Charlotte Partridge, Layton School of Art and the Pedagogy of Social Engagement Arijit Sen, Assistant Professor of Architecture buildings-landscapes-cultures www.blcprogram.org Charlotte Partridge, 1957, At Carl Mueller’s home, Sawyer Road, Rte 5, Oconomowoc, WI Monday, December 24, 2012
acknowled g ments to my grandmother who left her family to educate my mother to my mother who left her education to raise her family Monday, December 24, 2012
D i a p ointment Charlotte Partridge, Passport Information Height: 4ft 11in Hair: brown, Eyes: blue Place of Birth: Minneapolis, MN Date of Birth: Nov 24, 1886 Occupation: Teacher, Director Charlotte Partridge, 1958, Theatrical Performances at the Woman’s Club Monday, December 24, 2012
honors Monday, December 24, 2012
T e Failure “Dear Charlotte and dear Miriam I am so deeply shocked and disturbed by what has happened to you ... Those who take it from you are committing robbery of particular heinous kind. ... All those who now have usurped authority over the school have had the privilege to help in a material way the cause of real education, to further an institution that Milwaukee and all of America can be proud of.” Marianne Willisch, February 12 1954 Monday, December 24, 2012
Charlotte and her sister Grandmother Paine Eleanor (Partridge’s great- Mother, Carrie Orr (Top) 1888, (bottom) 1940s grandmother was Tom Partridge approx. Paine’s daughter) 2 Inte r wined Sto ret Mother, Charlotte, Eleanor Father, Fredric Willard 1. and Thomas Partridge a biographical narrative Monday, December 24, 2012
Colonel Francis Parker, Lab Arthur Dow John Dewey Emma M. Church School http://www.aaa.si.edu/ http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agexed/ http://www.ucls.uchicago.edu/ collectionsonline/dowarth/, aee501/JDewey.jpg photo_album/1890s/parker.html Progr et sive A r Education “It is by creation of the intangibles of science and philosophy, and especially those 2. of the arts, that countries and communities have won immortality for themselves after material wealth has crumbled to dust.” John Dewey art as a form of emancipatory social engagement Monday, December 24, 2012
Spatial Personas William Shakespeare - All the world's a stage (from As You Like It 2/7) All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. Monday, December 24, 2012
Sy s ems of Activiti et and Sy s ems of Se t ings Monday, December 24, 2012
spatial + persona Monday, December 24, 2012
Cla st room My use of the term classroom is indicative of a system of learning settings and activities. It is a domain where a teacher’s pedagogy can have an impact that goes beyond the spaces of learning. Student with Charlotte Partridge, 1948 Monday, December 24, 2012
Layton Gallery and the Layton School of Art, 758 N. Jefferson Street, 1929 T e School Monday, December 24, 2012
Gerritt Sinclair Miss Emma Church Charlotte Partridge Helen Hoppin Dudley Crafts Watson Harry Bogner Miriam Frink Boris Lovett- Layton School of Art, Trustees and Faculty, 1922 Lorski Gertrude Wharton Madeleine Verite John Nielson George Niedeckan First Layton School Faculty: Mr. Ilsley, Charlotte Partridge, Miriam Frink, Sadie Gertrude Wharton, Helen Hoppon, Gerrit Sinclair (Left to Right), 1921 M.Shellow John Brcin Irving Manoir Margaret Whitney Walter Cohn Mabel Frame Stella Harlos Faculty 1920 or 1921 Commencement day, Frink, Wharton, Faculty, 1941-43 Partridge, Ilsley, Sinclair (left to right) Monday, December 24, 2012
The curriculum was designed to produce well- rounded artist imbued with civic responsibility. In order to achieve that goal Layton trained students with technical ability but within a broad framework rather than intensive training in a limited field. Metropolis (1916-1917) George Grosz, 1893-1959 http://www3.hi.is/~gylfason/painting.htm Advertising Class project. Display for Max Factor Layton School of Art, undated. Monday, December 24, 2012
Day School Evening Cla stet Saturday Cla stet Monday, December 24, 2012
