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Nancy Austin 401-935-3070
Newport, Rhode Island, 02840, USA
Teaching Rhode Island School of Design, 1991-1999, 2003, 2008-2009
History of Industrial Design
Topics in Design History seminars
Undergraduate Advanced Design Studio, Interactive Appliances
Graduate Studio Seminars in Design History and Theory
Graduate Studio Thesis Advisor and Critic
Business & Professional Practice for graduating seniors
Guest Critic in Graphic Design and Architecture Studios
Yale University, 1999-2001
History of Industrial Design
Thesis Critic, School of Architecture
Modern Art
Modern Architecture
Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Avant-Garde
Aesthetic Theories
Advised 140 theses in the Humanities and
6 IQP -interdisciplinary theses in Technology & Culture
Recognized for Student Advising, 1989,90,91
Bryant College, 1984
Art History Survey
Head Teaching Assistant for Art History Survey, 1983
Undergraduate Academic Advisor for Art Department, 1982-3
Teaching Assistant for Art History Survey, 1980-82
Teaching Assistant: Two-dimensional Design Studio & Introduction to Western Art - NEH pilot program for undergraduate teaching assistants
Education Brown University, Department of the History of Art & Architecture
Ph.D - “Towards a Genealogy of Visual Culture at the Rhode Island School of Design, 1875-1900”.
[original Ph.D. topic: "New Brutalism and Mid-Century Modern Architecture, 1945-1970". Focusing on the Smithsons, Paul Rudolph, late Le Corbusier, and the expressive use of concrete as a building material.]
MA – “Naming the Landscape: Leisure Travel and the Demise of the Salon in France, 1852-1888”.
BA - Chemistry and Mathematics (double major)
Fellowships & Grants
Visiting Scholar/Artist, American Academy in Rome, Winter 2010.
RISD Faculty Development Grant, Winter/Spring 2009.
Fellow, John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of
American Civilization, 2000-2003
Visiting Scholar in The Culture of the Market, 1999-2000,
Pembroke Center for Research on Women, Brown University
Andrew Mellon Foundation Grant, 1998-1999
The Artisan, the Artist, and the Designer in History
Faculty Development Grant,
Rhode Island School of Design, 1992 and 1993
Department of Art, Brown University,
Research Travel Grants: 1987 and 1988
Teaching Fellowships: 1980-83
University Fellow, 1979-80
Architecture, Design, & Material Culture Consultant
On Historic Preservation of Post-1945 Architecture
Client: Trustees of the Reservations, Commonwealth of Mass.
Ulrich Franzen’s 1965 Bloedel Guest House (“The Folly”)
The Material Culture of Writing: The Past as Guide for Future Concepts
Client: Cross Pen Company
Papers Contributed unpublished research from forthcoming biography on RISD's founder, Helen Rowe Metcalf,
to Jonathan Donald's PBS documentary, "Greene County USA". (Premiered 24 October 2009, Catskill, NY).
“Women and Social Entrepreneurship in American Design Education, 1848 - Now.”
International IDSA [Industrial Designers Society of America] Conference, September 2009.
“Appliances as Performance Peripherals in the New Age of Cloud Computing,”
Yale University Material Culture lecture series, December 4, 2008.
“Albert J. Jones: The New York Times’ Sculpture Critic in Italy, 1860-1876,”
City & the Book IV: “Florence and the Americans”,
Florence, Italy, October 12, 2008. [See TLS February 27, 2009: 15.]
“From Libraries to Museums: Print vs. Visual Culture in 19th c. Providence,”
Providence Athenaeum, September 26, 2008.
Celebrity Guide for Providence Gallery Night: 2004-present.
“Still Where It Used To Be: Albert Jones and RI’s First Art Museum,”
Providence Athenaeum, 2006.
“The RISD Hybrid: Design and the Language of ‘Art’ at the Rhode Island School of Design, 1876-96.”
Winterthur Biennial Conference on “Rethinking Design”, 2004.
“‘What a beginning is worth’: The Women’s Centennial Committee of Rhode Island & the Founding of RISD, 1875-77.”
The American Seminar, JNB Center, Brown, 2002.
“Founding Notions of Design at RISD,”
Founders Day Forum for RISD’s 125th Anniversary, 2002.
“Industrialization and the Language of Art and Design,”
College Art Association, 2001.
“Innovations in 19thc Concrete,”
John Earley Conference, Washington, DC, 2001.
“The Jones Bequest and the Meaning of a Museum in 1890s Providence”,
Rhode Island Round Table, JNB Center, Brown, 2000.
