Karen Kettering

Former Short-Term Grant

Professional Affiliation

Curator, The Hillwood Museum

Wilson Center Project

Popular Culture and Cultural Policy in the Soviety Union: Natalia Dan’ko and the State Porcelain Factory, 1919 - 1942

Project Summary

the work of Natalia Iakovlevna Dan’ko, one of the leading artists of the early Soviet period and director of the sculpture studio at the State Porcelain Factory in Leningrad; Stalinist culture in relation to Soviet popular culture; investigates how popular culture is generally viewed within the confines of industrialized capitalist nations