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Former curatorial assistant at Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, NY. Intern in American Decorative Arts—glass and ceramics—at Metropolitan Museum of Art. Attended Christie’s Twentieth-Century Art Course and graduate studies in art history at Manhattanville College. Served as university admissions director before corporate career in human resources and communication at Avon, IBM, Nestlé Foods, Xerox and Sony, Inc. MA, History of Decorative Arts, Cooper-Hewitt/Parsons program; MA, Communication, Fairfield University.

 

FACULTY

Jean Burks, Curator, decorative arts, The Shelburne Museum, VT. Shaker design and metals expert. Author of Birmingham Brass Candlesticks, co-author of The Encyclopedia of Shaker Furniture. MA, History of Decorative Arts, Cooper-Hewitt/Parsons.

Mary B. Doering, costume historian. Formerly: curator of collections at American Red Cross Headquarters. Consultant and guest curator of numerous exhibitions. Has created extensive study collection used to enhance students educational experience in the Masters Program. MA, George Washington University.

Heidi Nasstrom Evans, former assistant director, Masters Program. Instructor, material culture and women’s studies, American studies program, University of Maryland. Specialist in nineteenth-and twentieth-century American design. Co-author and co-curator of Byrdcliffe: An American Arts and Crafts Colony. MA, Cooper-Hewitt/Parsons program; Ph.D. (ABD) candidate, University of Maryland.

Oscar Fitzgerald, one of the leading furniture historians in the DC area. Published: Four Centuries of American Furniture. Formerly: director, Navy Museum, Washington, DC. Ph.D., American and Far Eastern History, Georgetown University.

Angela George, art historian specializing in nineteenth-century American fine and decorative arts and Mesoamerican arts and culture. Intern at Metropolitan Museum of Art, Victoria & Albert Museum, and CASVA Fellow. Curatorial assistant at Hillwood Museum & Gardens and contributing author to forthcoming catalog at Washington County Museum of Art. MA, Cooper-Hewitt/Parsons program; Ph.D. (ABD) candidate, University of Maryland.

Jennifer Goldsborough, specialist, American silver. Professor, Sotheby’s Institute American Works of Art Graduate Program and author. Formerly: Chief Curator, Maryland Historical Society. Author of: Lavish Legacies: Baltimore Album and Related Quilts in the Collection of the Maryland Historical Society and co-author of Women Silversmiths, 1685-1845. MA, Connecticut College.

Jeff Hardwick, editor, author and professor. Author of Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream and scholarly articles. Former faculty, Yale University School of Art. Ph.D., American Studies, Yale University, and M.A., Winterthur Program in Early American Culture.

Mary Cheek Mills, lecturer, researcher, and writer. Awards: Richards Award, Corning Museum of Glass. Published: “The Cooperative Venture of Union Glass Works, Kensington, Pennsylvania, 1826-42,” Journal of Glass Studies. BA, University of North Carolina-Greensboro: MA, Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, MA, Appalachian State University.

Anne Marie Quette, lecturer, specialist, French Decorative Arts. Lecturer at The Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, The Musée Nationaux, Ministry of Culture and the Musée des Arts Decoratifs summer program in Paris for twenty-eight years. Adjunct faculty at The Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design in New York and at The Smithsonian Associates/Corcoran College of Art + Design Masters Program in the History of Decorative Arts in Washington D.C. Intensive courses include Royal and Imperial French Palaces, French Decorative Arts from the Eighteenth Century to early Twentieth Century, Royal Furnishings of Versailles and Eighteenth Century French Decorative Arts.