9:00AM – 4:00PM Eastern

Attend Virtually

This year’s symposium will explore the relationship between architects, decorators, and owners in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to compliment the museum’s current exhibit. Attendees will listen to a full day of speakers and tour the exhibit with Patrick Sheary, Curator of "Illuminating Design: The Decoration and Technology of E. F. Caldwell and Co., 1895-1959." 

Speakers include:

• Alice Dickinson, Curator of Collections, New York Yacht Club
  Presentation: “Room by Room: Furnishing a Gilded Age Club”

• Lori Finkelstein, Philip Franklin Wagley Director & Curator, Evergreen Museum & Library
  Presentation: “The Enduring Allure of Evergreen's Gold Bathroom”

• Barbara Hyde, Keeper of the May Patterson Goodrum House, The Watson-Brown Foundation
  Presentation: “Something to Last the Years: Philip Trammell Shutze's Neoclassicism of the South”

• Serena Newmark, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Art History, Freie Universität Berlin
  Presentation: “Prussian Stylistic Influences on Ironwork in Gilded Age America”

• Amber Wingerson, Museum Professional
  Presentation: “Illuminating Etiquette: Interior Illumination at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”