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spring & summer happenings opening: Alexey Brodovitch, Art Director
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GMD’s 6th annual benefit, “Design Goes to the Opera” at the Mill City Museum
Curator Jean McElvain teaches apparel design students about sleeves.
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America’s Monsters, Superheroes, and Villains
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Hypernatural Through Jaunary 24, 2016
Northrop Transformed Through January 3, 2016
IN THE WORKS
SPRING 2016
Through January 3, 2016
Photograph: Xavier Tavera and Shiraz Mukarram.
When Places Speak January 22 - May 8, 2016
Juvenile sex trafficking is attached to places— where youth are recruited, where ads are posted on line, where purchasers meet victims, where law enforcement stops trafficking, and where victims can recover and heal. When Places Speak aims to start dialogues around the places related to sex trafficking and an awareness of the role design plays in this community concern.
Studio Ladakh: Ancient Futures, Architecture in the Western Himalayas January 30 - May 1, 2016
Studio Ladakh was formed by Program Director Bill Brunner with Dr. Kristine Mun in partnership with His Excellency Raja Jigmed W. Namgyal, the “King of Ladakh”, to create a World Heritage Management Plan for the Ladakhi village of Stok. The project brought together an international group of architects, artists, engineers, urban planners, cultural heritage experts, and students to develop a vision for the future.
Dutch Complex Housing Dior to Disco The Woven World of IKAT goldstein.design.umn.edu
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HYPERNATURAL Through Jaunary 24, 2016
In Hypernatural architecture and material experts Blaine Brownell and Marc Swackhamer present an international collection of forty-two case studies that illustrate astonishing new applications possible in this rapidly growing field, from Echoviren, a botanical pavilion that was designed to wilt into its surrounding redwood forest in Northern California, to the MIT Media Lab’s Silk Pavilion, constructed by the threads of silkworms as they passed over scaffolding. Together, these projects show that by looking to nature, design can be a tool that makes our built environment more efficient, sustainable, and, most of all, livable.
Despite the ever-growing sophistication of synthetic and digital tools, it’s the natural world that captures the imaginations of today’s vanguard designers. By looking to nature as a teacher rather than simply as a source for raw materials, pioneers in the emerging biomimicry movement are developing design methods and materials to create intelligent buildings that emulate life itself.
Echoviren
Hyper- Matrix Yeosu, South Korea, 2012 Jonpasang
Gualala, California, 2013 Smith | Allen
HygroSkin Orleans, France, 2013 Achim Merges with Oliver David Krieg and Steffen Reichert HygroSkin is inspired by pinecone scales.
Lisbon, Portugal, 2012 P-06 Atelier and Joao Luis Carrilho da Graca FALL 2015
EXHIBITIONS: HGA Gallery, Rapson Hall, Minneapolis Campus
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From the Crypts of SuperMonsterCity... Through January 3, 2016
Why do monsters, superheroes and villains that have frightened, thrilled and enthralled Americans since the 1950s still remain culturally relevant today?
America’s Monsters, Superheroes and Villains serves as an historical documentation of our creativity and our culture’s norms and conventions. The exhibition features over 300 original toys and artifacts from the 1960s to the present. Museum-goers will see toys that tell the story of toy design. Superheroes, super-villains, and monsters, are popular culture icons. Most children and adults enjoy being safely scared by werewolves, vampires, the Frankenstein Monster, and other misshapen creatures of the night. This exhibition demonstrates how toys depicting these unique characters have reflected our changing values and have 6
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impacted our culture over the decades.
This exhibition is curated by Stephen Rueff from David Barnhill’s collection estimated to contain over 200,000 toys and toy-related posters, film and video collected from around the world.
From Passion to Collection to Exhibition: David Barnhill, Toy Collector David Barnhill has one of the biggest odd collections around–a toy collection that he started around the age of 3. He became a serious collector after college, when he realized that toys could have a life beyond playtime. Storing away multiples of his favorite childhood toys and scouring garage sales, Barnhill made it his mission to save all of the really cool toys. And they all live with him in his childhood home, the Shangri-La of cool monster toys. Now the toys are coming out to play. Though many of them still live in the bedroom where he played with them as a child, he realized they needed to be able to tell their story, and have a life beyond his collecting. Moving on from running a haunted house with a toy display on the side, Barnhill teamed up with long-time friend and fellow monster, villain, and superhero enthusiast, Stephen “Yogi” Rueff to develop “SuperMonsterCity”. Barnhill sees his home as “exhibitions waiting to happen” and worked with GMD staff to sort through rooms of floor-to-ceiling boxes of toys spanning 5 decades to develop the America’s Monsters Superheroes and Villains exhibition that tells the story of the toys within the greater context of design and United States history. Some of Barnhill’s toys are currently traveling with a toy exhibition he worked on with the Minnesota History Center in 2013, and he hopes that one day his collection might become a toy museum because “when you play with something as a kid, it fills your soul.”
