LECTURES AND TOURS
The Decorative Arts Trust is pleased to offer recordings of some of our recent lectures for you to enjoy from home. These lectures, listed in alphabetical order by the presenters’ last names, are also available on our YouTube channel. You can receive notifications announcing new videos by subscribing to this channel.
Ackermann, Daniel
Furniture and Identity in Early Kentucky: The Case of the Cabriole-Legged Furniture of Mason County
Spring 2022 Symposium in Kentucky
Ackermann, Daniel
Ackermann, Daniel
More Than Meets the Eye: Complicating the Histories of Colonial Portraits
October 2020 Trust Talk Virtual Program
Ahara, Kim
Decorative Arts and the Market: Dealers
June 2021 Panel Discussion
Andreadis, Tim
Wharton Esherick Museum
August 2021 Virtual Tour
Andreadis, Tim
Decorative Arts and the Market: Auction Houses
March 2021 Panel Discussion
Asbury Cole, Rachel
From Northern Imports to Local Manufacture: Clockmaking in Richmond
Fall 2022 Symposium in Richmond
Ballman, Peter
Shofuso Japanese House and Garden
2023 Virtual Tour
Banas, Emily
Art and Design from 1900 to Now: Artist Commissions and Collaborations
Fall 2023 Symposium in Rhode Island
Bermann, Carlene
Virtual Dialogue on Historic Home Interpretation
August 2021 Virtual Dialogue
Bianchi, Troy
Private Collection
October 2020 Trust Tour Virtual Program
Biddle, Pippa
Decorative Arts and the Market: Dealers
June 2021 Panel Discussion
Blackmore, Lydia
Goods of Every Description: New Orleans Craftsmen and Retailers, 1800-1850
Fall 2018 Symposium in New Orleans, LA
Blomfield, Nina
Little Gems: Studio Craft at Cranbrook’s Frank Lloyd Wright Smith House
January 2023 Emerging Scholars Colloquium
Brown, Sháńdíín
Indigenous Art: Past, Present, and Future at RISD Museum
Fall 2023 Symposium in Rhode Island
Brunk, Lauren
Decorative Arts and the Market: Auction Houses
March 2021 Panel Discussion
Boldt, Janine Yorimoto
More Than Meets the Eye: Complicating the Histories of Colonial Portraits
October 2020 Trust Talk Virtual Program
Burlison, Katie Hall
Preserving a Family Legacy: Art and Architecture at the Hermann-Grima House
Fall 2018 Symposium in New Orleans, LA
Cade, Alexandra
Musical Chairs: Seating Furniture for Performance, 1800-1875
January 2021 Virtual Emerging Scholars Colloquium
Cade, Alexandra
“Her Fingers O’er this Canvas Move”: Unraveling the Threads – Antebellum Charleston
February 2019 Colonial Williamsburg Antiques Forum
Carr, Dennis
Decorative Arts and Addressing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
September 2020 Critical Conversation Virtual Program
Chiles, Alisa
“Less is a Bore”: Learning from Robert Venturi’s Philadelphia
Fall 2023 Symposium in Philadelphia
Chiong, Wai Yee
An Avian Bequest: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller’s Japanese Prints at the RISD Museum
Fall 2023 Symposium in Rhode Island
Chinnici, Curt
Private Collection
October 2020 Trust Tour Virtual Program
Clary, Taryn
Decorative Arts and the Market: Auction Houses
March 2021 Panel Discussion
Cleland, Elizabeth
Sarah Grandin from the Clark Art Institute and Elizabeth Cleland from The Met
June 2021 Virtual Dialogue
Cohen, Jeffrey
Into the Time Machine: Architecture in the Heart of Philadelphia Two Centuries Ago
Fall 2023 Symposium in Philadelphia
Coleman, William L.
