Penny Dhaemers Explained

Margaret Penrose "Penny" Dhaemers (1926–2022) was an artist and professor in the University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design (CED), specializing in fine, visual, and textile arts. She was the first woman to chair the Department of Design (1970–74) and following a reorganization in which it was absorbed into the CED, chaired the CED Visual Studies Committee from 1976 until her retirement in 1994.

Personal life and education

Dhaemers earned her bachelor of fine arts from the California College of Arts & Crafts (CCAC) and graduate degrees in art history from Mills College (1967)[1] and in painting and graphics from CCAC (1959).[2] [3]

She was married to fellow artist and jeweler Robert Dhaemers.[4] Works created in the 1950s by both Penny and Robert are held by the San Francisco Arts Commission.[5] [6]

Career

Dhaemers is known primarily for her photography. During her graduate studies, Dhaemers documented CCAC students working on the first found-object sculpture class on Bay Farm Island in 1960, which eventually grew into the Emeryville mudflat sculptures exhibited alongside the Eastshore Freeway until the early 1990s.[7] In addition, Dhaemers photographed netsuke sculptures for the book Netsuke: A Guide for Collectors, first published in 1965.[8]

In 2000, Dhaemers was one of the artists whose works were shown in the Videospace group exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Videospace was drawn from the archives of the National Center for Experiments in Television, which was an artists' research center that operated between 1967 and 1975, affiliated with KQED, the local public television station.[9] [10] Dhaemers documented the artists and works being developed, using her Hasselblad still camera.[11]

She also produced ceramic pieces.[12] [13]

External links

Notes and References

  1. California College of Arts and Crafts, 1907–1944 . Dhaemers, Margaret Penrose . 1967 . MA . Mills College.
  2. Web site: Penny (Margaret) Dhaemers, Professor Emerita of Architecture . Berkeley, College of Environmental Design . 20 January 2023.
  3. Web site: 52nd Annual Commencement . June 5, 1959 . California College of Arts and Crafts . 23 January 2023.
  4. News: Montauk . George, Elsa M. . April 1, 1965 . The East Hampton Star . 23 January 2023 . Mrs. T. Victor Searing, East Lake Drive, has returned east after spending a month with her daughter, Mrs. Robert Dhaemers, and Mr. Dhaemers, in Berkeley, Cal..
  5. Web site: Penny Dhaemers (aka Margaret) . San Francisco Arts Commission . 23 January 2023.
  6. Web site: Robert Dhaemers . San Francisco Arts Commission . 23 January 2023.
  7. News: Origins: First of a Three-part Series on the History of the Emeryville Mudflat Sculptures . Enos, Joey . May 20, 2016 . The E'Ville Eye . 20 January 2023.
  8. Book: Netsuke: A Guide for Collectors . O'Brien, Mary Louise . Dhaemers, Margaret (photographer) . 1965 . 23 January 2023 . C.E. Tuttle Company.
  9. Web site: Videospace: The National Center For Experiments In Television, 1967–1975 . Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive . September 10, 2000 . 23 January 2023.
  10. In the Beginning, There Was the Electron . Paulsen, Kris . Winter 2013 . 15 . 2 . X-TRA . 23 January 2023.
  11. Web site: Penny Dhaemers . NCET . 23 January 2023.
  12. Golden Anniversary for California Arts and Crafts . 43 . Craft Horizons . 17 . 4 . July–August 1957.
  13. Web site: Bowl, Margaret Dhaemers (aka Penny Dhaemers) . Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art . 23 January 2023.

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