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EXHIBITIONS: Gallery 241, McNeal Hall, St. Paul Campus
Toys, advertising designs, and packaging from America’s Golden Era of toy design include designs by James Bama and Todd McFarlane, and others as well as toy manfractures from Mattel, Hasbro, Aurora, Marx MPC and, Minnesotabased Lakeside Toys. Text panels will explore the historical context and the evolution of toys and advances in materials, manufacturing and design.
Summers with the COLLECTION kids! NOTES FROM THE
Every summer we are pleased to host the Gopher Adventurers, part of the University of Minnesota’s Summer Youth Program. This summer three groups of 5- to 8-year-old came by, and we asked them what they thought about a variety of designed objects. Focusing on the relationship between visible cues and function, objects were presented with no information and students were asked to explain their use. There were many ideas about everything from Philippe Starck fly swatters to collapsible top hats. All three groups guessed that the Sony Walkman was an old video camera, which speaks to the power of materiality and form, and how it triggers general assumptions about an object. Participants were then asked to choose an object and write a three line poem about it. Although they are young writers, most found an object to identify with and a way to relate their perceptions.
Smooth as crystal Rusty as a rail road Heavy as a brachiosaurus Clear as water
Box iron with wood handle 1852 Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bouton Hirschmann
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Scaly Purse Scaly, pokey, flat Creepy as night Flat binder
Alligator handbag 1940-1949 Gift of Eleanor S. Fenton
Steamer teapot Smooth clay colors It’s like magic lamp in Aladdin The smooth clay teapot
Stoneware teapot by Paul Eshelman, 1994 Goldstein Museum of Design
Tall Hat Soft and smooth Black as a black bear Black hat
Top hat early 20th century Gift of Jean Gall
Learn more about us at: http://goldstein.design.umn.edu/ FALL 2015
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Welcome students! Each fall we welcome students back to campus and campus comes alive with new faces plus friends from last spring. This year, GMD welcomes back Laureen Gibson, PhD candidate in Apparel Studies, as the Dora Agee Waller Collections Assistant. Laureen works with Jean McElvain to fulfill faculty and researcher requests for collection object study. She also writes most of the posts for GMD’s blog and helps with potential donations.
We also welcome two new graduate students as GMD staff. Breana Jones, a Masters student in Apparel Merchandising and Consumer Studies, is the Lila Bath Communications Assistant. Originally from the Chicagoland area, Breana was accpeted into college at age 14. She received her Associate’s degree in Business, with honors, at age 17, from Waubonsee Community College, before receiving her high school diploma. She also received her Bachelors’ degree in Business Administration & Marketing with a Management minor from the University of Illinois, Cum Laude, at 19 years old. Breana will be the voice of GMD’s social media plus our press and marketing materials.
GMD STAFF Jeffrey Arcand Gallery Staff
GMD STAFF Autumn Beckman
Gallery Staff Autumn Beckman Gallery Staff Bischoff Elizabeth Gallery Staff Elizabeth Bischoff Gallery MaryStaff Alice Chaney Exhibitions Coordinator Kathleen Campbell Special Projects Christine Fantle Gallery Staff Mary Alice Chaney Exhibitions LaureenCoordinator Gibson Waller Collection Alex Christl Assistant Gallery Staff
Shan Yu, a Master of Science student in Human Factors/Ergonomics, is the new Dora Agee Waller Graphic Design Assistant. Originally from Beijing, China, Shan has a Bachelor of Arts in Digital Media Art and Design from Beijing University of Technology and a Master of Fine Art in Digital Art from Indiana University. Shan will be working with GMD staff on exhibition graphic materials and with Breana on print materials such as this magazine. Shan is “delighted” by the challenge of creating intriguing graphic materials.
Eunice Haugen Karen Froistad
Registrar Gallery Staff
Breana Aly GatesJones
Lila Bath Communications Gallery Staff Assistant
Laureen Gibson
Rea Jorgaqi
Waller Collection Gallery Staff Assistant
Eunice Haugen Sydney Komoto Registrar Gallery Staff
Betsy Intharath Barbara Lutz Gallery Staff
Administrative Assistant
Abbey Kleinert
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DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE
Visit GMD’s Gallery 241 and you will be greeted by new and returning undergraduate students. These hardy workers are GMD’s front line greeters, installation crew, and event assistants. Many gallery staff members are students from majors outside of the College of Design and they bring a wide range of ideas and enthusiasm to the guest experience. Welcome these students on your next visit to campus!
