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Charlotte Partridge, Layton School of Art and the Pedagogy of Social EngagementArijit Sen, Assistant Professor of Architecturebuildings-landscapes-cultureswww.blcprogram.org
Charlotte Partridge, 1957, At Carl Mueller’s home, Sawyer Road, Rte 5, Oconomowoc, WI
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to my grandmother who left her family to educate my motherto my mother who left her education to raise her family
acknowled!ments
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Charlotte Partridge, Passport InformationHeight: 4ft 11inHair: brown, Eyes: bluePlace of Birth: Minneapolis, MNDate of Birth: Nov 24, 1886Occupation: Teacher, Director
Charlotte Partridge, 1958, Theatrical Performances at the Woman’s Club
D"a#ointment
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“Dear Charlotte and dear MiriamI 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
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1. a biographical narrative
2 Inte%wined Sto&esFather, Fredric Willard Partridge
Grandmother Paine (Partridge’s great-grandmother was Tom Paine’s daughter)
Mother, Carrie Orr Partridge
Mother, Charlotte, Eleanor and Thomas
Charlotte and her sister Eleanor(Top) 1888, (bottom) 1940s approx.
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Emma M. Church John Deweyhttp://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agexed/aee501/JDewey.jpg
Colonel Francis Parker, Lab Schoolhttp://www.ucls.uchicago.edu/photo_album/1890s/parker.html
Arthur Dowhttp://www.aaa.si.edu/collectionsonline/dowarth/,
“It is by creation of the intangibles of science and philosophy, and especially those of the arts, that countries and communities have won immortality for themselves after material wealth has crumbled to dust.”
John Dewey
Progressive A% Education
2. art as a form of emancipatory social engagement
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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 satchelAnd shining morning face, creeping like snailUnwillingly to school. And then the lover,Sighing like furnace, with a woeful balladMade 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 reputationEven 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 shiftsInto the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wideFor his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,Turning again toward childish treble, pipesAnd 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.
Spatial Personas
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Sy(ems of
Activities and
Sy(ems of
Se)ings
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spatial + persona
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ClassroomMy 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
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Layton Gallery and the Layton School of Art, 758 N. Jefferson Street, 1929
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Layton School of Art, Trustees and Faculty, 1922
First Layton School Faculty: Mr. Ilsley, Charlotte Partridge, Miriam Frink, Gertrude Wharton, Helen Hoppon, Gerrit Sinclair (Left to Right), 1921
1920 or 1921 Commencement day, Frink, Wharton, Partridge, Ilsley, Sinclair (left to right) Faculty, 1941-43
Facu
ltyGerritt Sinclair Miss Emma Church Charlotte Partridge Helen Hoppin Dudley Crafts WatsonHarry Bogner Miriam Frink
Boris Lovett-Lorski Gertrude Wharton Madeleine VeriteJohn NielsonGeorge Niedeckan
Sadie M.ShellowJohn BrcinIrving ManoirMargaret WhitneyWalter CohnMabel Frame Stella Harlos
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Metropolis (1916-1917)George Grosz, 1893-1959http://www3.hi.is/~gylfason/painting.htm
Advertising Class project. Display for Max FactorLayton School of Art, undated.
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.
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Day School
Evening Classes
Saturday Classes
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Costume and Textile Class
Drawing and Painting Class, 1944
Hugh Townley, Costume and Textile Class
Industrial Design and Graphics, 1950
Elton Krafft, Elkhart, Indiana, Graduated June 1938 from a 4-year course in Advertising Design, Industrial Design and Graphic Design Classes
Figure Drawing Class
Advertising and Poster Design, Garden Tours designed to raise money for the new building, 1950
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“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
Pictorial composition and criticism class, Ist year students, Miss Partridge, Instructor, 1925
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classrooms
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Outdoor Children’s Classes, Free Saturday Art Class, (left) 1950s in the new building; (right) 1944
Indoor Children’s Sketching Classes with live models, These photos are taken between 1944 and 1949Saturday Classes
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Army at War Exhibit,, 1944, Fox Strand TheaterVictory Square Board, Dec 15 - Jan 10, 1944-45
Army at war poster made by students for storefront advertisement, 1944,
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
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.”
