SELECTED LECTURES
& WORKSHOPS

“Truth” Revealed: Rosena Disery’s African Free School Sampler, New-York Historical Society Curator Confidential series, 2021


Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls, New-York Historical Society Curator Confidential series, 2020


Finding Folk Art: The Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman, New-York Historical Society Curator Confidential series, 2020


Black Dolls: Expressions of Creativity and Resilience, Rijksmuseum, Women in the Museum symposium, 2023


Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls, National Gallery of Victoria (Australia), Women in Art and Design History seminar, 2022


The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman. Art Institute of Chicago, 2017


George Washington Sipped Here: Chinese Export Porcelain in New York. Winterthur Ceramics Conference, 2015


Stories in Sterling: Four Centuries of Silver in New York. Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Kathryn C. Buhler lecture, 2014


Chromolithography and the Golden Age of Board Games. Lockwood Mathews Mansion, Norwalk, CT, 2013


Beauties of the Gilded Age: Peter Marié’s Portraits of Society Women. Victorian Society, 2011


The Women of Tiffany Studios. Sidney D. Gamble Lecture Series, Gamble House, Pasadena, CA, 2009


Out of Tiffany’s Shadow, a Woman of Light. Art Institute of Chicago, 2008


Expanding Opportunities for Women: Schools of Design for Women in Turn of the Century New York. Initiatives in Art and Culture/New-York Historical Society symposium, “Designing Women: American Women in the Decorative Arts, 1875-1915,” 2007


Two Symbols of French Taste and Power. Getty Research Institute and Institut national d’histoire de l’art international colloquium: “Redistributions: Revolution, Politics, War, and the Movement of Art, 1789-1848,” 2004


Royal Patronage in Colonial New York: The Lewis Fueter Silver Salver. Yale University Art Gallery symposium, “The Material Culture of Colonial and Early Federal New York,” 2001


From Open Storage to Study Center: Developing the Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture at the New-York Historical Society. Winterthur Conference, 2001