Waller Communications Associate Curator Assistant
KendallLutz Moon Barbara Gallery Staff
Administrative Assistant
Lin Nelson-Mayson Jean McElvain Director Assistant Curator
Rebekah Njaa Kendall Moon Preparator Gallery Staff
Shelby Putney Lin Nelson-Mayson Gallery Staff Director
Ellen Skoro Rebekah Njaa Photographer Preparator
Yours in design,
Grant Taylor Jeanne Schacht Gallery Staff Graphic Designer
Shan Yu Shea Matthew Waller Graphic Design Gallery Staff Assistant
Ellen Skoro Photographer
Lin Nelson-Mayson
Natasha Thoreson Lila Bath Collection Assistant
Linda Webster
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Carla K. Adams Daniel Avchen Sue Bartolutti (Sustainer) Linda & Philip Boelter Kayla Burman Anne Cook Ruth & Doug Crane Kareen A. Daby Marilee DesLauriers Patricia Ewer Kim Faith Helen B. Foster Evelyn M. Franklin Terrence Gockman Marjorie Gregory Jerry J. Hess Mary & Gregory Hirsch Virginia Homme Carol E. Jackson David Johnson Sandra J. Johnson Nancy M. Kirby John Kokesh Lynette Kopperud Kay & Jerry Martin Susan McArdle Hood Mary Ellen McFarland Mary & James Meyer Darleen Nelson Lin Nelson-Mayson (Sustainer) Anthony Nucera Heather Olson Timothy G. Quigley Sheryl Rapheal Barbara Redmond Philip Rickey Jeanne Schacht Mark Schultz (Sustainer) Natasha Thoreson Susan Throndrud Linda Webster Donna Weispfenning & Robert Groger (Sustainers) LIFE MEMBERS Joanne Eicher Gertrude Esteros IN MEMORY Ann Carlson Birt By Ann Heider, Marlene Lawson TO HONOR Patricia Ewer & David Mangan By Beth McLaughlin
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EVENT SPONSORS
GMD ADVISORY BOARD 2015-2016 OFFICERS
COLLECTION DIGITIZATION
Design Goes to the Opera
Jeffrey S. Brockmann & Shane Swanson Diana Hageboeck Gordon & Janet L. Johnson Romaine & Ben Shank, Jr.
Platinum: Kellé Bronze: Ann Carlson Birt Douglas A. & Ruth Hanold Crane Linda Hersom, SHO, Inc. Holly Hunt Enterprises, LLC Dorothy Ollmann Kevin S. Ringdahl & David Mohr, Morgan Stanley Signals.com Supporters: Phil & Linda Boelter Kathleen E. & Paul D.Campbell RR Donnelley Graphiculture HGA Architects and Engineers Otto Painting Designs Peterssen/Keller Architecture Rockler Woodworking and Hardware Streeter & Associates Tom Newton Trove
PRESIDENT Kent Hensley, Hensley Creative
MATCHING FOUNDATION
BOARD MEMBERS
IBM International Foundation
Interim Dean Becky Yust, College of Design Renee Cheng, Associate Dean of Research Lin Nelson-Mayson, Director
GENERAL SUPPORT Cathryn Beil Ann Carlson Birt Kathleen E. & Paul D. Campbell Jennifer Garvin Cress D’Amico Holding Company, Inc. Joanie Detlefsen Douglas & Ruth Hanold Crane Charitable Gift Fund Fan Association of North America Ann Frisina Graphiculture Hammel, Green and Abrahamson Ann Heider Kent Hensley Beth McLaughlin Tom Newton Heather Olson Bruce Poulsen Philip Rickey Wearable Art Midwest Weavers Guild of Minnesota Inc. DIRECTOR’S FUND
SECRETARY Shanthini Logendran, Holly Hunt BOARD MEMBERS Moira Bateman, Humanity and Nature Matthew Hatch, RR Donnelley Debra Herdman, debra herdman design Mary Lou Hidalgo, freelance copywriter Heidi Libera, Streeter & Associates John Ollmann, Signals Heather Olson, Soladay Olson Barbara Redmond, Barbara Redmond Design, Inc. Kate Solomonson, School of Architecture, University of Minnesota
Sue J. Bartolutti DONATIONS TO COLLECTION Pauline Boss Lisa Brenner Kathleen E. Campbell Ann Carlson Birt Judith Christensen Ruth Hanold Crane Audrey Estebo Gertrude Esteros Dori Hathaway Julie Himmelstrup Ruth Huss Suzanne Janse-Vreeling Janet L. Johnson Ann Kemske Sylvia Markus Mohn Lin Nelson-Mayson Liv Norderhaug Leanne Phinney Mary Kate Scheidler Scott Wehman Elizabeth G. Weymouth Mrs. John Winsor Rosita Hawley Wright Stephen B. Young
All GMD programming is made possible in part by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support Grant, thanks to legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Funding for the collection photography project was made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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“Wood’s Edge“ yardage, 1970-1979 Elen hank Designers Inc. Cotton/lien blend Gift of Dorothy E.A. Ramsland
Bowl, 2004 Becky and Steve Lloyd Hand-carved terra sigilatta on English porcelain Gift of the Friends of the Goldstein Museum of Design