2007 Partial List (Through Spring Semester)
ETD Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Awards

Awards, Grants and Residencies

Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Artist’s residency, 2007.

Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow, Eureka Springs, Ark., Writer’s residency, 2007

Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Red Wing, Minn., Scholar’s residency, 2007.

Kellett Mid–Career Award, University of Wisconsin, 2004-2009. 

Books and Monographs

Shaping Interior Space, Fairchild Books Publication Date: December 2002, Second Edition Manuscript Preparation in progress

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

IN PRESS: Essay on dress of the Shakers and Quakers, for Encyclopedia of Dress, Berg Press, 2008.

Profile of the textile artist Robert Hillestad (Nebraska) for a catalogue to be published in 2008 by the Hillestad Gallery.

Section on Crazy Quilts for American Quilts in the Modern Age, 1870-1940, Marin Hansen and Patricia B. Crews, eds. International Quilt Study Center and J.P. Getty Foundation, 2007.

Essay on American textiles, American Material Culture: Understanding Everyday Life, ed. Helen Sheumaker and Shirley Teresa Wajda. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2007.

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibition :  Musée d’art  de Joliette, Joliette, Quebec (upcoming)

Solo Exhibition: Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI

Two person exhibition Invited Artist, North CarolinaState, Raleigh, NC

University of Wisconsin – Fox Point (upcoming): Two person show with John Hitchcock

Solo Exhibition: “The Cartographic Body,” Morton College, Cicero, Illinois

National Group Juried: “Sense of Place,” Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Arts Center, Alexandria, Virginia

National Group Juried: IDEC Juried Creative Scholarship Exhibition, Visual Arts Category, Austin, Texas

Other Publications

Review of Vicki Howard, Brides, Inc: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition. (Philadelphia, 2006) for Winterthur Portfolio 41:4 (Winter 2007).      

Review of “New School Knitting” exhibit in Gallery of Design, UW-Madison, 2006, for Textile Society of America Newsletter, 2007.

Other Lectures, Workshops and Community Outreach

Presentation on textiles in human life for “Wednesday Nite @ The Lab”  Biology Outreach series, 2007.
                                                                                     
Participation in Wisconsin Women’s Network book reading (Wisconsin women authors writing about women), Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 2007.

Presentation for the Wisconsin Alumni Association, Boston Chapter, program in conjunction with “Fashion Show: Paris Collections, 2006" exhibit at Museum of Fine Arts, 2007.

“From Professional Practitioner / Creative Performer to Academic Scholar”, School of Arts, VCUQ, Doha, Qatar, April 2007.

“The Concept and Process of Quick Sketching and Rendering in Digital era”, School of Arts, Doha, Qatar, April 1-3, 2007

“Effective Techniques for Success in Teaching & Learning Color Rendering and Sketches: A step-by-step approach of visual communication--- Concept, Exploration and Process”, IDEC 2007 International Conference, Austin, TX, March, 7, 2007

Lecturer and tour leader for “Chinese Culture & Architecture Feng-Shui Tour” for the School of Human Ecology aluminums and designers, June 23-July 4.

Curator

Curated for the Design Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Madison:“Disposable Dresses: Throw-Away Design from the 1960s,” 2007.

“Deceptively Simple: The Art of Camouflage,” forthcoming fall 2007.

Curator.  Frank Lloyd Wright’s Vision of the “House Beautiful,”  Sponsored by Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and International Arts and Artists, Washington D.C.  Will travel to 6 venues 2006-2008, in progress.

Conference Presentations

“Making Life Meaningful: Learning from Vernacular Environment Builders,” “The Road Less Traveled: The Art of Vernacular Environment Builders” symposium, J.M. Kohler Arts Center, 2007.

“Textiles and Domestic Pastimes: An Entry Point into Women’s Lives,” panel coordinator and presenter, UW-System Women’s Studies Conference, Madison, 2007.

“Cultivating Culturally Literate Designers: Experiential Learning of Chinese Feng Shui”, the Interior Design Educators Council International Conference, Austin, Tx. March, 8 & 9, 2007

Paper Presentation, IDEC National Conference, Austin, Texas, “Gender, Interiority and Status in Architectural Theory: A Pattern of Downgrading the Feminine.”

Positions Using Scholarly Competence, Advisory Boards, Reviewer of Grants and Manuscripts

Advisory Board Member, Material Culture Encyclopedia  (ABC-Clio, 2007), 2000-present

Dress (Journal of the Costume Society of America) 2007 review of article on Somali dress

Grant Reviewer, Dane County [WI] Cultural Affairs Office, 2007

Consulting scholar/humanist, ShoeMall, Inc. on the meanings of shoes, 2007.

Consultant, Beijing ZhongKun Investment and Development Group, China

Consultant, Tianyuxian Environmental Design, China

Consultant, William Mc Donough, Partners, Charlottesville, VA

Accreditation Review, for the Interior Design Department at Al DhabiUniversity,  By the Commission for Academic Accreditation (CAAA), Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, United Arab Emirates (UAE), February 4-7.

“From a Global Perspective to Study Chinese Feng Shui”, World Economic, a Chinese newspaper.

FIDER Standards Council, 3yr term beginning 2002, Appointed Chair, November 2003, Reappointed for 2nd 3yr term and continuation as Chair, November 2004

Journal of Interior Design Editorial Review Board, 1994 to Present

Faculty Director, Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection 1995-present