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