2012–2013 Calendar

The following events are restricted to members of the Antiquarian Society and their guests. Unless noted, monthly programs begin with a lecture at 11:00 a.m., followed by a lunch at noon.

Early American Silver
October 9, 2012
Beth Carver Wees, curator of American silver, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Annual Meeting
November 13, 2012

Holiday Tea
December 11, 2012
2:00 p.m. lecture/3:00 p.m. tea

Biedermeier: The Invention of Simplicity
Laurie Winters, Milwaukee Art Museum 

The Gilded Age beyond New York
January 8, 2013

Ulysses Dietz, curator of decorative arts, Newark Museum


French Decorative Art: Mid-19th Century to World War I
February 12, 2013
Gabriel P. Weisberg, historian

Japanned Furniture Decoration in America
March 12, 2013

Ethan Lasser, curator, Chipstone Foundation


Paint, Pattern, and People: Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania
April 9, 2013
Wendy Cooper, curator of American furniture, Winterthur

Spring Luncheon
April 30, 2013
10:45 a.m. lecture/12:00 p.m. lunch

The Language of Interior Design
Alexa Hampton, Mark Hampton, LLC.

The Wallace Collection of Sèvres Porcelain
May 14, 2013

Rethinking the Wallace Collection: A Director Reminisces
Dame Rosalind Savill, director of the Wallace Collection, London

The following special events are restricted to Antiquarian Society members only.

Day Bus Tour
September 24, 2012
(maximum: 45)
Kelton House Farm, Fredonia, WI
Antiquarian member Joe Gromacki offers a tour of his exquisite collection of 17th- and 18th-century American furniture and decorative arts and 17th-century English needlework at his 18th-century New England salt-box home in Wisconsin.

Workshops

October 23, 2012
(maximum: 20)
Steuben Workshop
Monica Obniski, assistant curator of American decorative arts, Art Institute of Chicago

November 8, 2012
11:00 a.m. Ceramics
Antiquarian Harry Root
2:00 p.m. Silver
Ghenete Zelleke, curator of European decorative arts, Art Institute of Chicago