Chronology of Oscar B. Bach's Life
Heidi Nasstrom Evans has graciously agreed to lend us the Chronology of Oscar Bach's life and allow it to be posted to the web site.
Heidi
Nasstrom Evans, Oscar B. Bach historian, is also a decorative arts historian
interested in the interchange of stylistic influences between the U.S.A. and
Western Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Her Bach research took place in conjunction with a Metropolitan Museum
acquisition of a Bach bowl-on-stand.
In 1995 she presented her findings on Bach at the 4th Annual
Symposium in the History of Decorative Arts at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design
Museum.
Heidi is currently working on her doctorate at the University of Maryland, where
she is specializing in material culture studies in the American Studies program.
This year, 2000, she received a Robert Lee Gill Fellowship from the
Winterthur Museum and Library to do research on her dissertation topic, Jane
Byrd McCall Whitehead—the founder of a utopian arts colony named Byrdcliffe
(founded 1902) in Woodstock, New York (Heidi’s home town).
At UMD, Heidi is a graduate assistant in the Department of Women’s
Studies, editing their annual newsletter, Bridging,
and designing promotional material for their new Ph.D. program.
In addition to a course she teaches on 20th-century arts,
crafts and design in the Department of American Studies, Heidi is working with
the University Art Gallery on an exhibition on contemporary fiber arts.
For the exhibition, which will open in October 2000, she is contributing
a catalog essay on the concept of materiality in fiber art.
At the Masters Program in the History of Decorative Arts at The Smithsonian
Associates in Washington, D.C., where Heidi was Assistant Chair from 1996-1999,
she teaches courses on 20th-century decorative arts and coordinates
courses on American quilts and furniture, ethnic-American decorative arts and
ceramic history.
She is Vice President of the Decorative Arts Society and coordinates
their newsletter, which is published three times a year.
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