Selected Lectures & Workshops
Posters
Art on the Boulevard: The Belle Epoque Poster, Driehaus Museum; Chicago History Museum, April 2017; Taft Museum of Art, June 2019; Vero Beach Museum, October 25, 2019
Jewelry
The Line and the Circle: Over 70 years of Unending Designs by Betty Cooke, ASJRA, Association for the Study of Jewelry and Related Arts, October 10, 2020
For People Who Are Slightly Mad: American Modernist Jewelry, Ulrich Museum of Art, Kansas State University, April 4, 2019; SOFA New York, co-sponsored by Society of North American Goldsmiths and Art Jewelry Forum, April 14, 2011
Jewelry: Why Boston? Daphne Farago Fund Lecture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, November 18, 2018
Diamonds were the Badge of the Philistine, American Modernist Jewelry in What’s So Great about Midcentury Modernism? Cincinnati Art Museum, April 12, 2014
A Tale of Two Tiffanys, Cleveland Museum of Art, December 13, 2008; Baltimore Museum of Art, February 10, 2009
Louis Comfort Tiffany, His Life and Jewelry, Symposium, Ahead of Its Time, Artistic Jewelry in the Milieu of 1900, Association for the Study of Jewelry and Related Arts, October 12, 2008
Adorned and Adored–The Bejeweled Object from Louis Comfort Tiffany to Daniel Brush, Experimentation and Exploration: The Arts and Crafts Movement in New York City, Initiatives in Art and Culture, September 24, 2010
Tangible Results: Materials and Methods in American Jewelry, The Art of Adornment, The American Jewelry Tradition from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, Yale University Art Gallery, October 16-17, 2009
Exquisite Detail: The Art of Daniel Brush, Symposium, A Place in Time, Jewelry in the Context of the Decorative Arts, Association for the Study of Jewelry and Related Arts, October 7, 2007
“No doubt the garments suffered”: Women jewelers of the arts and crafts movement, Conference, Designing Women: American Women in the Decorative Arts, 1875-1915, Initiatives in Art and Culture and the New-York Historical Society, March 24, 2007
Fashion and Jewelry in the Fifties, Woven in Time, The Intimate Relationship Between Costume & Jewelry, Association for the Study of Jewelry and Related Arts, Fashion Institute of Technology, October 7-8, 2006
The Legacy of Charles Lewis Tiffany (with Yvonne Markowitz), Objects of Desire, Understanding America’s Passion for Jewels, Newark Museum, July 10, 2006
A Modern Approach to an Ancient Technique: Margret Craver and her rediscovery of the en resille technique, Enamelist Society Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, July 1993
Ceramics
What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been, American Ceramics from Functional to Funk, Glass and Ceramics Fair, New York, sponsored by the Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY, 2017
Metalsmithing
With Hammer and Tongs: The Hammerslough Collection of American Silver, Decorative Arts Council, Wadsworth Atheneum, February 23, 2017
Social Networker, Silversmith, Patriot and Printer: Paul Revere’s Untold Story, San Francisco Decorative Arts Forum, April 14, 2015
Modernist Metalsmith: Margret Craver, Skinners, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, June 8, 2011
Enameling in America, for Drawing on the Past: The Persistence of Ornament: Cloisonné in Contemporary Jewelry, Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, March 11, 2011
Revealing Revere: A Socio-Political Portrait of America’s Favorite Silversmith, Historic Deerfield, one-day forum, April 24, 2010
Enameling Takes Flight, Surfacing, The Enamelist Society Conference, Oakland, California, August 7-9, 2009
‘A Handsome Cupboard of Plate,’ American Silver at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 9th Annual Mays Seminar, Brilliant Silver: Masterful Reflection of Craftsmanship and Artistry, San Antonio Museum of Art, February 11, 2006
Japonisme at Tiffany & Co., Revisioning Reality: International Japonisme, New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies, March 17–19, 2005
Mass Consumption: The Patrons of Paul Revere, Jr., Dallas Museum of Art, March 12, 2009; Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 17, 2009
