The Metallic Fiber Designs of Dorothy Liebes
EMERGING SCHOLARS > SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS By SARAH MILLS, Department of Art History, City University of New York This summer I pored over numberous swatches woven by Dorothy Liebes, now housed at the Smithsonian Institute’s Archives of American Art in Washington,...
REVISITING TAUNTON: THE CHESTS OF ROBERT CROSMAN
EMERGING SCHOLARS > SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS By EMELIE GEVALT, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, University of Delaware Generous funding from the Decorative Arts Trust facilitated essential foundational research on my Winterthur thesis this past...
Uncovering Philadelphia’s German History
Resurrecting the forgotten story of Philadelphia’s German population.
SEEKING EARLY KENTUCKY CULTURE
EMERGING SCHOLARS > SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS By DANIEL K. ACKERMANN, Department of Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill My dissertation explores Kentucky’s unique geographic, economic, and cultural position between North, South, East, and West...
Summer Research Grants in High Demand
EMERGING SCHOLARS > SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS The Trust received upwards of thirty requests for summer research funding in 2016 from graduate students working on thesis and dissertation topics that span the globe. Thanks to the generous funding of the Emerging...
Staging Modern Domesticity: Art and Constructed Interior Displays in America, 1925–1940
EMERGING SCHOLARS > SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS by Elizabeth McGoey, doctoral candidate at Indiana University in the Department of the History of Art Elizabeth McGoey’s dissertation examines the interwar period when designers, critics, and the public frequently...
