MA Program in the History of Design and Curatorial Studies Spring 2014 Alumni Newsletter

Newsletter Volume 2 Issue 1 Spring 2014

MA Program in the History of Decorative Arts and Design

Inside this issue:

Parsons The New School for Design | Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

Parsons Paris

Welcome to Paris

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Cooper-Hewitt News 1 Faculty Profile: Susan Taylor-Leduc

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Faculty Profile: Emmanuel Guy

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21st-Century Victorians

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Alumni Notes

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Student Travel Grants

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Job Board

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Alumni Profile: Spotlight on Shelley Selim

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Annual Symposium: 7 The Publics of Art and Design Student Fellowships 8 in the Cooper-Hewitt The Class of 2014

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Alumni Tour of Glass House

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Starting in the fall, students currently enrolled in the MA Program in the History of Decorative Arts and Design will be able to take classes in Paris.

The latest incarnation of Parsons Paris opened last September. The History of Decorative Arts and Design program in Paris is partnered with the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, the premier decorative arts collection in France, mirroring the New York program’s connection with Cooper-Hewitt.

“Parsons has a long history of engagement in Paris that goes back to 1921, when it was the first American art and design school to establish a campus here,” says Susan Taylor-Leduc, the new dean of Parsons Paris. Parsons Paris was the birthplace of the Parsons table, an icon of Modern

45, rue St. Roche. The new home of Parsons Paris.

design, which came from the studio led by designer JeanMichel Frank in the 1930s.

“Parsons Paris will introduce a new, global model of

design education that focuses on the increasingly interdisciplinary role of design in the contemporary world,” according to Taylor-Leduc.

Cooper-Hewitt News The renovation of the Carnegie Mansion, the home of Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, is 91 percent complete. Later this summer, we will start to install the four floors of reopening exhibitions, beginning on the third floor in the brand new 6,000 square-foot-gallery. While the museum is being renovated, CooperHewitt’s entire staff is working with eight design firms on the exhibitions, garden upgrade, and digital technology that will transform the visitor experience.

Cooper-Hewitt appreciates the invaluable assistance provided by the prolific master’s students and alumni of the program during this

busy time. January 2014 showcased a monthlong feature of master’s students as authors of Object of the Day, the popular Web series on Cooper-Hewitt’s site. Master’s students continue to collaborate with curators writing entries for blog posts. Meet the Hewitts, a monthly blog created by Margery Masinter (master’s alum and Cooper-Hewitt Trustee), was launched in October 2013 and has captured the attention of Hewitt sisters’ enthusiasts and devotees. Margery, who is co-authoring this terrific blog with Sue Shutte, historian at Ringwood Manor, has conducted endless hours of research into the (continued on page 3)

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Faculty Profile: Susan Taylor-Leduc Art historian Susan Taylor-Leduc is the new dean of Parsons Paris.

Since 1994, Taylor-Leduc has taught international and American students in Paris, most recently serving as academic director and associate professor of Art History at Trinity College in Paris, which she co-founded in 2006. She has served as a visiting lecturer at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques in Paris, and Columbia University’s Global Center in Paris. Building on a background in 18th-century landscape design, Taylor-Leduc’s scholarship explores multiple periods and disciplines, such as the interconnections between gambling, play theory, and French picturesque garden design. Taylor-Leduc earned her bachelor’s degree in art history from Trinity College and her master’s and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.

“Susan shares a passion for our values, and for the kinds of teaching and learning we promote at The New School,” says Provost Tim Marshall. “We were impressed by her vision of creating an educational environment that brings together theory and practice, connecting students to the multitude of resources in Paris, and building on our history in the city to become an integral part of the art and design community.”

Faculty Profile: Emmanuel Guy Emmanuel Guy is the new full-time faculty and director of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons Paris.

Guy’s research focuses on the history of the 20th-century avant-garde and counterculture in the arts, literature, architecture and politics; collage and sampling practices in the visual arts and music; as well as strategic history and theory. He graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, in 2007, and obtained his Agrégation de Lettres Modernes that same year.

Guy curated the “Guy Debord. Un Art de la Guerre” exhibition and has published articles and books on Guy Debord and the Situationist International.

Guy has taught within the “Métiers du texte et de l’image” master’s program at Université Paris 13-Villetaneuse.

From 2009 to 2011, he also co-organized with Sophie Cras a “1955–1965: sources and methods” seminar at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, where he gathered a wide range of young researchers and scholars from various disciplines to discuss the history and historiography of the long sixties.

