by The Trust | May 23, 2025
The Global Roots of an American Family Record Sampler by Amelia Peck and Cynthia V.A. Schaffner In 2020, The Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased a family record sampler at auction that is a model of beautiful stitchery and sophisticated design. Following several...
by The Trust | Apr 7, 2025
Tomah Joseph and the Significance of Passamaquoddy Birchbark Art by Allyson LaForge Receiving a Decorative Arts Trust Research Grant enabled me to conduct research on a Passamaquoddy birchbark artist, Tomah Joseph (1837–1914), whose leadership and artwork conveyed...
by The Trust | Mar 12, 2025
British and Irish Furniture Makers in America: Highlights from BIFMO by Dr. Laurie Lindey British and Irish Furniture Makers Online (BIFMO) is a website and database owned and managed by the Furniture History Society (FHS). A generous Dean F. Failey Grant from the...
by The Trust | Mar 10, 2025
Early American Textile Repair: Darning Samplers at Westtown School by Emily Whitted Thanks to support from a Decorative Arts Trust Research Grant, I traveled to Westtown School in West Chester, PA, for two days of research in their institutional archive. This visit...
by The Trust | Mar 4, 2025
2025 Colloquium Lectures Available Recordings of the outstanding lectures presented during the Decorative Arts Trust’s 9th Annual Emerging Scholars Colloquium in New York City are now online for all to enjoy. The Colloquium, sponsored by the Richard Hampton Jenrette...
by The Trust | Feb 20, 2025
Investigating the History of Sèvres’s Les Noirs Libres by Rachel Hunter Himes My dissertation in the Department of Art History and Archeology at Columbia University explores the production and reproduction of racial meaning and racialized identities in French...
by The Trust | Jan 31, 2025
Margaret De Patta: Radical Collective Production in Mid-20th-Century California by Margot Yale A Decorative Arts Trust Research Grant underwritten by the American Decorative Arts Forum of Northern California facilitated travel to the Margaret De Patta Archives at the...
by The Trust | Jan 17, 2025
The Renaissance Revival in Mississippi: Examining Furniture at Belfast and Lansdowne by Steven Baltsas A Research Grant from the Decorative Arts Trust allowed me to experience the Mississippi River Valley and study furniture there in the Renaissance Revival style,...
