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Ann Calhoun, 2/14 Oriental Tce, Oriental Bay, Wellington 6011

PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING BOOKS, EXHIBITION CATALOGUES, ARTICLES AND LECTURES

2015 
Arts & Crafts Design: ‘like yet not like’ nature – sources for a New Zealand story (ebook released August 2015 –
ISBN 978-0-473-33435-2)                 

1897 to 1907: Aesthetic cum Arts & Crafts dress. Paper to 2015 Dunedin Costume and Textile Symposium, Otago Museum, 24 April 2015

2011
Textiles Designs Traced. Paper to 2011 Annual symposium of the Costume and Textile Association of New Zealand, Tauranga Art Gallery,
17-18 June 2011.

2008
William Morris & South Kensington: Flatter surfaces, flatter style. Paper to seminar: William Morris and the Art of Everyday Life, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 10 May 2008

2007            
New Zealand Arts & Crafts panel: Te Papa, 18 October 2007

2006
The Arts & Crafts, Nature and flatness. Paper to Alexander Turnbull Library staff, 28 July 2006

2005
Nature’s Forms as Patterns: Design Instruction Considered. Paper to Southern Threads: Connecting dress, cloth and culture, 4th Costume & Textile Symposium, Otago Museum, 5-6 March 2005 

2004
A new/old view of the Arts & Crafts: Separating the ‘tasteful’ sheep from the ‘philistine’ goats. Paper to Arts & Crafts Seminar, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 27-28 November 2004

Forgotten Artists: Arts & Crafts Canterbury Style. Paper at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 23 November 2004 

Simplicity and Splendour: The Canterbury Arts & Crafts Movement from 1882. Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu exhibition 19 November 2004 - 27 February 2005 (Curator and Exhibition catalogue author)

2000-2003
The Arts & Crafts movement in New Zealand 1870-1940: Women make their mark.
Lectures to publicise the book to:
Friends of the Auckland City Art Gallery, Wednesday 4 September 2003;
Whitirea Polytech class, Porirua, Wellington, 4 April 2003;
Karori Arts Centre;
Auckland Art Deco Society, Auckland, Sunday 24 March 2002;
Antiques & Heirlooms Society, Karori Nathan Centre, 6 November 2001;
Government Department (Raewyn Good & Vicki Terrell);
Women's Book Weekend (guest of AUP, publisher), 14 October 2000

2000
The Arts & Crafts  Movement in New Zealand 1870-1940: Women make their mark, Auckland University Press 2000 (Author & Photographer)
Supported by Award in History, New Zealand History Research Trust Fund, Department Internal Affairs 1992 (Maximum grant awarded).
Supported by Suffrage Centennial Year Trust Grant 1992

1999
The botanical illustration-flower painting dichotomy. Paper to Women’s Studies Association Conference, Victoria University, Wellington,
5-7 November

1999
Centennial Women: Chrystabel Aitken & her peers. Paper to Celebrating the 1940 Centennial, Stout Research Centre conference at the National Library Auditorium, 5-6 November 1999 

1996
flowers - prodigies of grace and freshness. Paper to Setting the Margins: Concepts of Print Culture in a New Zealand Context, Second Annual Conference on the History of Print Culture in New Zealand, 26-29 August 1996, Selwyn College, University of Otago, Dunedin 

1995
Women, the Arts & Crafts and the Exhibition. Paper to Farewell Colonialism! Aspects of the Great International Exhibition Christchurch 1906-1907 conference 17 June 1995 & publication, organized by John Masefield Thompson & the Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, 1995 

1994
Patronage, Parents & Publications. Paper to Provincialism, Prosperity & Patronage conference organized by the Department of Art History & Theory, University of Otago, 26-28 August 1994                      

Arts & Crafts Style. Paper to MONZ staff, May 1994  

1993          
A Trade for their Daughters: Women in the Fine and Applied Arts in New Zealand from 1870 to 1900. Bulletin of New Zealand Art History 14 1993

Women in the Arts & Crafts movement in New Zealand. Paper to New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, 1993

A Trade for their Daughters. Paper to White Camellias Conference, Christchurch, July 1993, organised by the Robert McDougall Art Gallery

Chrystabel & Florence: a Sculptor & a Design Teacher. Art New Zealand 68, Spring 1993  

1991
The Book of New Zealand Women. Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 1991.  Entries on: Dorothy Kate Richmond, Mina Arndt,
Margaret Butler, Mary and Margaret Alcorn, and Isabel Hodgkins                         

Women as Symbols in New Zealand Labour History. Paper to Women’s Studies Association, Wellington, 1991 

1990
This, that and the other: Donors, women and art eduction. Bequest to the Nation, New Zealand Academy of Fine Art, Wellington, & Caltex Oil, 1990 (Exhibition catalogue essay) 