Painting conservator restoring the ceiling in Andrew Carnegie’s private library in the Carnegie Mansion. Photo: James Rudnick.

21st-Century Victorians Three MA program students and recent alumni were featured in an event hosted by the Victorian Society of New York highlighting new research on Victorian-era material culture in February. The speakers and paper titles were Sarah Mallory, “The Domestication of the Occult in the U.S., 1850–1900,” Michelle Jackson, “Victorian Taxidermy & Relationships to Nature,” and Penny Wolfson, “The Wheelchair in Victorian-Age America.”

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Cooper-Hewitt News (cont.)

Hewitt sisters, Amelia, Sarah, and Eleanor, who founded the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration, now Cooper-Hewitt. The Museum is also grateful to another master’s alum and Cooper-Hewitt trustee, Marilyn Friedman, who generously supported a sold out lecture at the Harvard Club on April 24 called Sign of the Times: Music and Design, 1960s–1980s.

The museum’s popular Design Talks, made possible in part by Adobe Foundation, continues to draw large crowds, as does CooperHewitt’s family and education programs at the Design Center in Harlem, especially the Design by Hand program. Cooper-Hewitt is also traveling select exhibitions and lending objects from the collection Detail of wood paneling in the Carnegie Mansion from a temporary construction scaffold. Photo: James Rudnick. to other museums nationally and globally. Currently, 30 objects are on loan, ing. In recognition of their gift, Cooperwith all of you. Stay tuned for more details such as Van Gogh’s drawing, Quay with Hewitt’s spectacular new third-floor gallery in the coming months. Meanwhile, subMan Unloading Sand Barges, Arles, at the is being named the Barbara and Morton scribe today (if you haven’t already!) to Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France. Last NovemMandel Design Gallery.

Cooper-Hewitt’s Design News, a monthly ber, in Pilsen, Czech Republic, CooperUnder Barbara’s chairmanship, email chock-full of events, programs, staff Hewitt was awarded the 2013 Ladislav Cooper-Hewitt is continuing to build its profiles, recent acquisitions, and more—it’s Sutnar Prize for the museum’s contribution board and is delighted to welcome three a great way to stay informed about everyto the world of design and the promotion of new trustees this month, each of whom is thing happening at Cooper-Hewitt!

Ladislav Sutnar’s legacy and work. The passionate about the fuprestigious award is given on behalf of the ture of the nation’s design Faculty of Art and Design of the University museum and its impact on of West Bohemia and is chosen through visitors worldwide: Jon public nomination, followed by a jury.

Iwata, Senior Vice PresiCooper-Hewitt’s Sutnar archive acts as a dent, Marketing, and Comcomprehensive survey of the designer’s munications, IBM; Avi professionalism, artistry, and innovation Reichental, President and and serves as a critical source for design CEO, 3D Systems; and scholars and researchers.

Todd Waterbury, Senior Earlier this year, longtime CooperVice President, Executive Hewitt trustee and board chair Barbara Creative Director, MarketMandel and her husband Morton pledged ing, Target Corporation. a $10 million gift to the museum from The Board now consists of the Morton and Barbara Mandel Family 36 distinguished civic and Foundation. The gift is the largest in the business leaders dedicathistory of the museum and is making ed to the continued growth possible the mass digitization of the museof the museum. um’s permanent, 200,000+-piece, collecWe look forward to tion, as well as supporting a myriad of celebrating the museum’s Cooper-Hewitt Director Caroline Baumann (left) with museum Trustee and Board initiatives related to the museum’s reopenreopening later this year Chair Barbara Mandel (right) and her husband Morton Mandel.

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Alumni Notes Michael Brody (1998) is now a decade into his position as Director and Curator of the University of the Sciences Museum in Philadelphia. He is proud to announce his latest exhibition, "Wyeth: A History Through Artifacts," which runs through October 2015. For more information (as well as an archive of past exhibitions), please see www.usciences.edu/museum/ programs.shtml Laura Camerlengo (2009) is an Exhibition Assistant with the Costume and Textiles department of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She will have two exhibitions on view at the Museum this summer: “Gerlan Jeans Loves Patrick Kelly” (philamuseum.org/exhibitions/801.html) and “From Money to Marriage: Miser's Purses from the Museum’s Collection” (philamuseum.org/galleries/).

