Milwaukee Art Museum Awarded Curatorial Internship Grant
The Decorative Arts Trust is thrilled to announce that the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) is the recipient of the 2026–28 Curatorial Internship Grant. The Marie Zimmermann Curatorial Fellow at MAM will gain hands-on curatorial work experience across collection assessment,...
Mary Meese Swain’s Legacy
The Decorative Arts Trust is honored to announce a gift through the estate of longtime member Mary Meese Swain of Kennett Square, PA. Mary joined the Trust in 1991 as a frequent and intrepid symposium attendee, with lectures and tours complimenting her lifelong love...
Examining 16th-Century Altar Tapestries
by Julia LaPlaca With the support of a Decorative Arts Trust Research Grant, I spent a week in New York City conducting research for my dissertation titled Woven Flesh, Woven Stone: The Affordances of Tapestries in Altar Environments, 1350–1580. During this...
Quilting Connections
by Laura Sims Peck The Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is an exceptional teaching and research collection. Home to nearly 14,000 global textiles, the state-of-the-art facility is nestled within the Nancy M. Bruce Center for...
Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan: Decorations and Implications
by Andrea Jung-An Liu The focus of my dissertation research in the Department of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley, began one summer in Yokohama, when I walked past a building with ornamentation that was unmistakably influenced by Frank...
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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.