EMERGING SCHOLARS LECTURES
The Decorative Arts Trust underwrites a variety of lectures by young scholars at its own symposia as well as outside conferences:
- At each Trust symposium, a speaker is recognized as the Sweeney lecturer, an endowed presentation named in honor of the late longtime Trust Governor and Winterthur curator John A. H. Sweeney.
- At one symposium per year, a speaker or panel is recognized as the Zimmermann lecturer(s), an endowed opportunity named in honor of the talented early-20th-century designer and craftswoman Marie Zimmermann.
- During Colonial Williamsburg’s annual Antiques Forum, The Historic New Orleans Collection’s Antiques Forum, the Delaware Antiques Show, and the Philadelphia Art and Antiques Show, the Trust sponsors young scholar presentations based on recent research on the decorative arts.
2024 Recipients
- Emerging Scholars Colloquium:
- Follow the Hearth: Retracing the Spatial History of Edgewater’s Dining Room Mantelpiece, Lauren Drapala, PhD candidate, Bard Graduate Center, and William L. Thompson Collections Fellow, Classical American Homes Preservation Trust
- An Artifact of Afro-America: A Blanket Chest by Brooks Thompson, Neil Grasty, Undergraduate Student, Morehouse College, and Curatorial Intern, High Museum of Art
- Loud and Clear: Glass and Obscured Narratives at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Laura Ochoa Rincon, Decorative Arts Trust Curatorial Fellow, New Orleans Museum of Art
- Does Architecture move? The Mahadol Palanquin of 18th-century Gujarat and Marwar, Krishna Shekhawat, PhD Student, University of California, Berkeley
- “Dressing Up” Egypt: Performing Race and Late 19th-Century Egyptomania, Lea Stephenson, PhD Candidate, University of Delaware
- Colonial Williamsburg Antiques Forum, Carolyn and Mike McNamara Young Scholars Lectures:
- A Note-Worthy Perspective: The Role of Young Women in Music Education, Ahmauri Williams-Alford, Assistant Curator of Historical Interpretation, Telfair Museum
- Saline to Georgia : The Salzburger Experience in a Salt-glazed Ceramic, Henry Beard, Historic Trades Interpreter, Old Salem Museum and Gardens
- Crossing the Atlantic: A Charleston Silver Dish Cross from the shop of Charles Wittich, Cecelia Eure, Lois F. McNeil Fellow, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware
- John A. H. Sweeney Emerging Scholar Lecture:
- Nashville Spring Symposium: “Trust much in the patronage of a liberal and enlightened community”: Portraits of Early Tennessee, Annabeth Dooley, independent scholar
- Charleston Fall Symposium: Unearthing the Old City: Archaeology of the 17th Century at the Heyward-Washington House and Beyond, Sarah Platt, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, College of Charleston
- Marie Zimmermann Emerging Scholar Lecture:
- Charleston Fall Symposium: Beyond the Ashes: The Renewed Vision of the Charleston Renaissance, Chad Stewart, Curator of History, The Charleston Museum
2023 Recipients
- Emerging Scholars Colloquium:
- Little Gems: Studio Craft at Cranbrook’s Frank Lloyd Wright Smith House, Nina Blomfield, Decorative Arts Trust Marie Zimmermann Collections Fellow, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research
- Reinterpreting an American Chair: Clara Porset and Josef Albers’ Butaca, Christina De León, PhD Candidate, Bard Graduate Center, and Associate Curator, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Struck Visitors from Afar: Chinese Metals and English Restoration Silver in the “Chinese Taste,” Susan Eberhard, PhD Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
- Luxury Scissors in the Early Modern World, Claire E. Sabitt, PhD Candidate, Princeton University
- Genealogical Threads: Unraveling the History of the Hooker-Pierpont-Russell-Talcott Family Apron, Olivia R. Scott, MA Student, Parsons School of Design
- Colonial Williamsburg Antiques Forum, Carolyn and Mike McNamara Young Scholars Lectures:
- Rediscovering the Formula: Interpreting a Stenciled Pelerine in the Winterthur Collection, Katrina Reynolds, Lois F. McNeil Fellow, Winterthur
- Made for Use: Examining the Pottery of C.A. Haun, Riley K. Richards, Lois F. McNeil Fellow, Wintherthur
- Proud to Catch Cold at a Venetian Door: Andrea Palladio’s Villas and the Design of Drayton Hall, Patricia A. Smith, Director of Preservation, Drayton Hall Preservation Trust