Wava Carpenter (2006) is currently working on her new website. Launching last June, L’ArcoBaleno (larcobaleno.com) is the ultimate resource for exploring, discovering, and collecting extraordinary design from around the world. As Editor in Chief /

Arthur Ross Reading Room, National Design Library

Director of Content, Wava is always on the lookout for writers, particularly in historical design.

Rebecca Cavanaugh (2008) lives in Paris, France, with her musician husband, Jason.

She is a part-time faculty member at Parsons Paris, and also works as an independent French-to-English translator specializing in art and design texts. In addition, she performs regularly in France as a jazz vocalist with her band, The Chamber Jazz Quintet, which has just released its second recording, "For All We Know" (Black and Blue Records, 2013).

Please feel free to get in touch if you have decorative arts and design texts to translate from French to English, or other Paris-based projects requiring a design historian.

For the past year and a half, Chloe Chelz (2008) has been working at Rene Gonzalez Architect, a boutique architectural firm in Miami, Florida where she is the Office Director. Part of her role is the maintenance and development of the product and materials library. In that capacity, Chloe travelled to Milan for the Salone del Mobile this April. Continuing to cultivate her scholarship in design history, Chloe recently gave a lecture on the history of 20th-century Italian design to the Italian Cultural Society of Naples, Florida, and last year organized an exhibition at the Coral Gables Museum entitled “Italy in Motion.” It focused on Italian design in relationship to the themes of movement and mobility and featured 20thcentury icons includ-

ing cars, motorcycles, bicycles, and photographs. On the home front, Chloe has just adopted a stray miniature pinscher that she rescued from the streets of Miami!

Tara DeWitt (2006) is now Executive Director at Sebastian+Barquet, a Chelsea gallery focusing on 20th-century American and Italian decorative art and design.

DeWitt also start ed her own company, Design Counsel, which provides design advisory and appraisals (www.designcounselny.com).

Miranda Elston (2012) is in her first year of the PhD Program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill for Art History. She is focusing on Tudor Visual Culture and Architecture, as well as working on a certificate in digital humanities through the university.

In addition, she recently returned from speaking at the Society of Antiquaries, New Insights into Sixteenth- and SeventeenthCentury British Architecture conference in London, where she presented the paper “Persuasive Interior: Reconstructing the Whitehall Palace Privy Chamber.” Miranda has been working as a teaching assistant at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and will be teaching her own course during this upcoming summer session, as well as getting married.

Amy Gale (2005) recently published Shows, Shops & Auctions: Essays on the Antiques Trade (Witlings Press, 2013). She credits the Cooper-Hewitt with providing the intellectual foundations for her adventurous career.

After graduation, Sarah (Donahue) Gibbons (2013) began working for Farmer Auctions (previously Ken Farmer Auctions) of Salem, VA, as their cataloger and outreach coordinator. Farmer Auctions is a growing and dynamic auction house that is a new affiliate of the Quinn & Farmer Auction Group.

Her position allows Sarah to work directly with items while cataloging, and promote the educational value of businesses within communities through the creation of

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Alumni Notes (Cont.) consumers, planned obsolescence vs. sustainability, as well as the greater good of mankind and future generations.

internship opportunities, promotion of lectures and events, and social media.

Sarah was fortunate enough to be a fellow in the Drawings, Prints & Graphic Design department while at school, and still contributes blog posts to the CooperHewitt Object of the Day series. Her article, “Our Furniture Family: Frasier's Luxury Problems,” is scheduled to be published by the end of the year in the Cooper-Hewitt DesginFile e-book series, and she is currently doing research on various topics in the hopes of publishing further articles in the near future. Sarah and husband, Lane Gibbons, were married in November 2013.

Lindsey A. Jochets (2013) is a glass artist and academic administrator residing in Brooklyn. Lindsey is currently working on “100 Objects of Popular and Material Culture,” an experimental blog exploring the manifestations of human consumption and commoditization. The purpose of this experiment is to explore the material and popular culture glut found in contemporary society by using objects and concepts to prompt wider questions and reflections. By emulating The British Museum's and Neil MacGregor's format of A History of the World in 100 Objects, she plans to satirically analyze and reinterpret 100 material culture objects over the course of 2014.

Hopefully this blog will provide further insight into ideas of over-consumption, a disposable society, consumerism vs. anti-

Anita Jones (1991) is at the Baltimore Museum of Art as Curator of Textiles.

The Museum is to reopen its renovated American Wing this fall, which includes opening the Merrick Entrance on Art Museum Drive—the historic main entrance designed by John Russell Pope. The newly renovated American Wing will include approximately 800 objects from our permanent collection, many of which have been newly conserved. For the first six months, the Textile Gallery, which is in the American Wing, will feature American Needlework including samplers and silk embroideries from the collection, and a few lenders. Examples are from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and more.

