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Sophia Salsbery

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Every week I interview and have a casual conversation about the amazing world of Decorative Arts, etc.

2018/05/23

Weeksville Heritage Center

Alexis Fair, a masters candidate in the Cooper Hewitt/Parsons program, sat down with me to talk about the Weeksville Heritage Center. Which she covered in a course on period rooms. Founded in 1838, Weeksville was the second largest free, African American community in the U.S. in the pre-Civil War era. The settlement was named for James Weeks who, along with a group of African-American investors, acquired property in the area. Weeksville was almost lost to history when urban development thr...

32 分钟
2018/05/11

Exhibition Preview of 'Saturated'

I interviewed Kara Nichols about Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color which starts this Friday, May 11 and runs through Jan. 13 at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in NYC. Kara worked on this exhibition for her curatorial capstone at the Parsons/Cooper Hewitt graduate program. Saturated explores various aspects of color and how color theory can be translated into the visual applications of design. The exhibition was co-curated by Susan Brown, associate curator of textiles and...

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2018/03/10

Droogies and Devotchkas

This week JT McParlin is back on the podcast to talk about Stanley Kubrick’s film A Clockwork Orange (1971). As always pictures will be up on the Twitter page @DecArtsPodcast

40 分钟
2018/02/22

Open the Pod Bay Doors

This week JT McParlin was on the podcast, he is a Masters candidate at the Parsons Cooper Hewitt Program, and we are talking about the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). We were planning on also doing a later film by Kubrick as well, A Clockwork Orange (1971), but we ran out of time so stay tuned for that episode at a later date. As always pictures will be up on the Twitter page @DecArtsPodcast 2001: A Space Odyssey in Retrospect

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2018/02/15

Occupation: The Housewife

Kayla Seifert (from the Contemporary Painting episode) is on the podcast this week to talk about the Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book and the transformation after WWI when cookbooks began to be mass produced. As usual all images will be up on the twitter page @DecArtsPodcast Better Homes & Gardens Handyman's Book, 1957

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2018/02/01

Welcome to the Freak Show

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. "T...

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2018/01/25

The Jogbra

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 Brasse...

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2018/01/18

Bandboxes

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 p...

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Every week I interview and have a casual conversation about the amazing world of Decorative Arts, etc.

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Sophia Salsbery
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2017年 - 2018年
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DecArts

DecArts

Weeksville Heritage Center

Exhibition Preview of 'Saturated'

Droogies and Devotchkas

Open the Pod Bay Doors

Occupation: The Housewife

Welcome to the Freak Show

The Jogbra

Bandboxes

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DecArts

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Weeksville Heritage Center

Exhibition Preview of 'Saturated'

Droogies and Devotchkas

Open the Pod Bay Doors

Occupation: The Housewife

Welcome to the Freak Show

The Jogbra

Bandboxes

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