- John A. H. Sweeney Emerging Scholar Lectures:
- Philadelphia Spring Symposium: “Forming together the most brilliant assemblage of gay objects”: The Material Landscape of Philadelphia’s 1778 Meschianza, Kaila Temple, Curatorial Assistant, Stenton Museum
- Rhode Island Fall Symposium: Indigenous Art: Past, Present, and Future at the RISD Museum, Sháńdíín Brown, Henry Luce Curatorial Fellow for Native American Art, RISD Museum
- Marie Zimmermann Emerging Scholar Lecture:
- Philadelphia Spring Symposium: “Less is a Bore”: Learning from Robert Venturi’s Philadelphia, Alisa Chiles, Assistant Curator of European Decorative Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art
2022 Recipients
- Emerging Scholars Colloquium:
- The Tie that Binds: Stitching Together Communities in a Baltimore Album Quilt, Elizabeth Fox, Henry Luce Curatorial Assistant, Worcester Art Museum
- “The Possibilities of a Box”: Louise Brigham’s Box Furniture and the Making of Democratic Craft and Design, Jena Gilbert-Merrill, Lois F. McNeil Fellow, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, University of Delaware
- The Portrait Returned: Art, Enslavement, and Optical Instruments in the Chesapeake, 1750-1800, Michael Hartman, the Jonathan Little Cohen Associate Curator of American Art, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College
- An Incessant and Engrossing Pursuit: Nancy Vincent McClelland, Wallpaper, and Historic Decoration, Margaret Wood, PhD Candidate in Decorative Arts and Design History, George Washington University
- Freedom of Brush and Spirit: Late-Ming Trade Ceramics and Their Creative Momoyama-Edo Japanese Consumers, Xiaoyi Diana Yang, PhD Candidate, Bard Graduate Center
- Colonial Williamsburg Antiques Forum, Carolyn and Mike McNamara Young Scholars Lectures:
- Four Drawers, Four Stories: A Study of a Formerly Baltimore “Cabinet,” Kelly Fu, Lois McNeil Fellow, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, University of Delaware
- “To brighten every painful hours”: The Follet Family Sampler, Alexandra Macdonald, PhD Candidate, History, William & Mary
- Made in Germantown: Analysis of an Early American Frame-Knitting Industry, Emily Whitted, PhD Candidate, History, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- John A. H. Sweeney Emerging Scholar Lectures:
- Spring symposium: Craftsman in the Bluegrass: Milton Paul and the Black Cabinetmakers of Lexington’s Colonial Revival, Erica Lome, Assistant Curator, Historic New England
- Fall symposium: From Northern Imports to Local Manufacture: Clockmaking in Richmond, Rachel Asbury Cole, Collections Project Manager/Registrar, The Valentine Museum
- Marie Zimmermann Emerging Scholar Lecture:
- Fall symposium: George’s Grimace: Political Frustrations on a Virginia Stoneware Jar, Elyse Gerstenecker, Curator of Historical Collections, The Telfair Museum
- Drexel University Undergraduate Symposium in Material Culture Studies:
- Riley Klug, West Virginia University
- Alice (Siyuan) Zhao, University of Pennsylvania
- Evan Sykes, Drexel University
- Jamie Clifford, Drexel University
- Liam O’Brien, Drexel University
- Aidan B. Oddløkken, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- Avery A. Miller, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- Winterthur Museum, The Wonder of Wood: Decorative Inlay and Marquetry in Europe and America, 1600–1900:
- Alexandra Cade, PhD student, American Civilization, University of Delaware
- Delaware Antiques Show, Young Scholar Lectures:
- Rediscovering the Formula: Interpreting a Stenciled Pelerine in the Winterthur Collection, Katrina Reynolds, Lois F. McNeil Fellow, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, University of Delaware
- A Long Space Race: Contextualizing Early (Human) Flight in 18th-Century Material Culture, Ethan Snyder, Lois F. McNeil Fellow, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, University of Delaware
2021 Recipients
- Emerging Scholars Colloquium with the Classical American Homes Preservation Trust:
- Elite Northern Horse Culture in South Carolina, Mary Fesak, PhD Candidate in American Civilization, University of Delaware
- Musical Chairs: Seating Furniture for Performance, 1800-1875, Alexandra Cade, Senior Curator and Director of Woodwind Studies, Sigal Music Museum
