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Component
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Description
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Status 9/25/01
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To Do
(by 9/02)
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By whom
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Comments
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Exhibitions of local silk industry
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artifacts, wall
texts, oral histories, photographs, machinery
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site selected: Historic Northampton; initial selection of materials
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prepare materials;
design and mount the exhibits
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Kerry Buckley, and curators; for fall exhibit, Nancy Rexford (tentative); for spring exhbit, Alena Shumway, with the assistance of other project participants
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At Historic
Northampton: fall semester, silks from the collection; 2003 (calendar year),
Northampton's silk industry, 1832 - 1932.
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Exhibition of silk
in New England, 1730-1930
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silk made, worn, or
collected in New England
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site: Smith College
Museum of Art
curator: Madelyn
Shaw
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mount exhibit
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Madelyn Shaw,
Suzannah Fabing
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opening will coincide with the Smith
symposium in late March, 2003
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Science Exhibit (live)
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the life cycle of
the silkworm; the uses of the mulberry tree
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site: JFK Middle
School
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design exhibit
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Dan Duffy,
Aleksander Xhoxhi
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spring 2003
(Alan Bloomgarden
coordinates)
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Oral Histories
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interviews with
area residents who worked in the silk mills
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lists developed;
some interviews conducted
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continue the
interviews; transcription
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Kiki Smith, Camilla
Humphrey
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Curricular
materials for schools
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The mulberry craze and efforts to raise silkworms; the abolitionist utopian NAEI; industrialization
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teacher team
formed; several workshops conducted; materials designed
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test the lesson
plans; disseminate to teachers in the area
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Mike Sullivan, Anne
Bussler, Fred Morrison, Elaine Kavachos
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(Alan Bloomgarden
coordinates)
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Brown Bag Lunch
Lectures
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monthly talks, on a
wide range of silk-related topics; open to the public
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5 successful
semesters
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continue through
2001-02
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Marilyn Smith and
the NSP steering committee
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Karen
Herbaugh, Oct. 1
TBA Nov. 5
Robin Russo,
December 3
Karen Kohler, Feb. 4
Marc
Steinberg, March 4
preview of the silk project,
April 1
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Research: social
and economic
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investigating the
role of silk in the development of the region, in particular the labor
history of the silk industry
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in progress
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continue, and put
in form suitable for dissemination
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Paul Gaffney, Kim
MacDonald, Jane Hovde
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Research: science
and technology
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what was made
here, and with what machinery, over
the course of the century
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silk reeler built;
Jacquard loom in progress; many libraries and archives consulted; list of
patents developed
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finish the loom;
build a twisting machine; outline the later history of the machinery; write research report
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Marjorie Senechal,
Alena Shumway, Greg Young, STRIDE students
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Silk History Quilt
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a story quilt, made
of silk, depicting important developments in the history of the local silk
industry
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panels
completed
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finish the quilt
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Sally Dillon
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Bicycle/walking
Tour Guide
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a guide to the
local silk sites: maps, timelines, and brief history
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sites identified
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draw the maps,
write the text, etc
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Paul Gaffney, Kiki
Smith, Elli Lazarus,
Marilyn Smith
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sell accompanying
audio cassette?
state funding for
markers for sites?
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Silk Fashion Show;
Gallery Walk
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an exhibition of
contemporary silk fashions created by local artists
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Skera Gallery has
offered to arrange this; is working
with the CofC
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plan and mount the
show
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Skera Gallery,
Chamber of Commerce
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Gallery walk will
take place
during the TSA
meeting
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Photography
Exhibition
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"Silk Threads:
a portrait of the Nonotuck Silk Company at 1900"
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site: Pivot Media
Gallery;
restoration and
reprinting: Stan Sherer. Photographs selected.
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restore and
reprint; mount the exhibit; prepare wall texts
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Stan Sherer, Jim
Gipe, Marjorie Senechal
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September - October, 2002
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Symposium at Smith
College
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SILK UNRAVELED!
Part I: Afternoon: From Moth to Cloth.
(Hands on demonstrations of reeling, dyeing, weaving silk)
Evening: lecture by
Madelyn Shaw (about her exhibit)
Reception at the Museum
Part II: Case studies: Why does silk
production succeed or fail? Tentative
speaker list:
The NAEI -- Chris
Clark,
Asia --
Italy -- Luca Mola
Turkey --
respondents: Smith
faculty
Part III: What is silk worth
today? (globalization/textile economics; silk trade world-wide; silk as
a cottage industry today)
Speaker: Morton
Ashley
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program planned,
speaker list drawn up;
KS will arrange
Parts I and III; MS will arrange part II
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finalize speaker
list by Sept 2001; Choose the respondents
Invite speakers
(formal invitations sent by Jan 2002)
locate rooms,
apply for funding;
Provisional program
by spring '02
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Kiki Smith and the Steering Committee
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Place announcements
in
By late spring 2002
for fall newsletters:
Smith Museum, W.
New England Archaeology, TSA, CSA, SHOT, local papers,
Yankee Magazine
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March 28-30, 2003
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TSA meeting
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The Textile Society
of America's biannual meeting will be held in Northampton
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conference
organizing committee has met several times; call for papers, program drawn up
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continue to plan
exhibitions at nearby museums; continue to make local arrangements
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Marjorie Senechal,
Ute Bargmann, Kiki Smith, Walter Denny
(area members of
the organizing committee)
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September 26-28,
2002
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Fiber Arts
Exhibition
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to coincide with
TSA meeting
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planning underway
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final arrangements
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Joan Hastings
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September 26-28,
2002
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Alumnae College
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day of activities
for returning Smith alumnae, May 2003
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May, 2003
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Northampton silk
project web site
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information about
the project; history of silk in this region; etc
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see URL below
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continue to develop
the site
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Marjorie Senechal
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continuing
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