Lecture by Dr. Audrey Whitty
3/12
‘A Retrospective of Irish Glass-Making from the Middle Ages to Modern Times’

Presentation by Dr. Audrey Whitty, Ph.D., Curator of European & Asian Glass at the Corning Museum of Glass, Tuesday Evening, December 3, 2013 at 7:00PM
St. Michael’s Church - 99th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue

Dr. Audrey Whitty, Ph.D. has been Curator of European and Asian Glass at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York since May 2013. Before that she had been Curator of Ceramics, Glass and Asian collections at the National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts & History, Collins Barracks, Dublin, from 2001 to 2013. Whitty has curated several exhibitions, most notably ‘A Dubliner’s Collection of Asian Art: The Albert Bender Exhibition’ and the National Museum of Ireland’s visible storage facility (approx. 16,500 objects), which showcases some of that museum’s most important collections of applied arts. A graduate (B.A.: History and Archaeology) and postgraduate (M.A.: Archaeology) of University College Dublin, she also has a doctorate from Trinity College Dublin in History of Art as a result of her thesis, ‘The Albert Bender (1866-1941) Donations of Far Eastern Art to the National Museum of Ireland in the context of his Cultural Interests in Ireland and California’. In addition to her roles at the Corning Museum of Glass and the National Museum of Ireland she has been appointed Irish Commissioner to both European Ceramic Context and European Glass Context (European Union-wide biennales of contemporary glass and ceramics) since 2006, which take place on the Danish island of Bornholm. In 2009 she became the first Irish woman to be elected to the International Academy of Ceramics based in Geneva. She has published over fifty articles/catalogues/books (on both historical and contemporary topics of material culture) and lectured to such bodies/institutions as the Sorbonne, Paris; Trinity College Dublin; National Maritime Museum, Greenwich; SOFA (Sculptural Objects and Functional Art), Chicago; National University of Ireland, Galway; the American Irish Historical Society, New York City; the Irish-Chinese Cultural Society; Dublin City Gallery – The Hugh Lane; University College Dublin; Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington; National University of Ireland, Maynooth; and the National College of Art & Design, Dublin. She is author of the major publication, ‘The Albert Bender Collection of Asian Art in the National Museum of Ireland’, which was published by the National Museum and Wordwell in 2011.

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