Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast (Bard Graduate Center) exhibition records
Scope and Contents
Records pertaining to the development, planning, objects, research, and presentation of the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue. Academic materials related to the seminar, “The Social Lives of Things,” are also included. See each series for details of the contents.
Series I: Catalogue -
Materials related to the contents and production of the exhibition catalogue. Includes author contracts, preliminary drafts, the final publication, and photography and image reproduction files.
Series II : Objects -
Materials related to photography, installation, conservation, and research on loan objects. Includes object photography during the exhibition opening, conservation analysis questions, preliminary object descriptions and references, and general research.
Series III: Exhibition Planning -
Materials related to the planning of the exhibition. Includes preliminary design plans, expense reports, exhibition proposals, public programs materials, and meeting notes.
Series IV: Interpretation -
This series contains interpretative material created for the exhibition. Includes handouts, signage, and wall labels.
Series V: Loans -
Materials primarily related to loan objects. Includes installation photography, and loan requests.
Series VI: Press -
Press, publicity, and promotional materials. Includes press releases, reviews, exhibition photography, lists on opening invitations and press releases.
Series VII: Academic Course -
This series contains materials related to the course “The Social Lives of Things: The Anthropology of Art and Material Culture.” Includes the course syllabus and materials for the development of the course Wiki.
Series VIII: Artist Interviews -
This series contains materials related to interviews with First Nation artists that supplemented research on objects and practices highlighted in the exhibition. Includes edited audio and video clips, interview photography, release forms, and timecodes.
Series IX: Research -
Research on the subjects explored in the exhibition. Includes scans of books from the American Museum of Natural History’s collection and one guide for accessing their databases.
Dates
- 2007 - 2011
Access Restrictions
Some materials may be restricted, please contact archives staff for details
Use Restrictions
Collection use is subject to all copyright laws.
Biographical / Historical
Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast (January 26 – April 17, 2011) was curated by Aaron Glass in collaboration with students in the seminar, “The Social Lives of Things: The Anthropology of Art and Material Culture.” Objects of Exchange was the first Focus Project, a series of small-scale academically rigorous exhibitions and publications that are developed and executed by Bard Graduate Center faculty and postdoctoral fellows in collaboration with students in the school’s MA and PhD programs.
Drawing on the collection of the American Museum of Natural History, the exhibition explored the artistic traces of dynamic Indigenous activities in objects that were altered and repurposed to meet the challenges of the time, suggesting that we view its objects as witnesses to an Indigenous modernity.
Extent
0.4 Linear Feet (1 manuscript box)
5.38 Gigabytes
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Records of the 2011 Bard Graduate Center exhibition Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast, curated by Aaron Glass in collaboration with students in the Fall 2009 seminar, “The Social Lives of Things: The Anthropology of Art and Material Culture.” Records document the development, planning, loan objects, research, and accompanying catalogue of the exhibition.
Arrangement
This collection has been arranged into 9 series. Within each series, original order has largely been maintained, except instances where loose files were consolidated and interfiled.
Series I: Catalogue
Series II: Objects
Series III: Exhibition Planning
Series IV: Interpretation
Series V: Loans
Series VI: Press
Series VII: Academic Course
Series VIII: Artist Interviews
Series IX: Research
Provenance
Materials were contributed by Aaron Glass. Others were consolidated from Bard Graduate Center’s Exhibitions department.
- Title
- Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast (Bard Graduate Center) exhibition records
- Author
- Vic Panata
- Date
- 2023
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY Repository