Olana State Historic Site Virtual Tour
June 2021 Virtual Tour
Cobbe, Alec
Virtual Dialogue Featuring Alec Cobbe and Leslie Fitzpatrick
May 2021 Virtual Dialogue
Cooper, Wendy
Primitive Hall Virtual Tour
May 2021 Virtual Tour
Cox, Mack
A Gallop into Early Kentucky Furniture (1790–1820)
Spring 2022 Symposium in Kentucky
Cox, Mack
From South to North: Kentucky and New England Furniture with Mack Cox and Philip Zea
April 2021 Virtual Dialogue
De León, Christina
Reinterpreting and American Chair: Clara Porset and Josef Albers’ Butaque
January 2023 Emerging Scholars Colloquium
De León, Christina
Christina De León and Jorge Rivas
December 2021 Virtual Dialogue
Dietrich, Richard III
Dietrich Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
October 2020 Trust Tour Virtual Program
Dimock, Maggie
Harriet Joor and Arts and Crafts
Fall 2018 Symposium in New Orleans, LA
Dolan, Susan Hill
Castle Hill
September 2021 Virtual Tour
Drapala, Lauren
Follow the Hearth: Retracing the Spatial History of Edgewater’s Dining Room Mantelpiece
January 2024 Emerging Scholars Colloquium
Duggan, Sarah
Moving Upriver: New Orleans Goods Throughout the Gulf South
Fall 2018 Symposium in New Orleans, LA
Eberhard, Susan
Struck Visitors from Afar: Chinese Metals and English Restoration Silver in the “Chinese Taste”
January 2023 Emerging Scholars Colloquium
Emlen, Robert
Picturing Providence and the Cultural Landscape of College Hill
Fall 2023 Symposium in Rhode Island
Englund, Alyce Perry
Decorative Arts and Addressing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
September 2020 Critical Conversation Virtual Program
Fesak, Mary
Elite Northern Horse Culture in South Carolina
January 2021 Virtual Emerging Scholars Colloquium
Fields, Rob
Inclusive Narratives at Historic House Museums
December 2020 Critical Conversation Virtual Program
Fitzgerald, Michelle
Seized Possessions: Reconstructing Maryland’s First Governor’s Mansion
Spring 2019 Symposium in Annapolis, MD
Fitzpatrick, Leslie
Virtual Dialogue Featuring Alec Cobbe and Leslie Fitzpatrick
May 2021 Virtual Dialogue
Fox, Elizabeth
The Tie that Binds: Stitching Together Communities in a Baltimore Album Quilt
January 2022 Virtual Emerging Scholars Colloquium
Futter, Catherine
Brooklyn Museum of Art
January 2021 Virtual Tour
Gadsden, Nonie
Decorative Arts and Addressing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
September 2020 Critical Conversation Virtual Program
Gallagher, Moira
Edward C. Moore at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
March 2021 Virtual Dialogue
Gerstenecker, Elyse
George’s Grimace: Political Frustrations on a Virginia Stoneware Jar
Fall 2022 Symposium in Richmond
Gilbert-Merrill, Jena
“The Possibilities of a Box”: Louise Brigham’s Box Furniture and the Making of Democratic Craft and Design
January 2022 Virtual Emerging Scholars Colloquium
Gontar, Cybèle T.
Salazar: Portraits of Influence in Spanish New Orleans, 1785-1802
Fall 2018 Symposium in New Orleans, LA
Grandin, Sarah
Sarah Grandin from the Clark Art Institute and Elizabeth Cleland from The Met
June 2021 Virtual Dialogue
Grant, Katharine F.
“Turn to Nature”: Joseph Everett Chandler’s Colonial Revival Transformation of Stevens-Coolidge House
Fall 2021 Symposium in Salem, MA
Grasty, Neil
An Artifact of Afro-America: A Blanket Chest by Brooks Thompson
January 2024 Emerging Scholars Colloquium
Greenberg, Erik
Virtual Dialogue on Historic Home Interpretation
August 2021 Virtual Dialogue
Greif, Carrie
Unity by Design: Midcentury Modernism at Winterthur
January 2019 Decorative Arts Trust Emerging Scholars Colloquium in New York
Gruner, Mariah
The Tethering Stitch, The Liberating Stitch: The Frictions of Abolitionist Women’s Needlework
January 2019 Decorative Arts Trust Emerging Scholars Colloquium in New York
Halbert, Philippe L.B.
