Position announcement: Curator of Special Collections, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Library, NYC

The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Library (“Cooper Hewitt Library”), within the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (SLA), is hiring a Curator for rare books and distinctive collections of/on American, European, global, and con…[Read more]

A Decorative Arts, Craft and Design SIG Fall event in partnership with the William Morris Society will be held on Wednesday, November 1 at 1pm Eastern, 12pm Central, 11am Mountain, 10am Pacific time over Zoom.  All are welcome to attend.

Please mark your calendars, and RSVP for the event here.

Event Description:Please join us for a virtual…[Read more]

Hello Teaching SIG members! We are pleased to share an interview with Teaching SIG member Megan Lotts on the SIG’s WordPress blog: https://teaching.arlisna.hcommons-staging.org/2023/10/12/member-interview-megan-lotts/

If you would like to be interviewed for the blog, or have an idea for a guest post, please email Maggie Murphy…[Read more]

Hello fellow Academic Library Division members.

We hope you will join the Education Subcommittee for a chat with members of the ARLIS/NA Research Awards Committee about the funding available for research and publication. Each year, ARLIS/NA offers members the opportunity to apply for funding to conduct research (H.W. Wilson Foundation Research…[Read more]

Hi Everyone!

The listserv is still down, so I’m sharing this on ARLIS Commons in a few relevant places. I hope it’s ok to share here! We are hosting a virtual conversation between feminist art critic Lucy Lippard and public artist Tomie Arai this coming Monday, October 2, at 3 p.m. ET. To register and read more information, please check out this…[Read more]

This is a last call for participants in a SIG panel for the 2024 ARLIS/NA conference in Pittsburgh.  Please contact me by Monday Sept. 11 to indicate your interest.

Extraordinary Ordinary Things

The Decorative Arts, Craft and Design SIG seeks to offer a SIG-sponsored conference proposal for the 2024 ARLIS/NA conference in Pittsburgh.  At the S…[Read more]

Hello Teaching SIG members!

My co-mod Stefanie Hilles and I are seeking SIG members who would be interested in one or both of the following in our efforts to revive the Teaching SIG blog after its protracted transfer to the Commons platform:

• Contributing a guest post: Guest posts are write-ups focusing on topics relevant to teaching and…

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The Decorative Arts Trust has a virtual tour of the Pewabic Pottery Studio in Michigan, now 120 years operating.  You can register to see a recording of the virtual tour here:  https://decorativeartstrust.org/pewabic-pottery-virtual-tour/

Bard Graduate Center has released their schedule of Wednesdays@BGC events.  If you are in the New York area, take advantage of a great lineup of discussion on decorative arts and design.  Thanks to Beth Hylen for sharing the information!

Learn what’s interesting now in the field of decorative arts, design history, and material culture. Enj…[Read more]

Find the latest issue of The Crafty Librarian, the newsletter of the American Craft Council Library & Archives, at the ACC website:

https://www.craftcouncil.org/library-archives/newsletter

Issue 12 highlights resources to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, niche magazines, and remembrances of two prominant ceramic artists.

Hi folks,

It was great to see many of you (and new faces) at our meeting last week! If you couldn’t make it, take a look at our August 2023 meeting notes – feel free to comment if you have corrections or additions. I’m delighted to announce that Fong Ku at Alberta University of the Arts is our new vice moderator!

We are also working on a Draft:…[Read more]

Extraordinary Ordinary Things

The Decorative Arts, Craft and Design SIG seeks to offer a SIG-sponsored conference proposal for the 2024 ARLIS/NA conference in Pittsburgh.  At the Summer SIG meeting this week we came up with this idea for a panel session with Tracy Meserve as the moderator:

The Carnegie Art Museum in Pittsburgh has a significant…[Read more]