Caroline Wigginton These are the moccasins of Mohegan artisan Lucy Tantaquidgeon Tecomwas (1753-1834) (Fig. 1). Turning to their form, this essay reads with the moccasins’ design of multi-dimensional visual and material elements, especially their incorporation of the Trail of Life motif. In reading with form, it locates craft as a…
Ellen Siebel-Achenbach In his full-length portrait, the eighteenth-century bookbinder Heinrich Treu (ca. 1662–1733) stands beside a workbench, his hand resting on a large sewing frame whilst a lying press with three books and an edge plough sit at his feet (Fig. 1). Painted in 1722, the portrait is included in…
Responses Absence and Abundance: Thinking Ahead From HECAA@30 – by Jennifer Van Horn The Power of Storytelling and Story-Listening: Reflections on HECAA@30 – by Karen Lipsedge Everything in Between: Reflections on HECAA@30 – by Emily C. Casey and Matthew Gin The Ethics of Study and Display of Ivory Objects –…
On July 26, the 2024 Olympic Games opened in Paris with a pageant staged on the Seine. For the Parade of Nations, tour boats ferried athletes from the Pont d’Austerlitz to a temporary rostrum in front of the Eiffel Tower where they were greeted by President Emmanuel Macron and VIPs…