Adriana Kertzer (2013) is a Curatorial Assistant at the Museum of Arts & Design, working on the upcoming exhibit New Territories: Laboratories of Design, Art and Craft in Latin America. Her e-book, Favelization, will be published by the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in February 2014. To find more information on both her publication and current work visit: www.favelization.net Andrea Lenci-Cerchiara (2010) is the Costume Designer at Binghamton University, where she designs the shows and teaches costume design, costume technology, theatrical makeup, and design history. She is also due with her second child in June…a busy year!

Andrea Lipps (2008) is an assistant curator at Cooper-Hewitt, focused on contemporary design. She is co-curating the

upcoming National Design Triennial with Ellen Lupton, and is organizing a forthcoming exhibition on design and food. She teaches in the MA program, serves on international design juries, and frequently provides tours and lectures of contemporary design fairs. In May, she and her husband celebrated their son’s first birthday.

Danielle Mastrangelo (2013) co-founded Decorative Traces (www.decorativetraces .com), an interior design and home furnishings company, with business partner Jessica Stamabugh in 2012. In September of 2013, Decorative Traces launched an e-commerce home accessories shop, featuring vintage and new products sourced from across the country. In addition to the online shop, Decorative Traces works with residential interior design clients of all sizes. Decorative Traces work has been featured on websites such as (continued on next page)

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Alumni Notes (Cont.) elledecor.com, townandcountry.com, and stylebeat.com.

In addition, Danielle has been teaching undergraduate courses as a PostGraduate Fellow in Parsons Art and Design History and Theory department. Her courses include “Main Street USA: Designing American Idealism” and “Rebranding Italy: Italian Design Post-War to Post-Modern.”

Liz Maxwell (2012) is sales manager at Madeline Weinrib and is currently living in the West Village.

At the end of 2012, Aidan O'Connor (2008) completed her four-year term as curatorial assistant in MoMA's Department of Architecture and Design. She has worked since May 2013 in the national headquarters of AIGA, the professional association for design, where she is responsible for a Women's Leadership initiative, Design Ed K-12 initiative, Centennial activities, and exhibitions. She has also been co-curating the exhibition (inspired by her last MoMA project) “Century of the Child: Nordic Design for Children 1900 to Today,” which opens at Vandalorum Museum in Värnamo, Sweden this May before traveling to Copenhagen and Helsinki through 2016. She lives in Brooklyn Heights and loves to see

Student Travel Grants Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt folk out and about in the world of design.

Johanna Pacyga (2010) is currently working towards a PhD in anthropological archaeology at the University of Chicago.

Heather Christensen Smith (2011) has a new position as Curatorial Consultant at Morven Museum and Garden in Princeton.

Last June she had twin girls Ivy and Georgia, and has an older daughter Rowan.

Hana Thomson (2013) worked full time for about nine months for a collector of 20thcentury silver, metalwork, and jewelry.

After helping the collector donate most of her collection to four different museums (MFAH, University of Oregon Schnitzer Museum, Portland Art Museum, and the Met), Hana worked briefly for a furniture company. She has also been working parttime for Bonhams auction house for almost two years. Now Hana is in charge of product development and production at a small fine jewelry company with an office on Fifth Avenue.

Cynthia (Plaut) Trope (1991) is Associate Curator of Product Design and Decorative Arts at Cooper-Hewitt.

Lindsay Tyler (2010) is now the Senior Art Producer for Havas Worldwide Chicago.

Lauren Miller Walsh (2011) has been employed by Glenn Horowitz Bookseller since July 2011, and starting in September will be the director of Rare, their upcoming gallery at 17 West 54th Street.

To be in touch with the alumni featured in this issue or to send us your update for future issues of the newsletter, please contact 212.849.8313 or kustras@newschool.edu.

Students in the program need to travel all over the world for their research, and the MA program has recently received a very generous alumni gift to help support this travel.

We’re pleased to announce the first two recipients of this funding: Mae Colburn (first year) will use the money to travel to Penland, North Carolina to research hand weaving in contemporary textile design with textile designer Ismini Samanidou, who will be in residence at the renowned Penland School of Crafts.