Creole Comforts and French Connections: The Material World of Françoise Petit de Coulange, 1732–1812
Fall 2018 Symposium in New Orleans, LA
Hankla, Mel
Into the Bluegrass: Art and History of Kentucky’s Historic Icons
Spring 2022 Symposium in Kentucky
Hart, Rodneyna
Inclusive Narratives at Historic House Museums
December 2020 Critical Conversation Virtual Program
Hartman, Michael
The Portrait Returned: Art, Enslavement, and Optical Instruments in the Chesapeake, 1750-1800
January 2022 Virtual Emerging Scholars Colloquium
Harvard, Ralph
Brooke’s Bank
April 2021 Trust Tour Virtual Program
Harvard, Ralph
Abel and Mary Nicholson House
November 2020 Trust Tour Virtual Program
Hays, John
Decorative Arts and the Market: Auction Houses
March 2021 Panel Discussion
Higgins Harvey, Medill
Edward C. Moore at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
March 2021 Virtual Dialogue
Hinckle, Amanda
Winterthur Tour with Tom Savage
March 2021 Virtual Tour
Hines, Tommy
The Kentucky Shakers: A Southerner’s Interpretation of the Rule
Spring 2022 Symposium in Kentucky
Hofer, Margi
Virtual Tour of the New-York Historical Society’s Commeraw Exhibition
February 2023
Hong, Tammy
Chinese Tea Culture and Historic Deerfield’s “Album: Tea Production”
January 2019 Decorative Arts Trust Emerging Scholars Colloquium in New York
Hughes, Katherine C.
Edgefield Stoneware in The Met’s American Wing
January 2020 Decorative Arts Trust Emerging Scholars Colloquium in New York
Hughes, Katherine C.
MESDA’s Edgefield Bowl: The Black and White Landscape of the B.F. Landrum Pottery Site
February 2019 Colonial Williamsburg Antiques Forum
Humphrey, Elizabeth
Decorative Arts and Addressing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
September 2020 Critical Conversation Virtual Program
Hunt, Penny
The Decorative Arts Trust 40th Anniversary Lecture
Fall 2017 Symposium in Hartford, CT
Hunter, Robert
The Art, History, and Mystery of Richmond Stoneware
Fall 2022 Symposium in Richmond
Hurst, Ronald L.
Made Along the James: The Decorative Arts of Eastern Virginia
Fall 2022 Symposium in Richmond
Hyppolite, Joanne
Decorative Arts and Addressing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
September 2020 Critical Conversation Virtual Program
Jackson, Christie
Wallpaper at Old Manse
December 2020 Object Share Virtual Program
Johnson, Garth
Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy and Sleight of Hand
January 2021 Trust Talk
Johnson, Monique
Inclusive Narratives at Historic House Museums
December 2020 Critical Conversation Virtual Program
Johnson, Sybil F.
“Out on the Waters!” Image and Meaning in an Indian Princess Ship Figurehead
Fall 2021 Symposium in Salem, MA
Kaczkowski, Rebecca
Preventive Conservation: Preserving Our Collection
December 2020 Trust Talk Virtual Program
Keim, Laura
Ocre, Old Fustic, and Maple: Stenton’s Yellow Lodging Room Restored
Fall 2023 Symposium in Philadelphia
King, Melissa
Preventive Conservation: Preserving Our Collection
December 2020 Trust Talk Virtual Program
Kirtley, Alexandra
Philadelphia Museum of Art
June 2021 Virtual Tour
Kirtley, Alexandra
Philadelphia Museum of Art
September 2020 Trust Tour Virtual Program
Klee, Jeffrey E.
