Saint Gaudens National Historical Park : Fall 2023
Little Studio, Saint Gaudens National Historical Park, Photo by Carol M. Highsmith
Site: Sculptor Augustus Saint Gaudens’ home and studio in Cornish, New Hampshire.
Students: Architecture, Film/Animation/Video, Illustration, Jewelry & Metalsmithing, Industrial Design, Furniture Design, Sculpture.
Themes: The intersections of art and community in the U.S., including collective making among artists, the social power of public art, and histories of memorialization.
Books and Selected Essays: Gina Gano, The Little Art Colony and US Modernism; Suzanne Hinman, The Grandest Madison Square Garden: Art, Scandal, and Architecture in the Gilded Age; Erika Doss, Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America; and Philip Deloria, “Ghosts on the Landscape of Memory and Mending.”
Guests: Matt King, Tufts University; Michael Rose, Providence Art Club
Exhibition: TBA
Student Work