Second-year student Emily Long will be travelling to the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction in Bloomington, Indiana to collect information for her thesis which pertains to human sexuality and its relevance to object studies and material culture. She will be collecting data on examples of the types of objects people have become sexually attracted to, and the relationships they formed with those objects. She will also be investigating objects collected by the Kinsey Institute for their “erotic” and emotional power.

Job Board If you want to be on our jobs mailing list, send an email reading “subscribe decartsjobs” to the address: majordomo@listserv.newschool.edu Laura Camerlengo writes: For positions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, visit the Museum’s website www.philamuseum.org/ Click the “Information” tab and select “Opportunities” for information on internships, fellowships, and other positions.

Wava Carpenter writes: If you are interested in writing as an art historian, or in historical design for L’ArcoBaleno, please connect with wava@larcobaleno.com

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Alumni Profile: Spotlight on Shelley Selim In the summer of 2012, I traveled to Sweden and Finland for a two-week intensive course on Scandinavian design, fulfilling my final three credits of coursework to earn a master’s degree in the History of Decorative Arts and Design at the Cooper-Hewitt. Led by Sarah Lichtman, the curriculum included guest lectures from distinguished scholars and curators of Nordic design, as well as immersive tours of museums and historic buildings and homes: Carl and Karin Larsson’s Lille Hyttnäs residence, Gunnar Asplund’s Skandia Cinema, Alvar Aalto’s Villa Mairea, and the Eliel Saarinen-designed Helsinki Central Railway Station were just select highlights. It was palpably and holistically transformative.

A year and a half later, I am the 2013–2015 Jeanne and Ralph Graham Collections Fellow at the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. I live and work on a campus designed by Saarinen shortly after his 1922 arrival in the United States, and work with a collection representing some of the world’s greatest modern designers—from the Eameses to the McCoys—many of whom studied and taught at Cranbrook’s famed Academy of Art. Upon my arrival, I projectmanaged “My Brain Is in My Inkstand: Drawing as Thinking and Process,” an exhibition that included a catalogue for which I authored select essays and served as managing editor. Currently I am curating the upcoming exhibition “Culture Breakers: The Living Structures of Ken Isaacs,” opening June 21, 2014, which examines the

A Ken Isaacs Living Structure

modes in which Isaacs, a former Cranbrook instructor and student, radically deconstructed conventional notions of modernism with his multifunctional, knock-down furniture and architectural units. I am also active in the museum’s ongoing initiative to publish its collections online, and I write and edit our weekly blog, Cranbrook Sightings.

It is difficult to pinpoint the aspect of the History of Decorative Arts and Design master's program that I found most beneficial to my career, and perhaps that it in itself exemplifies why I found the program so rewarding. A diverse offering of theoretical and object-based courses cultivated my

ability to conduct primary and secondary research and creatively interpret the information I uncovered. My teaching assistantships in the graduate and undergraduate schools at Parsons were de facto heuristic learning exercises: truly invaluable opportunities for honing my critical thinking and public speaking faculties, which are important skills at an academic museum. And the ability to focus my studies on Scandinavian design—my greatest research passion—undoubtedly contributed to my selection for a fellowship at Cranbrook, the unofficial American outpost for Nordic designers in the early to midtwentieth century.

Annual Symposium: The Publics of Art and Design The annual symposium, on the theme “The Publics of Art and Design,” was held on April 10 and 11. We were happy to welcome Michele Bogart, professor at Stony Brook University, who gave the Catherine Hoover Voorsanger Keynote Address. Submissions of papers came from all over the world, the student speakers represented a variety of disciplines and interests in material culture as reflections of public ideals and the institutions of publicizing design.

The speakers were: the MA program’s own Rebecca McNamara, who spoke from her thesis research on “Mourning Widows in

Nineteenth-Century New York: A Sartorial Public Display of Grief and Independence”; Yitzchak Schwartz, from the Bard Graduate Center for Decorative Arts, Design History and Material Culture and Yeshiva University, who presented “Reimagining American Religion in Boston’s Trinity Church”; Diana Greenwold, a PhD Candidate in the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley and a Metropolitan Museum of Art fellow speaking on “Embroidered Histories: Italian-American Textiles and Collecting at the Scoula (continued on next page)

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Annual Symposium (Cont.) d’Industrie Italiane, 1905–1927”; Clémence Imbert, a PhD Candidate in Ésthetique et Histoire de l’Art at the Université de Paris 8, with a paper on “User Made Viewer. Graphic Design Exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Centre Pompidou, 1929–2014”; Katharine J. Wright, a PhD candidate at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, with “Your Art Here: Print Advertisements, Imaginary Galleries, and Conceptual Art from 1964 to 1971”; Salem Tsegaye, an MA Candidate in Design Studies at Parsons presenting “Temple to Forum by Design: The Evolution of the Queens Museum’s Social and Spatial Dimensions”; and Emma Thorne-Christy, earning her MFA in Design from the University of California, Davis, who spoke on “Taxidermy as Museum Object: Designing Exhibits for Twenty-First-Century Audiences.”

