Examining Edgefield Stoneware at The Met
BY KATHERINE C. HUGHES
The majority of my work has revolved around The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s upcoming exhibition of 19th-century alkaline-glazed stoneware from South Carolina’s Old Edgefield District.
Member Benefit Tour at PAFA
SPECIAL PROGRAM
November 1, 2019
A Special Program in Southern California
SPECIAL PROGRAM
November 8, 2019
A Special Program at the Yale Furniture Study
SPECIAL PROGRAM
October 4, 2019
Photography & Folk Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
BY ELIZABETH MCGOEY & ELIZABETH SIEGEL
This fall, the Art Institute of Chicago will open an exhibition, Photography & Folk Art: Looking for America in the 1930s, that explores the connections between the fields of folk art and documentary photography in the Depression era for the first time.
Made in New York City at the American Folk Art Museum
THE EXHIBITION MADE IN NEW YORK CITY: THE BUSINESS OF FOLK ART is on view at the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) through July 28, 2019. The exhibit includes 100 hundred works by self-taught artists from the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries and highlights the history of New York City as a financial and commercial capital.
Digital Decorative Arts: Celebrating a New Consortium
by Sarah Parks and Catharine Dann Roeber
The compilation and dissemination of decorative arts research increasingly uses digital tools to complement physical publications and exhibitions or to gather information that would otherwise be widely dispersed or hard to access.
Introducing 21st-Century Youth to 18th- and 19th-Century American Art
by ELIZABETH WOOD
The first thing visitors see as they enter the exhibition “Becoming America: Highlights from the Jonathan and Karin Fielding Collection” is a dramatic presentation of utilitarian tools spanning the years 1770–1870 .
