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SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
All lectures will be held in Copeland Lecture Hall (located in the Visitor Center). All workshops will take place in the museum or the research building. Friday, September 5
Saturday, September 6
SPEAKER / INSTRUCTOR BIOS Philippa Glanville was Chief Curator of Metalwork at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London from 1989-1999, and Senior Research Fellow there from 2004 through 2007. She is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and a trustee of Bishopsland, which trains young silversmiths and jewelers, and is involved in many other ways with silver, as adviser to the government on tax exemptions and to art charities making acquisition grants for both historic and contemporary silver and jewelry for museums. Ms. Glanville is the author of numerous books on silver, including Silver in England (1987; reissued 2006); Silver in Tudor and Early Stuart England (1990); Women Silversmiths 1697-1845 (with Jennifer Goldsborough, 1991); Elegant Eating: 400 Years of Dining in Style (2002); and The Art of Drinking (2007), which she devised, part-edited, and part-wrote. She contributed to the exhibitions Britannia and Muscovy (2006); Feeding Desire (2006); and the recent 2007-2008 French exhibition, Quand Versailles Etait Meuble d'Argent. Beth Carver Wees is Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she is responsible for the collections of American silver, jewelry, and other metals. Before joining the Met's staff in 2000, she was for many years Curator of Decorative Arts at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She has published numerous articles and catalogues, including English, Irish, & Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Hudson Hills Press, 1997), which documents one of the preeminent collections of British silver in America. Beth lectures internationally and is an active member of the Silver Society (England), the New York Silver Society, the American Ceramic Circle, and the American Friends of the Attingham Summer School. She is currently cataloguing the Metropolitan Museum's extensive collection of American silver and is a contributing author to the recent book, Silversmiths to the Nation: Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner, 1801-1842 (2007). Cathy Matson is Professor of History at the University of Delaware. She teaches courses in the early modern Atlantic World, colonial America, revolutionary America, and U.S. Historiography, and is currently engaged in researching the comparative regional economies of New York City and Philadelphia from roughly 1720 to 1820. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1985. Publications include A Union of Interests (1990; repr. Ppb. 1997); Merchants and Empire (1998; repr. Ppb. 2002); The American Experiment (2001; 2nd ed., 2005), and numerous articles on colonial and early national American economic culture and political economy. She is a contributing author to the recent book, Silversmiths to the Nation: Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner, 1808-1842. David L. Barquist is the H. Richard Dietrich, Jr., Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Prior to joining the PMA in 2004, Dr. Barquist served as Acting Curator of American Decorative Arts at Yale University Art Gallery, where he began his career in 1981 as a National Museum Act Intern in the American Arts Office. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, and received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2001. A major authority on American silver, Dr. Barquist is the author of Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York (2001) and American and English Pewter at the Yale University Art Gallery: A Supplementary Checklist (1985). He is also the author of "Presidents and Porcelain: 'To Fix the Taste of Our Country Properly', the introductory essay in Susan Gray Detweiler's, American Presidential China: The Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2008); American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and other Collections at Yale University (1992); and co-author with Ethan W. Lasser of Curule: Ancient Design in American Federal Furniture (2003). Dr. Barquist has curated or co-curated numerous exhibitions, including Celebrating American Craft: 30 Years of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, September 2006-September 2007; Curule: Ancient Design in American Federal Furniture, Yale University Art Gallery, August 2003-January 2004; and Meyer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York, Yale University Art Gallery, Skirball Cultural Center, LA, and Winterthur Museum, September 2001-September 2002. He is co-curator (with Carol Borchert Cadou) of the exhibition Setting the President's Table: American Presidential China from the Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Mount Vernon, VA, which is on display until January 21, 2009. Janet Zapata is an independent scholar and museum consultant, specializing in jewelry and silver. She is a frequent contributor to The Magazine Antiques and Art & Antiques and author of The Jewelry and Enamels of Louis Comfort Tiffany (1993), The Art of Zadora: America's Fabergé (1999), The Jeweled Menagerie (2001), Jewels of Time: Watches from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute (2001), Seaman Schepps: A Century of New York Jewelry Design (2004), and The Jeweled Garden (2006). She has co-curated several exhibitions including Tiffany: 150 Years of Gems and Jewelry (American Museum of Natural History, NYC); The Nature of Diamonds (American Museum of Natural History and Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, Michigan); The Silver of Tiffany & Co. 1850-1987 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston); The Glitter and the Gold: Fashioning America's Jewelry (Newark Museum, NJ); Jewels of Time (Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY); Gems of the East and West: The Doris Duke Jewelry Collection (Rough Point, Newport, RI); and Capturing the Sublime: The Enamels of Marilyn Druin (Newark Museum, NJ). Ms. Zapata was featured on "Tiffany: The Mark of Excellence," on the A&E Biography series. Ann K. Wagner is Winterthur Museum's Associate Curator of Decorative Arts. She joined the curatorial division in 2005, and is responsible for the metalwork collection. Ann's master's degrees in art history and early American culture, along with her four years of experience working with the Seattle Art Museum's collection, informed her studies of European and American decorative arts. Her current project, as a co-author and co-curator, is the catalogue and exhibition entitled, Silversmiths to the Nation: Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner, 1808-1842. Donald L. Fennimore is Curator Emeritus at Winterthur. He joined the curatorial division in 1971 after receiving his master's degree from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture (University of Delaware). His numerous publications include articles in Magazine Antiques, The American Art Journal, Metalsmith, The Bulletin of the Pewter Collectors Club of America, Art & Antiques, The Journal