Student Fellowships in the Cooper-Hewitt Current students work all over the museum. Here’s what the current semester’s fellows are up to.

Mae Colburn (first year) Textile Department: I have contributed research to two upcoming exhibitions—this past fall, I worked on textiles made in the USA, and this spring, on West African textile techniques—and written several entries for the museum’s Object of the Day blog.

Adriane Dalton (second year) Product Design and Decorative Arts Department: As a fellow in PDDA I have assisted with preparations for the museum’ re-opening exhibition. This has included research on objects and their makers, administrative tasks, and drafting exhibition labels.

Levi Higgs (second year) Education Department: I am involved in all aspects of the National Design

Awards, and help with implementation of specific events as well as support for planning throughout the year for what is the Cooper-Hewitt's largest annual program.

Megan Schoenbaum (first year) Product Design and Decorative Arts Department: I am helping curate multiple exhibits for the museum’s fall re-opening.

Nancy Olson (first year) Curatorial Department: During the spring semester I have been working with Andrea Lipps (2008) in the Curatorial Department. Andrea is in the midst of researching and planning an exhibition on design and food. I have been assisting her by collecting information about designers whose work touches on a wide range of topics related to food: Rituals centered around food; how we source food; new or revived techniques for preparing food; and how we experience food. The experience has been fascinating: Many of these designers are doing cutting-edge work, and this research has given me a much broader perspective on the scope of present-day design.

Audrey Sutton (first year) Cross-Platform Publishing Fellow: I work on the “Meet the Hewitts” blog segments; proofreading, posting, and photo editing. I run the tumblr for the museum, picking objects from the museum’s online collection to be featured, with a different theme each week. In addition, I do copywriting for the shop and occasionally do proofreading for publications.

Carolina Valdes-Lora (first year) Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department: Throughout my fellowship I have researched several of the Cooper-Hewitt's collections, including posters from the Spanish Civil War and the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry. I have also had the opportunity to catalogue prints in the museum system (TMS), and write “Object of the Day” entries, which have been published on the Cooper-Hewitt website.

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The Class of 2014 Congratulations to the graduates of 2014: Elizabeth Altimus Neha Athavale Alison Charny Adriane Dalton Heather Elisabeth Deena Gittle Rebecca Gross Levi Higgs Anne Hilker Tyrel Holston Eustacia Huen Kendall Lam Marlena Matute Rebecca McNamara Katherine Miller Jennifer Mineo Ji Youn Park Richard Parker Wendi Parson Junyao Peng

Theses Received 2013–2014: Alison Charny, “The Modern Allure of the ‘Other’: The Spread of French Art Deco to Colonial North Africa.”

Rebekah Pollock Jordan Rogas Kristie Rosen Emily Scott Morgan Sedgely Emily Shapiro Meghan Weatherby Lisa Winters Penny Wolfson

Rebecca Gross, “The Real and the Representational: The American Dream, National Identity, and the Visuality of National Parks, 1945–1966.”

Anne Hilker, “A Biography of the American Snow Globe: F r o m Me m o r y t o M a ss Production, Souvenir to Sign” Tyrel Holston, “The Fifth Avenue Association: Agents of Exchange.”

Eustacia Huen, “The Satirical Representation of Women’s Fashion in 1920s New York.”

Rebecca McNamara, “‘Rich To-Day…Poor To-Morrow’: The Material Culture of New York Widows From the Civil War to World War I.” Penny Wolfson, “Enwheeled: Two Centuries of Wheelchair Design, From Furniture to Film.”

Save the date!

Alumni tour of Philip Johnson’s Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut On Saturday October 18, alumni of the master’s program will enjoy a special, private tour of Philip Johnson’s Glass House. Johnson designed some of America’s greatest modern architectural landmarks, among them the Glass House, his private residence located on a 47-acre property in New Canaan, Connecticut.

The morning tour will be followed by a private luncheon in town. Please contact Savanna Kustra, administrative assistant in the MA program for details. kustras@newschool.edu Photo: Stacy Bass

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