What Is Nordic Design: Norway

Speakers

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  Morten Spjøtvold

  Morten Spjøtvold is a Norwegian art historian and curator at Kode Bergen art museum, where he oversees the museum’s collection of glass, furniture, and metal. 

  Bio
  

  Morten Spjøtvold

  Morten Spjøtvold is a Norwegian art historian and curator at Kode Bergen art museum, where he oversees the museum’s collection of glass, furniture, and metal. 

  He has previously worked as a curator at the Museum of decorative arts in Trondheim and specialises in art nouveau and 19th century decorative arts. Spjøtvold has published several articles on these subjects and is currently working on a study of Norwegian silver made for the tourist market around 1900.

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  Leslie Anne Anderson

  Leslie Anne Anderson is Chief Curator at the National Nordic Museum, a mayoral-appointed Seattle Arts Commissioner, and chair of Seattle’s Public Art Advisory Committee. 

  Bio
  

  Leslie Anne Anderson

  Leslie Anne Anderson is Chief Curator at the National Nordic Museum, a mayoral-appointed Seattle Arts Commissioner, and chair of Seattle’s Public Art Advisory Committee. 

  Prior to her arrival in the Pacific Northwest, she held curatorial positions at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts/University of Utah and Indianapolis Museum of Art. She has been an American Scandinavian-Foundation Fellow and a Fulbright scholar at the University of Copenhagen. She has organized dozens of exhibitions with collaborators like the Ateneum Art Museum/Finnish National Gallery and Sweden’s Nationalmuseum, published in numerous scholarly journals, and acquired over 1,000 works of fine and decorative art for collections in her purview. Recently, she was also the commissioning curator of Jónsi: FLÓРand co-curator of the traveling exhibition Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century. Leslie is the recipient of the international Association of Art Museum Curators Award for Excellence (First Place) in 2018, the Utah Museums Association Award for Excellence in 2020, and the University of Florida Alumni Association’s “40 Gators Under 40” honor in 2023.