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DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Prown will be speaking at Museum Conversations on\nWed
 nesday\, April 25\, 2012.  His talk in entitled “Object Lab: Chipstone’s\n
 21st-Century Curatorial Initiative.”\n\nIn his talk\, Prown will examine d
 ecorative arts museum\npractice and the central question of what it means 
 to curate in the 21st\ncentury.  In its innovative partnership with the Mi
 lwaukee Art Museum\, the\nChipstone Foundation has received considerable a
 ttention for its active pursuit\nof alternative and progressive modes of d
 isplay and interpretation\, as well as\nother programs such as Object Lab\
 , the Digital Library for the Decorative Arts\,\nand the Chipstone Think T
 anks.  Both in style and substance\, there is much\nabout these initiative
 s that moves beyond normative decorative arts curatorial\npractice and tha
 t instead strives to emulate patterns of scholarly activity\nwithin the ac
 ademy.  In his lecture\, Prown will explore Chipstone's\ndiverse curatoria
 l projects\, many of which extend well outside the walls of the\nmuseum. J
 onathan Prown is Executive Director and Chief Curator of The Chipstone Fou
 ndation in Fox Point\, Wisconsin.  Prior to his current position\, Prown w
 as Assistant Curator (1988-1995)\, Associate Curator (1995-1998)\, and Cur
 ator (1998-1999) of Furniture and Sculpture at the Colonial Williamsburg F
 oundation.  He received his B.A. in Art History from Colgate University an
 d his M.A. in American Studies from The College of William & Mary.  Prown 
 has published extensively on American furniture and decorative arts and ha
 s curated or co-curated numerous exhibits at the Milwaukee Art Museum and 
 in Colonial Williamsburg.  Among his many notable achievements at the Chip
 stone Foundation\, Prown has created a strategic institutional partnership
  with the Milwaukee Art Museum centered around the progressive interpretat
 ion and display of long-term and changing installations in the American Co
 llections Galleries\; supported and implemented material culture and decor
 ative arts educational programming through a strategic partnership with th
 e Department of Art History and the Chazen Museum of Art at the University
  of Wisconsin-Madison\; expanded Chipstone’s book and journal publication 
 program\, which currently includes two annual publications (Ceramics in Am
 erica and American Furniture)\; developed chipstone.org\, a website devote
 d to creating substantive visual and information databases\, virtual exhib
 its\, and online versions of Chipstone’s publications\; and managed Chipst
 one’s programmatic activities as a scholar’s center and object study lab.
 \n\nLight refreshments will be served at 5:45 pm. The\npresentation will b
 egin at 6:00 pm. RSVP is required. Please click on the registration link a
 t\nthe bottom of this page or contact academicevents@bgc.bard.edu.PLEASE N
 OTE that our Lecture Hall can only accommodate\na limited number of people
 \, so please come early if you would like to have a\nseat in the main room
 .  We also have overflow seating available\; all\nregistrants who arrive l
 ate will be seated in the overflow area.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Object Lab:
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