2012 Loan Exhibition Lecture Series

Celebrating Historic Hudson Valley at 60
Friday, January 20, 2:30 p.m.

Waddell W. Stillman
President
Historic Hudson Valley

This illustrated lecture offers an introduction to Historic Hudson Valley’s varied and perhaps surprising museum properties, ranging from a colonial slave provisioning plantation to a church containing stained glass windows by the French Modern masters Henri Matisse and Marc Chagall. Waddell will also discuss the ways the site’s rich histories and resources are shared with the public through museum programming, special events, web offerings, social media, and the research library.     


Waddell W. Stillman  is President of Historic Hudson Valley and serves in various leadership roles promoting natural and historic resource protection and heritage tourism in the Hudson Valley.  Most recently, he supervised the design and construction of Historic Hudson Valley’s new headquarters and library building located in Pocantico Hills, NY. 

America's Medicis: The Rockefellers and Their Astonishing
Cultural Legacy
Sunday, January 22, 2:30 p.m.
Suzanne Loebl
A book signing will follow this lecture.

When John D. Rockefeller Jr. commissioned a great deal of art for the construction of Rockefeller center during the midst of the Great Depression, Vogue editor Frank Crowninshield praised Rockefeller as “the greatest friend and patron of the arts since Lorenzo de Medici.”  Both Rockefeller and his wife Abby Aldrich Rockefeller felt passionately about the arts, and in the lecture author Suzanne Loebl details the Rockefeller family’s remarkable impact on the growth of the American art scene in the twentieth century.  Suzanne Loebl is the author of fourteen books, most recently America’s Art Museums. 

Star Ceramics at Historic Hudson Valley
Saturday, January 28, 2:30 p.m.

Kathleen Eagen Johnson
2012 Loan Exhibition Project Director and Museum Consultant

Kate Johnson shares the stories of pottery and porcelain rarities as a way to better understand the collecting interests and daily lives of New Yorkers during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
        
Kathleen Eagen Johnson is currently a museum consultant and formerly curator and director of collections at Historic Hudson Valley. Kate has written and lectured widely on aspects of American history, arts, and design as well as the state of the museum field.  Kate also serves on the Curatorial Advisory Board for the United States Senate.   

Style and Sentiment: Personal Accessories from Historic Hudson Valley
Saturday, January 28, 4:00 p.m.

Jessa J. Krick
Collections Manager
Historic Hudson Valley

Fashion meets function in rarely seen examples of jewelry and other precious personal accessories from the Historic Hudson Valley collection. Jessa Krick will showcase these luxury items, many of which belonged to the New York families who were original owners of Historic Hudson Valley’s sites. Period portraits and other documentation provide the historical context for these tiny treasures.

Jessa Krick currently serves as the collections manager for Historic Hudson Valley. Formerly the senior research assistant for The Brooklyn Museum’s Costume Documentation Project and a collections assistant at The Costume Institute, Krick’s knowledge of fashion and accessories is informed by hands-on work with leading museum collections.