of the Antique Metalware Society, and Silver magazine. Don has authored, co-authored, or been a contributing author for many books in the decorative arts field including: The Pennsylvania Germans: A Celebration of their Arts, 1683-1850 (1982); Arts of the Pennsylvania Germans (1983); Silver and Pewter (1984); Eye for Excellence (1994); Henry Will account book (1996); Metalwork in Early America: Copper and Its Alloys (1996); Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute (1999); Campbell Collection of soup tureens at Winterthur (2000); Flights of Fancy: American Silver Bird-Decorated Spoons (2000); American/British Pewter: The Charles V. Swain Collection (2003); and Iron at Winterthur (2004). With Ann Wagner, he is co-author and co-curator of the book and exhibition, Silversmiths to the Nation: Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner, 1808-1842. Since 1975, silversmith Stephen Smithers has been researching and refining the classic art of silversmithing, as practiced by master gold and silversmiths throughout history. Through the process of performing restoration and conservation on thousands of early metal objects, Steve has gained an intuitive sense of the original working methods, which has influenced the design, construction and craftsmanship of his own silver, brass, and bronze pieces. The many clients with whom Steve has worked on exhibitions, symposiums, commissions, and consulting assignments include: Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Historic Deerfield, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Clark Art Institute, the Wadsworth Atheneum, and the Paul Revere House. Steve and his son Chris continue to carry on the classic art of silversmithing in a small shop in the hills of Ashfield, Massachusetts, where they design and produce silver and brass tableware and lighting on commission, as well as restore and conserve period metalware. Margaret Little is an Objects Conservator at Winterthur Museum, and an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. She received her B.A. degree in Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1973, and her M.S. degree in 1988 in art conservation from the University of Delaware. As a conservation student, training projects took her to Chile to conserve archaeological basketry and to the Pacific Regional Conservation Center in Hawaii to assist in rehousing and treating ethnographic objects from the Bishop Museum's collection. Her third year internship was spent at the Conservation Laboratories of the York Archaeological Trust in England where she participated in a wide range of archaeological conservation activities. Following graduation, Margaret accepted a position as assistant conservator at the Milwaukee Public Museum where she worked primarily with ethnographic and decorative art collections. In 1992 she returned to Winterthur to work in the Objects Laboratory. At Winterthur, Margaret is the conservation representative for exhibit and loan projects, and has prepared objects for numerous exhibits in the Galleries. She also has served as a courier for Winterthur's exhibits An American Vision: Henry Francis du Pont's Winterthur Museum and Silversmiths to the Nation as they travel throughout the United States. In addition to her work at the Museum, Margaret teaches students in the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. Deborah Dependahl Waters is Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Manuscripts at the Museum of the City of New York. Dr. Waters joined the staff of the Museum of the City of New York on July 1, 1986 as Curator of Decorative Arts. In July 1998, she added oversight of the Manuscript and Ephemera Collection to her responsibilities, and she was appointed Senior Curator on July 1, 2007. Dr. Waters is a graduate of Michigan State University and the University of Delaware/Winterthur M.A. Program in Early American Culture. She earned a Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization at the University of Delaware in 1981. Prior to joining the MCNY staff, Dr. Waters held positions with the New York State Council on the Arts, the Historical Society of Delaware, Christie's New York, and Winterthur Museum. At the Museum of the City of New York, she has organized or coordinated numerous exhibitions, including the 2005 show Tolerance and Identity: Jews in Early New York, 1654-1825 and Elegant Plate: Three Centuries of Precious Metals in New York (2000). Dr. Waters is a faculty member of the Cooper-Hewitt/Parsons M.A. Program in the History of Decorative Art and of the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies Appraisal Studies Program, and president of the New York Silver Society, Inc. Dr. Waters has written on a variety of topics related to the arts of the Mid-Atlantic region, and contributed an essay to Silversmiths to the Nation: Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner, 1808-1842 (2007), which accompanies the exhibition of the same title. Catherine R. Matsen received a B.A. degree in chemistry from Bryn Mawr College. She worked for three years as a laboratory technician at the Du Pont Company performing research on heterogeneous catalysis and drug synthesis. She then held a one-year position as a laboratory analyst in the Conservation Department at Winterthur Museum before receiving an M.S. in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania. One of Catherine's interests is the analysis of historic architectural finishes; she has completed work at the Corbit-Sharp House at Odessa, Delaware, with the Architectural Paint Conservation Project at Drayton Hall, a National Trust Site in Charleston, South Carolina, and the Architectural Research Department at Colonial Williamsburg. Catherine is currently the Associate Scientist at Winterthur Museum's Scientific Research and Analysis Laboratory.
WORKSHOPS
Each participant will be scheduled to attend two workshop sessions during the conference, with one session open for free time. Space in each workshop is limited. We will accommodate preferences on a first-come, first-served basis. All attendees are invited to stop by and see the silversmithing demonstration when they are not attending a workshop.
American Jewelry of the Nineteenth Century
Cast, Chased, or Stamped?
Cleaning and Caring for Silver
Fakes, Forgeries, and Changes Over Time: Connoisseurship of Silver
Flatware: Style, Technology Developments, and Deciphering the Marks
Historic Design Sources in the Library Collection with a bonus tour of the Decorative Arts Photography Collection
What Can Science Tell Us about Silver?
REGISTRATION
Pre-registration for Winterthur Members begins March 31, 2008. Three ways to register:
CONFERENCE FEE CONFERENCE FEE INCLUDES:
Cancellation Policy:
A
registration form
can be printed, filled out, and faxed to 302.888.4953 or mailed with payment to Winterthur Information and Tours Office
LODGING INFORMATION
Blocks of rooms have been reserved for conference participants at the Mendenhall Inn.
Please call the Mendenhall Inn at 610.388.2100 before July 21 and reference the Winterthur Silver Symposium in order to obtain the contracted group rate of $129 per night (single/double occupancy).
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