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The Decorative Arts Trust’s Emerging Scholars Colloquium takes place this Sunday, on the heels of the group’s Antiques Weekend, an annual foray into New York’s Americana Week:

The Decorative Arts Trust’s Emerging Scholars Colloquium
Park Avenue Armory, New York, 21 January 2024

Photo from the 2023 Emerging Scholars Colloquium in the Park Avenue Armory’s Board of Officers Room (via the Instagram account of The Decorative Arts Trust).

The Decorative Arts Trust is excited to host its 8th Annual Colloquium featuring young scholars in the decorative arts field. The registration fee for the colloquium is $25; Decorative Arts Trust membership is not required to attend. The event is generously sponsored by Classical American Homes Preservation Trust and Mr. & Mrs. Donald B. Ayres III. Registration is available here.

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9.00  Coffee and bagels

9.30  Welcome by Benjamin Prosky, President, Classical American Homes Preservation Trust

Introductions by Catherine Carlisle, Manager of Educational Programs, Decorative Arts Trust
• Follow the Hearth: Retracing the Spatial History of Edgewater’s Dining Room Mantelpiece — Lauren Drapala (PhD candidate, Bard Graduate Center, and William L. Thompson Collections Fellow, Classical American Homes Preservation Trust)
• An Artifact of Afro-America: A Blanket Chest by Brooks Thompson — Neil Grasty (Undergraduate Student, Morehouse College, and Curatorial Intern, High Museum of Art)
• Loud and Clear: Glass and Obscured Narratives at the New Orleans Museum of Art — Laura Ochoa Rincon (Decorative Arts Trust Curatorial Fellow, New Orleans Museum of Art)
• Does Architecture Move? The Mahadol Palanquin of 18th-Century Gujarat and Marwar — Krishna Shekhawat (PhD Student, University of California, Berkeley)
• ‘Dressing Up’ Egypt: Performing Race and Late 19th-Century Egyptomania — Lea Stephenson (PhD Candidate, University of Delaware)

11.30  Concluding remarks by Matthew Thurlow, Executive Director, Decorative Arts Trust