Musical Chairs: Seating Furniture for Performance, 1800-1875
January 2021 Virtual Emerging Scholars Colloquium
Kuettner, Angelika
Xiaoyi Diana Yang and Angelika Kuettner
June 2021 Virtual Dialogue
Lange, Amanda
If Pots Could Talk: Stories of Revolution and Rebellion
August 2020 Trust Talk Virtual Program
Leben, Ulrich
A Journey to Bavaria & Southern Germany
September 2022 Virtual Lecture
Lee, Elon Cook
Exploring Race, Place & Identity through Low Country Collections (Night 1)
November 2020 Virtual Symposium
Lome, Erica
Craftsman in the Bluegrass: Milton Paul and the Black Cabinetmakers of Lexington’s Colonial Revival
Spring 2022 Symposium in Kentucky
Lome, Erica
Concord Museum
December 2020 Trust Tour Virtual Program
Luberda, Brittany
Baltimore Museum of Art
March 2021 Virtual Tour
Loth, Calder
Richmond: An Architectural Foretaste
Fall 2022 Symposium in Richmond
Majer, Michele
The Duster Coat: An Icon of American Women’s Fashion
February 2021 Virtual Dialogue
Masson, Ann
Glimpses of the Past: 300 Years of New Orleans Architecture
Fall 2018 Symposium in New Orleans, LA
Matheson, Rebecca Jumper
The Duster Coat: An Icon of American Women’s Fashion
February 2021 Virtual Dialogue
McBride, Steve
Pewabic Pottery Virtual Tour
Fall 2023 Virtual Program
McGlyn, Bethany
Who Built the City on the Severn? Slavery and Craft in Early Annapolis
September 2020 Trust Talk Virtual Program
McKinney, Katie
MESDA’s Summer Institute
McNeil, Steven
Governor John Wentworth and The Vice-Regal Interior in British North America
January 2019 Decorative Arts Trust Emerging Scholars Colloquium in New York
Mead, Philip
The Declaration’s Journey: From Independence to Equality
Fall 2023 Symposium in Philadelphia
Migdal, Rebecca
Modern in the Mountains: Mid-Century Design In The Berkshires
Fall 2019 Symposium in The Berkshires
Miller, Benjamin
Decorative Arts and the Market: Dealers
June 2021 Panel Discussion
Miller, Debbie
In the Shadow of Independence: The Archaeology of Old City
Fall 2023 Symposium in Philadelphia
Momon, Tiffany
Who Built the City on the Severn? Slavery and Craft in Early Annapolis
September 2020 Trust Talk Virtual Program
Momon, Tiffany
Exploring Race, Place & Identity through Low Country Collections (Night 2)
November 2020 Virtual Symposium
Northup, Lauren
Exploring Race, Place & Identity through Low Country Collections (Night 2)
November 2020 Virtual Symposium
Ochoa Rincon, Laura
Loud and Clear: Glass and Obscured Narratives at the New Orleans Museum of Art
January 2024 Emerging Scholars Colloquium
Pool, Rachel
The Eameses & the Case Study House Program – Scandinavian Design & Mid-Century America
January 2020 Decorative Arts Trust Emerging Scholars Colloquium in New York
Quertermous, Grant
Musical Chairs: Seating Furniture for Performance, 1800-1875
January 2021 Virtual Emerging Scholars Colloquium
Rebuck, Deborah
Dietrich Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
October 2020 Trust Tour Virtual Program
Rideout, Kayli
A Tale of Two Families: An Engraved Tea Service in Antebellum Augusta, Georgia
January 2020 Decorative Arts Trust Emerging Scholars Colloquium in New York
Ring, Rick
Seeing Things Differently to Tell Larger Stories: Re-envisioning the John Brown House Museum
Fall 2023 Symposium in Rhode Island
Rivas, Jorge
Christina De León and Jorge Rivas
December 2021 Virtual Dialogue
Roberts, Christopher
Radical Imaginings of Evidence: Slavery and Architectural Refusal of the Speculum Oris at the Providence Market House
Fall 2023 Symposium in Rhode Island
Robinson, Allison
Virtual Tour of the New-York Historical Society’s Commeraw Exhibition
February 2023
Rosner, Isabella
Isabella Rosner and Melinda Watt
January 2022 Virtual Dialogue
Sabitt, Claire
Luxury Scissors in the Early Modern World
January 2023 Emerging Scholars Colloquium
Satterthwaite, Amber
Exploring Race, Place & Identity through Low Country Collections (Night 1)
November 2020 Virtual Symposium
Savage, Tom
Winterthur Tour with Tom Savage
March 2021 Virtual Tour
Schoelwer, Susan P.
