[Classifieds] [classifieds] Senior Curator of MFA to speak in Woods Hole Aug 4

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From: "Jennifer Gaines" <jgaines at clamsnet.org> 



Date: Thursday, August 4, 7:30 PM 

Place: Woods Hole Public Library, 581 Woods Hole Rd, Woods Hole 

Event: Annual Meeting of the Woods Hole Historical Museum. Guest Speaker: Gerald W. R. Ward, Senior Curator of the MFA, Boston 



The Woods Hole Historical Collection & Museum will hold its annual meeting on Thursday, August 4 at 7:30 PM. Following a brief business meeting, guest speaker Gerald W. R. Ward, PhD will give an illustrated talk titled “The Great Age of Sail: Ship Models and Maritime Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.” 




Since the Woods Hole Museum has been presenting their Biennial Model Boat Show for more than 15 years, it seems especially appropriate to host this presentation. Though not able to vote at the meeting, the public is invited to share the opportunity to hear this illustrious and informative speaker. In his work at the MFA, Dr. Ward has most recently curated the exhibition “Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass,” currently on display at the MFA. He is also the author of the publication which accompanies the Chihuly exhibit. 



Gerald W.R. Ward is the Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A graduate of Harvard College, Ward received his Ph.D. in American and New England Studies from Boston University. He has served as the assistant curator of the Garvan and Related Collections of American Art at the Yale University Art Gallery; as an editor at the Winterthur Museum; and as curator of Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He joined the Museum of Fine Arts in 1992. In recent years, he was been heavily involved in collecting for and the planning of the Museum’s new Art of the Americas Wing, which opened in November 2010. 




Among his publications are Silver in American Life (co-editor, 1979), American Case Furniture in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (1988), American Folk (co-author, 2001), The Maker’s Hand: American Studio Furniture, 1940-1990 (co-author, 2003), MFA Highlights: American Decorative Arts and Sculpture (co-author, 2006), Shy Boy, She Devil and Isis, The Art of Conceptual Craft: Selections from the Wornick Collection (co-author, 2007), Silver of the Americas, 1600-2000 (co-editor and author, 2008), and about sixty articles and fifty-five book reviews. 




Recently, he has served as editor of The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art (2008), as the principal author of MFA Highlights: Native American Art (2010), and as a contributor to the publication accompanying the new American Wing, A New World Imagined (2010). His chapter on “Controlled Substances: The Mastery of Materials and Techniques by Studio Jewelers” has just been published in the Museum’s book, Jewelry by Artists: In the Studio 1940-2000 (2010). 

Ward is a past president of the Decorative Arts Society (1992-2002), a Fellow of The Pilgrim Society, a Proprietor of the Portsmouth Athenaeum, a member of the National Council of Strawbery Banke Museum, and has served as a member of the editorial boards of Winterthur Portfolio and American Furniture . 





The talk will be held at the Woods Hole Public Library, of which the Museum is a division. Parking will be available at the Museum, the Library, and on Water Street. The public is invited, free of charge. For more information, call the Museum at 508-548-7270 or visit the website www.woodsholemuseum.org. 



Jennifer S. Gaines 
Woods Hole Public Library 
Woods Hole, MA 02543 

508-548-8961
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