Young Scholar Lectures at 2024 Delaware Antiques Show
The Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library’s 2024 Delaware Antiques Show opens this week, and the Decorative Arts Trust is proud to once again sponsor lectures by Lois F. McNeill Fellows in the University of Delaware’s Winterthur Program in American Material Culture....
Pauline Fortier’s Sampler: A Material Record of Early-19th-Century New Orleans
by Lily Higgins My dissertation, “Reading into Things: Articulate Objects in Colonial North America,” investigates the ways in which self-referential inscriptions and visual imagery, applied to or embedded within an object’s surface, altered the ways in which...
A Summer Immersed in American History and Decorative Arts
by Tanyi Tseung Supported by a Continuing Education Scholarship from the Decorative Arts Trust, I participated in Historic Deerfield’s Summer Fellowship Program in 2024. I forged valuable connections with mentors and peers and enriched my understanding of museum...
British Country Houses through the Lens of Egyptomania and Orientalism
by Lea C. Stephenson The Attingham Summer School was invaluable for object-based research and access to British country houses relevant to my dissertation on Egyptomania and late-19th-century Orientalism. Thanks to a Continuing Education Grant from the Decorative...
Architecture, Art, and History in Chicago
by Erin McGrath Attending the Victorian Society of America (VSA) Chicago Summer School was an engaging experience that allowed me to build upon my educational foundation within interior design and within my professional interests in art and historic preservation. I...
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Formerly known as the "blog,” the Bulletin features new research and scholarship, travelogues, book reviews, and museum and gallery exhibitions. The Bulletin complements The Magazine of the Decorative Arts Trust, our biannual members publication.