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Comment on Installing New Student Exhibit: “City • Plaza • People” by Teaching through projects | On public humanities

Teaching through projects | On public humanities — Thu, 09 May 2013 18:03:03 +0000

[…] class, “Urban Life: Anthropology in and of the City” this fall. More about their work here. Plan and execute installations or programs for the exhibit at Kennedy Plaza, or online, to connect […]

Comment on Exploring the Haffenreffer’s Lithic Collection by Emily

Emily — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:02:33 +0000

Well done Colin! That’s an interesting result.

Comment on Exploring the Haffenreffer’s Lithic Collection by David Gregg

David Gregg — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:48:15 +0000

Great creativity and more than a little patience has given us one more example of the valuable information hidden in plain sight in the Haffenreffer’s lithics collection.

Comment on Recent work in our Conservation Lab by Module 7 | ARCH 1010 -Dirty Little Secrets

Module 7 | ARCH 1010 -Dirty Little Secrets — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:49:39 +0000

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Comment on Congratulations on 30 Years: Traveling Near and Far with Thierry by Elizabeth Hoover

Elizabeth Hoover — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 06:04:46 +0000

It will be a dark, dark day when Thierry decides to retire…. Having worked with Thierry as a graduate student, and now as a faculty member, I can whole heartedly agree with David’s comment above, and Rip’s closing remark that no one knows the collection as well as Thierry. Even mundane museum proctor tasks like vacuuming the dust out of African masks were made interesting with stories about the masks’ original purposes, and the ‘death watch beetles’ that made the dust. This past spring I taught my first museum class, and honestly Thierry deserves half the credit for the class– each week he brought in a wonderful assortment of objects that illustrated the themes we were discussing. And then he would stay for each class so he could share stories about the objects with the students. No one else would have been able to carry out the job in this way- I was ever grateful and the students were enthralled. I can only hope to know a fraction of what Thierry knows about those collections by the time I’m posting a 30 year blog…

Comment on Congratulations on 30 Years: Traveling Near and Far with Thierry by David Gregg

David Gregg — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:03:13 +0000

I remember installing exhibits with Thierry, beginning with Thinking About Things in 1990 and going until the James Houston exhibit in ?2000. It usually went something like this: overly enthusiastic student curator requests of Thierry some artifact that “symbolizes the mis-appropriation of this-or-that”, or “the struggle of the so-and-sos against this-or-that,” or even “helps fill up the rest of this shelf” or “corner of this case.” Thierry rolls his eyes and silently disappears into storage shortly to emerge carrying the PERFECT object and full of all the information about it that we need. Despite the fact we invariably chose inferior objects and used them atrociously, Thierry never complained (that we heard). He’s been THE best sort of teacher to scores of students.

Comment on Congratulations on 30 Years: Traveling Near and Far with Thierry by Colin Porter

Colin Porter — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:12:18 +0000

Congrats, Thierry!

Comment on Congratulations on 30 Years: Traveling Near and Far with Thierry by haiglercat

haiglercat — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:26:38 +0000

What a great read! I love catching up on the exploits of Rip and Thierry! Congratulations Thierry on your milestone of awesome work at the museum. I miss you guys with great frequency! All the best!

~Catherine Haigler

Comment on Congratulations on 30 Years: Traveling Near and Far with Thierry by Geralyn Ducady

Geralyn Ducady — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:06:03 +0000

Thierry knows all!

Comment on White ceiling or black ceiling? by Steven Lubar

Steven Lubar — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:40:20 +0000

We ended up keeping the ceiling white, but changing our lighting. We added louvers (something like these: http://www.pegasuslighting.com/honeycomb-louvers.html) that cut the glare from the lights. That means that visitors’ eyes are not attracted to the lights, but to the objects being lit. We also added some color filters to some of the lights, to make for more interesting effects. A few hours consulting with a lighting designer made a big difference. We talked to Abernathy Lighting Design, http://www.abernathylightdesign.com/, who did a great job. –Steve