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DESCRIPTION:Catherine Whalen will be speaking at the Paul and Irene\nHollis
 ter Lectures on Glass on Tuesday\, March 19\, 2013.  Her talk is\nentitled
  “The Gift of Criticism: Paul Hollister's Writings and the Ascendancy\nof 
 Studio Glass.” Catherine Whalen is Assistant Professor at the Bard Graduat
 e Center in New York City\, where she has taught full-time since 2007.  Sh
 e received a B.S. from Cornell University\, an M.A. from the Winterthur Pr
 ogram in Early American Culture at the University of Delaware\, and a Ph.D
 . in American Studies from Yale University.  The recipient of Whiting\, Mc
 Neil\, and Smithsonian fellowships\, as well as grants from the Design His
 tory Society and the American Heritage Center\, Whalen has lectured and wr
 itten on U.S. craft and design history\, gender and material culture studi
 es\, history and theory of collecting\, and photography.  Her work has bee
 n featured in the journals Winterthur Portfolio\, Studies in the Decorativ
 e Arts\, Nineteenth Century\, and Afterimage as well as the anthology Usin
 g Visual Evidence\, edited by Richard Howells and Robert W. Matson.  Her f
 orthcoming book is entitled Material Politics: Francis P. Garvan\, America
 n Antique Collecting\, and Cultural Nationalism in the Interwar United Sta
 tes.  With Irene Hollister\, Paul Hollister’s widow\, Whalen is currently 
 co-editing Paul Hollister: Collected Writings on Studio Glass\, supported 
 by a grant from the Center for Craft\, Creativity and Design. This project
  brings together important published work by this noted critic and histori
 an\, accompanied by essays on his significance to the field and a comprehe
 nsive annotated bibliography.Paul Hollister wrote over seventy articles an
 d reviews on\nstudio glass during the 1970s\, ‘80s\, and early ‘90s\, pers
 uasively arguing for\nits recognition as an artistic endeavor.  His covera
 ge was especially important\ngiven that among all postwar studio crafts\, 
 glass was the newest.  Its\ninception is dated to 1962\, when Harvey Littl
 eton and Dominick Labino conducted\ntheir renowned glassblowing workshop a
 t the Toledo Museum of Art.\n Following upon the fiftieth anniversary of t
 his historic event\, Whalen’s\nlecture will highlight the significance of 
 Hollister’s writings\, placing them\nin the larger context of the postwar 
 studio craft movement\, and the shifting\nboundaries between craft and art
 .  In tandem\, she will discuss the\ncritic’s role in shaping a growing fi
 eld\, and the impact of critical writing\nupon makers and dealers\, audien
 ces and markets\, and exhibitions and collecting\npractices.  Along with t
 he many articles Hollister wrote for publications\nsuch as American Craft\
 , New Work\, Collector Editions\, and Neues\nGlas\, he also regularly revi
 ewed local\, national and international exhibitions\nfor the New York Time
 s\, including those at key venues like the Corning\nMuseum of Glass\, Haba
 tat Galleries in Dearborn\, Michigan\, and the Heller\nGallery in New York
  City.  As a result\, he established himself an\ninfluential critic and ad
 vocate of studio glass for a large\, general audience.\n Among the many ar
 tists he profiled—some for the first time—were Michael\nGlancy\, Tom Patti
 \, Paul Stankard\, Dale Chihuly\, James Carpenter\, Steven\nWeinberg\, Joe
 l Philip Myers\, Mark Peiser\, Sydney Cash\, Jay Musler\, Howard Ben\nTré\
 , Michael Aschenbrenner\, William Carlson\, Jon Kuhn\, Carol Cohen\, Flora
  Mace\,\nand Joey Kirkpatrick.  Whalen’s talk will conclude by addressing 
 Paul\nHollister’s work as a glass historian and an educator as well as a c
 ritic\, and\nhis legacy at the Bard Graduate Center.Light refreshments wil
 l be served at 5:45 pm. The\npresentation will begin at 6:00 pm. RSVP is r
 equired.PLEASE NOTE 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\nregistra
 nts who arrive late will be seated in the overflow area.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: The Gift of Criticism: Paul Hollister's Writi
 ngs and the Ascendancy of Studio Glass
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