by The Trust | Jun 10, 2021
Xiaoyi Diana Yang and Angelika Kuettner Virtual Dialogue on Zhangzhou Porcelains Xiaoyi Diana Yang, PhD Candidate and Teaching Fellow at the Bard Graduate Center, chose to study Zhangzhou porcelain because she wanted to do something different. On June 3, 2021, Diana...
by The Trust | Jun 4, 2021
Memory Vessels: Folk Art with a Compelling International Origin by John-Duane Kingsley As a cultural artifact of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, memory jugs possess an intersectional history as a form of domestic craft with ties to African and African-American...
by The Trust | May 27, 2021
Winterthur Museum Curator Emerita Wendy Cooper Shares Primitive Hall’s Architecture, Furniture, and History “Built in 1738, Primitive Hall was enormous for its time,” shared Wendy Cooper, Curator Emerita of Furniture, Winterthur Museum, at the start of her virtual...
by The Trust | May 17, 2021
Alec Cobbe and the ‘Peacock’ Worcester Service of 1763 “It’s a story that began with a sale catalogue coming through my letterbox,” noted Alec Cobbe at the start of his virtual lecture on May 10. “I suddenly noticed a lot for a knife and fork that was said to be...
by The Trust | May 14, 2021
Building a History of Early American Jewish Women from Objects: Laura Arnold Leibman’s ‘The Art of the Jewish Family’ by Kate Burnett BudzynLaura Arnold Leibman’s The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects, published...
by The Trust | May 7, 2021
Impactful Estate Planning: A Bequest from James A. Sanders The Decorative Arts Trust is honored to announce a gift through the estate of longtime member and former Governor James A. Sanders (1938-2020) of Evansville, IN. Jim joined the Trust in 1987 and became a...
by The Trust | Apr 29, 2021
Touring Brooke’s Bank with Ralph Harvard For our April virtual tour, we joined Ralph Harvard, the antiquarian, designer, and Trust Governor, in a visit to Brooke’s Bank, a stunning and unusual Virginia house. The house is atypical, in part, because it was built...
by The Trust | Apr 28, 2021
Into the Bluegrass: Mel Hankla on the Art and Artistry of Kentucky’s Historic Icons by Taryn Clary The stories presented within Mel Hankla’s book Into the Bluegrass: Art and Artistry of Kentucky’s Historic Icons are the product of more than 35 years of dedicated...
