Faculty: Judith Cushman

Judith Z. Cushman Hammer

Adjunct Lecturer

jcushmanhammer@triad.rr.com


Education
B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., 1967

M.A. with honors, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. 1970

Professional Experience: Academic
University of Illinois, Gary, Indiana, Department of English, instructor, 1970-1971

University of Chicago, Joseph Regenstein Library, Rare Book Room and Special Collections, Exhibitions Coordinator, 1973-1976

University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, N.C., Department of Interior Architecture, Adjunct Lecturer, 2000-

 

Professional Experience: Writing, Marketing, Consulting
Founder, J. Z. Cushman & Company home fashions consulting services for style-driven vendors and merchants marketplace, 1997-

Senior product editor, guest editor HomePortfolio.com, 2000-2001

Contributing editor and columnist for HFN newspaper and High Points magazine, 1998-99

Founding editor and concept creator of Accessories Today and Home Accents Today news magazine, chief editor, 1986-97

Reporter, senior editor, special reports editor, associate managing editor, associate editor of Furniture/Today, 1977-1994

Chief editor and managing editor of Design Today for high-end home furnishing retailers, 1983-1987

Contributing writer, Victorian Homes, 2001-

 

Professional Experience: Activities, Speaking engagements, Awards
Founding member, Dallas Market Center Trend Panel

Advisory Board Member, AmericasMart Atlanta Gift and Home Furnishings, 1998-99

Seminar speaker on market trends: International Home Furnishings Center, AmericasMart Atlanta, Society of Decorative Painters, International Furnishings and Design Association, Accessories Resource Team, Midwest Archives Conference, Denver Merchandise Mart, San Francisco Mart, Dallas Market Center, New York International Gift Fair, The Gift Center, WITHIT, International Window; all 1980-2004

Speaker,” Plastic Furniture,” Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNCG, November 2004

Design judge: International Contemporary Furniture Fair, New York 1991-96; American Society of Furniture Designers, High Point, N.C.1998-2001, 2008; ARTS Awards, Dallas, Texas, 2001-2002

Awards: Cahners Publishing, Editorial Medal of Excellence Award, Silver Award for Brest Overall Issue, 1995; Furniture Industry's Writers' Hall of Fame Award, High Point, N.C., 1988; Dallas Market Center Editorial Award, Dallas, Texas, 1984

Member: Preservation Greensboro Inc. , Marketing & Visibility committee, 2008 

 

Course work & seminars:
Statistics, accounting University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1985

Management, University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1986

History of Ceramics Symposium, Winterthur, Wilmington, Delaware, 2000

Southern Dining Seminar, Mint Museum, Charlotte, N.C. 2003

Victorian Decorative Arts, Winterthur Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, 2004

Publications:
In addition to regularly published columns, features and analyses in Furniture/Today, Home Accents Today, Design Today, HFN and Victorian Homes

Ed., with Richard Gray, Reference Books for Small and Medium-Sized Libraries, American Library Association, 1973, Chicago, Ill, 2nd rev. ed.

“Exhibition Programs, “ in Midwestern Archives Conference Journal, 1976, v. 27, p.50

“Furniture Stores May Benefit from Bookseller’s Example,” in Houston Business Journal, September 26, 1997

Courses Taught at UNCG, January 2000-

History of Decorative Arts, HID 536
History of Design, I, HID 221
History of Design, II, HID 222
Evolution of Furniture, IAR 340, IAR 540
Contemporary Trends in Interior Product Design, IAR 341, IAR 541
International Contemporary Furniture Fair NYC, IAR 527
Undergraduate Internships, IAR 452
Decorative Arts, Emeritus Society

UNCG Service

Search committee, Office of Career Counseling, 2006

IARC Community development exhibit committee, Close to Home:  Edward Loewenstein, 2007


 

 

 

 

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