- Colonial Williamsburg Antiques Forum, Carolyn and Mike McNamara Young Scholars Lectures:
- Re-envisioning a Colonial Mexican Dressing Case in the Global Context, Rachel Asbury Cole, Collections Technician, The Valentine Museum
- Cesar Chelor: The Products of His Hands, Enslaved and Free, Scott Merrifield, Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Intern, Colonial Williamsburg
- Keep Within Compass: Geography and Feminine Virtue in American Schoolgirl Art, Emily Wells, PhD candidate in History, William & Mary
- Preservation Society of Newport County Emerging Scholars Colloquium:
- Catherine Doucette, Sebastien Dutton, and MaryKate Smolenski, Research Fellows, Preservation Society of Newport County
- John A. H. Sweeney Emerging Scholar Lectures:
- Virtual dialogues: Carlene Bermann, Master’s Candidate, Cooperstown Museum Studies Graduate Program; Sarah Grandin, PhD, Clark-Getty Paper Project Curatorial Fellow, Clark Art Institute; Xiaoyi Diana Yang, PhD Candidate and Teaching Fellow, Bard Graduate Center
- Fall symposium: “Out on the Waters!” Image and Meaning in an Indian Princess Ship Figurehead, Sybil F. Johnson, PhD Candidate, Boston University
- Marie Zimmermann Emerging Scholar Lecture:
- Fall symposium: “Turn to Nature”: Joseph Everett Chandler’s Colonial Revival Transformation of Stevens-Coolidge House, Katharine F. Grant, Curatorial Fellow, The Trustees of Reservations
- The Historic New Orleans Collection Antiques Forum Lecture:
- Hannah Boettcher, Manager of Special Programs, Museum of the American Revolution
- Delaware Antiques Show Lecture, Young Scholars Lectures:
- “The possibilities of a box”: Louise Brigham’s Box Furniture, Jena Gilbert-Merrill, Lois F. McNeil Fellow, Winterthur Museum
- Threads of Change: Assessing a Potential Meiji-Era Silk-work Painting, Rachael Kane, Lois F. McNeil Fellow, Winterthur Museum
2020 Recipients
- Emerging Scholars Colloquium in New York:
- Edgefield Stoneware in The Met’s American Wing, Katherine C. Hughes, Peggy N. Gerry Research Scholar, The American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Textiles and Design Exchanges between India and the United States in the Mid-Twentieth Century, Vishal Khandelwal, Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- The Eameses and The Case Study House Program: Introducing Scandinavian Design to Mid-Century America, Rachel Pool, History of Design and Curatorial Studies, Parsons School of Design and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- A Tale of Two Families: An Engraved Tea Service in Antebellum Augusta, Georgia, Kayli Rideout, American Studies, Boston University
- Transpacific Scopic Frames: the Folded Spaces of Two 18th-Century Pueblan Cabinets, Celia Rodríguez Tejuca, Art History, Johns Hopkins University
- Preservation Society of Newport County Emerging Scholars Colloquium:
- Discriminate Doorknobs: An Inventory of Door Hardware at The Breakers and the Delineation of Spaces using Decorative Details, Sébastien Dutton, 2020 PSNC Research Fellow; 2019 M.A., Design Studies & Historic Preservation, Boston Architectural College
- Edgefield Stoneware in The Met’s American Wing, Kate Hughes, 2018-2020 Peggy N. Gerry Research Scholar, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; 2014 M.A., Sotheby’s Institute of Art – New York
- The Ornate Staircase Railing at Marble House: A Unique and Exceptional Reflection of Versailles in Newport, Mathilde Tollet, 2020 PSNC Research Fellow; 2018 M.A., Museology & Conservation, l’Ecole du Louvre, Paris, & Complutense University, Madrid
- Colonial Williamsburg Antiques Forum, Carolyn and Mike McNamara Young Scholars Lectures:
- Keeping it Close to Home: Fulling “Country Cloth” in the Early Republic, Eliza West, Independent Scholar, Richmond, Vermont
- John Bull, Esquire: Reconsidering the Origins of a Southern Face Vessel, Sarah Bryan, Executive Director, North Carolina Folklife Institute, Durham, North Carolina
- “Keeping it in the Family”: The Furniture of Daniel Clay, 1795-1829, Daniel Sousa, Assistant Curator, Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, Massachusetts
2019 Recipients
- Emerging Scholars Colloquium in New York:
- Unified Design: Midcentury Modernism at Winterthur Carrie Grief, MA candidate, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, University of Delaware
- The Liberating Stich: The Politics of Sympathy in White Women’s Abolitionist Needlework Mariah Gruner, PhD candidate, American Studies, Boston University
- Between Fantasy and Familiarity: Chinese Tea Culture and Painting Traditions Tammy Hong, Andrew W. Mellon Research Assistant in Modern Materials, National Gallery of Art
- Governor John Wentworth and the Vice-Regal Interior in British North America Steven McNeil, PhD candidate, Art History, Queen’s University
- New Insights into Maryland’s Imported Furniture, 1780-1830 Elisabeth Mallin, Decorative Arts Trust Associate Curator, Maryland Historical Society
- John A. H. Sweeney Emerging Scholar Lectures:
- Spring Symposium in Annapolis: Seized Possessions: Reconstructing Maryland’s First Governor’s Mansion Michelle Fitzgerald, Assistant Curator, Homewood Museum, John Hopkins University
- Fall Symposium in the Berkshires: “Glass That Decorates”: The History, Designers, and Stained Glass of the Church Glass and Decorating Company of New York Amber Wingerson, Curatorial Assistant, Cape Ann Museum
- Marie Zimmermann Emerging Scholar Lecture:
- Fall Symposium in the Berkshires: Modern in the Mountains: Mid-Century Design in the Berkshires Rebecca Midgal, Independent Museum Consultant
- Colonial Williamsburg Antiques Forum, Carolyn and Mike McNamara Young Scholars Lectures:
- “Her Fingers O’er this Canvas Move:” Unraveling the Threads of Race, Class, and Female Education in Antebellum Charleston Alexandra Cade, Executive Director, Carolina Music Museum
- MESDA’s Edgefield Bowl: The Black and White Landscape of the B.F. Landrum Pottery Site Katherine C. Hughes, The Peggy N. Gerry Curatorial Intern, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The Emancipation of Quash: Reconstructing the Charles Pinckney Mansion through the Silk of Master Carpenter John “Quash” Williams Tiffany Wade Momon, PhD candidate, Public History, Middle Tennessee State University
- Preservation Society of Newport County Emerging Scholars Colloquium:
- Private Collection, Public Museum: Interpreting a Collector’s House Taylor Bye, MA Public History, University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Stitching Politics: Antislavery Needlework in the Antebellum United States Mariah Gruner, PhD candidate, American Studies, Boston University
- A Picturesque Paradise: Kingstone and Early 19th-Century Landscape Design Jenn Robinson, MSc Architectural Conservation, University of Edinburgh
- Venture Cargo: 18th-Century Newport Furniture Exports to the West Indies Emilio Ruiz, Former Curator of National Museum of Decorative Arts, Cuba
- “Direct from England”: Peter Morton of Hartford, CT, and the English Ceramic Trade Dan Sousa, Assistant Curator, Historic Deerfield
- “To Gratify the Eye with Color”: Newport Leaded Glass and the Aesthetic Movement Lea Stephenson, PhD candidate Art History, University of Delaware
- Wilton Colonial Revival Revisited Symposium, Young Scholar Lecture:
- Reproductions and the Southern Colonial Revival Erica Lome, PhD candidate, American Civilization, University of Delaware
- Delaware Antiques Show Lecture, Young Scholars Lectures:
- Midcentury Modernism at Winterthur Carrie Grief, Tiffany & Co. Foundation Curatorial Intern, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Reuniting the Unfinished: The 1857 Harrison Album Quilt Emily Whitted, MA candidate, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, University of Delaware
- New Orleans Antiques Forum, Young Scholar Lecture:
- Praising Canes: American Folk Art Walking Sticks Lea Lane, Curatorial Assistant, Cincinnati Art Museum
2018 Recipients
- Emerging Scholars Colloquium:
- 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, 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, Assistant Curator of Maps and Prints, Colonial Williamsburg - History in Stoneware: Depictions of the British Slave Trade on an 18th-Century English Punch Bowl
Daniel Sousa, Peggy N. Gerry-Anne K. Groves Curatorial Intern, Historic Deerfield
- Dinnerware for the Masses: Viktor Schreckengost’s Dinnerware Designs from the 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s
- John A. H. Sweeney Emerging Scholar Lectures:
- New Orleans: Creole Comforts and French Connections: The Material World of François Petit de Coulange, 1732-1812
