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 edit
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 edit
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]
References edit
- ^ Dhaemers, Margaret Penrose (1967). California College of Arts and Crafts, 1907–1944 (MA thesis). Mills College.
- ^ "Penny (Margaret) Dhaemers, Professor Emerita of Architecture". Berkeley, College of Environmental Design. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
- ^ "52nd Annual Commencement" (PDF). California College of Arts and Crafts. June 5, 1959. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
- ^ George, Elsa M. (April 1, 1965). "Montauk". The East Hampton Star. Retrieved 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.
- ^ "Penny Dhaemers (aka Margaret)". San Francisco Arts Commission. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
- ^ "Robert Dhaemers". San Francisco Arts Commission. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
- ^ Enos, Joey (May 20, 2016). "Origins: First of a Three-part Series on the History of the Emeryville Mudflat Sculptures". The E'Ville Eye. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
- ^ O'Brien, Mary Louise; Dhaemers, Margaret (photographer) (1965). Netsuke: A Guide for Collectors. C.E. Tuttle Company. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
- ^ "Videospace: The National Center For Experiments In Television, 1967–1975". Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. September 10, 2000. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
- ^ Paulsen, Kris (Winter 2013). "In the Beginning, There Was the Electron". X-TRA. 15 (2). Retrieved 23 January 2023.
- ^ "Penny Dhaemers". NCET. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
- ^ "Golden Anniversary for California Arts and Crafts". Craft Horizons. Vol. 17, no. 4. July–August 1957. p. 43.
- ^ "Bowl, Margaret Dhaemers (aka Penny Dhaemers)". Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
External links edit
- "Penny Dhaemers, first female CED Chair, dies at 96". Berkeley, College of Environmental Design. December 1, 2022. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
- "Opening Exhibition Center, Fall 1958". Vault: California College of the Arts. Fall 1958. Depicts Dhaemers, her husband Robert, and the artist Robert Bechtle at the opening of the CCAC Exhibition Center.
- Margaret Dhaemers (1996). "Interviews with Former Chairs Joseph Esherick, Claude Stoller (Architecture Department), Ed Rossbach, Margaret Dhaemers (Design Department)" (Interview). Interviewed by Hanna Haim Hindawi. University of California, Berkeley.