2025 | Community Perspectives Tour with Dr. Hallie Meredith

Join Dr. Hallie Meredith for a tour of select works of glass in the museum’s collection

Thursday, January 16, 2025, 4:00-5:00pm
Samuel E. Smith Center for Undergraduate Education (Level 2 Atrium)
& Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU

Join Assistant Professor Dr. Hallie Meredith for an art historian and former glassblower’s perspective on select works of glass in the museum, including the Marian E. Smith Glass Collection, which highlights some of the most influential glass artists of the Pacific Northwest. From ancient functional objects such as mirrors and vessels to the most imaginative contemporary sculpture, glass objects are undeniably fascinating, both for their aesthetic qualities and as artworks that challenge us to consider the possibilities of their transformed raw materials. As an expert in ancient glass and a proponent of embodied learning, Dr. Meredith will share her unique interpretation while encouraging open discussion among tour participants.

This tour will convene in the Samuel E. Smith Center for Undergraduate Education (CUE) in the atrium on level 2 at 4pm, then move to the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU around 4:30pm. A reception for the exhibition Your Collection: Faculty Remix will immediately follow this tour.

About | Hallie Meredith received her doctorate from Lincoln College, University of Oxford. Dr. Meredith is Assistant Professor of Art History at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington in the United States. She specializes in Late Antique Work, Craft Production, Communication with and on Portable Objects, and Ancient Technologies with a Glass emphasis. Her publications include, among others, Objects in Motion: The Circulation of Religion and Sacred Objects in the Late Antique and Byzantine World and Word becomes Image: Openwork Vessels as a Reflection of Late Antique Transformation. Most recently, she co-edited a journal special issue on late Roman inter-industry relations published in the Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies and co-authored an article on making Technical Art History accessible, published in Materia: The Journal of Technical Art History. Dr. Meredith is also working on a book on third to sixth century CE Roman craftworkers and their legacy with an emphasis on glassblowing.

Community Perspectives Tours invite individuals from our campus and wider community to speak about their unique interpretation of several works in the current exhibitions, charting connections among art, personal experience, and different disciplines.

Location

The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. For more information please visit museum.wsu.edu/visit.