Philippe L.B. Halbert, PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Art, Yale University
- New Orleans: Creole Comforts and French Connections: The Material World of François Petit de Coulange, 1732-1812
- Marie Zimmermann Emerging Scholar Lectures:
- Albany: Woven Together: Women, Weavers, and Jacquard Coverlets in New York State
Britney Schline Yatrakis, Independent Historian, Troy, New York - New Orleans: “A Lover of the Beautiful:” Harriet Joor, Newcomb Pottery, and the Arts & Crafts Movement
Maggie Dimock, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, Alva de Mars Megan Chapel Art Center, Saint Anselm College
- Albany: Woven Together: Women, Weavers, and Jacquard Coverlets in New York State
- Colonial Williamsburg, Antiques Forum, Carolyn and Mike McNamara Young Scholars Lectures:
- “To Please the most Tasty”: Thomas B. Campbell and Silver for the Great Wagon Road
Emily Campbell, Architectural Preservation Assistant, Colonial Williamsburg - Unpacking Jacob Frymire’s Portrait of Amelia Lauck
Annabeth Hayes, Director of Preservation, Heritage Foundation of Franklin and Williamson County - Big Wheel Keep on Turning: The Measure of Life through Johann Ludwig Eberhardt’s Odometer
Lea Lane, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Decorative Arts and Design, Cincinnati Art Museum - Southern Collecting in the Post-Civil War Era: A Case Study of Barbara Fritchie’s Desk and Bookcase
Trent Rhodes, MA, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, University of Delaware
- “To Please the most Tasty”: Thomas B. Campbell and Silver for the Great Wagon Road
- Philadelphia Antiques & Art Show:
- Buying and Selling Philadelphia: The Story of the Legendary 1929 Reifsnyder Sale
Emelie Gevalt, PhD, Art History, University of Delaware
- Buying and Selling Philadelphia: The Story of the Legendary 1929 Reifsnyder Sale
- Delaware Antiques Show Lecture, Young Scholars Lectures:
- Truths of the Trade: Collecting, Researching, and Exhibiting an Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World Cabinet
R.J. Lara, Alexandra Rosenberg, Winterthur Program Lecture in American Material Culture, University of Delaware - “The Very Quintessence of Fashion”: George Wyon, Composition Ornament, and Design Books at Winterthur
Elizabeth Humphrey, Winterthur Program Lecture in American Material Culture, University of Delaware
- Truths of the Trade: Collecting, Researching, and Exhibiting an Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World Cabinet
- New Orleans Antiques Forum Young Scholar Lecture:
- Making Clothing Work: Garments for Life in the Deep South, 1750-1865
Tyler Putnam, General Education Manager, Museum of the American Revolution
- Making Clothing Work: Garments for Life in the Deep South, 1750-1865
2017 Recipients
- Emerging Scholars Colloquium:
- “Conformable to that of the water”: Cultural Confluence in the Decorative Arts of Early Kentucky
Daniel Ackerman, Department of Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Revisiting Taunton: Making and Collecting the Chests of Robert Crosman
Emilie Gevalt, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, University of Delaware - Inspiring Interiors: England in the Time of Casanova
Courtney Harris, Cultural Research Fellow, Art of Europe, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - High Style in the Lower Chesapeake: The Cabinetmakers of Edenton, 1745-1785
Joseph Litts, Department of History, Clemson University - The Authority of Handicraft in the Age of Synthetics: Modern Weaving in the United States, 1930s-1950s
Sarah Mills, Department of Art History, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
- “Conformable to that of the water”: Cultural Confluence in the Decorative Arts of Early Kentucky
- John A. H. Sweeney Emerging Scholar Lectures:
- Savannah: Following the Ten Commandments: The Tablet Samplers of Mary Smallwood and Sarah Jones
Jenny Garwood, Curatorial Associate, The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts - Hartford: Thistles & Crowns: The Painted Chests of the Connecticut Shore
Benjamin W. Colman, Associate Curator, Detroit Institute of Arts
- Savannah: Following the Ten Commandments: The Tablet Samplers of Mary Smallwood and Sarah Jones
- Marie Zimmermann Emerging Scholar Lectures:
- Hartford Symposium: A Story of Sunshine and Shadow: Elizabeth H. Colt and the Crafting of the Colt Legacy in Hartford
Willie Granston, Ph.D. student, History of Art & Architecture, Boston University
- Hartford Symposium: A Story of Sunshine and Shadow: Elizabeth H. Colt and the Crafting of the Colt Legacy in Hartford
- Colonial Williamsburg, Antiques Forum, Young Scholars Lectures:
- More than Just a Pretty Face: Reconsidering John Hesselius
Janine Yorimoto Boldt, PhD, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA - Dr. Who? Apothe-What? The Birth of the Modern Pharmacy through the Lens of an 18th-Century Apothecary Chest
Torren Gatson, PhD, Middle Tennessee University, Mufreesboro, TN - A Vessel of Memory: Thomas Chandler’s Eastern Shore Landscape
Katherine Carson Hughes, Historic Charleston Foundation, Curatorial Research Assistant, Charleston, SC - Unpacking the Past: The Clothespress of Maria Carter Beverley
Alexander Wilson, Ashley Whittaker Design, Design Assistant, New York, NY
- More than Just a Pretty Face: Reconsidering John Hesselius
2016 Recipients
- Fall 2016 Sweeney Emerging Scholar Lecture:
- ‘Wel Don’ Chests and Pine Boxes: The Material Culture of Shenandoah County, 1800-1850
Sarah Thomas, PhD Candidate, Department of History, College of William & Mary
- ‘Wel Don’ Chests and Pine Boxes: The Material Culture of Shenandoah County, 1800-1850
- Spring 2016 Zimmermann Emerging Scholars Lectures:
Presentations by recent MESDA Summer Institute alumnae- Family Matters: The Rope and Tassel Inlay School
Amber Clawson, Director, Historical Association of Catawba County - Sacred or Secular: The Life of a Mahogany Stretcher Table in Charleston
April Strader-Bullin, Director of Museum Programs, MESDA - “Inferior to None in the Western Country”: Early Stoneware Pottery Traditions in Maysville, Kentucky
Brenda Hornsby Heindl, Ceramics Department Head, Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
- Family Matters: The Rope and Tassel Inlay School
- Spring 2016 Sweeney Emerging Scholar Lecture:
- Much of Artistic Merit Still to Discover: MESDA’s Next Fifty Years
Daniel Ackermann, Associate Curator, MESDA
- Much of Artistic Merit Still to Discover: MESDA’s Next Fifty Years
- Colonial Williamsburg Antiques Forum, Decorative Arts Trust Young Scholars Lectures:
- From Dining Room to Auction Block: The Mysteries of Governor Al(l)ston’s Sideboard
Laura Conte, Visitor Services Coordinator, O. Winston Link Museum - “Don’t Cry for Me, America”: A Charleston Silk on Silk Embroidery with Watercolor
Mark Farnsworth, Director, Historic Bethania - The Smiths: A Case Study of Family Portraiture in the Early Republic
Katie McKinney, Sotheby’s Auctions, Department of American Furniture, Decorative Arts, and Folk Art
- From Dining Room to Auction Block: The Mysteries of Governor Al(l)ston’s Sideboard
2015 Recipients
- Fall 2015 Sweeney Emerging Scholar Lecture:
- Parlor Games: Decorative Arts and the McLellan House, 1801-2015
Diana Jocelyn Greenwold, Curatorial Fellow, Portland Museum of Art
- Parlor Games: Decorative Arts and the McLellan House, 1801-2015
- Fall 2015 Zimmermann Emerging Scholar Lecture:
- Tiffany Ecclesiastical Works in the Summer Churches of Maine
Josh Probert, Independent Historical Consultant, Salt Lake City, UT
- Tiffany Ecclesiastical Works in the Summer Churches of Maine
- Spring 2015 Sweeney Emerging Scholar Lecture:
- The Noble Splendor of the Armeria de Dos Aquas: A Spanish Renaissance Armory at the Art Institute of Chicago
Jonathan Tavares, Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Foundation Curatorial Fellow, Medieval to Modern European Painting & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago
- The Noble Splendor of the Armeria de Dos Aquas: A Spanish Renaissance Armory at the Art Institute of Chicago
- Colonial Williamsburg Antiques Forum, Decorative Arts Trust Young Scholars Lectures:
- Smoothing the Transition: The Life and Planes of William Little
Nathan Jones, Masters Candidate, History, Texas State University - “That Penetrating and sidelong Gaze”: Revealing Identity and Place in Alexander Bradford’s Portrait of James Batterton
Catherine Carlisle, Assistant Cataloguer, Charlton Hall Auctions - Fit for a President: The Material World of William Dallam
Grant Quertermous, Assistant Curator, James Madison’s Montpelier
- Smoothing the Transition: The Life and Planes of William Little
