Welcome and introduction will take place in the Rotunda (located in the Museum Building). Please park in the Visitor Parking Lot and ride the shuttle or walk to the museum.

	9:00 am	Welcome
	9:15-10:00 am	Dining as Celebration: Feasts and Festivals in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Sarah D. Coffin, Curator of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Decorative Arts, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York Diplomacy, weddings, and other significant events occasioned major dining productions during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, often involving difficult travel for the participants. This talk focuses on the spectacle of formal dining and the possibility for cultural cross-fertilization through such events.
	10:00-10:45 am	View Feeding Desire: Design and Tools of the Table, 1500-2005 with Cooper-Hewitt curator, Sarah D. Coffin, and Winterthur host curators, Jeff Groff and Anne Verplanck
	10:45 - 11:15 am	Morning Break
	11:15 - 12:30 pm	Workshop/Tour Session I
	12:30-1:30 pm	Lunch
	1:45 - 3:00 pm	Workshop/Tour Session II
	3:15 - 4:30 pm	Workshop/Tour Session III
	4:30 pm	Afternoon Tea

Registrants will be able to attend three of the following four sessions.

Cast, Chased, or Stamped?
Techniques for Silver Making in the Early Nineteenth Century

Ann Wagner, Associate Curator of Decorative Arts, Winterthur

View hollowware and flatware from the Winterthur collection and learn about the techniques that were used to create them.

Cookbooks in the Winterthur Library

Jennifer Lindner McGlinn, Independent Scholar and Author, Haverford, PA
Jeanne Solensky, Librarian, Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, Winterthur

View and discuss noteworthy cookbooks and receipt books gathered from the Winterthur rare books, manuscripts, and ephemera collections.

From Soup to Nuts: Dinnerware and Dining in Colonial America and England

Leslie B. Grigsby, Curator of Ceramics and Glass, Winterthur

Distinctive Collections Tour with Special Dining Focus

Jeff Groff, Director of Public Programs, Winterthur
Deborah Harper, Curator of Education, Winterthur

Stroll through a cobblestone courtyard and window-shop Shop Lane's historic storefronts from the early 1800s. Explore collections and styles from Shaker to Pennsylvania German, rural to urban, and glass to stoneware.

Sarah D. Coffin is curator of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century decorative arts and head of product design and decorative arts at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. She is co-curator and coauthor for the recent exhibition and book Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008. Coffin was previously an independent arts consultant, appraiser, and lecturer, and served as a consultant for Sotheby's New York, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and other major museums and private collections. She received her B.A. from Yale University and her M.A. in art history from Columbia University. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles, catalogues, and books, including Made to Scale: Staircase Masterpieces for the Permanent Collection. Coffin is coauthor and co-curator for Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.

Leslie Grigsby is curator of ceramics at Winterthur. She is author of the online catalogue of English ceramics at the Chipstone Foundation and has published numerous magazine articles and books, including English Pottery: The Henry Weldon Collection, English Slip-Decorated Earthenware at Williamsburg, and English Slipware and Delftware from the Longridge Collection. Grigsby has curated several exhibitions, including The Best is Not Good Enough for You, From Punch Bowls to Puzzle Jugs: Drinking Vessels & Traditions in England and America, and Time for Tea! Selections of Teaware from the Winterthur Collection. Before coming to Winterthur, she worked at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

Jeff Groff is director of public programs at Winterthur and is one of the museum's host curators for Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005. Before joining Winterthur, he was the executive director of Wyck, a historic house and garden in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. A graduate of Bates College, Groff also holds an M.A. from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture with the University of Delaware. For thirty years, he has studied, written, and lectured on the country places of Philadelphia's Main Line and surrounding areas, with an emphasis on country life and colonial revival design.

Deborah Harper is curator of education for tour interpretation at Winterthur and is responsible for the physical design and coordination of changing displays in the Winterthur period rooms. She has a B.A. in music from Gettysburg College and an M.A. in history and museum studies from the University of Delaware.

Jennifer Lindner McGlinn is a food writer, author, historian, and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, the Culinary Institute of America, and the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture. She has worked as executive editor of the magazine Art Culinaire as well as in the curatorial departments of Winterthur, the Rosenbach Museum and Library, and Valley Forge National Historic Park. McGlinn has coauthored several books, including The City Tavern Baking & Dessert Cookbook, Black Forest Cuisine, and Delilah's Everyday Soul. She recently contributed an essay to A Country Estate Cookbook: Recipes from Winterthur, and her latest cookbook, Gingerbread, will be available in the fall of 2009. McGlinn regularly contributes articles to Signature Brandywine magazine, and as a part-time pastry chef, she also prepares eighteenth- and nineteenth-century-inspired confections.

Jeanne Solensky is reference librarian in the Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera at Winterthur Museum. She co-curated the 2004 museum exhibition and coauthored the publication The Winterthur Library Revealed: Five Centuries of Design and Inspiration. She has curated numerous library and museum exhibitions and written articles for Winterthur Magazine.

Anne Verplanck is curator of prints and paintings at Winterthur and is one of the museum's host curators for Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005. Recent projects include serving as host curator for American Accents: Masterworks from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and coediting, with Emma Lapsansky, the book Quaker Aesthetics. She has lectured widely on the topic of portraiture and has curated several exhibitions on the subject. In addition to her curatorial responsibilities, Verplanck is an associate professor in Winterthur's Program in American Material Culture with the University of Delaware. She is a former director of the Luce Painting Project at the Maryland Historical Society and has taught at George Washington University. A graduate of Connecticut College, Verplanck earned her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the College of William and Mary.

Ann Wagner is associate curator of decorative arts at Winterthur. She joined the curatorial division in 2005, after serving as Winterthur's McNeil curatorial intern, and is currently responsible for the metalwork collection. Wagner's master's degrees in art history and early American culture, along with four years experience working with the Seattle Art Museum collection, shaped her studies of European and American decorative arts. She has just finished coauthoring a catalogue and co-curating an exhibition with colleague Donald Fennimore entitled Silversmiths to the Nation: Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner, 1808-1842.

Registration is limited to 45 participants and begins on Monday, October 6, 2008.

Three ways to register:
   Phone: Call 800.448.3883
   Fax: 302.888.4953
   Mail: A registration form can be filled out and mailed with payment to:

Winterthur Information and Tours Office
Winterthur Museum & Country Estate
5105 Kennett Pike
Winterthur, DE 19735

Fee: $275; Members $225

Fee includes:

• Lecture
• 3 workshops/tour sessions
• Lunch and afternoon tea

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