1991
Woman as Symbol in New Zealand Labour History. Paper to Women’s Studies Assn Conference, 1991

Art and Organised Labour: Banners, Badges, Photographs, Films, Cartoons, Posters, Paintings, Sculpture; Images of working and trade union life in New Zealand, Wellington City Art Gallery, organised with the assistance of the Trade Union Education Authority and the Trade Union History Project, 20 October 1990 - 21 January 1991 (Co-Curator and Exhibition catalogue) 

1989-1990
Artists' images of women’s bodies recycled by history, 1989 Women’s Studies Assn Conference Papers, Lincoln University Printery, 1990 Associated lectures: Rangiruru, Christchurch, August 1989, published December 1990; WSA Post-Conference Day, 12 November [1989]; & NZ Catholic Women’s Assn, 1993) 

1988
New Zealand women artists before and after 1893, Women’s Studies Journal, 4 (1), September 1988. Journal article, pp54-67

Whakamamae, Wellington City Art Gallery, 2 April-19 June 1988 (Exhibition catalogue preparation & editor)

1987
Goncharova, National Art Gallery, Wellington, 11 September-15 November 1987 (Exhibition catalogue editor)

1986
Face to Face: A survey of artists’ prints, National Art Gallery, Wellington, 1986 (Co-Curator with Anne Kirker, Co-Author, Researcher, Cataloguer) 

‘Deaccessioning, Why Not?’, AGMANZ News 16.3, September 1985 (News article) 

1984
Aspects of New Zealand Art 1890-1940, National Art Gallery, Wellington, 1984 (Co-Curator, Researcher, Cataloguer), and ‘The Acquisition of New Zealand Art for the National Collection: The Place of the Donor’ (Aspects article)

Thoughts on Cataloguing Art Works, AGMANZ News 15.1, March 1984 (News article) 

1983
Cataloguers’ Manual for the Visual Arts, National Art Gallery, Wellington, 1983 (Manual author) 

1982
Two Wellington Entrepreneurs of the Thirties: II Mary Murray Fuller. Art New Zealand 24, Winter

1982
Two Wellington Entrepreneurs of the Thirties: I Edwin Murray Fuller. Art New Zealand 23, Autumn 1982 

1981
The first fifty years: British art of the 20th century, National Art Gallery, Wellington, 1981 (Researcher, Cataloguer)

National Art Gallery Acquisitions: 1980-81, 1981-82, 1982-83, 1985-86 (Cataloguer & catalogue compilation) 

Canadian Outdoor Recrestion Demand Study, Parks Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 1973 (Technical writer & editor)

 
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2004- 2005  
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Contract Curator
for: Simplicity and Splendour: The Canterbury Arts & Crafts Movement from 1882 (& exhibition catalogue)

1997
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Contract Curator for Day-One exhibition. Museum opened 14 February 1998 

1994-5
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Project Team; Short-term contracts; Subject Specialist: Arts & Crafts 

1991
Contract with Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council Toi Aotearoa  to prepare Council Collection Inventory; and Contract with state-owned enterprise to prepare Collection Inventory 

1990
Wellington City Art Gallery: Research Curator 

1988
National Art Gallery: Coordinator for collection computerisation project

1987-8
Wellington City Art Gallery: Education Researcher,  Exhibition Catalogue Editor 

1980-7
National Art Gallery: Curator, Researcher, Cataloguer, Registrar 

1974-8
Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council Toi Aotearoa: Advisory Officer: Visual Arts, Crafts, Modern Dance, Maori Arts & Crafts 

1973
Outdoor Recreation Research Section, Parks Canada, Ottawa: Technical Writer and Editor 

1965-70
Lloyd, Wise, Bouly & Haig, London; Smart & Biggar, and Alex E McRae & Co, Ottawa: Patent Agent 

1964
New Zealand Patent Office Examiner 


EDUCATION

1990
Writing/Editing Certificate, Department of Journalism, Wellington Polytechnic 

1984
Diploma of the New Zealand Art Galleries and Museums Assn 

1979
Recreation Concepts, University Extension, Victoria University, Wellington 

1972
BA Art History With Distinction, Carleton Univeristy, Ottawa, Canada 

1960-2
Chemistry I, II, III, Mathematics I, Physics I, Victoria College, Wellington; and Otago College, Dunedin

1956 - 59
Wellington Girls’ College to Upper Sixth Form; Prefect 

1953-56
Yonkers Junior-Senior High School, Yonkers, New York, USA

Earlier education in Wellington and Ottawa, Canada


Interests: Arts & Crafts, Fine & Applied Art, Theatre, Ballet, Reading, Travel and Family.