{"id":134,"date":"2013-03-29T20:40:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T20:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dittrickmuseumblog.com\/?p=134"},"modified":"2017-10-26T10:30:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T14:30:22","slug":"sometimes-cleveland-beckons-one-home-reintroducing-brandy-schillace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/2013\/03\/29\/sometimes-cleveland-beckons-one-home-reintroducing-brandy-schillace\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes Cleveland beckons one home: [re]introducing Brandy Schillace"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bucking a long-term trend, some very talented and creative people are returning to Cleveland to ply their\u00a0m\u00e9tier<\/i>. In my own family, our daughter Patty found her way back into a rewarding museum career path after being away for five years.\u00a0 I was pretty much resigned to her long-term absence from the Cleveland scene, when much to my pleasure, she secured a position in the education department of the Cleveland Museum of Art.\u00a0 Since November 2010, she has been a part of the team fashioning Gallery One, a truly path-breaking endeavor to help visitors \u201clearn how works of art are made, where they come from, and why they are produced.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 To do this, Gallery One makes\u00a0innovative use of technology, so that art museums across America now want to learn more and perhaps emulate what\u2019s happening here.\u00a0 Don\u2019t need better testimony than a piece in the\u00a0New York Times<\/a>\u00a0last week, and some videos on the Fast Company\u00a0website<\/a>, and of course on the CMA\u2019s own\u00a0site<\/a>.\u00a0 Not all, but many, roads now lead to Cleveland.<\/div>\n
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A broadly similar development marks the return of Brandy Schillace to Cleveland, and I\u2019ve welcomed her to share in this blog. I first met Brandy in December 2007 when she was a grad student at CWRU and assisting Woody Gaines (Anthropology) in editing\u00a0Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry<\/i>.\u00a0 Brandy came to the Dittrick in search of scientific and medical imagery to fashion arresting covers for the journal, and I can recall being impressed by her energy, enthusiasm, and determination.\u00a0 Those same assets saw her successfully through the M.A. and Ph.D. in the English department here.\u00a0 From that point of departure,\u00a0Brandy has developed into an interdisciplinary medical-humanist scholar, who investigates the social and cultural impacts of medical science on literature (and through literature, on readers).\u00a0 Thus, she finds herself at the intersection of medicine, art, science and culture that we inhabit here at the Dittrick. \u00a0We reconnected in the last couple of years through her search for the original 18th<\/sup>\u00a0century \u201cmachine\u201d (midwifery manikin) of William Smellie.\u00a0 Alas, the trail went cold, but the search made for some fascinating perambulations\u2026<\/div>\n
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Brandy maintains her own\u00a0blog<\/a>, and explains to readers that\u00a0 \u201cher\u00a0blogfeatures two subsidiaries:\u00a0The Fiction Reboot\u00a0and\u00a0Literary Medicine\u2019s Daily Dose.\u00a0The Reboot<\/i>\u00a0provides useful tips and information for writers, weekly fiction features and interviews with authors of fiction and poetry. Meanwhile,The Dose<\/i>\u00a0honors, supports, and shares perspectives about medicine and humanities across cultures and disciplines. She summarizes her perspective aptly, describing herself as a \u201crogue scholar,\u201d who looks forward to \u201cbranching out beyond the discipline specific and into the wide and welcoming plains of inter-disciplinarity. Fiction and literature, science and history, anthropology and religion: Life is more interesting at the intersection.\u201d Brandy also clearly felt that, for her, Cleveland was the right place to make these connections. For more on her work, check out her personal\u00a0site<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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So, we look forward to collaborating with Brandy, and having her help bring the Dittrick to kindred spirits, especially through this blog.<\/div>\n
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Jim Edmonson<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bucking a long-term trend, some very talented and creative people are returning to Cleveland to ply their\u00a0m\u00e9tier<\/i>. In my own family, our daughter Patty found her way back into a rewarding museum career path after being away for five years.\u00a0 I was pretty much resigned to her long-term absence from the Cleveland scene, when much to my pleasure, she secured a position in the education department of the Cleveland Museum of Art.\u00a0 Since November 2010, she has been a part of the team fashioning Gallery One, a truly path-breaking endeavor to help visitors \u201clearn how works of art are made,<\/p>\n

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