by The Trust | Mar 24, 2021
The Brilliant Quilts of Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective at BAMPFA by Kate Burnett Budzyn One of the most relevant and sustaining decorative arts exhibitions of the COVID era has been Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)’s retrospective of the...
by The Trust | Mar 17, 2021
Moira Gallagher and Medill Higgins Harvey on Edward C. Moore, Tiffany & Co., and The Metropolitan Museum of Art For our March Virtual Dialogue, the Trust had the pleasure of featuring an inspiring young curator, Moira Gallagher, Research Associate for American...
by The Trust | Mar 9, 2021
Inaugural IDEAL Internship Grants Awarded to Atwater Kent Collection at Drexel University, The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Backstreet Cultural Museum, MFA Boston, and Newport Restoration Foundation The Decorative Arts Trust is pleased to announce that the...
by The Trust | Mar 5, 2021
Brittany Luberda Shares Virtual Tour of the Baltimore Museum of Art Brittany Luberda, Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts at the Baltimore Museum of Art, hosted a virtual tour for the Decorative Arts Trust on February 26. Brittany shared the museum’s effort to expand...
by The Trust | Mar 3, 2021
Torren Gatson and Yao-Fen You Join Board of Governors The Decorative Arts Trust is pleased to welcome Torren Gatson and Yao-Fen You to the Board of Governors. Torren Gatson Torren Gatson is an assistant professor in the department of history at the University of North...
by The Trust | Feb 26, 2021
Rebecca Jumper Matheson’s The Duster Coat: An Icon of American Women’s Fashion On February 19, 2021, at 1:00 pm ET, the Decorative Arts Trust hosted a virtual dialogue featuring Rebecca Jumper Matheson, PhD Candidate at Bard Graduate Center, who presented a...
by The Trust | Feb 25, 2021
Virtual 2021 Antiques Forum Features Three Young Scholar Lectures Colonial Williamsburg’s Antiques Forum looked a little different this year, as we traded in-person camaraderie and scrumptious teas for online lectures and whatever was in our fridges. The virtual Forum...
by The Trust | Feb 24, 2021
Celebrating Kentucky Shaker Commonwealth at the Speed Art Museum by Taryn Clary Equipped with a Master’s Degree from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, Scott Erbes joined the Speed Art Museum in 1999 as the museum’s first ever curator of decorative...
