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S E P T E M B E R P R O G R A M

DATE Friday, September 13, 2019

PROGRAM Scottish Furniture Makers in the Early South

TIME Cocktails: 6:00 pm (cash bar) Program: 6:30 pm Dinner: to follow program

LOCATION Shaker Country Club 3300 Courtland Blvd. Shaker Heights, OH 44122 Dietary restrictions, contact Annie Osolin one day in advance of program at 216 295-5520.

COST $55/member, $60/non-member RSVP by SEPTEMBER 6, 2019. RSVP form overleaf.

Robert A. Leath is the Chief Curator and V i c e - P r e s i d e n t o f Collections, Research and Archaeology at Old Salem Museums and Gardens, overseeing the collections, library and research center at the Museum of Ear ly Southern Decorat ive Arts (MESDA) as well as the Moravian Research and Archaeology department at Old Salem and the collections d i s p l a y e d a t i n t e r p re t i v e s i t e s throughout the Historic Town of Salem.  

Previously, he served as Curator of Historic Interiors at Colonial Williamsburg, creating and implementing the furnishings plans for fourteen historic sites. From 1999 to 2000, he was the Curator of Collections and Restoration for George

W a s h i n g t o n ’ s F r e d e r i c k s b u r g Foundation, and from 1991 to 1999, the A s s i s t a n t C u r a t o r f o r H i s t o r i c Charleston Foundation.     Mr. Leath currently serves on advisory boards for the Charleston Heritage Symposium and the New Orleans Antiques Forum. He is also a board m e m b e r o f J a m e s M a d i s o n ’ s Montpelier, the Henry Green Center at the Georgia Museum of Art, and the

Decorative Arts Trust, where he chairs the Education Committee that oversees the Trust’s Emerging Scholars Program, providing funds for new scholars in decorative arts across the country.   He is the author of several articles in the scholarly journal American Furniture, including “Jean Berger’s Design Book: H u g u e n o t Tr a d e s m e n a n d t h e Dissemination of French Baroque Style” (1994), “Beautiful Specimens, Elegant Patterns: New York Furniture for the Charleston Market” (1996), and “The Dutch Trade and Its Influence on Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake Furniture” (1997). He was a member of the editorial advisory board for that journal and now serves on the editorial advisory board for The Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts.   M r. Le a t h l e c t u re s o n h i s t o r i c architecture and decorative arts of the early American South for museums and organizations across the country.   For his accomplishments as Chief Curator and Vice-President at Old Salem, he was given the Frank L. Horton Award for Lifetime Achievement in Southern Decorative Arts in 2015, and this year received the Georgia Museum of Art’s Henry D. Green L i fe t ime Achievement Award for Decorative Arts.

D I R E C T O R S

Dale Hilton, President James H. Weaver, Secretary Terrence E. Sheridan, Treasurer

O F F I C E R S

M I S S I O N

THE MISSION OF THE CLEVELAND DECORATIVE ARTS , a nonprofit organization, is to promote and foster the appreciation and study of the decorative arts, and provide related educational services.

Mary Ann Conn-Brody Linda Harper R. Robertson Hilton Madelyn Koltcz Ware Petznick Judith M. Sheridan Molly M. Weaver Dean M. Zimmerman Marci L. Zimmerman

Shirley Dawson, Ex Officio Stephen Harrison, Honorary Henry H. Hawley, Honorary John A. Hellman, Ex Officio

WEBSITE: www.clevelanddecorativearts.org EMAIL: Terrence E. Sheridan, webmaster brownwood@orwell.net

H O N O R A RYC O N TAC T

F U T U R E DAT E S OCTOBER 18, 2019 Historic Textiles

Rabbit Goody, Textile Historian, Mill Owner, Thistle Hill Weavers, Cherry Valley, NY

N O V E M B E R 8 , 2 0 1 9 Trumbull County Clock Industry in the Young Western Reserve

Chris Klingemeier, Independent Scholar, Hartford, OH Rebecca Rogers, Historic Preservationist, Poland, OH

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