationalNursesDay and #NationalNursesWeek, we explore the material clues in the 1942 residence of fictional historic character Florence Hasard, and how her seemingly contradictory public and private lives are actually mirrors of one another. jmkac.org/open-house-project…
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Very excited to welcome Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich to the Archives to revisit some of her favorite items from the collections. #LaurelX
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If you haven't visited Un/Seen yet, this weekend is your chance! Listen to a podcast with Sarah Anne Carter, Curator and Director of Research @chipstone_org on this wonderful exhibition! bit.ly/unseenpodcast
