| Title | Gendering the Hoard |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | The Visual Culture of Tween Girls |
| Contributor | Courtney L. Weida (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0085.1.08 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-south-station-hoard/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| Copyright | Weida, Courtney L. |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2014-12-27 |
| Long abstract | Art and art education projects can be cross disciplinary, experimental, and provocative. In teaching and researching within the field of art education, my collaborations with art historians and studio artists enrich my sense of documentation and analysis of visual cultures. For this reason, I was intrigued when my colleague mentioned her exciting project idea inspired by the Staffordshire Hoard, a magnificent collection of gold jewelry and weapons discovered in the summer of 2009. Leahy and Bland note the Staffordshire Hoard collection was conspicuously missing “feminine objects, such as dress fitting, pendants, and broaches.”1 This lack of female visual culture in the treasury puzzled and inspired us. My colleague (an art historian) was not simply studying the historic hoard, but imagining and creating female tween treasures with a photographer in order to juxtapose contemporary girlhood culture with that of medieval warriors. Working together, we hoped to theorize hoards and hoarding of young women productively through our varied artistic lenses |
| Page range | pp. 107–143 |
| Print length | 37 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |