Upcoming MESDA Events
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.
September 11, 2010
MESDA Saturday Seminar:
Mapping the Early South II:
State Maps of Virginia, North Carolina,and Tennessee
Spend a Saturday at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts examining the history of the South through the maps that not only defined its boundaries but shaped its history.
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.
November 13, 2010
MESDA Saturday Seminar:
Piedmont North Carolina Furniture
The North Carolina Piedmont was home to diverse furniture making traditions in the 18th and 19th centuries. Spend a Saturday exploring the legacy of those early North Carolina craftsmen at MESDA in conjunction with a special exhibition of their work.
December 4, 2010
Family Holiday Workshop: Bringing the Beauty of Nature Indoors for the Holidays
Learn to use traditional southern natural materials to decorate your home for the holidays.
March 25 - 26, 2011
MESDA Furniture Seminar
The MESDA Furniture Seminar offers an in-depth study of antique Southern Furniture through the lends of a focused topic. Past seminar themes have included wood, turned furniture, painted surfaces, carved furniture, case furniture, upholstered furniture, and most recently, tools and the trade of furniture making.
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April 14 - 16, 2011
Art in Clay: The Potters and Pottery of North Carolina
Join us for a three day symposium based on the exhibit Art In Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware exploring recent research on the pottery of North Carolina. Speakers will include: Symposium lecturers will include: Johanna Brown, Curator of Moravian Decorative Arts and Director of Collections, Old Salem Museums & Gardens; Luke Beckerdite, co-curator of Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware and Editor of Furniture in America, the Chipstone Foundation; Rob Hunter, co-curator of Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware and Editor of Ceramics in America, the Chipstone Foundation; Linda Carnes-McNaughton, Collections Manager of the Cultural Resources Program at Fort Bragg, North Carolina; and Michael Hartley, Director of Archeology, Old Salem Museums & Gardens.
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