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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.



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