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The Waterloo County domestic hof.

Lecture given by Michael Bird at the Joseph Schneider Haus on the concept of the hof, the hof at the Schneider haus, and on butter making and butter molds. Includes slides from the lecture.

Bird, Michael

Exhibits.

Clippings, brochures and ephemera relating to museum and art gallery exhibits either curated by Michael Bird or that he had an interest in. Includes exhibits of religious art, folk art, handschriften, Abraham Latschaw, John Gemeinhardt, the painting of Anu Banerji, works by Nancy-Lou Patterson, fraktur, love spoons, quilts, wine, pottery, and more.

Bird, Michael

Research

Research files for Michael Bird, including his research on folk art, fraktur, religious iconography, film, and more.

Bird, Michael

Doukhobor research.

Research on Doukhobor arts and furniture making. Includes correspondence between Bird and Jim Mcleod, Koozma Tarasoff and Mark Mealing. Also includes research notes, images of furniture, and essays on Doukhobor decorative arts and the folk artist Wasyl Evanovich Zubenkoff.

Bird, Michael

Michael Bird fonds.

  • SCA331-GA428
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1870]-2002

Materials relating to the professional life of Michael Bird. Covers his time teaching at Renison University College, as well as his research and publications on folk art, fraktur, religious imagery and film.

Bird, Michael

Teaching

Materials relating to the teaching career of Michael Bird. Includes his time as a professor at Renison University College teaching in fine arts and religious studies, as well as teaching summer courses at Cape Breton University.

Bird, Michael

Career history.

CVs, departmental review updates, teaching reviews, information on promotions and tenure, and a report titled “Some Reflections on My Areas of Exploration, Writing, Teaching.”

Bird, Michael

Lectures and Exhibits

Materials relating to lectures and exhibits given by, organized, or attended by Michael Bird.

Bird, Michael

Laughter and After.

Speech, notes, outlines and jokes for a talk given by Michael Bird titled “Laughter and After” on the connection between religion and humour.

Bird, Michael

Lectures.

Speeches, notes, correspondence, and ephemera relating to talks given by Michael Bird. Includes a copy of his talk “Sacred Banquet.”

Bird, Michael

RS 100: Spiritual Quest.

Notes and outlines for RS 100: Spiritual Quests taught by Michael Bird at Renison University College.

Bird, Michael

Doukhobor.

217 negatives of Doukhobor art, architecture, artefacts and textiles.

Bird, Michael

Symbols.

Notes by Michael Bird on symbols in art.

Bird, Michael

Book covers.

Photocopies of covers of publications by Michael Bird.

Bird, Michael

Doukhobor research.

Notes, correspondence and photographs all relating to Bird’s research on Doukhobor art and furniture. Correspondents include Jim McLeod and Mary Zuhenkoff.

Bird, Michael

Ontario German gravemarkers.

Images of Ontario German gravemarkers from Markham; Heise Hill; Martin Meeting House; Kinzie-Bean; Breslau; Hagey; Strasburg; Blair; Maryhill; St. Clements; St. Agatha; Formosa; Mildmay; Carlsruhe; Hespeler; Unionville; Eub; Goschenhoppen; St. Matthew’s Lutheran.

Bird, Michael

Crucifixes.

Notes and research on the crucifix in art and literature.

Bird, Michael

Doukhobor photos.

Slides and photographs of Doukhobor furniture, arts, textiles and architecture.

Bird, Michael

Ingmar Bergman.

Research relating to the works of Ingmar Bergman, with analysis of music, religion and more in his films.

Bird, Michael

Slides.

Slides on the topics of: Folk Art at Bill & Pauline Hogans’; At Zalma Ami & Ann Sutherland’s October 26, 1989; At Ruth & Jamie Stalker’s October 26, 1989; Silverberg; Douax Box; Redware; mixed folk art; Fryfogel exhibit; Alexander McNeilledge; show towels; Gemeinhardt; birdhouses; Doukhobor; Native paintings JSH exhibit; OHF exhibit BJ Bungle; OHF exhibit Karl Schoen Creche; Ontario-German painted furniture; At Seitl’s; Markham fraktur; gameboards; yard art 1984 Atwater-Hallatt RR#! Morpeth (near Rondeau Provincial Park); lawn art at Tom Bremner’s June 1989; yard art; Geroge Laithwaite; fraktur; Pennsylvania German parallels; barge board and folk art around Rockwood; misc. decorated articles; Jacobi potery; Christian R. Gerber; rugs; Emmanual Soehner; Peter Van Ee; painted room Drayton (Reindeers); Fred Hoffman; Judith Humphries Songbook; Leah Daum; Anna Weber; Gerber furniture; stencils Isaac Moyer; John K. Lemp 1860-1938; Byer apple peeler; samples Ontario-German; decorated farm implements; Toronto walking stick; Ploethwer-Pletsch furniture; pieced comforter.

