Susan J. Bandes Papers

Record Group

Identifier: UA-17.468

Content Description

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The Susan J. Bandes Papers consist of faculty materials collected during Bandes’ time at Michigan State University. Included are professional papers relating to Bandes’ work as a professor and Director of the Kresge Art Museum, consisting of awards and certificates, publications, lectures, correspondence, and involvement in organizations and committees. The collection also contains materials relating to the Mid-Michigan and East Lansing Modern Projects, as well as correspondence, exhibit and publication materials, and preservation plans for the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Goetsch-Winckler House in Okemos, Michigan. Additionally, included within the collection are course syllabi and planning materials, department related papers, and planning for Curatorial Practices course student exhibitions. Finally, the collection contains materials relating to planning for the Broad Art Museum as well as the Abraham Rattner Exhibit at the Tampa Museum of Art.

Archivist’s note: because of the cross-over of personnel and programs relating to the Kresge Art Museum, there are materials in this collection that may relate to the Kresge Art Museum records (UA 16.15.2).

Dates

Creation: 1946 - 2021

Creator

Bandes, Susan J. (Donor, Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Permission to publish material from this collection must be obtained from University Archives & Historical Collections, Michigan State University.

Conditions Governing Use

Collection is open for research.

Biographical / Historical

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Susan J. Bandes is a retired Michigan State University Professor of Art History and Visual Culture. Growing up in New York, Bandes attended New York University as an undergraduate and received her MA and PhD degrees from Bryn Mawr College, specializing in Roman Baroque painting. Bandes served as Director of MSU’s Kresge Art Museum from 1986 until 2010, where she curated numerous exhibitions and wrote many catalogues including “Affordable Dreams: The Goetsch-Winkler House and Frank Lloyd Wright”, an exhibition and subsequent edited book on the local Usonian house’s 50th anniversary in 1990; “WPA in Michigan”; and “American Modernism”. Bandes frequently taught Michigan State courses specializing in Renaissance and Baroque Art, Modern Architecture, and Curatorial Practices, aided in the creation of student exhibitions, and served as Director of Museum Studies for many years. Bandes is a member of the Print Council of America and a founding director of DOCOMOMO-Michigan, which documents midcentury modern architecture throughout the state. Bandes’ research in that field has included the exhibitions “East Lansing Modern, 1940-1970” (MSU Museum) and at the “Minds of Modernism: Michigan and Mid-Century Design”, 2017 (Michigan History Museum). Additionally, her publication “Mid-Michigan Modern: From Frank Lloyd Wright to Googie”, MSU Press, 2016, was recipient to several awards.

(Biographical information from the Susan J. Bandes Endowment Fund Website)

Full Extent

3.0 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Legal Status

Donor(s) have transferred any applicable copyright to Michigan State University but the collection may contain third-party materials for which copyright was not transferred. Copyright restrictions may apply. Property Rights: Michigan State University.