Rosalind Pepall

Former Senior Curator of Decorative Art and Design

Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal

Participates in 1 Session

Rosalind Pepall recently retired as the Senior Curator of Decorative Arts, and formerly Curator of Canadian Art, at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, where she was responsible for a wide range of exhibitions and publications including the book, Decorative Arts and Design: The Collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MBAM 2012). For the National Gallery of Canada, she worked on the curatorial committee for the exhibition Artists, Architects & Artisans: Canadian Art 1890-1918, Charles C. Hill, ed. (National Gallery of Canada, 2013). Among other exhibitions she curated are : Ruhlmann: un génie de l’art déco (catalogue published by MBAM and Somogy, Paris, 2004, which was awarded Le Prix Houllevigue, Institut de France, Académie des Beaux-Arts). In the field of Canadian architecture, she co-curated a retrospective exhibition on the Montreal architectural firm of Edward & W.S. Maxwell (MBAM 1991). She was also responsible for the exhibition and catalogue on the Maxwell-design museum building, Construction d’un musée Beaux-Arts:Montréal 1912:Building a Beaux-Arts Museum, (MBAM, 1986). She continues to serve as a consultant and writer in the field of Canadian art, architecture and international design and recently published, Talking to A Portrait: Tales of an Art Curator (Montreal: Véhicule Press, 2020). She is presently studying the social history and patrimoine of the model industrial town of Arvida, Quebec, during its peak years of aluminum production in World War II.

Documents

TICCIH 2022 Pepall abstract.docx (13.78KB)

Sessions in which Rosalind Pepall participates

Tuesday 30 August, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

11:30 AM

Wartime ”Arvidiens”

20 minutes, 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM

Part of: 20th century company towns and urban planning, from creation to preservation II

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580

Paper

Rosalind Pepall, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal (Speaker)

This paper examines how the industrial town of Arvida, Quebec, served as a training ground for the professional recruits employed by the Aluminu...

Sessions in which Rosalind Pepall attends

Monday 29 August, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:30 AM

Word of Welcome

30 minutes, 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Event

Lucie K. Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Moderator)

Dr Miles Oglethorpe, TICCIH (Presenter)

Christian Agbobli, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) (Presenter)

10:00 AM

Experts roundtable: the future of industrial heritage

1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Roundtable

Dr Miles Oglethorpe, TICCIH (Moderator)

11:00 AM

Planning Instruments for Industrial Heritage Reuse and Regeneration through Citizen Engagement I

1 hour 30 minutes, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515

Regular session

Prof. Martin Drouin, UQAM (Moderator)

This session presents case studies and policy reviews that contribute to ongoing debate and international dialogue on the role of planning syste...

5:30 PM

Public lecture: Le Grand Montréal industriel d’hier à demain

1 hour 30 minutes, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Available

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Gérard Beaudet (Keynote speaker)

Si la vallée du canal de Lachine a été le berceau de l’industrialisation canadienne, la géographie industrielle métropolitaine ne s’y est pas co...

Tuesday 30 August, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00 AM

Development of mining company towns - Longyearbyen (Svalbard) as case study

20 minutes, 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM

Part of: 20th century company towns and urban planning, from creation to preservation I

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580

Paper

Ulrich Schildberg, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Presenter)

Mining Company Towns were often founded in remote regions, because mining is absolutely dependant from the site, were coal or iron-ore are situa...

9:30 AM

Sugar company towns, industrial heritage, and adaptive reuse : examples and counterpoints

20 minutes, 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM

Part of: 20th century company towns and urban planning, from creation to preservation I

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580

Paper

Gabriela Campagnol, Texas A&M University (Presenter)

Sugar production, as an agro-industrial sector, promoted a variety of urban types and acted significantly in the construction of the territory i...

10:00 AM

Finnish company towns of forest industry as model communities

20 minutes, 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM

Part of: 20th century company towns and urban planning, from creation to preservation I

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580

Paper

Johanna Björkman, Helsinki City Museum (Speaker)

The forest industry was at the forefront of Finland’s rapid industrialization in the beginning of the 20th century. Industrialization created econo...

12:30 PM

Lunch

1 hour, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Repas

3:30 PM

Museums and industrial culture: presentation and interpretation issues and cases III

1 hour 30 minutes, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570

Regular session

Dr Marie-Blanche Fourcade, Musée de l'Holocauste Montréal et UQAM (Moderator)

This session will allow us to explore, through nine international case studies, the different strategies for the development of industrial herit...

Wednesday 31 August, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00 AM

Histoire et patrimoine de l’aluminium dans l’architecture : quels enjeux ?

20 minutes, 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM

Part of: Un patrimoine industriel à construire : l’aluminium dans l’architecture I

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Paper

Pr-Dr Florence Hachez-Leroy, Université d'Artois (Speaker)

Peu de travaux ont été consacré à l’histoire et à la présence de l’aluminium au sein des éléments patrimoniaux du bâti. Cette lacune constitue u...

11:00 AM

Industrial heritage as cultural hub: the case study of the Real Vinícola and Casa da Arquitectura in Matosinhos (Portugal)

20 minutes, 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

Part of: Uses of industrial heritage: cases in transformation II

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520

Paper

Beatriz Takahashi, CITCEM - Transdisciplinary Research Centre «Culture, Space and Memory» (Speaker)

This study is based on the discussion of industrial heritage developed during the final thesis of my ma...

Thursday 1 September, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

7:00 AM

Early bird tour. Lachine Canal: A walk through history and commemoration or The Lachine Canal: now and then

1 hour 30 minutes, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)

Tour

Alain Gelly, Parks Canada (Presenter)

Matthieu Paradis, Agence Parcs Canada (Presenter)

From its construction to its restoration, immerse yourself in the now and then of this key Canadian industrial heritage site. A country’s