2017 Qualifying Paper Symposium

1:00 pm Welcoming Remarks and Introduction Susan Weber, Founder and Director Peter N. Miller, Dean and Professor Andrew Morrall, Professor and Chair of Academic Programs 1:15 pm Part I: Moderated by François Louis Alexandra Beuscher Portals, Vessels, and Seams: The Seal in Yup'ik Material Culture Emily Field The History and Continuing Impact of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Grace Reff From Mexico to Black Mountain College: Josef Albers, Clara Porset, and the Butaque Anna Mikaela Ekstrand The Presence of the Past: Influence of Porcelain Production on Contemporary Art from Jingdezhen 2:15 pm Part II: Moderated by Deborah L. Krohn Darienne Turner Women as Flock, Woman as Shepherd: Croziers and Gender Performance in the Middle Ages Ana Matisse Donefer- Hickie Art and Imperial Allegory: The Glass Deckelpokal of Archduke Ferdinand II Susan Hunter The Rustiques Figulines of Bernard Palissy Margaret Frick Cooking for the Masses: An Examination of Eighteenth-Century Tavern Cookbooks and the Urban Metropolis 3:15 pm - 3:30 pm Break 3:30 pm Part III: Moderated by Michele Majer Sheila Moloney Crystal Palaces, Glass Houses, and Geodesic Domes: The VSI Study House Nr. 1 and Its Antecedents Catherine Stergar "The Everlasting Fire of Achievement": An Examination of the Life and Career of Ceramic Artist Mary Chase Perry (1867-1961) Irene Jaramillo-Vélez Prosthetic Bodies in Public Space: The Reception and Perception of the Crinoline in France,