Exploring a Treasure Trove
For her first Field Work Term, Helen Simpson '29 is cataloging and archiving materials at the D’Amico House at Lazy Point, NY.
Reports The East Hampton Star:
"Victor D’Amico, who died in 1987, was an artist and founding director of education at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. Mabel, who died in 1998, was an artist and, over more than five decades, an art educator. The D’Amico House, which they built in the 1940s, serves as a kind of museum of the couple’s vast, multidisciplinary work, and while it is filled with examples of their art, much of it incorporating found objects like glass and wood, the house also contains a trove of materials that collectively forms a record of the lives of two passionate creators."
At Bennington, Simpson is interested in art history and archival work.
“You can really do anything,” Simpson told The East Hampton Star of her first Field Work Term, “because you’re just starting out."