Call for Papers: 2021 Virtual Conference "Revivals"
April 10, 2021
Application deadline: 1 May 2021
The 2021 Annual Conference and General Assembly of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Decorative Arts and Design (ICDAD) will take place virtually, from 21 October to 23 October 2021, organized around the theme of "Revivals. Reconsidering the Past in Decorative Arts and Design."
This CFP is a reissued version of the 2020 CfP, which had been scheduled for Lisbon, Portugal but was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. If you submitted a paper for that conference, you should have received an email asking if you would like your proposal to be considered for this conference.
Members' activities: YouTube Channel about Decorative Arts
March 30, 2021
On his YouTube channel Artefax, ICDAD member Lassi Patokorpi from Finland presents "museum secrets and oddities of the past".
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: ICDAD Grants Spring 2021
March 8, 2021
Deadline of Application: April 7, 2021
ICDAD is announcing grants of the amount of up to 2,000 euros for spring 2021. All individual and institutional members of ICDAD are welcome to apply. Collaborations with ICOM national or regional groups, with other ICOM international committees, or other partners are allowed and encouraged.
The proposed projects should fit into the following categories of activity:
- conferences, trainings and meetings
- publications and research activities
- activities for young members
- actions encouraging exchange with emerging countries
- cooperation with other ICOM committees and/or Regional Alliances
Please download the application form here (as Word document or PDF document).
Members' activities: Call for Applications from Baku
March 6, 2021
Conference Artist and Carpet: Today and Tomorrow
International Carpet Sketch Contest
The Heydar Aliyev Foundation, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and the Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum announce the international carpet sketch contest dedicated to the 880th birth anniversary of the Azerbaijani poet Nizami Ganjavi. Creative people over the age of 20 are welcome to take part in the contest. Send your carpet sketch scanned at 600 DPI JPEG format to carpetmuseum.contest@gmail.com until May 15, 2021.
The winner will receive a cash prize. The judging panel will announce the first-place winner on May 30, 2021. Following this, the ANCM's Traditional Technology Department will weave a carpet based on the winner's sketch. If the winner is a foreign citizen, the museum will cover his/her travel and accommodation expenses to attend the carpet's presentation ceremony.
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Members' activities: online Lecture Series "Interiors for Display"
March 5, 2021
Interiors for Display: The art of the eighteenth-century interior in the Dutch Republic and Europe
Online lecture series at the Leiden University, organized by Alexander Dencher. Registration is open and free, please click here for more information.
- March 11: Amsterdam's splendid interiors of the eighteenth century, Pieter Vlaardingerbroek (Gemeente Amsterdam, Monumenten & Archeologie/UU)
- : Painting ensembles in eighteenth-century interiors in the Dutch Republic, Margriet van Eikema Hommes (RCE (Cultural Heritage Agency)/TU Delft)
- April 1: From storeroom to public display. 18th century interiors in the Museum Houses of the Hendrick de Keyser association. Valentijn Carbo (Vereniging Hendrik de Keyser)
- Pride and prejudice: the eighteenth-century interior in the historiography of British architecture, Prof. dr. Christine Casey (Trinity College Dublin)
- Engaging with the Antique: Parisian architects, designers and craftsmen and the development of the neoclassical interior, 1760-1785, Helen Jacobsen (The Wallace Collection, London)
- May 13: From Baroque to Regency: Textile Furnishings in the British Country House, Annabel Westman (The Attingham Trust, London)
- May 27: Giovanni Battista Foggini: a designer of interiors and decorative arts at the time of the Last Medici, Kira d’Alburquerque (The Victoria and Albert Museum, London)