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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

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

Brown, Susan

Dorothy Liebes Exhibition Virtual Tour
Fall 2023 Virtual Tour

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

Case, John

An Overview of the Cumberland Plateau Pottery Tradition, Featuring the Lafever, Dunn, Hedgecough, and Roberts Potteries 
Spring 2024 Symposium in Nashville

Chiles, Alisa

“Less is a Bore”: Learning from Robert Venturi’s Philadelphia
Fall 2023 Symposium in Philadelphia

Chinnici, Curt

Private Collection
October 2020 Trust Tour Virtual Program

Chiong, Wai Yee

An Avian Bequest: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller’s Japanese Prints at the RISD Museum
Fall 2023 Symposium in Rhode Island

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 

Christina De León and Jorge Rivas 
December 2021 Virtual Dialogue

De León, Christina 

Reinterpreting and American Chair: Clara Porset and Josef Albers’ Butaque 
January 2023 Emerging Scholars Colloquium

Dietrich, Richard III

Dietrich Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
October 2020 Trust Tour Virtual Program

Dolan, Susan Hill

Castle Hill
September 2021 Virtual Tour 

Dimock, Maggie 

Harriet Joor and Arts and Crafts 
Fall 2018 Symposium in New Orleans, LA 

Dooley, Annabeth

 

“Trust much in the patronage of a liberal and enlightened community”: Portraits of Early Tennessee
Spring 2024 Symposium in Nashville

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 

Hoobler, Jim 

William Strickland: Master Architect
Spring 2024 Symposium in Nashville

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

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

Momon, Tiffany

New Discoveries: Black Craftspeople on the Tennessee Landscape
Spring 2024 Symposium in Nashville

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

Parks, C. Tracey 

Making the Middle: Imitation and Inspiration Along the Cumberland 
Spring 2024 Symposium in Nashville

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

Weidman, Gregory

Hampton National Historic Site 
November 2021 Virtual Tour

West, Carroll Van

 

New Discoveries, New Questions: Tennessee’s Decorative Arts Traditions
Spring 2024 Symposium in Nashville

West, Eliza 

Keeping it Close to Home: Fulling “Country Cloth” in the Early Republic 
February 2020 Colonial Williamsburg Antiques Forum

Williams, Elizabeth

Gorham Silver: Designing Brilliance in Providence, Rhode Island
Fall 2023 Symposium in Rhode Island

Winton, Alexa Griffith

Dorothy Liebes Exhibition Virtual Tour
Fall 2023 Virtual Tour

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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