“Rhode Island Mills,”
Victorian Architecture Society, 1998.
“Client/Architect Relations,” with Leslie Gill.
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum/Architectural Record symposium on ‘Creating the Modern House’, 1996.
“Early American Female Designers: Betsey Metcalf, Sophia Woodhouse, and Mary Dixon Kies,”
College Art Association Annual Conference -Women’s Caucus, 1996.
“The Mass-Produced Pen and Images of Writing in 19th c. America,”
American Antiquarian Society Seminar in American Art History, 1995.
“Traditions of Exposed Concrete in American Architecture,”
National Building Museum, Washington, DC, 1994.
Session Chair - “Tracing Usable Legacies: The Production of Art in Modern Consumer Societies,”
College Art Association Annual Conference, 1994.
“Educating American Designers for Industry, 1854-1903,”
American Antiquarian Society Conference on Education and the Commerce of Art in 19thc. America, 1993. Re-presented 1997 at Aldrich Roundtable on Business and Technology, RI Historical Society.
“The Rhetoric of Brutal Sincerity,”
International Association of Philosophy and Literature, 1992.
“The Nautical Analogy Revisited: Concrete Ships and 20thc. Architecture,”
Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, 1992.
“Consumption Communities in the 1990s,”
College Art Association Annual Conference - Design Forum, 1992.
“Modernism on the Move: Constructing New Brutalism, 1953-59,”
Society of Architectural Historians, 1991.
“Naming the Landscape: Leisure Travel and the Demise of the Salon,” International Association of Philosophy and Literature Symposium on Art and Change (May 1991).
Publications [review] Andrew Saint. Architect and Engineer: a Study in Sibling Rivalry.
In Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (December 2009): 581-582.
"Off-Road: The GPS Guide to Cultural Tourism in New Haven's Yale Hospital, Oak Street Connector and Historic Orchard Street Synagogue Area." An Art Installation by Nancy Austin in The Cultural Heritage Artists Project of the Orchard Street Shul (2009): 64-65. []
Footnotes: A Tribute to Albert J. Jones, the forgotten founder of RI’s first Art Museum (2008).
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[review] Kristina Wilson. Livable Modernism.
In Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 65 (June 2006): 315-316.
1) “‘What a beginning is worth’: The Women’s Centennial Committee
of Rhode Island and the Founding of RISD, 1875-1877,” (©2002).
2) “’No Honors to Divide’: Mrs. Metcalf and the Trustees of the Women’s Centennial Commision Fund,” (©2004).
3) “The Jones Bequest Lawsuit and the Meaning of a Museum.” (©2000).
In Infinite Radius: a history of the Rhode Island School of Design.
ed. Andrew Martinez and Dawn Barrett. (2009).
Printed and bound. Latest release date: October 2009.
“Defining the Design in RISD,” RISD Views (Spring 2003): 22-23;
“What a Beginning is Worth,” RISD Views (Fall 2002): 4-5.
“Educating American Designers for Industry, 1853-1903.” In The Cultivation of American Artists: Education and the Commerce of Art in 19th-century America, ed. Diana Korzenik. (American Antiquarian Society, 1997): 187-206.
[review] “Tower Block: Modern Public Housing in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.” In Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 54 (December 1995): 495-496.
[review] “Creating Picturesque America.” In The Book: American Antiquarian Society Newsletter (1995-96): 5.
“Naming the Landscape: Leisure Travel and the Demise of the Salon.” In Transformations: The Languages of Personhood and Culture after Theory, ed. Christie McDonald. (Penn State Press, 1994): 35-60.
[review] “Survivors: Trees of Bergen-Belsen.” Views (1993): 17-18.
“Charles Voysey” and “Miss Laurence Alma Tadema”. In The Eighteen Nineties: An Encyclopedia of British Literature, Art, and Culture, ed. George Cevasco. (Garland Press, 1993): 11-12, 653-654.
“New Content/New Form: Project-oriented Learning in the Introduction to Art History Course.” FATE in Review - Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (1992).
“Metaphor and Fact at Mid-Century: Manet and Contemporary History Painting.” and “Arabs on Voyage.” In Edouard Manet and the Execution of Maximilian, ed. Kermit Champa. (1981).
Site Specific Art Installations, 2008-present
The Orchard Street Shul Cultural Heritage Artists Project, New Haven CT
(Fall/Winter 2009-10)
Faculty Biennial, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
(February 19 to March 15, 2009)
Cryptic Providence: Site Specific Installation/Performance (September 2008)
With Caroline Woolard []
and
The A*maze*ing Grace Clothing Project/Performance (March 1992)