The Art Academy Collections. Learning from Objects
Published in connection with the international symposium Learning from Objects, 21 June 2018
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts
The Sculpture Garden. The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts. Photo by Mads Kullberg
Mads Kullberg
PhD, New Carlsberg Foundation research fellow
Schools of Visual Arts, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Mads Kullberg (DK) holds a PhD on the topic of safeguarding and documenting ephemeral art and cultural heritage. His research as New Carlsberg Foundation research fellow at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts revolves around organization, management, cataloguing, and use of the academy’s collections.
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The plaster cast collection. The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts. Photo by Mads Kullberg
Mads Kullberg
PhD, New Carlsberg Foundation research fellow
Schools of Visual Arts, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Mads Kullberg (DK) holds a PhD on the topic of safeguarding and documenting ephemeral art and cultural heritage. His research as New Carlsberg Foundation research fellow at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts revolves around organization, management, cataloguing, and use of the academy’s collections.
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The School of Graphic Arts' study collection. Photo by Mads Kullberg
Marta Frade
PhD
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Centro de Investigação e Estudos em Belas-Artes, CIEBA
Marta Frade (PT) began her training at the Professional School of Heritage Recovery in Sintra in 1997, where she cultivated her interest in the heritage executed in plaster. This material proved to be of the utmost importance in her academic career. She completed her degree in Conservation and Restoration at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar in 2005. Since 2011 she teaches as an Invited Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and finished her PhD in Conservation and Restoration of plaster sculpture in 2018.
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The sense of touch - happiness, the exchange of knowledge, the joy of children touching art!
Judy Willcocks
Head of Museum & Study Collection
Central Saint Martins
Judy Willcocks (UK) has a long standing interest in developing the use of museum collections to support teaching and learning in higher education and teaches an archiving unit for the MA in Culture, Criticism and Curation at Central Saint Martins, London. She is also interested in developing relationships between universities and museums, and was the co-founder of the Arts Council funded Share Academy project, exploring the possibilities of cross-sector partnerships.
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Handling session Museum & Study Collection
Brendan Cormier
Senior Design Curator
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Brendan Cormier (CA) is Senior Design Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum. For the last three years he has been working on the curation of the new V&A Gallery in Shenzhen, China, which opened last December. In 2016, he curated "A World of Fragile Parts" at the Pavilion of Applied Arts in Venice, a collaboration between the V&A and the Venice Biennale. Prior to working at the V&A, he was the managing editor of Volume Magazine, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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A World of Fragile Parts (c) Photo by Andrea Avezzù, courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia