SPEAKER: Olive Graffam, Curator of Collections/Research Associate, DAR Museum
TEEN/ADULT: The 2008 DAR Museum exhibition Telling Their Stories: 19th Century Samplers and Silk Embroideries presented 80 examples of schoolgirl art offered in the context of the makers’ lives in place and time. Eight years later, there is more to relate not only about recent acquisitions, but also some discoveries about old favorites. This talk continues the narrative.
Olive Blair Graffam is Curator of Collections / Research Associate at the DAR Museum. Her expertise and interests are in the fields of American decorative arts, nineteenth-century cultural and social history, and in women’s history. She is currently curator in the various disciplines of silver and metals, paintings and prints, schoolgirl art, and folk art at the DAR Museum.
REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tuesday-talk-a-few-more-stories-to-tell-tickets-15819330042
TIME: 12 pm
FREE
SPEAKER: Olive Graffam, Curator of Collections/Research Associate, DAR Museum
TEEN/ADULT: The 2008 DAR Museum exhibition Telling Their Stories: 19th Century Samplers and Silk Embroideries presented 80 examples of schoolgirl art offered in the context of the makers’ lives in place and time. Eight years later, there is more to relate not only about recent acquisitions, but also some discoveries about old favorites. This talk continues the narrative.
Olive Blair Graffam is Curator of Collections / Research Associate at the DAR Museum. Her expertise and interests are in the fields of American decorative arts, nineteenth-century cultural and social history, and in women’s history. She is currently curator in the various disciplines of silver and metals, paintings and prints, schoolgirl art, and folk art at the DAR Museum.
REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tuesday-talk-a-few-more-stories-to-tell-tickets-15819330042
TIME: 12 pm
FREE
