by The Trust | Jan 26, 2021
BY KAYLI RIDEOUT
With support from a Decorative Arts Trust Summer Research Grant, I traveled to Richmond and Petersburg, VA, conducting research for my PhD dissertation about memorial windows produced by Tiffany Studios.
by The Trust | Jan 15, 2020
BY ASHLEY BOULDEN
I examined and documented a wide body of prints and drawings that anchor my investigation of the circulation of ornament in 18th-century at the Morgan Library and the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, as well as the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montréal, Canada.
by The Trust | Jan 15, 2020
BY VISHAL KHANDELWAL
For the last leg of my dissertation research on mid-20th-century industrial design in India, I analyzed collections at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, keen to understand how the renowned textile innovator Marianne Strengell’s teaching at Cranbrook informed the work of design students Helena Perheentupa from Finland and Nelly Sethna (née Mehta) from India.
by The Trust | Jan 15, 2020
BY CELIA RODRIGUEZ TEJUCA
I embarked on a trip to Puebla, Mexico, to complete my research on a pair of 18th-century desks and bookcases that reinforce the aesthetic connections between East Asia and the Spanish-American viceroyalties during the colonial period.
by The Trust | Jan 7, 2020
BY RACHEL POOL
Charles and Ray Eames’s Case Study House #8 in Pacific Palisades, CA, is an example of modern American architecture in its most functional form.
by The Trust | Jan 7, 2020
BY CHRISTOPHER GRANT
Excavations at the site of the former Tremé plantation in New Orleans are turning up rare and notable artifacts from the city’s Spanish past, including a blue-green bacín, the majolica vessel type affectionately known as the “Spanish chamber pot.”
by decarts | Jul 11, 2019
2019 SUMMER RESEARCH GRANT SCHOLAR PROFILES EMERGING SCHOLARS > SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS Ashley Boulden, PhD, Art and Architectural History, University of Virginia Through her analysis of French ornament prints and drawings, Ashley will investigate the flexible...
by decarts | Jul 11, 2019
Ceramics and the Environment in the Late-Twentieth-Century American West EMERGING SCHOLARS > SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS by Matthew Limb, PhD. Candidate, University of California, Santa Barbara In the summer of 1974, Studio Potter magazine addressed the growing concern...