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CLASS NOTES
MADE IN AMERICAS
e term “globalism” may be a buzzword, but that doesn’t mean it’s a new concept. Just ask alumnus Dennis Carr, AS99M, whose exhibit, Made in the Americas: e New World Discovers Asia, is on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library in Wilmington, Delaware. Carr is a graduate of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture and Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
As the rst large-scale exhibition
to examine the in uence of Asia on
the arts of the Colonial Americas, it features more than 80 pieces, including furniture and paintings dating from the 17th to the early 19th centuries, telling the complex story of how cra smen throughout the Western Hemisphere adapted Asian styles in a range of objects.
Made in the Americas focuses on history that’s not taught in school, says Carr, who’s curating the exhibit.
“ e history of the Colonial Americas has long been written as a series of encounters between Europe and the New World,” he adds. “However, the extraordinary objects
in this exhibition encourage us to think more broadly about the Americas as being at the center of this global, cultural and commercial exchange.”
UD art history professors Wendy Bellion and Mónica Domínguez Torres are using the exhibit as a teaching tool for their interdisciplinary graduate seminar
this fall.
“ ere’s been a big movement
toward a more integrated, more global model of teaching and displaying the arts of the Americas over the past 10 years,” says Bellion.
e exhibit, which earned rave reviews when it appeared last year at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, will run through Jan. 8, 2017.
For more information, visit www. winterthur.org/madeintheamericas. z
—Mara Gorman
Lara Zeises Deloza, AS97, of Wilmington, Del., has published Winning (HarperTeen, an imprint
of HarperCollins), a novel about
an ambitious high school junior. Deloza is special projects and strategic initiatives manager for the International Literacy Association.
Carrie Ida Edinger, AS97, of Newark, Del., was selected to present “Art & Anthropology:
An Artist’s Perspective” at the University of California, Riverside Department of Anthropology.
Nancy Wingler Moore, ANR98, of Markleville, Ind., was promoted to manager, R&D quality assurance- global vaccines, at Elanco Animal Health in Green eld, Ind.
Angela Tweedy Gladwell, AS98M, of Manassas, Va., was recently appointed deputy assistant administrator for risk management at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Gladwell
is a former UD employee, having worked at UD’s Disaster Research Center.
2000s
Alicia Milinis, AS00, of Huntington Station, N.Y., has published her
rst book, A Day on The Farm (Tate Publishing), which aims to help young readers understand how each farm animal has a signi cant role in farm life.
Timothy S. Martin, BE01, of West Chester, Pa., was named partner at the law rm of White and Williams LLP.
Heather Gibson Moqtaderi, AS01, 04M, of Philadelphia,
Pa., has curated an exhibit at
the Delaware Art Museum
called “Duality,” which explores the emotive and visual e ects that occur when artists create collaboratively in life-work partnerships. Moqtaderi is art collections manager and associate curator at the University of Pennsylvania.
Steven Wright, EG02, BE11M, of Aurora, Colo., has been hired as a manufacturing engineer at Zimmer Biomet in Broom eld, Colo.
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