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Informationen zum Autor Amanda Grace Sikarskie is a textile historian, educator, museum practitioner, and blogger whose work investigates material culture-especially textiles-in the digital age. Since receiving her Ph.D. in American Studies in 2011 from Michigan State University, she has taught undergraduate and graduate-level courses at Michigan State University and Western Michigan University, including Museum Technology, Museum Studies, Popular Art & Architecture in America, Historic Preservation, and Cultural Resource Management. Dr. Sikarskie also holds graduate certificates in Museum Studies (2008) and Humanities Computing (2005). Klappentext Collections of textiles—historic costume, quilts, needlework samplers, and the like—have benefited greatly from the digital turn in museum and archival work. Both institutional online repositories and collections-based social media sites have fostered unprecedented access to textile collections that have traditionally been marginalized in museums. How can curators, interpreters, and collections managers make best use of these new opportunities? To answer this question, the author worked with sites including the Great Lakes Quilt Center at the Michigan State University Museum, the Design Center at Philadelphia University, the International Quilt Study Center and Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the WGBH Boston Media Library and Archives, as well as user-curated social sites online such as Tumblr and Polyvore, to create four compelling case studies on the preservation, access, curation, and interpretation of textile objects. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Ada Lovelace and Weaving the Digital Chapter One: Preservation Chapter Two: Access Chapter Three: Curation Chapter Four: Interpretation Post-script: Meditations on Kate Middleton's Wedding Dress Bibliography Index About the Author ...
