Ferris Olin
Ferris Olin | |
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![]() Ferris Olin in 2012 | |
Born | Trenton, New Jersey | June 27, 1948
Movement | Feminist Art, Librarian, Art Historian |
Awards | Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award 2012 |
Ferris Olin is an American feminist scholar, curator, educator and librarian. Olin was born in Trenton, New Jersey, on June 27, 1948 to Harry William and Naomi (Hanft) Olin.[citation needed] She has been a Professor Art and Library Science in the Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences since 1976.[1] With , Olin co-founded, and co-directed several initiatives and institutions, including the Institute for Women and Art,[2] the Women Artists Archive National Directory,[3] the Miriam Schapiro Archives on Women Artists, and the Feminist Art Project.[4] She was the founding director of the Margery Somers Foster Center: A Resource Center and Digital Archive on Women, Scholarship and Leadership at Rutgers University.[5][1] In 1975, Olin worked on a design team to found the Training Institute for the Sex Desegregation of the Public Schools in New Jersey, United States, as well as the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.[5]
Education[]
She studied art history, women’s studies and library science at Douglass College and Rutgers University.[1]
Publications and exhibitions[]
Olin co-authored, with Judith K. Brodsky, the book The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, Art and Society (2012).[6] Olin and Brodsky co-curated a parallel exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum, which included the work of Shirin Neshat, Laila Shawa, Mona Hatoum, and Parastou Forouhar.[7]
Books and exhibition catalogs[]
- Brodsky, Judith K.; Olin, Ferris (2006). How American women artists invented postmodernism, 1970-1975. New Brunswick, NJ: Margery Somers Foster Center, Mabel Smith Douglass Library. OCLC 85257667.
- Brodsky, Judith K.; Olin, Ferris (2012). The fertile crescent : gender, art, and society. Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers University). Galleries. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Institute for Women and Art. ISBN 978-0-9790497-9-8. OCLC 794365492.
Awards and honors[]
Olin was awarded a Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.[8] In 1980, Olin received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to found, at Radcliffe College, the Women in the Community Project.[5]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Ferris Olin Receives Lifetime Achievement Award". Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences. Rutgers University News. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
- ^ "Center for Women in the Arts". Rutgers University. Archived from the original on 31 January 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
- ^ "WAAND". Women Artists Archives National Directory. Rutgers University. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
- ^ "The Feminist Art Project". Rutgers University. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Wallace, Michelle. "Ferris Olin: A Biographical Sketch" (PDF). Women's Caucus on Art. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 April 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
- ^ Friedensohn, Doris. "The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art and Society (Review)". Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County. Ethical Culture Society. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
- ^ "Interview with Fertile Crescent Curators Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin". Art Museum. Princeton University. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
- ^ "2012 Honor Awards" (PDF). Women's Caucus for Art. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 April 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
- 1948 births
- Living people
- Women art historians
- American feminist writers
- Rutgers University alumni
- American art historians
- Douglass College alumni
- Rutgers University faculty
- American women historians