Curator for Ceramics
Freer Gallery of Art
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC 20650-0707
TEL: (202) 357-4880 x225
FAX: (202) 357-4911
EMAIL: louise.cort@asia.si.edu
CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV
INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese
SPECIALIZATIONS:
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Chair, Curatorial Department, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1990-91; Assistant Curator, Oriental Art, Associate for Research in Oriental Art, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1969-76, 1978-81; Personal Assistant to the Secretary General, World Crafts Council, 1977-78.
IN JAPAN: 1976-79, 1988 - grant, research; 1972 - grant; 1961, 1967-68 - student; repeated brief trips.
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
A Basketmaker in Rural Japan (with K. Nakamura) (Weatherhill, NY and Tokyo in association with Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1994); Seto and Mino Ceramics Japanese Collections in the Freer Gallery of Art (University of Hawaii Press, 1992); "Japanese Ceramics and Cuisine," Asian Art (1990); "The Changing Fortunes of Three Archaic Japanese Textiles," Cloth and Human Experience (ed. Weiner et al.) (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989); Shigaraki, Potters' Valley (Kodansha International, 1979).