by The Trust | Dec 20, 2024
Charleston Symposium Offers Charming Collections and Camaraderie The Decorative Arts Trust’s Fall 2024 Symposium in South Carolina did not disappoint, offering a robust schedule of tours, lectures, and networking opportunities in the Charleston region. Pre-Symposium...
by The Trust | Dec 17, 2024
2025 Failey Grants Awarded to Seven Notable Institutions The Decorative Arts Trust is pleased to offer support through Dean F. Failey Grants to seven outstanding projects in the material culture field, a record number of grantees (and amount of funding) for this...
by The Trust | Dec 2, 2024
Unique Private Visits Mingle with Must-See Sites during Tours of Florence, Siena, Bologna, and Ravenna Even Decorative Arts Trust members who have traveled to Tuscany were impressed and inspired by the sites we visited during the October 2024 Study Trip Abroad to...
by The Trust | Nov 27, 2024
A Tale of Two Samplers: New Research from MESDA Summer Institute by Lea C. Lane In June 2024, the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts welcomed eight fellows to Winston-Salem for the 47th annual Summer Institute program. The Decorative Arts Trust has long been...
by The Trust | Nov 25, 2024
Drayton Hall Awarded 2024 Prize for Excellence and Innovation The Decorative Arts Trust is thrilled to announce that the 2024 Prize for Excellence and Innovation will be awarded to Drayton Hall Preservation Trust in Charleston, SC, for projects to include the...
by The Trust | Nov 22, 2024
Works on Paper, Works on Ivory: Looking Closely at the Materiality Used by 19th-Century Women Artists by Lauren Lovings-Gomez A Marie Zimmermann Research Grant from the Decorative Arts Trust allowed me to travel to collections and archives in Washington, D.C.;...
by The Trust | Nov 18, 2024
Preservation Long Island Awarded Curatorial Internship Grant The Decorative Arts Trust is thrilled to announce that Preservation Long Island (PLI) is the recipient of the 2025–27 Curatorial Internship Grant. Headquartered in Cold Spring Harbor, NY, PLI was founded in...
by The Trust | Nov 12, 2024
Young Scholar Lectures at 2024 Delaware Antiques Show The Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library’s 2024 Delaware Antiques Show opens this week, and the Decorative Arts Trust is proud to once again sponsor lectures by Lois F. McNeill Fellows in the University of...
