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DESCRIPTION:Glassblowing as Terraforming: Posthumanist Turns in Theories of
  Embodied KnowledgeA Paul and Irene Hollister Lecture on Glass by Erin E. 
 O’Connor (Marymount Manhattan College)“The first silica mine that I visite
 d had ‘pulled a shot’ that morning\; they had dynamited a portion of the m
 ountain\, reducing half of the ridge before me to ten tons of rubble. The 
 silica was largely destined for glassmaking factories serving the architec
 ture and automotive industries. Yet\, some silica would be shipped to glas
 smakers serving the contemporary Studio Glass art world.” —Erin E. O’Conno
 rIn the mid-twentieth century\, American artists turned to glass as a medi
 um of expression\, distinguishing themselves from factory glassworkers. Le
 ft out of this history—which is rich with artist biographies and aesthetic
  analyses of glass objects—is the material life of silica mines. In this l
 ecture\, Erin E. O’Connor connects the formation of glass objects to the o
 ngoing formation of the earth\, seeing them as two sides of one artistic p
 rocess. Drawing from anthropological fieldwork at mines and a glassmaking 
 facility in Appalachia to explore these intertwined yet unconnected realms
 \, she aims to overcome a deep-seated dualism between human creativity and
  natural science that polarizes glassmaking (mixing ingredients) and glass
 blowing (making objects). In doing so\, she addresses how the human experi
 ence of self-determination and creativity intersects with the living (and 
 dying) ecological world. A conversation with BGC MA RJ Maupin will follow 
 the lecture.Erin E. O’Connor is an associate professor of sociology and af
 filiate faculty of environmental studies at Marymount Manhattan College. S
 he also contributes to the college’s BFA in art. She is a 2023 recipient o
 f the Rakow Grant for Glass Research at the Corning Museum of Glass and th
 e author of Fire-Craft: Art\, Body\, and World Among Glassblowers (In Cont
 ract\, Columbia University Press). A world-recognized expert in craft stud
 ies\, she offers a symgeologic account of American studio glassblowing fro
 m the vantage of mines and minerals in her current book project\, The Midd
 le Mineral & the Mine: An Ethnomineraology of Studio Glassblowing.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Glassblowing as Terraforming
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