Homewood Museum Antiques Forum: Baltimore and the Backcountry

Description

Homewood Museum's Antiques Forum examines Federal backcountry furniture. By comparing furniture produced in stylistic urban centers like Baltimore with objects made or used in Western Maryland and Virginia, experts will demonstrate the diversity of influences at work in the early Federal-era marketplace.

The day will include talks by:

• Bethany McGlyn, a fellow in the University of Delaware's Winterthur Program in American Material Culture
• Nick Powers, the collections curator at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley
• Sumpter Priddy III, furniture scholar and antiques dealer

Attendees also will participate in two hands-on workshops with Powers and Michelle Fitzgerald, assistant curator of Homewood Museum.

Continental breakfast, seated lunch, and afternoon snacks are included.