Emerging Scholars Colloquium 2018

8:30am

• Registration and Coffee
  George F. Baker Carriage House, 69 East 93rd Street, New York, NY 10128

9:00am

• Opening remarks
  Margize L. Howell, Co-President, Classical American Homes Preservation Trust

9:15am

• • Presentations
    Matthew A. Thurlow, Executive Director, Decorative Arts Trust

    • Dinnerware for the Masses: Viktor Schreckengost’s Dinnerware Designs from the 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s
      Catherine Acosta, History of Design and Curatorial Studies, Parsons School of Design

    • Making Sense of Carmontelle’s Chairs
      Margot Bernstein, Department of Art History, Columbia University

    • The Shop of Robert Stewart: Work and Wealth in the Antebellum Natchez Furniture Trade
      Candice Candeto, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, University of Delaware

    • William Roberts’s “Excursion over the Mountains”: Landscapes “by the Pencil of a Virginian”
      Katie McKinney, Americana Foundation Intern, Colonial Williamsburg

    • History in Stoneware: Depictions of the British Slave Trade on an 18th-Century English Punch Bowl
      Daniel Sousa, Decorative Arts Trust Curatorial Intern, Historic Deerfield, Inc.

  11:15am

  • • Closing Remarks, Peter M. Kenny, Co-President, Classical American Homes Preservation Trust

  11:30am

  • Bloody Mary & Ham Biscuit Benefit to support the Trust’s Emerging Scholars Program, George F. Baker House, 67 East 93rd Street. This is an opportunity to meet the speakers and visit Dick Jenrette’s private residence while helping the next generation of decorative arts historians and curators.