by The Trust | Jun 6, 2022
Against the Grain: The Emergence of Queer Woodworkers by John-Duane Kingsley Members of the LGBTQIA+[1] community have long participated in the historical evolution of domestic handicraft and trade, but their contributions have largely been overlooked by scholarship...
by The Trust | May 31, 2022
2022 Research Grant Recipients The Decorative Arts Trust congratulates these 14 recipients of 2022 Research Grants: Olivia Armandroff, PhD student, Art History, University of Southern California (DARTS Grant), Jean Charlot’s 1957 house in Hawaii Emily Cox, PhD...
by The Trust | May 27, 2022
Community Centered Cultural Heritage Care: The Conservation Treatment of a Platinum Print from the Tuskegee University Archives by Tammy Hong The art conservation field’s growing emphasis on increasing the visibility of underrepresented communities and histories,...
by The Trust | Apr 25, 2022
In the Mold of Clodion: Sèvres’s “Vases Clodion” and the Sculptor’s Legacy by Elizabeth Saari Browne, PhD Despite the delays occasioned by the pandemic, I was finally able to travel to France in September 2021 to fulfill my research trip dedicated to...
by The Trust | Mar 28, 2022
Deconstructing the Highboy with Ellie Richards When Ellie Richards read Ta-Nehisi Coates’s fictional novel The Water Dancer, she was particularly inspired by this quote: “My father had taken note of the restored highboy. And so it came down from Roscoe that my task...
by The Trust | Mar 23, 2022
Prize Celebration and Young Lecturers at 2022 Antiques Forum For us, as for many of our colleagues, the last pre-pandemic hurrah we remember was Colonial Williamsburg’s Antiques Forum in late February 2020. After participating in a virtual Forum in 2021, we were...
by The Trust | Mar 21, 2022
Corporate Elegance: George Nelson’s Visual Vocabulary of Versatility by Robert Gordon-Fogelson With the generous support of a Decorative Arts Trust Research Grant, I visited Syracuse University’s Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) to conduct research on the...
by The Trust | Feb 18, 2022
Assemblage & Resilience: Techniques of Art Making in the Souls Grown Deep Foundation Collection by John-Duane Kingsley Within the canon of western art history, the technique of assemblage, or creating art out of disparate quotidian objects to form a collage,...