Costume and Textile Class Figure Drawing Class Industrial Design and Graphics, 1950 Drawing and Painting Class, 1944 Elton Krafft, Elkhart, Indiana, Graduated June 1938 from a 4-year course in Advertising Design, Advertising and Poster Design, Garden Tours Hugh Townley, Costume and Textile Class Industrial Design and Graphic Design Classes designed to raise money for the new building, 1950 Monday, December 24, 2012
Pictorial composition and criticism class, Ist year students, Miss Partridge, Instructor, 1925 “In three minutes I was so rested. I was completely new inside. There was no other place at that time to come for art in the evening -- not for design anyway. There were lots of middle aged people; quite a number of young people; and a few very old people. And believe me, they came every week. Some of the people from the library, some of the advertising people and commercial art people would come. We just talked about things. As they came in they would stick something they had done during the week on the wall. Something in the field that they were interested in.” - alumni notes a certain civic sense of things Monday, December 24, 2012
classrooms Monday, December 24, 2012
Outdoor Children’s Classes, Free Saturday Art Class, (left) 1950s in the new building; (right) 1944 Saturday Cla stet Indoor Children’s Sketching Classes with live models, These photos are taken between 1944 and 1949 Monday, December 24, 2012
In 1924 the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wrote, “The purpose of the Layton School is to make out of its students so far as is possible, real creative artists - not Rembrandts and Michelangelos, ... but men and women who have the courage and skill to express their own ideas beautifully.” Army at War Exhibit,, 1944, Fox Strand Theater Victory Square Board, Dec 15 - Jan 10, 1944-45 Ceremonial cutting of the red, white, and bue ribbon with Co-chair Charles Ilsley, Presentation Chair Harold J. Fitzgerald and Treasury Consultant, Forbes Watson look on. Army at War Exhibition, 1944 Army at war poster made by students for storefront advertisement, 1944, Monday, December 24, 2012
“... We ourselves are in and a part of the life from which it springs, we face the same problems that the artist faces and reflects upon in his art. The artist ... shows us life in a more vivid way than we see it for ourselves” Miriam Frink 1951 Catalog, Sculpture Class Monday, December 24, 2012
Boar d oom June or July 1950, After ground breaking at Prospect Avenue I am not five feet seven and a half inches - I am five feet five and a half inches. Charlotte Partridge Monday, December 24, 2012
Dana Hall, Wellesley, 1901 At Dana Hall, Charlotte with glasses, Rush, March, 1901 Monday, December 24, 2012
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Commonwealth School of Art and Industry, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, Summer 1915 Commonwealth School of Art and Industry, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, Summer 1914 Monday, December 24, 2012
Charlotte Partridge and Miriam Frink in their living room at 11745 N. Shorecliff Lane, Mequon, WI Monday, December 24, 2012
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Layton Gallery Exhibits of Local Artists, 1940, 1953 Monday, December 24, 2012
Receiving Award from the Wisconsin Chapter of the Frank Lloyd Wright Exhibition, 1930, Layton Art Gallery American Institute of Architects, Lake Lawn Lodge, Delavan, WI, 1965 In 1930 Partridge exhibited the work of Frank Lloyd Wright in the Layton Gallery. Frank Lloyd Wright, at that time was a divisive figure. The local American Institute of Architects opposed the exhibit. Partridge was accosted on the street, boycotted, and slandered. By 1965 the Institute reconsidered and awarded her the AIA distinguished service award. Monday, December 24, 2012
Yousuf Karsh Fonds Exhibit, Layton School of Art, First Exhibition in the new LSA building on Prospect Avenue, Charlotte Partridge, 1952 Monday, December 24, 2012
PWAP Mural at Sturgeon Bay, High School Library, Artist: Jessie Kalmbach Chase, Size 5’x6’; 5’x7’; 5’x8’ Monday, December 24, 2012
Parade, Oil, Wisconsin National Guard, Cavalry Armory, Shorewood, Artist: Paul Clemens Size 4’x5’ Monday, December 24, 2012
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