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“... 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
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I am not five feet seven and a half inches - I am five feet five and a half inches.Charlotte Partridge
June or July 1950, After ground breaking at Prospect Avenue
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Dana Hall, Wellesley, 1901
At Dana Hall, Charlotte with glasses, Rush, March, 1901
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Commonwealth School of Art and Industry, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, Summer 1914
Commonwealth School of Art and Industry, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, Summer 1915
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Charlotte Partridge and Miriam Frink in their living room at 11745 N. Shorecliff Lane, Mequon, WI
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Layton Gallery Exhibits of Local Artists, 1940, 1953
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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.
Frank Lloyd Wright Exhibition, 1930, Layton Art GalleryReceiving Award from the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, Lake Lawn Lodge, Delavan, WI, 1965
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Yousuf Karsh Fonds Exhibit, Layton School of Art, First Exhibition in the new LSA building on Prospect Avenue, Charlotte Partridge, 1952
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PWAP Mural at Sturgeon Bay, High School Library, Artist: Jessie Kalmbach Chase,Size 5’x6’; 5’x7’; 5’x8’
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Parade, Oil, Wisconsin National Guard, Cavalry Armory, Shorewood, Artist: Paul ClemensSize 4’x5’
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Creep Douglas, Oil, Wisconsin National Guard, MadisonArtist: Paul Clemens, Size 20‘x26’
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Small Sculpture Composition, Riverside High School, MilwaukeeArtist: George DietrichSize 23” height
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Rollicking Horse No. 1, Plaster, Milwaukee Public LibraryArtist: Harold GebhardtSize 21”x 40”
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With Architect Jack Waldheim and a model of the new building. 1950
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New School Building, 1362 Prospect Avenue, 1951
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New School Building, 1362 Prospect Avenue, 1951
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Different Per-ectives
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“About her funeral -- she wanted to have it outside a church. Not in Woman’s club because they will not allow ‘Negros’”
Miriam Frink, 1975
Partridge and Frink, 1974, Charlotte passed away in March 1975
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Zontian Member-Directors of Zonta Manor 1965SEATED: Freida Mueller, Florence Medaris (President), Charlotte Partridge, Marjorie Taylor, Madge Hoffman (Treas.), Ella Lambert, Justine Weyher.STANDING: Dorothy Sevedge, Helen Brachman and Louise Marie Newman.
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By the mid-1950’s, club members were concerned about affordable housing for seniors. It took 10 years, but in the mid-1960’s, Zonta Manor, a 4 story, $1.3 million passive solar apartment building on East Cambridge, designed by Zontian Lillian Leenhouts, was dedicated. The $52,500 raised by the Club is equivalent to $354,682 in 2008 dollars!The Milwaukee Journal reported that “Led by Charlotte Partridge with the same inspired zeal that built her Layton School of Art to fame, Milwaukee, Wis. Zontians held to their dream of a splendid retirement home for individuals of independent spirit but not truly "independent income." Incorporated on a non-profit basis with a board of 15 Zontians, ground was purchased and cleared with $52,500 raised by the club, and Zonta Manor was constructed with a $1,300,000 loan from the U.S. Housing and Home Finance Agency. In May it was ready to admit its first tenants-men and women at least 62 years old, with income not under $3,800 and not exceeding $6,000.”
March 14, 1964 was groundbreaking.
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Layton Faculty Show poster from 1972 after Partridge and Frink’s retirement.
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...We both refused to resign, as we were asked to do, though such action would in some ways have made the situation easier for us and certainly for the Trustees. ... because we felt a great injustice was being done to us and, through us, to women in general in the action of the Trustees, which we did not care to conceal or gloss over.Charlotte Partridge, 1954
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.ank y/Image Credits: Wisconsin Historical Society
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