Friday, January 23rd, 2009.
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
The Museum of Art and Design
2 Columbus Circle
New York City
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Symposium Schedule:
- 9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. – Welcome
- 9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. – Introductory Remarks:
Peter N. Miller, Dean and Chair of Academic Programs, The Bard Graduate Center
Melinda Watt (Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Andrew Morrall (Bard Graduate Center), co-curators of English Embroidery from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1580-1700: 'Twixt Art and Nature
- 10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. – Anthony Wells-Cole (Recently-retired Senior Curator, Temple Newsam House, Leeds):
"Sundry Draughtes': Designing the Decorative Arts in Elizabethan and Jacobean England"
- 10:45 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. – Kathleen Staples (Independent Scholar):
"Master of the Twisted Tree: The Hand of the Pattern
Drawer in Stuart Pictorial Embroideries
- 15 minute break
- 11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. –– Sue Vincent (Department of History, University of York):
Garments at the Body's Edge: Contextualizing Accessories
- 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. – Lunch Break
- 2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. – Andrew Morrall (The Bard Graduate Center):
Gods Book: Themes of Nature in English Seventeenth-Century Embroidery .
- 2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. –– Mary M. Brooks (Textile Conservation Centre, University of Southampton) and Sonia O'Connor (Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford):
'There's nothing neere at hand, or farthest sought, But with the Needle, may be shap'd and wrought': Using X-Radiography to Understand Art and Nature 17th-Century English Embroideries from the Ashmolean Museum
- 3:45 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.–– Discussion and Concluding Comments
About the Speakers:
Mary M. Brooks: Senior Lecturer, University of Southampton, Textile Conservation Center; publications include: (with Sonia O'Connor) X-Radiography of Textiles, Dress and Related Objects (Oxford; Elsevier 2007), Textiles Revealed: Object Lessons in Historic Textile and Costume Research (ed.); and English Embroideries of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries in the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, in association with Jonathan Horne Publications, London, 2004).
Dr. Andrew Morrall:
Professor, Bard Graduate Center, co-editor with Melinda Watt, English Embroidery from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1580-1700: 'Twixt Art & Nature (Yale University Press/BGC/MMA 2008); Jörg Breu the Elder. Art Culture and Belief in Reformation Augsburg (Ashgate, 2002).
Dr. Sonia O'Connor, FIIC ACR:
Research Fellow in Conservation, Archaeological Sciences Division, University of Bradford, UK; publications include: (with Mary M. Brooks) X-Radiography of Textiles, Dress and Related Objects (Oxford; Elsevier 2007), and (with Mary M. Brooks) "Making the Invisible Visible: The Potential of X-Radiography as an Investigative Technique for Textile Conservation Decision Making" Preprints ICOM 14th Triennial Meeting 2005, The Hague, vol II, 954-62.
Kathleen Staples: Independent Scholar; author of British Embroidery. Curious Works from Seventeenth Century (Colonial Williamburg Foundation, William/ Curious Works Press, Texas, 1998).
Dr. Susan Vincent: University of York, UK; author of Dressing the Elite. Clothes in Early Modern England (Berg: Oxford and New York, 2003); The Anatomy of Fashion (forthcoming 2009).
Melinda Watt: Assistant Curator, Department of Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; co-editor with Andrew Morrall, English Embroidery from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1580-1700: 'Twixt Art & Nature(Yale University Press/BGC/MMA, 2008).
Anthony Wells-Cole: Recently-retired Senior Curator, Temple Newsam House, Leeds UK, and former Principal Keeper, Leeds City Art Galleries; publications include: Art and Decoration in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997).
