There are times when if you are very lucky, you meet someone who changes your life for the better. For contributor Gianofer (JON nah fer) Fields, that person is Professor Ann Smart Martin. Martin is the Stanley and Polly Stone (Chipstone)……you see where this is going…Professor Emeritus of American Decorative Arts and Material Culture for the Art History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Their relationship spans just over a decade and in all of that time, one thing has changed. It’s the edition of Emertus to Professor Martin’s title. In this edition of Radio Chipstone, Fields and Martin spent a lovely summer day chatting about where it all began.
Ann Smart Martin is the Stanley and Polly Stone (Chipstone) Professor Emeritus of American Decorative Arts and Material Culture for the Art History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
About the Author
Gianofer (JON nah fer) Fields is an Art Historian and Material Culture contributor and curates the Radio Chipstone series. She is the host of Refrangible, available on Spotify, Stitcher, iTunes or wherever else you get your podcasts.
The project is hosted by the School of Human Ecology and the Center for Design and Material Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and funded by the Chipstone Foundation; a decorative arts foundation whose mission is preserving and interpreting their collection, as well as stimulating research and education in the decorative arts.