Inclusive Narratives at Historic House Museums
December 2020 Critical Conversation Virtual Program
Scott, Olivia
Genealogical Threads: Unraveling the History of the Hooker-Pierpont-Russell-Talcott Family Apron
January 2023 Emerging Scholars Colloquium
Siglin, Julie
Wharton Esherick Museum
August 2021 Virtual Tour
Smith, Patricia Lowe
Exploring Race, Place & Identity through Low Country Collections (Night 1)
November 2020 Virtual Symposium
Snadon, Partick
Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s Villa for John and Eliza Pope of Lexington
Spring 2022 Symposium in Kentucky
Sousa, Daniel
If Pots Could Talk: Stories of Revolution and Rebellion
August 2020 Trust Talk Virtual Program
Sousa, Daniel
“Keeping it in the Family”: The Furniture of Daniel Clay, 1795-1829 – Daniel Sousa
February 2020 Colonial Williamsburg Antiques Forum
Smith, TK
Of Earth Bone, and Spirit: Craft Tradition, Cultural Continuity, and the Work of Zipporah Camille Thompson
November 2020 Trust Talk Virtual Program
Smolenski, MaryKate
Hunter House in Newport, RI
2022 Virtual Tour
St. George, Elizabeth
Brooklyn Museum of Art
January 2021 Virtual Tour
Stephenson, Lea
“Dressing Up” Egypt: Performing Race and Late 19th-Century Egyptomania
January 2024 Emerging Scholars Colloquium
Temple, Kaila
“Forming together the most brilliant assemblage of gay objects”: The Material Landscape of Philadelphia’s 1778 Meschianza
Fall 2023 Symposium in Philadelphia
Thistlethwaite, Taylor
Decorative Arts and the Market: Dealers
June 2021 Panel Discussion
Thompson, Zipporah Camille
Of Earth Bone, and Spirit: Craft Tradition, Cultural Continuity, and the Work of Zipporah Camille Thompson
November 2020 Trust Talk Virtual Program
Tindal, Brenda
Exploring Race, Place & Identity through Low Country Collections (Night 2)
November 2020 Virtual Symposium
Tschirch, John
Divine Providence Defined: The Architectural Development of Rhode Island’s Capital
Fall 2023 Symposium in Rhode Island
Tyndall, Charis
Decorative Arts and the Market: Dealers
June 2021 Panel Discussion
Vida, Christina K.
Edward Valentine’s Sculpture Studio and Lost Cause Power Play
Fall 2022 Symposium in Richmond
Villar, Carrie
Inclusive Narratives at Historic House Museums
December 2020 Critical Conversation Virtual Program
Villar, Carrie
Exploring Race, Place & Identity through Low Country Collections (Night 1)
November 2020 Virtual Symposium
Vizcarrondo-Laboy, Angelik
Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy and Sleight of Hand
January 2021 Trust Talk
Watt, Melinda
Isabella Rosner and Melinda Watt
January 2022 Virtual Dialogue
West, Eliza
Keeping it Close to Home: Fulling “Country Cloth” in the Early Republic
February 2020 Colonial Williamsburg Antiques Forum
Weidman, Gregory
Hampton National Historic Site
November 2021 Virtual Tour
Williams, Elizabeth
Gorham Silver: Designing Brilliance in Providence, Rhode Island
Fall 2023 Symposium in Rhode Island
Wood, Margaret
An Incessant and Engrossing Pursuit: Nancy Vincent McClelland, Wallpaper, and Historic Decorationb
January 2022 Virtual Emerging Scholars Colloquium
Wu, Annie
Decorative Arts and the Market: Auction Houses
March 2021 Panel Discussion
Yang, Xaioyi Diana
Freedom of Brush and Spirit: Late-Ming Trade Ceramics and Their Creative Momoyama-Edo Japanese Consumers
January 2022 Virtual Emerging Scholars Colloquium
Yang, Xiaoyi Diana
Xiaoyi Diana Yang and Angelika Kuettner
June 2021 Virtual Dialogue
Yatrakis, Britney Schline
Women, Weavers & Jacquard Coverlets in New York State
Spring 2018 Symposium in the Upper Hudson
Zea, Philip
From South to North: Kentucky and New England Furniture with Mack Cox and Philip Zea
April 2021 Virtual Dialogue
Zilber, Emily
Wharton Esherick Museum
August 2021 Virtual Tour
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