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,...
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 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...
by The Trust | Oct 18, 2024
Pauline Fortier’s Sampler: A Material Record of Early-19th-Century New Orleans by Lily Higgins My dissertation, “Reading into Things: Articulate Objects in Colonial North America,” investigates the ways in which self-referential inscriptions and visual imagery,...
by The Trust | Oct 2, 2024
A Summer Immersed in American History and Decorative Arts by Tanyi Tseung Supported by a Continuing Education Scholarship from the Decorative Arts Trust, I participated in Historic Deerfield’s Summer Fellowship Program in 2024. I forged valuable connections with...
by The Trust | Sep 27, 2024
British Country Houses through the Lens of Egyptomania and Orientalism by Lea C. Stephenson The Attingham Summer School was invaluable for object-based research and access to British country houses relevant to my dissertation on Egyptomania and late-19th-century...
