Winter 2016

From the Ground Up: Archaeology, Artisans, Everyday Life On view through December 31, 2016 Museum of American Glass at Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center in Millville, New Jersey Curated and produced by AECOM’s Cultural Resources Department, Burlington, New Jersey For more information about WheatonArts Exhibitions and Programs, visit www.wheatonarts.org. For information about the I-95 Improvement Project and AECOM, visit www.diggingi95.com. For almost 10 years, archaeologists from AECOM’s Cultural Resources Department in Burlington, New Jersey, have been working on behalf of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration to recover and preserve local buried history in advance of the Interstate 95/Girard Avenue Improvement Project along the Delaware River north of Center City Philadelphia. From the Ground Up features over 600 artifacts chosen from approximately 1,000,000 artifacts recovered during the ongoing archaeological excavations. Spanning almost 5,000 years of history, AECOM’s exhibition emphasizes how Native Americans and, later, nineteenth- century glassblowers and potters creatively used the region’s natural resources and established a sense of place. Additional artifacts on display date from the late eighteenth to early twentieth century and tell how families living along the waterfront prepared and served their food, lit their homes, cared for the sick, fed their children, and addressed personal and social issues that are still relevant today. Winter 58 www.afamag.com | w ww.incollect.com Highlights Shoes: Pleasure and Pain November 19, 2016 to March 12, 2017 Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA For more information, call 978.745.9500 or visit www.pem.org This November, the Peabody Essex Museum presents Shoes: Pleasure and Pain, an exhibition that explores the creativity of footwear from around the world. More than 300 pairs of shoes will be featured, ranging from an ancient Egyptian sandal decorated in pure gold leaf, to futuristic-looking form-pressed “Nova” shoes designed by Zaha Hadid with an unsupported 6.2 inch heel. Shoes worn by high profile figures such as Elton John, Queen Victoria, David Beckham and more will be on view. Extraordinary examples of historic footwear range from lotus shoes made for bound feet and 16th-century chopines to men’s shoes with extremely long toes and noisy slap-sole shoes worn in Europe during the 17th century. This exhibition considers the cultural significance and transformative capacity of shoes. Organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the exhibition will make its debut in the US at PEM. Sebastian Errazuriz, “The Cry Baby” and “The Rock,” from the “12 Shoes for 12 Lovers” collection, 2013, 3D-printed acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene polymer, resin, and acrylic. Museum purchase, 2015, Peabody Essex Museum. © 2016 Peabody Essex Museum. Photography by Kathy Tarantola. Selection of American blown glass recovered during the I-95 archaeological excavations, early to mid-nineteenth century. Photograph by Thomas Kutys, courtesy of AECOM and PennDOT.