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2006 Partial List Awards, Grants and Residencies Exhibition of the Year, Ontario Association of Art Galleries $120,000, Hatch Federal Support for “New Technologies for the Utilization of Textiles, 2001-2006. Visiting Artist, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA Visiting Artist, Millsaps College, Jackson, MI Emily Mead Baldwin – Bascom Professorship in the Creative Arts Award, University of Wisconsin – Madison. UW-Madison, Graduate School Research Committee Grant Fund for “Study the True Meaning of Feng Shui in Chinese Traditional Architecture: from the perspective of Eastern life experience and Western design Theory”. Books and Monographs The Saturated World: Aesthetic Meaning, Intimate Objects, Women’s Lives, 1890-1940. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Journal Articles and Book Chapters “Crazy Quilts as an Expression of the Fairyland Ideal,” Uncoverings 27(2006): 29-58. (journal of the American Quilt Study Group). Reissue of "Woman's Domestic Body” (from Winterthur Portfolio 1996) in Mark Taylor and Julieanna Preston, eds., Intimus: Interior Design Theory Reader. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006, pp. 126-133. “Scrapbook Houses for Paper Dolls: Creative Expression, Aesthetic Elaboration and Bonding in the Female World,” in Katherine Ott, Susan Tucker and Patricia Buckler, eds., Scrapbooks in American Life. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006, 116-134. ,“Light and Pattern: Can Digital Rendering Expand How We Think About Design?” in Representation 2005-06, The Journal of the Design Communication Association, pp. 32-38. With Li Han Exhibitions ORANGE, EXPRESSION, Centre d'exposition de Sainte-Hyacinthe, Sainte-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada * Catalogue Forest Art Path Labratory organized by Diagnosis of a Knot, a Lump, an Itch and Scratch,London Print Studio, Solo Exhibition, Agents of Nature, Bishops University, Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada * Catalogue Bug out of the Box, Invited Artist: Berkshire Museum, Piitsfield, MA Installation/Innovation: Textile Art in the 21st Century, Invited Artist, San Francisco Museum of Crafts and Design, CA Solo Exhibition: “Drawing About Architecture About Drawing,” Cheever Hall Lower Gallery, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana Two-Person Exhibition, “Transmutations: Valerie Walker and Mark Nelson,” Design Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Madison Solo Exhibiton, “From Paper to Pixel and Back to Paper,” Eastern Michigan University, Roosevelt Hall, Ypsilanti, Michigan International Group Juried: “AIP XXI Exhibition,” Traveling Exhibition, Chicago Architecture Foundation Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, Mount Ida College Gallery, Newton Centre, Massachusetts National Group Juried: Design Educators’ National Exhibition, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth. National Group Juried: DCA Juried Drawing Exhibit, Montana State University, Bozeman, Other Publications “Dreaming in Color,” in Dreaming in Color:Charles Munch, Paintings 1971-2006 (Sturgeon Bay, WI: Fairfield Center for Contemporary Art, 2006).Exhibition catalogue. Metalsmiths and Mentors: Fred Fenster and Eleanor Moty at the University of Wisconsin. (Madison, WI: Chazen Museum of Art, 2006.) Exhibition catalogue. Other Lectures, Workshops and Community Outreach Presentation “Feng Shui: Academic Approach” to America Society of Interior Design Wisconsin Chapter, Dec, 7. Lecturer and tour leader for “Study the Feng Shui and Chinese Architecture” for local designers and the community, June 24-July 4. Curator Curated for the Chazen (formerly Elvehjem) Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin: Conference Presentations “Crazy Quilts as an Expression of Fairyland,” American Quilt Study Group National Seminar, 2006. Discussant: Textile Society of America Conference, Toronto, Canada Speaker, Panel Discussion: Blurring Boundaries, San Francisco Museum of Craft & Design Speaker, Panel Discussion: Patterns and Connections, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto Panelist, working group on trans-curating, Trans: A Visual Culture Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 2006. Moderator, “Can Fashion and Green Design Coexist? panel discussion, Design Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 2006. “The Comparison and Contrast between Green Design and Feng Shui”, International Conference on Scientific Feng Shui & Built Environment; Hong Kong, Oct. 5 & 6, 2006. Paper Presentation, at Visual Culture Trans Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Architecture and Images: Transubstantiated, Transgendered, Transmuted.” Paper Presentation, at Failure: Ethics and Aesthetics, University of California Irvine Visual Studies Conference, “Failed Virtuality and the Aesthetics of Perfection in Architecture.” Positions Using Scholarly Competence, Advisory Boards, Reviewer of Grants and Manuscripts Prentice-Hall publishers, 2006 review of Twentieth Century Costume. Consulting humanist/advisory board, “Craft in America” project (to be 3 hr. Public Television series), 2002-2006. Consulting humanist, video series on the meanings of textiles, 2003-2006. Consultant, Beijing ZhongKun Investment and Development Group, China Consultant, Tianyuxian Environmental Design, China Consultant, William Mc Donough, Partners, Charlottesville, VA Chair of Accreditation Review Committee for the Interior Design Department at Ajman University of Science and Technology. By the Commission for Academic Accreditation, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, UAE. November 26-29, Chair of Accreditation Review Committee for the Bachelor’s of Interior Design (B.I.D.) at Al Hosn University, by (CAAA), Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, UAE. November 30-Dec.2. “Discussion of Feng Shui with Americans”, a SouFun Holdings, China Real Estate, NaJing, July 3rd. “The Future of Feng Shui in China”, January, SouFun Holdings, China Real Estate, NaJing. The discussion is a live televised international audience-interactive forum involving the discussion of in which we received over 2,000 emails from all over the world. Reviewer for Full Professor Promotion for Professor Kilmer at Purdue University S-1002 Technical Committee, USDA 2001-present Reviewer for Hatch Competitive Proposals submitted to USDA, 1990-present. Reviewer for Hatch and McIntire-Stennis Proposals submitted to UW-Ag &Life Scie, 1993-present. Reviewer for AATCC and ADR 1990-present. AATCC, Textile Education Committee, 1990-present. Textile Consultant to Wisconsin residents (approximately 4-5 hours per month), answering inquiries in various topics such as: stain removal, carpet selection and maintenance, oriental rugs, health and textiles, flame retardancy, fabric softeners and detergents, 1986-present Reviews of Work, Film and Media Interviews Hier wird der Mesch zur Ameise, Darmstadter Echo, August 25, 2006, p. 8, Darmstadt, Germany Tausend Ameisen aus Gummi und ein Teg, der im Nichts endet, Frankfurter Rundschau, August 25, 2006, p. 29, Frankfurt, Germany Review: A Terrible Beauty by Marsha Wineman, Ontario Craft Magazine, Summer 2006, p. 14 – 15 Review: A Terrible Beauty by Gil McElroy, Art Papers Magazine, March/April 2006, p.72-73 A Terrible Beauty: an installation by Jennifer Angus, Review by Joe Lewis, Selvedge magazine, Issue 10, p. 89 Discovery Channel, feature produced by Laura Boast CBC Radio Canada – The Arts Tonight interview regarding Agents of Nature at the Foreman Art Gallery, Bishops University, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada |
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