Bird, Michael

Folk art.

Photographs of folk art by artists including Eli Whiteway; Joe Norris; Gordon Lux; Fred Moulding; P. Boutilier; Don Boudreau; Pierre Corriveau; Mereille Corriveau; Sid Howard; George Cockayne; C. Eisenhauer; Gladys Johnston; Jahan Maka; Don Manzer; Edward Mondaggio; Emery Nowlan; Eugene Poulin; Randall Smith; Charles Tanner; John Sharpe; D. Stryjek; Joseph Sleep.

Bird, Michael

Bucks County fraktur.

Research on fraktur, including images, correspondence and notes, with a particular emphasis on the stylistic relationship between Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and Ontario.

Bird, Michael

Renison University College history.

Information on the history of Renison University College, including annual reports of the principal to the board of governors, founders day programmes, Renison reports newsletter, and reports relating to the proposed establishment of a Bachelor of Social Work programme.

Bird, Michael

Book notices and reviews.

Advertising ephemera, correspondence, research, and articles relating to the publication and review of books written by Michael Bird. These books include “Canadian Country Furniture,” “Hallowed Timbers,” “Art and Interreligious Dialogue,” “Fraktur and Spirituality in Pennsylvania Folk Art,” “Canadian Folk Art: Old Ways in a New Land,” “A Compendium of Canadian Folk Artists,” “Ontario Fraktur: A Pennsylvania-German Folk Tradition in Early Ontario,” “A Splendid Harvest: Germanic Folk and Decorative Art in Canada,” “Folk Treasures of Historic Ontario,” and “Out of the Mainstream: Folk Art in Canada.” There are also reviews by Michael Bird of “The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis,” “Film and Fiction: The Dynamics of Exchange,” “The Heritage of Upper Canadian Furniture,” “Waterloo Portfolio: Woldemar Neufeld’s Painting and Block-Prints of Waterloo, Ontario,” “Early Ontario Potters: Their Craft and Trade,” “The Stations of the Cross: A Calculated Trap?” and “A Reflection on Fleming’s Painted Furniture of French Canada.”

Bird, Michael

Secret arithmetic of the soul.

One copy of an article written for the journal Kinema titled “Secret Arithmetic of the Soul: Music as Spiritual Metaphor in the Cinema of Ingmar Bergman.” Also includes two pieces of correspondence with the editor of the journal.

Bird, Michael

Fresh finds in Fraktur.

Images, notes and ephemera relating to an exhibit and accompanying talk given by Michael Bird on fresh finds in fraktur at the Joseph Schneider Haus.

Bird, Michael

Correspondence: Country Furniture.

Correspondence between Michael Bird and others including publishers, colleagues, museums and more relating to the research, writing, and publication of his work “Canadian Country Furniture.”

Bird, Michael

Corrections to Hallowed Timbers.

Proofs from the editor with corrections for Michael Bird and Susan Hyde’s book “Hallowed Timbers: the Wooden Churches of Cape Breton.”

Bird, Michael

Language and Communuty .

Copy of a lecture given by Michael Bird for St. Bede’s Lenten Series at Church of the Holy Saviour titled “Language and Community: Seven Words that Define Spiritual Relatedness.” Also includes notes and research for the speech.

Bird, Michael

Baseball as Spiritual Metaphor.

Speech, notes, ephemera, and correspondence relating to Michael Bird’s lecture “In the Big Inning: Baseball as a Spiritual Metaphor” given as part of Renison College’s St. Bede Series of lectures.

Bird, Michael

Cross County Canada.

Article by Michael Bird in the October 1994 issue of Century Home titled “Cross Country Canada” on his book Canadian Country Furniture.

Bird, Michael

Doukhobor essay.

One essay plus notes and photographs on Doukhobor furnishings as well as correspondence from Koozma Tarasoff.

Bird, Michael

RS 294: Religion in the Canadian Context.

Notes and outlines for a course taught by Michael Bird as part of the St. Jerome’s annual Institute for Studies in Theological Renewal summer programme on religion in the Canadian context.

Bird, Michael

Margareta Riehl fraktur.

One short essay by Michael Bird on the Magareta Riehl birth and baptismal certificate. Also includes photocopies of the certificate and a translation into English from German.

Bird, Michael

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