ANN SMART MARTIN
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Exploring Objects

Professor, Curator, Writer, & Artifact Enthusiast
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I investigate the human condition and the material world by examining the tangled connections of people and things. I seek patterns, often through counting sherds or words, but always interrogating evidence and seeking meanings. I am avowedly interdisciplinary through training and practice. My teaching seldom comes from a textbook, but is often built on fieldwork, observing, making and doing. In all, I delight in the wonder and excitement of the decorative arts, where beauty and utility are created within a marketplace of the lives of makers and users and revel in the power of objects to tell us about lives in the past and our own.

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  • Home
    • About Me
  • Publications
    • Articles
    • Books
  • .A Few Exhibitions
    • Questioning Things: A Quarter-Century of Material Culture Studies at UW-Madison
    • Finding Slavery in a Campus Art Museum
    • Creators, Collectors & Communities: Making Ethnic Identity through Objects.
    • What’s in a Jug? Art, Technology, Culture
    • Smithsonian American Enterprise
    • Chazen- Reflections
    • Chazen- Science & Art
    • Handmade Meaning
    • The World at Hand
  • Research Interests & Teaching
  • Media
    • Helpful Links
    • Contact Me