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,...
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...
