Breakthrough Years. Dr. Adamson created the position of Windgate Research Curator, in collaboration with the Bard Graduate Center, to further enhance the scholarship of MAD's publications and exhibitions. He also expanded MAD's noted artist-in-residence program by engaging younger artists from traditionally under-represented communities, through an initiative funded by a grant from the New York Community Trust." Victoria and Albert Museum From 2005 to 2013 Glenn Adamson served as the Head of Research at the Victoria and Albert Museum. During his time there, Adamson published several books and essays, as well as co-curated the exhibition Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990 along with Jane Pavitt. Adamson was also a key proponent in initiating the "Rapid Response Unit" of the V&A, where contemporary objects like 3D printed guns and "pussy hats" are added to the museum's collection quickly in direct response to contemporary culture. Chipstone Foundation Glenn Adamson served as Curator for the Chipstone Foundation from 2000-2005. The Chipstone Foundation focuses on the study, preservation, and championing of American material culture with heavy emphases on the decorative arts. This mission can be seen reflected in Adamson's work there, where he curated such historically American focused exhibitions as Skin Deep: Three Masters of American Inlay and Tea Table Coffee Table. In addition to his curatorial work, Adamson also made regular contributions to the Chipstone's journals American Furniture and Ceramics in America. Guest curatorial work 2003 Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI 2013 fix fix fix, Gallery SO, London, UK 2017 "Things of Beauty Growing”: British Studio Pottery (co-curated with Martina Droth and Simon Olding), Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT 2017 Static,Friedman Benda Gallery, New York City, NY 2017 Beazley Designs of the Year, Design Museum, London, UK 2018 Raw Design, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA 2021 Crafting America, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Selected publications Books Craft: An American History (Bloomsbury, 2021) Fewer Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects (Bloomsbury, 2018) The Invention of Craft (Bloomsbury, 2013) The Craft Reader (Berg, 2010) Thinking Through Craft (Berg, 2007) Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World (MIT Press, 2003) Book collaborations Creating Ourselves: The Self in Art (Whitechapel Gallery, 2017) (co-authored with Frances Borzello, Nicholas Cullinan, and Amelia Jones) Art in the Making: Artists and Their Materials from the Studio to Crowdsourcing (Thames & Hudson, 2016) (co-authored with