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AUTHOR:
"Paper and Silk: Polite Accomplishments From the Litchfield Female Academy, 1792-1833" Needle Arts. Louisville, KY: The Embroiderers' Guild of America, Inc., 1994. Theodore Sizer, Nancy Sizer, Sally Schwager, Lynne Templeton Brickley and Glee Krueger, "To Ornament Their Minds: Sarah Pierce's Litchfield Female Academy, 1792-1833" Litchfield, CT: The Litchfield Historical Society, 1993. "A Middletown Cameo: Mary Wright Alsop and Her Needlework" The Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin. Summer-Fall. 1987. An exhibition catalog. "Quilts, Coverlets, Rugs & Samplers. Khopf Collectors Guides to American Antiques" New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. "The Young Miss and Her Needle" Southport-Westport Antiques Show Catalog. Southport,. Ct. Near and Far Aid Association, Inc., 1979. "A Gallery of American Samplers: The Theodore H. Kapnek Collection." The Clarion. New York: The Museum of American Folk Art, 1978. "Elephants in the Garden of Eden." Needle Arts. New York. The Embroiderers' Guild of America, Inc., 1978. A Gallery of American Samplers: The Theodore H. Kapnek Collection. New York: E. P. Dutton in association with The Museum of American Folk Art, 1978. New England Samplers to 1840. Sturbridge, Massachusetts: Old Sturbridge Village, 1978. CURATOR:
The Litchfield Historical Society, Litchfield, CT - 1993 "To Ornament Their Minds: Sarah Pierce's Litchfield Female Academy, 1792-1833." Project consultant on ornamentals Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, CT - 1986 "Mary Wright Alsop 1740-1829 and Her Needlework." The first retrospective of an eighteenth century American woman's needle arts. Historical Society of Old Newbury, Newburyport, MA - 1985 "Old-Town and the Waterside: Two Hundred Years of Tradition and Change in Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury, 1635-1835. Textile Researcher. Made Honorary Life Member of HSON. The Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY - 1978/79 "A Gallery of American Samplers: The Theodore H. Kapnek Collection." An exhibit of 115 American sampers 17th to 19th century and ancillary materials. LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS:
2004 Thanks Be To My Friends: A Sampler Symposium, Vassar College 2002 Peabody Essex Museum, Embroidery Art Symposium 1997 Nantucket Historical Association, "New England Legacy: Linen, Silk, and Wool" in conjunction with exhibit "Carefully Inwrought: Nantucket Needlework 1797-1997". 1996 Old Saybrook Historical Society, Capt. Hart House, Old Saybrook, CT. In conjunction with exhibit of area samplers and those of adjacent communities, 18th - 19th century. 1996 Leffingwell Inn, Norwich, CT. with loan exhibit of Norwich costume and needlework. 1996 E.G.A., Connecticut River Valley Chapter, Wethersfield, CT. 1996 Brookfield Historical Society, Brookfield, CT. Local show of quilts and needlework. 1995 A Sampler Gathering, lecture to classes & guests, Radison Hotel, Wilmington, DE. 1995 E.G.A., Manhasset Chapter, Long Island, NY. 1995 Folk Art Institute lecture, Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY. 1995 Stamford Methodist Church, Stamford, CT 1994 Frances Land Plantation, Virginia Beach, VI., for the Tidewater Sampler Guild exhibit and presentation meeting. 1994 Worcester Historical Museum, Worcester, MA. 1994 Newtown Historical Society, Newtown, CT 1993 E.G.A. Connecticut River Valley seminar at Litchfield Historical Society on Sarah Pierce Female Academy ornamentals 1993 Wilton Historical Society, Wilton, CT. Sarah Pierce Female Academy ornamentals. 1993 Westport Historical Society, Westport, MA 1993 Litchfield Historical Society lecture on Sarah Pierce, Litchfield Female Academy, Litchfield First Congregational Church, Litchfield, CT 1993 E.G.A. Schuykill Chapter, Hyde Park, NY 1992 E.G.A. Chapter, Westchester, NY 1992 Stamford Congregational Church, Stamford, CT 1991 Stamford Historical Society, Stamford, CT, with exhibit of local historical needlework. 1991 Folk Art Institute, Museum of American Folk Art, NY 1989 Historic Deerfield Textile Forum, Deerfield, MA. "Connecticut Needlework Classics Before 1835." 1989 Bruce Museum: Textile Seminar, Greenwich, CT 1988 Allentown Art Museum: 19th Century Needlework symposium and exhibit, "The Genealogical Register: Fact, Form and Fancy." 1987 Folk Art Institute, Museum of American Folk Art, NY. Classes on the American Boarding and Day Schools, Seminaries, Academies, and Dame Schools, 1700-1840, the needlework and ornamentals curriculum. 1986 Costume Society of America: 3 gallery lectures at exhibit of Mary Wright Alsop and Her Needlework. The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, CT 1986 University of Connecticut, Continuing Education, at Courtland Gardens, Stamford, CT. 1980-85 Historical Society of Old Newbury: tercentenary exhibition research on area schools and teachers of 18th and 19th century needlework and ornamentals. 1983 Rochester Museum & Science Center: Sampler and childhood education seminar and exhibition. 1983 National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Boston, MA. 1982 Barrington Foundation: Delray Beach, FL. 1982 Rhode Island School of Design Museum lecture and gallery tour of R.I.S.D. needlework & costume exhibition. Providence, RI. Review of show written for Fiber Arts magazine. 1980 Old Sturbridge Village: Collector's Weekend, Sturbridge, MA. 1980 Cape Cod Chapter Seminar, E.G.A., Inc., Chatham Bars Inn, Chatham, MA. 1980 Old Bethpage Village: Textile Seminar, Bethpage, NY. 1979 University of Hartford, Hartford, CT, Regional Seminar E.G.A., Inc. 1978 Strawberry Banke Museum: Needlework Day Seminar. 1978 Gallery lectures given to E.G.A. members attending the National Seminar, NY, previewing the Theodore H. Kapnek exhibit of American Samplers, Museum of American Folk Art. 1977 Oakland University, Rochester, MI, The Dodge Estate. 1970 Strawberry Banke Museum: Portsmouth, NH. CONSULTANT:
1991 - Consultant to the Stamford Historical Society, in cataloguing their domestic and foreign sampler collection. 1985 - Catalogued The Collection of American and English Needlework of Barbara Schiff Sinauer, a bequest to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in conjunction with the appraisal of Marguerite Riordan, Stonington, CT. See slideshow: American Needlework in the Eighteenth Century 1979 - Appraiser and cataloger of the quilt and sampler collection of Louise Nevelson, a gift to The Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY. |
