Upcoming MESDA Events

March 17 - 19, 2010 

MESDA Textile Seminar
“Trees of life bear fruits of love”:
New Research in Southern Needlework and Textiles

MESDA's 2010 Textile Seminar celebrates the opening of the Museum's new Textile Study Gallery with a focus on textiles of the early South.  Speakers will examine needlwork and other household textiles of the Chesapeake Region, the southern Backcountry, and the Carolina Low Country. Attendees will have the opportunity to examine and study recent additions to the collections and objects that are rarely exhibited.

March 20, 2010 

MESDA Coverlet Turning

View and study more than twenty-five historic coverlets and quilts from the museum’s collections, many of which have never been exhibited.

July 11 - August 6, 2010 

MESDA Summer Institute:
House and Home in the Early Chesapeake

The MESDA Summer Institute provides the opportunity to analyze and investigate the material culture and decorative arts of the early South. The 2010 Institute emphasizes the material culture of the Chesapeake, including the Piedmont and tidewater regions of Maryland, Virginia, and northeastern North Carolina.  The program curriculum includes lectures, discussions, workshops, artifact studies, research projects, and study trips.

October 29 - 30, 2010 

MESDA Conference on American Material Culture

The only major forum for scholarly presentation and interaction on American material culture and decorative arts, the seventh biennial MESDA Conference for recent research in the field of early American material culture and decorative arts will take place at the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center in Madison, Georgia.  The conference includes the Gordon Seminar, a day of presentations on a variety of topics in American material culture, and a day of field trips to regional material culture and decorative arts collections.