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Community Chest

by Suzanne L. Flynt and Daniel S. Sousa

Artist and artisan Madeline Yale Wynne and the founding of the Deerfield arts and crafts movement.





Curious Objects: Jade, the Imperial Gem, with Clarissa von Spee - Investigating a pair of luxury jade vessels from the Qing Dynasty, with curator Clarissa von Spee...
Curious Objects: Leather, with Glenn Adamson - Glenn Adamson talks all about leather, one of the oldest as well as the commonest human-worked materials.
Endnotes: Making Choices - Brooke Wyatt explains how the exhibition, Material Witness: Folk and Self-Taught Artists at Work, explores a common question in art.
Curious Objects: A Journey Back In Time At the Peabody Essex Museum, Part 2 - Benjamin Miller continues his odyssey through the PEM’s James B. and Mary Lou Hawkes Collection Center...
Museum visit: Second Sight - The Intuit Museum embodies Chicago’s longstanding appreciation for self-taught and outsider art.
Making Faces - Federal American Vernacular Portraits, 1790s to 1840s.
Field notes: Blind Spots - An exploration into the conversations that folk art, and antiques in general, can inspire.
Curious Objects: Around the World at the Peabody Essex Museum, Part 1 - The Peabody Essex Museum welcomes host Benjamin Miller behind the scenes into their Collection Center, a state of the art storage and viewing facility for many of their curious objects.
A Blueprint for Early America - On Owen Biddle’s 1806 book, The Young Carpenter’s Assistant.
From a Chain Gang to Art Museums - Overcoming extraordinary adversity, self-taught artist Winfred Rembert preserved his fraught past in words and in startling images made of tooled and painted leather.
Facets and settings: Brooches as Books, Necklaces as Novellas - The narrative art jewelry of Barbara Paganin.
Current and coming: This is your life, Frederick Douglass - The American icon gets the spotlight at the One Life Gallery.



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EXHIBITIONS

Black Dolls

By Margo Jefferson

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LIVING WITH ANTIQUES

Habitat for Humanity

By Stacy C. Hollander with photography by Ellen McDermott and Bridget Sciales

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FURNITURE & DECORATIVE ARTS

Harlequin Romance

By James Gardner

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EXHIBITIONS

The Origins of Edgefield Pottery

By Adrienne Spinozzi

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EXHIBITIONS

First Against the Wall

By James Gardner

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LIVING WITH ANTIQUES

A Labor of Love

By Lisa Minardi

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ART

Women and the Art of the People

By Eileen M. Smiles

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ARCHITECTURE

A Simple Plan

By Thomas Connors