DecArts

Sylvia Ferguson (from the Henry Dreyfuss episode) is on the podcast this week to talk about entertainment, ethnography, and eugenic displays at the World’s Fair. As usual all images will be up on the twitter page @DecArtsPodcast

Here are some of the links for the videos and articles discussed. National Fairground and Circus Archive, “History of Side Show Exhibitions and Acts - Research and Articles,” National Fairground and Circus Archive - The University of Sheffield. Crockett, Zachary. "The Rise and Fall of Circus Freakshows." Priceonomics. Little Miracle Town Pamphlet

Sylvia Ferguson (from the Henry Dreyfuss episode) is on the podcast this week to talk about entertainment, ethnography, and eugenic displays at the World’s Fair. As usual all images will be up on the twitter page @DecArtsPodcast

Here are some of the links for the videos and articles discussed. National Fairground and Circus Archive, “History of Side Show Exhibitions and Acts - Research and Articles,” National Fairground and Circus Archive - The University of Sheffield. Crockett, Zachary. "The Rise and Fall of Circus Freakshows." Priceonomics.Little Miracle Town Pamphlet

Sydney Friedman (from the Bersa pattern episode) is back this week to talk about the Jogbra. Which came about at a time when Roberta “Bobbi” Gibb ran in the 1966 Boston Marathon when women were not allowed to and she didn’t have a sports bra. Billie Jean King is named Sports Illustrated’s first ever Sportswoman of the Year and played Bobby Riggs in the infamous ‘Battle of the Sexes’.

Here are some of the links for the videos and articles discussed. Florence Williams, “The Athletic Brasserie,” 99% Invisible. Title ix Gary Singh, “Stripped,” Metro Santa Cruz, February 16, 2005 
 Smithsonian Jogbra Archive

Sydney Friedman (from the Bersa pattern episode) is back this week to talk about the Jogbra. Which came about at a time when Roberta “Bobbi” Gibb ran in the 1966 Boston Marathon when women were not allowed to and she didn’t have a sports bra. Billie Jean King is named Sports Illustrated’s first ever Sportswoman of the Year and played Bobby Riggs in the infamous ‘Battle of the Sexes’.

Here are some of the links for the videos and articles discussed. Florence Williams, “The Athletic Brasserie,” 99% Invisible. Title ix Gary Singh, “Stripped,” Metro Santa Cruz, February 16, 2005 Smithsonian Jogbra Archive

The DecArts podcast is back! I am excited to start the year off with an object. Hannah Winiker comes on to talk about bandboxes. For anyone who isn’t familiar with bandboxes they are functional and decorative objects that held men’s collars and other fashion accessories. They represent a bridge between the handmade process of producing and the industrial process of manufacturing by machines that occurred in the 1800’s with the Industrial Revolution, which is around the time when the bandbox peaked in popularity,1820-1845. Physically, bandboxes are round or oval in shape and range in size and covered in wallpaper, or “paper hangings” as they were known then.

Here are some of the links for the videos and articles discussed.
 HANNAH’S OBJECT OF THE DAY BANDBOX https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2014/08/14/documenting-u-s-history-on-a-carryall/ https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2014/11/17/bandboxes-get-political/ https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2015/04/09/american-bandbox/ https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2015/07/17/walking-beam-sidewheeler/ https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2016/01/21/of-the-stovepipe-variety/ https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2017/05/04/making-history-claytons-ascent/ https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2018/01/11/please-do-feed-the-squirrels/

THE ETUI

The DecArts podcast is back! I am excited to start the year off with an object. Hannah Winiker comes on to talk about bandboxes. For anyone who isn’t familiar with bandboxes they are functional and decorative objects that held men’s collars and other fashion accessories. They represent a bridge between the handmade process of producing and the industrial process of manufacturing by machines that occurred in the 1800’s with the Industrial Revolution, which is around the time when the bandbox peaked in popularity,1820-1845. Physically, bandboxes are round or oval in shape and range in size and covered in wallpaper, or “paper hangings” as they were known then.

Here are some of the links for the videos and articles discussed. HANNAH’S OBJECT OF THE DAY BANDBOXhttps://www.cooperhewitt.org/2014/08/14/documenting-u-s-history-on-a-carryall/https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2014/11/17/bandboxes-get-political/https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2015/04/09/american-bandbox/https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2015/07/17/walking-beam-sidewheeler/https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2016/01/21/of-the-stovepipe-variety/https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2017/05/04/making-history-claytons-ascent/https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2018/01/11/please-do-feed-the-squirrels/

THE ETUI

This week I interview Noelle Kichura, a Masters candidate at the Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt History of Design and Curatorial program, about her proposed thesis.

Here are some of the links for the videos and articles discussed.HARVARD DESIGN MAGAZINE ESSAY GETTY CONSERVATION TALK ON VILLA SAVOYE MARY MCLEOD LECTURE

Links to publications PRIVACY AND PUBLICITY, COLOMINA CHARLOTTE PERRIAND, MCLEOD LE CORBUSIER, SBRIGLIO Also check out Gwendolyn Wright's "Domestic Architecture and Cultures of Domesticity" in Design Quarterly, House and Home (1987)

This week I interview Noelle Kichura, a Masters candidate at the Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt History of Design and Curatorial program, about her proposed thesis.

Here are some of the links for the videos and articles discussed.HARVARD DESIGN MAGAZINE ESSAY GETTY CONSERVATION TALK ON VILLA SAVOYE MARY MCLEOD LECTURE

Links to publications PRIVACY AND PUBLICITY, COLOMINA CHARLOTTE PERRIAND, MCLEOD LE CORBUSIER, SBRIGLIO Also check out Gwendolyn Wright's "Domestic Architecture and Cultures of Domesticity" in Design Quarterly, House and Home (1987)

This week I talked to Molly Martien, a Masters Candidate at the Parsons-Cooper Hewitt program for History of Design and Curatorial Studies. She wrote a paper that she will be presenting at the MAPACA conference in November on SNCC and 1960’s design. MAPACA: https://mapaca.net SNCC LIBRARY LEGACY PROJECT: https://library.duke.edu/slp SNCC DIGITAL GATEWAY: https://snccdigital.org SNCC LEGACY PROJECT: http://www.sncclegacyproject.org FREEDOM RIDERS: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/freedomriders/

This week I talked to Molly Martien, a Masters Candidate at the Parsons-Cooper Hewitt program for History of Design and Curatorial Studies. She wrote a paper that she will be presenting at the MAPACA conference in November on SNCC and 1960’s design.MAPACA: https://mapaca.netSNCC LIBRARY LEGACY PROJECT: https://library.duke.edu/slpSNCC DIGITAL GATEWAY: https://snccdigital.orgSNCC LEGACY PROJECT: http://www.sncclegacyproject.orgFREEDOM RIDERS: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/freedomriders/