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
    • Smithsonian American Enterprise
    • Chazen- Reflections
    • Chazen- Science & Art
    • Handmade Meaning
    • The World at Hand
  • Research Interests & Teaching
  • Media
    • Helpful Links
    • Contact Me