[MassHistPres] Saturday, April 8th, Asia in New England Symposium

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The Grace Slack McNeil Program for the Study of American Art at 
Wellesley College
and the Office of Academic Programs at Historic Deerfield present:

The 2006 Wellesley-Deerfield Symposium

Asia in New England: Crosscurrents in Architecture, Collecting and Design

Saturday, April 8th
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Collins Cinema, Wellesley College
Reception to follow
Free and open to all. Registration required.
??s call 781-283-2042

Asia in New England: Cross-Currents in Architecture, Collecting and Design

A Symposium Sponsored by the Grace Slack McNeil Program for Studies in
American Art at Wellesley College and Historic Deerfield, Inc.

The Grace Slack McNeil Program for Studies in American Art at Wellesley
College and the Office of Academic Programs at Historic Deerfield, Inc.
will hold their annual Wellesley-Deerfield Symposium in American Culture
on April 8, 2006 at the Collins Cinema, Wellesley College. This day-long
event will explore the impact of Asian arts and design on New Englanders.
Leading scholars in the field of Asian export art and American art,
architecture, and decorative arts, will explore Chinese, Japanese, and
Islamic influences on the region's architecture, domestic interiors, and
decorative arts from the 1780s to 1900.

The conference is free and open to the public. The Wellesley-Deerfield
symposium is funded in part by an endowment from the Barra Foundation. A
portion of Historic Deerfield's operating funds has been provided through
grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

Symposium attendees are also welcome to visit the exhibit On the Edge:
Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West on view at the Davis
Museum at Wellesley College. The museum is open on Saturday from 11-5:00
and admission is free.

8:30      Registration

9:00      Welcome and Introductions

Alice Friedman, Grace Slack McNeil Professor of the History of American
Art,  Wellesley College

Josh Lane, Curator of Academic Programs, Historic Deerfield, Inc.


9:15     In the Chinese Taste: Decorative Arts and Garden Architecture in
New England

Moderator: Heping Liu, Associate Professor of Asian Art History, 
Wellesley   College
                  Amanda Lange, Curator of Historic Interiors, Historic 
Deerfield, Inc.,
Deerfield, Massachusetts  	  The Canton Connection: China Trade 
Ceramics in New England,  	  1784-1860

Karina Corrigan, Associate Curator Asian Export Art, Peabody Essex    
Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
                    Chinese Influence on Western Furniture

William Sargent, Curator of Asian Export Art, Peabody Essex Museum, 
Salem, Massachusetts
	Garden Architecture in the Chinese Taste

11:15    Break

11:30    Japonisme in New England: Merchants, Collectors, and Consumers

Moderator: Rebecca Bedell, Assistant Professor of Art History, Wellesley
College

Hina Hirayama, Associate Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, The Boston
   	Athenæum
     'Genuine Japanese': Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), a Japanese Merchant
in New England

Elizabeth de Sabato Swinton, Independent Scholar, Curator of Asian Art 
Emeritus, Worcester Art Museum     Bigelow, Boston and Bijutsu: 
Collecting Japanese Art

William Hosley, Independent Scholar,
      The 'Japan Craze': Art and Life in Victorian America

1:00	Lunch

Lunch is on your own. A list of dining options on campus and in the town
of Wellesley will be available at the registration desk.

2:30    Asian Interiors: East Meets West in the New England Home

Moderator: Lara Tohme, Knafel Assistant Professor in the Humanities, 
Art    Department, Wellesley College

Christine Laidlaw, Independent Scholar     Charles Longfellow and his 
‘Japan Room’ at the Longfellow House,    Cambridge, 1871-1876

Nan Woolverton, Independent Scholar and Museum Consultant
     'Rich and Foreign': Orientalism at the Evergreens”

Robert Wolterstorff, Director, Victoria Mansion, Portland, Maine.     
Under the Influence of the Orient: Victoria Mansion's Turkish Smoking
    Room and Western Ideas of the Middle East in the Early Nineteenth
Century

4:30           Concluding Remarks

Martha McNamara, Visiting Associate Professor, Art Department, 
Wellesley College

5:00           Closing Reception

The program is free and open to the public, but seating is limited and
reservations are requested. Reservations will be accepted via email: 
lpriest at wellesley.edu.  For further information please call Lisa Priest 
(781) 283-2042.




-- 
Martha J. McNamara
Associate Professor
Department of History
University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469