Winterthur Museum hosts inlay and marquetry conference
The Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, in collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, will be hosting the three-day Wonder of Wood event toward the end of April.
In total, 24 renowned museum and private practice conservators, craftsmen, curators, academics, and artists are on the speaking roster at the museum, which is just five miles from Wilmington.
The event will open at 8:00 am on the first day with registration and coffee. A lecture with a video-based demonstration on the marquetry process Boulle work will follow.
After a half-hour break, the conference will continue with a 45-minute lecture on past, present, and future challenges in identifying woods used in inlay and marquetry.
Other afternoon sessions will discuss topics like Colonial Latin American marquetry and inlay traditions, and Dutch floral marquetry origins. The Visitor Center will end the evening with a two-hour display of active inlay and marquetery craftmen's works.
On the second day, the conference takes place at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. For the final day it returns to Copeland Lecture Hall, where morning lectures will be about German influence on Charleston South Carolina furniture and a dictionary of American inlay. Afternoon topics for discussion include contemporary artist techniques and historic objects, and George A. Schastey and Co. marquetry.
Attendees at events such as this often get business cards from craftspeople they particularly appreciate.
The conference is scheduled for April 26 through 28 at the Winterthur Museum, 5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur.
In total, 24 renowned museum and private practice conservators, craftsmen, curators, academics, and artists are on the speaking roster at the museum, which is just five miles from Wilmington.
The event will open at 8:00 am on the first day with registration and coffee. A lecture with a video-based demonstration on the marquetry process Boulle work will follow.
After a half-hour break, the conference will continue with a 45-minute lecture on past, present, and future challenges in identifying woods used in inlay and marquetry.
Other afternoon sessions will discuss topics like Colonial Latin American marquetry and inlay traditions, and Dutch floral marquetry origins. The Visitor Center will end the evening with a two-hour display of active inlay and marquetery craftmen's works.
On the second day, the conference takes place at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. For the final day it returns to Copeland Lecture Hall, where morning lectures will be about German influence on Charleston South Carolina furniture and a dictionary of American inlay. Afternoon topics for discussion include contemporary artist techniques and historic objects, and George A. Schastey and Co. marquetry.
Attendees at events such as this often get business cards from craftspeople they particularly appreciate.
The conference is scheduled for April 26 through 28 at the Winterthur Museum, 5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur.