Works on Paper, Works on Ivory: Looking Closely at the Materiality Used by 19th-Century Women Artists
by Lauren Lovings-Gomez A Marie Zimmermann Research Grant from the Decorative Arts Trust allowed me to travel to collections and archives in Washington, D.C.; Wilmington, DE; and Cleveland, OH, to conduct research for my dissertation, “Materiality, Innovation, and...
Preservation Long Island Awarded Curatorial Internship Grant
The Decorative Arts Trust is thrilled to announce that Preservation Long Island (PLI) is the recipient of the 2025–27 Curatorial Internship Grant. Headquartered in Cold Spring Harbor, NY, PLI was founded in 1948 as the Society for the Preservation of Long Island...
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....
2025 IDEAL Internship Grants Awarded to Six Institutions
The Decorative Arts Trust is pleased to announce the six institutions that will receive IDEAL Internship Grants in 2025: the Asheville Art Museum in Asheville, NC; Bard Graduate Center in New York, NY; The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA; Filoli in Woodside, CA; the...
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...
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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.