Modern in the Mountains: Mid-Century Design in the Berkshires
Rebecca Migdal, an independent museum consultant based in the Boston region, presented the Marie Zimmermann Emerging Scholar Lecture at the Decorative Arts Trust Fall 2019 Symposium Inspired by the Berkshires: Autumn in Western Massachusetts. Migdal’s...
Summer 2020 Magazine Articles on Website
The summer 2020 issue of The Magazine of the Decorative Arts Trust has garnered much praise, and the Trust is pleased to offer this benefit to members. At over 40 pages, the issue is one of our longest yet, an accomplishment made more remarkable by the...
Annapolis’s Landscape of Craft: The Roles Enslaved Men and Women Played
by Bethany McGlyn With support from a Decorative Arts Trust Summer Research Grant, I devoted last summer to research for my Winterthur Program in American Material Culture Masters thesis, “Who Built the City on the Severn? Slavery, Material Culture, and...
Doll Paintings in American Design: A Window into Racial Ideologies
by Allison L. W. Robinson When I first laid eyes on the watercolor, the scarf wrapped tightly around her black satin head immediately caught my attention. My eyes danced between its tomato red hue, golden yellow starbursts, and prominent central...
2020 Summer Research Grant Recipients
The Decorative Arts Trust is pleased to announce the 13 recipients of the annual Summer Research Grants. Each year the Trust awards research grants to graduate students working on a Master’s thesis or PhD dissertation in a field related to the decorative arts. The...
About The Decorative Arts Trust Bulletin
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.