by The Trust | Jan 7, 2022
Salem Emerging Scholar Lectures Available Online During the Decorative Arts Trust’s Fall 2021 Symposium in Salem, we were pleased to welcome two emerging scholars to lecture about their research. Sybil F. Johnson, a PhD Candidate at Boston University, presented the...
by The Trust | Dec 20, 2021
Expanding Collections of US Latinx and Latin American Design: A Virtual Dialogue with Christina De León and Jorge Rivas Christina De León, Associate Curator of Latino Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, began her virtual dialogue by sharing the history...
by The Trust | Dec 1, 2021
Failey Grants Awarded to Author Caitlin Meehye Beach, Historic Rock Ford, and New-York Historical Society The Decorative Arts Trust’s Failey Grant program supports noteworthy research, exhibition, publication, and conservation projects through the Dean F. Failey Fund,...
by The Trust | Nov 9, 2021
Gilbert-Merrill and Kane Lecture at the 2021 Delaware Antiques Show Jena Gilbert-Merrill and Rachael KaneThe 2021 Delaware Antiques Show was especially significant this year as the event is one of the first large shows to reopen in person. And the Decorative Arts...
by The Trust | Nov 1, 2021
A Fantastical World of Toxic Beauty: Majolica Mania at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery by Juliana Fagua Arias Griffen, Smith & Co., “Shell” ware, c. 1879–90, Phoenixville, PA. Earthenware with majolica glazes. Private collection, most ex coll. Dr. Howard Silby....
by The Trust | Sep 14, 2021
The Crane and the Nopal: Aztec Memory and Chinese Imagery in Talavera Poblana by Juliana Fagua Arias In the mid-16th century, potters from Puebla, Mexico, developed a type of tin-glazed earthenware known today as Talavera Poblana. Various cultural developments,...
by The Trust | Sep 2, 2021
Touring Sabine Hall with Ralph Harvard On August 26, it was an enormous pleasure to visit Sabine Hall, one of Colonial America’s most extraordinary baroque houses, for a Trust Virtual Tour with Ralph Harvard. Landon Carter, an ambitious patriot and politician, built...
by The Trust | Aug 30, 2021
Historic House Interpretation with Carlene Bermann and Erik Greenberg Carlene Bermann, MA Candidate in the Cooperstown Graduate Program, began our August virtual dialogue by sharing her lecture, Adjusting the Lens: Telling (Different) Stories Through Objects....
