Meet the Trust: Nick Vincent

Nicholas Vincent

While the Trust’s staff members are the most familiar faces leading symposia, tours, and study trips, a great deal of our event planning is facilitated by the Programming Committee of the Board of Governors. This past month, the Committee welcomed a new chair, Nick Vincent, who joined the Board in January.

Nick’s involvement with the Decorative Arts Trust began in 2007, when he received a Dewey Lee Curtis Scholarship to attend a symposium in Pittsburgh. Since then, he has helped arrange tours for the Trust around New York City, particularly at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he has worked in various capacities for the past 11 years. He recently assisted the staff during the Hartford and Upper Hudson symposia.

A graduate of Wesleyan University and the University of Delaware’s Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, Nick’s tenure at the Met began in the American Wing. He currently serves as Manager of Collection Planning for the Director’s Office and is responsible for coordinating museum-wide collections care, storage, and loan initiatives in collaboration with more than 300 collections and curatorial staff.

Nick examines a c. 1670 Massachusetts court cupboard in the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum during a quiet moment of the 2017 Fall Symposium to Hartford.

Nick brings a wealth of programming experience to his new role with the board. From 2011 until 2016, he served on the board of the Decorative Arts Society as Vice President and Programming Chair, bringing members to programs in cities as distant as Chicago, IL, and Athens, GA. On behalf of the Met, he accompanied international tours to Switzerland and Egypt. As an adjunct professor and guest lecturer for Sotheby’s American Fine & Decorative Arts graduate program, Nick organized and lead tours along the eastern seaboard.  He credits his former professor (and now fellow Trust Governor) Brock Jobe for providing the example that, where itineraries are concerned, more is indeed more. In his spare time, Nick enjoys getting further acquainted with his newborn son, Leo; playing with the Met’s softball team; and planning trips for family and friends.

“Working with the Decorative Arts Trust’s staff and board is one of my favorite parts of being involved,” Nick says, “and the mission and its impact will continue to have enormous consequences in the field.” He is particularly looking forward to expanding the scope and content of the Trust’s programming over the next few years. We are very excited to work with Nick as we expand our calendar and look forward to discovering new territories and opportunities with you!