Dear Colleagues,

Please save the date for the ARLIS/NA Mid-Atlantic Chapter Fall/Winter Meeting!

WHEN: Friday, December 1, 2023, 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. A formal invitation is forthcoming, but a general schedule will include in-person local tours in the morning, a hybrid business meeting and member presentations in the afternoon, and a happy…[Read more]

A Decorative Arts, Craft and Design SIG Fall event in partnership with the William Morris Society will be held on Wednesday, November 1 at 1pm Eastern, 12pm Central, 11am Mountain, 10am Pacific time over Zoom.  All are welcome to attend.

Please mark your calendars, and RSVP for the event here.

Event Description:Please join us for a virtual…[Read more]

Hello local ARLIS colleagues,

Sharing a public lecture at the National Portrait Gallery this coming Sunday. The artist Kenturah Davis will discuss her work, and her new collaboration with Arion Press<https://www.arionpress.com/store/125-their-eyes-were-watching-god&gt; will be on view. As you may know, Arion Press engages contemporary artists in…[Read more]

This is a last call for participants in a SIG panel for the 2024 ARLIS/NA conference in Pittsburgh.  Please contact me by Monday Sept. 11 to indicate your interest.

Extraordinary Ordinary Things

The Decorative Arts, Craft and Design SIG seeks to offer a SIG-sponsored conference proposal for the 2024 ARLIS/NA conference in Pittsburgh.  At the S…[Read more]

The Decorative Arts Trust has a virtual tour of the Pewabic Pottery Studio in Michigan, now 120 years operating.  You can register to see a recording of the virtual tour here:  https://decorativeartstrust.org/pewabic-pottery-virtual-tour/

Bard Graduate Center has released their schedule of Wednesdays@BGC events.  If you are in the New York area, take advantage of a great lineup of discussion on decorative arts and design.  Thanks to Beth Hylen for sharing the information!

Learn what’s interesting now in the field of decorative arts, design history, and material culture. Enj…[Read more]

Find the latest issue of The Crafty Librarian, the newsletter of the American Craft Council Library & Archives, at the ACC website:

https://www.craftcouncil.org/library-archives/newsletter

Issue 12 highlights resources to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, niche magazines, and remembrances of two prominant ceramic artists.

Extraordinary Ordinary Things

The Decorative Arts, Craft and Design SIG seeks to offer a SIG-sponsored conference proposal for the 2024 ARLIS/NA conference in Pittsburgh.  At the Summer SIG meeting this week we came up with this idea for a panel session with Tracy Meserve as the moderator:

The Carnegie Art Museum in Pittsburgh has a significant…[Read more]

Hello!

Nice to see some of you at the SIG meeting today.

Here is the link to the Styling Miss Piggy: A Conversation with Creator Bonnie Erickson and Costumers Polly Smith and Calista Hendrickson program from the Maryland Center for History and Culture. The moderator was Vicky Pass, a fashion historian who teaches at…[Read more]

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This is a gentle reminder to RSVP for the Decorative Arts, Craft and Design SIG Meeting which will be held on Wednesday, August 23 at 11am Pacific, 2pm Eastern via Zoom.

Please RSVP via this Google form by the end of the day Monday, Aug. 21.

https://forms.gle/fsJp1EuezS6MHT6D8

The Zoom link and agenda will be sent out the day before the meeti…[Read more]

Hello colleagues,

Please join us for the Mid-Atlantic Chapter virtual meeting this afternoon at 2:00 pm. The meeting was originally scheduled to end at 3:30 pm, but I believe we should be able to end by 3:00 pm.

The agenda can be accessed at this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4o4omaKqNRiMdGfVpKxUAubklAar1nRbVcQhnQH4Dg/edit?usp=sharin&hellip;[Read more]