Braziers, beer cups and bottle stands: Silver for the American Dinner Table, Dinner is Served! Dining and the Decorative Arts, Historic Deerfield, November 8–10, 2002
Trends in Contemporary Silver and Jewelry, Cranbrook Academy and Cranbrook Art Museum, March 2001
Family Trees: American Jewelry Schools, 1900–2000, Society of North American Jewelry Historians, November 2000
Patterns of Patronage: Silver Consumption in Suffolk County, Forty-Ninth Antiques Forum, Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia, February 1997
Two Master Silversmiths: Omar Ramsden and Arthur Stone, with Lynn Springer Roberts, The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, April 1995
Political and Design Economies: American Silver between the Wars, Conference, Society of North American Goldsmiths, Providence, Rhode Island, June 1992
Colonial Era
Social Networker, Silversmith, Patriot and Printer: Paul Revere’s Untold Story, San Francisco Decorative Arts Forum, April 14, 2015
Revealing Revere: A Socio-Political Portrait of America’s Favorite Silversmith, Historic Deerfield, one-day forum, April 24, 2010
Mass Consumption: The Patrons of Paul Revere, Jr., Dallas Museum of Art, March 12, 2009; Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 17, 2009
Furniture and Silver in the Colonial World, NEH Summer Institute, The Visual Culture of Colonial New England, Salem State University, July 27 and August 3, 2006
Patterns of Patronage: Silver Consumption in Suffolk County, Forty-Ninth Antiques Forum, Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia, February 1997
Gilded Age
An Aristocracy of Wealth: New York’s Gilded Age Society through the Decorative Arts, Park Avenue Armory, December 1, 2014
Dilatory Domiciles: New York’s Gilded Elite on Long Island, Preservation Long Island, January 27, 2018
New York's Gilded Age, NEH Summer Institute on American Material Culture: Nineteenth Century New York, Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, July 2015
Gilded Lives: New York Fashion and Design, 1880–1914, American Decorative Arts Forum of Northern California, San Francisco, August 20, 2013
Tangible Results: Materials and Methods in American Jewelry, The Art of Adornment, The American Jewelry Tradition from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, Yale University Art Gallery, October 16-17, 2009
Arts and Crafts Movement
The Arts and Crafts World of Grant Wood, for the exhibition Grant Wood’s Studio: Birthplace of American Gothic, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, April 29, 2006
Teachers, Guilds, and Artists: Boston as a Center for the Arts and Crafts Movement, and Three Generations of the Oakes Tradition — Edward Everett Oakes, Gilbert B. Oakes, and Susan Oakes Peabody: A Conversation, (with Susan Oakes Peabody and Edith Alpers), Sources and Inspiration: Boston as a Beacon for the American Arts and Crafts Movement, New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies, June 2002
‘All Workmen, Artists, and Lovers of Art’: The Arts and Crafts Movement in New England, American Decorative Arts Forum, San Francisco, California, August 1998
Arts and Crafts Redux: Living the Simple Life in the ‘90s, Symposium, Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, April, 1998
Crossovers and Connections: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Boston and Chicago, Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, May 1998
The Monastic Ideal in Rural Massachusetts: New Clairvaux in Montague, Massachusetts, The Substance of Style: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, Winterthur Museum, October 1990; Aspects of The Arts and Craft Movement in New England, Historic Deerfield and Wellesley College, November 1996
American Craft and Design
Fast Forward to Studio Craft, House, Home, and Community, The Arts and Crafts Movement in New York City and Environs, Initiatives in Art and Culture, New York, September 17-21, 2014
Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design, San Francisco Decorative Arts Forum, April 10, 2012; Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, February 28, 2013
Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design in conversation with Wendell Castle, Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, February 24, 2012