Upcoming Events
Reaching and Teaching Through Material Culture
A symposium in conjunction with the exhibition A Lasting Legacy: Sixty Years of Winterthur Graduate Programs.
September 28-29, 2012
Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
Paper proposals are now being acepted and the schedule will be posted soon.
For more information visit the symposium website.
2011 Events
SOWF Annual Meeting
Friday, November 4, 2011
Delaware Antiques Show, Riverfront Arts Center
Wilmington, Delaware
6pm Reception
7pm Meeting
SOWF Annual Career Symposium
Friday, November 4, 2011
The Rotunda
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
3:30 pm-5:00 pm
Working: For Yourself, By Yourself, With Objects, For People
Do consulting and private practice have a role in your current or
future career? You are welcome to attend this meeting to learn about
and talk about entrepreneurship, consulting and private practice in
the public humanities and in the stewardship of cultural materials.
Page Talbott, Principle, Remer & Talbott,
www.remertalbott.com
“Is Consulting for You?”
Page Talbott brings decades of experience as an independent consultant
and a member of a consulting partnership to her work with museums,
historic sites, libraries and nonprofits. She will discuss the
characteristics of the worker and the work that lead toward success as
an independent worker.
Margaret K. Hofer, Curator of Decorative Arts, New-York Historical Society,
www.nyhistory.org
“From the Client’s Perspective”
As curator at New-York Historical Society since the mid-1990s,
Margaret Hofer managed consultants on numerous collections-related
projects. She will advise about reading and responding to requests for
proposals, the employer’s needs, and keeping track of project
managements.
Susan Duhl, Art Conservator, Collections Manager,
www.artconservatorsalliance.com
“Developing and Running the Business”
Susan Duhl is a paper conservator who provides conservation
consultation and treatment to institutions and private individuals
internationally. She has developed a specialty in emergency response
for archival collections. Finding new business, developing
specialties, and the daily work of managing a business will be her
topic.
Rosemary T. Krill, Academic Programs Department, Winterthur,
www.winterthur.org
“Combining Institutional Employment with Consulting”
A career primarily working full-time within institutions
can include project-based or consistent part-time work. This talk
considers the advantages and challenges of this type of ‘mixed’
career.
Charles Montgomery Connoisseurship Competition
Tuesday, September 6, 4:30PM
Rotunda, Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
A reception will follow the event; RSVP to
Brock Jobe if you plan to attend.
In the 1960s, Winterthur Museum Director Charles F. Montgomery initiated a contest for the students.
He required each second-year fellow to find an important, rare, or historically or aesthetically significant
object suitable for museum acquisition. It was an exercise; the students kept their objects; they did not turn
them over to the museum. Montgomery sought to impress upon the students the simple fact that significant
objects may still be found on the market for a nominal sum.
In 1995, Winterthur Director Dwight Lanmon reinstated the exercise and named it the Charles Montgomery
Connoisseurship Competition. The presentation on September 6, 2011 will be the 17th in the present format.
The event challenges fellows to meet antiques dealers and gives them the opportunity to learn about the
antiques trade. It also provides an opportunity to experience an important curatorial activity involving
the discovery, presentation, and defense of an object as a significant addition to an institutional collection.
This year, each student has acquired an object for under $75 and will propose its acquisition to one of six
museums during the competition.
Class of 2011 Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation Final Presentations
Tuesday, August 23, 9am
Copeland Lecture Hall, Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
Class of 2011 Winterthur Program in American Material Culture Thesis Presentations
Friday, May 27, 1:30PM
Copeland Lecture Hall, Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
Following the presentations, Sumpter Priddy III will deliver the James C. Curtis Lecture.
2010 Events
2010 Society of Winterthur Fellows Annual Meeting
Friday, November 5, 2010, 5-7PM
Chase Center on the Riverfront
Wilmington, Delaware
Wine and cheese will be served.
RSVP to
info@sowf.org if you are attending.
Class of 2010 Winterthur Program in American Material Culture Thesis Presentations
Friday, May 28, 1:30PM
Copeland Lecture Hall, Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
Following the presentations, Gregory Landrey, Division Director, Library, Collections Management, and Academic Programs will deliver the James C. Curtis Lecture.