Glenn Adamson is Deputy Head of Research and Head of Graduate Studies at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where he leads a graduate program in the History of Design. Dr. Adamson is co-editor of the triannual Journal of Modern Craft, and the author of Thinking Through Craft (Berg Publishers/V&A Publications) and the Craft Reader (Berg, 2010). His other publications include Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World (MIT Press), and Gord Peteran: Furniture Meets Its Maker (Milwaukee Art Museum). Presently he is working on an exhibition about Postmodernism, to be held at the V&A in 2011.
Arline Fisch, Professor of Art (Emerita) - San Diego State University (1961-99), 1954 M.A. in Art, University of Ilinois,
1956-57 Kunsthaandvaerkerskolen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1980 lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Art, Israel,
1982, lecturer at Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna,
1983 lecturer at Rietveldt Akademie, Amsterdam
. Arline has played a central role in the revitalization of jewelry as a contemporary art form. Her outstanding contribution has been the introduction of textile techniques into the field of jewelry making. Employing gold, silver and colored copper wire she knits, braids, plaits, and crochets lightweight, flexible forms with dense, light-reflective patterns, subtle textures, and glowing color. In 1985, the State Assembly declared Fisch a ‘Living Treasure of California’.
