Marsha MacDowell

Curator
Michigan State University Museum
Michigan State University
East Lansing MI
48824-4045 USA
http://museum.msu.edu/

Marsha MacDowell is curator of folk arts at the Michigan State University Museum and professor, department of art and art history, Michigan State University. She has had 30 years of experience working with development and implementation of exhibition, education, publication, and collection projects related to the documentation and presentation of traditional arts, especially that of women and particularly in the realm of quilting. She serves as the coordinator of the Michigan Traditional Arts Program (a partnership of the MSU Museum and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs) and regularly works with MATRIX: Center for Humane Arts and Letters Online on a variety of research, education, and public service projects.

Marsha will demonstrate Multi-purposing Museum Media: Quilt Treasures Oral History and Documentary Web Portraits.