People
The minding Making Project
Jennifer L. Roberts
Jennifer L. Roberts is Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. An art historian, she has particular interests in print history, in theories of making and materials, and in the intersection of art history with the history and philosophy of science. She is the author of three books: Mirror-Travels: Robert Smithson and History (2004), Jasper Johns/In Press: The Crosshatch Works and the Logic of Print (2012), and Transporting Visions: The Movement of Images in Early America (2014). Her current book project, titled The Matrix: Print and Modern Making, explores the physical and philosophical fecundity of printmaking processes.
Ethan Lasser
Ethan Lasser is Head of the Division of European and American Art, and Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Curator of American Art at the Harvard Art Museums. He is responsible for the collection of American painting, sculpture, and decorative arts from 1660 to 1920. In addition, he leads the European and American curatorial team, which cares for works of art from the Renaissance to the early 20th century. A specialist in early America, Lasser is committed to interpreting American art in an international context, asking new questions about artisanal knowledge and practice, and investigating the history of collecting and museums.
Glenn Adamson
Glenn Adamson is a curator, writer and historian based in Brooklyn, who works across the fields of design, craft and contemporary art.Currently Senior Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art, and Editor-at-Large of The Magazine Antiques, he has previously been Director of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Head of Research at the V&A; and Curator at the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee. His publications include his forthcoming book Fewer, Better Things (2018); Art in the Making (2016, co-authored with Julia Bryan Wilson); Invention of Craft (2013); Postmodernism: Style and Subversion (2011); The Craft Reader (2010); and Thinking Through Craft (2007). Glenn is serving as the guest curator for Beazley Designs of the Year 10 at the Design Museum, London, which will open in October 2017.
Marlon Kuzmick
As the Director of the Learning Lab Harvard University's Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Marlon works with faculty and students to develop and practice multimodal communication and creation. He originally came to Harvard to teach writing as a Preceptor in the Harvard College Writing Program, and his current work with visual and digital literacies is very much influenced by the writing teacher’s sense that students aren’t just “learning to write” at College; they’re “writing to learn.” The media students and faculty produce in their teaching and research—papers, oral presentations, documentaries and data visualizations—aren’t merely transparent containers that hold ideas, but rather machines for generative thinking and transformative learning. Marlon partners with faculty to build pilots and prototypes that explore how these new modes of communication might occasion new learning experiences and new ideas.