CLEVELAND DECORATIVE ARTS, PAST MEETINGS
Friday, April 4, 2025, Katie McKinney, the Margaret Beck Pritchard Associate Curator of Maps and Prints, Colonial Williamsburg. The impact of the monthly floral botanical prints of Robert Furber on interior floral design. Katie will present a program on the lasting decorating influence throughout the 20th Century.
*6:00pm Social Time, Presentation at 6:30pm at the Chagrin Valley Hunt Club, Gates Mills, Ohio, followed by dinner.
, February 15, 2025 Annual membership meeting. Fourth annual John Hellman Memorial Lecture with speaker Dr. Ada de Wit, Decorative Arts Curator at The Cleveland Museum of Art. "For the Benefit of All the People Forever. The Cleveland Museum of Art's Collection of Decorative Arts".Dr. de Wit will discuss the CMA collection of decorative arts, her first acquisitions, current projects, and plans.
*Lunch at noon followed by the Annual Meeting and lecture at the Mayfield Sand Ridge Club, South Euclid, Ohio.
Sunday, December 1, 2024, Holiday Gathering, Members only, Show and Tell by members
Home of Maggie Calkins, Cleveland Heights, 3:00pm-6:00pm. Savory and sweet holiday treats.
Saturday, November 16,2024, Tommy Hines, director of the South Union Shaker Village in Auburn, KY will explain the differences between the Kentucky Shakers and the Ohio Shakers and their furniture and lifestyles.
Lunch at Noon at the Chagrin Valley Hunt Club followed by the presentation.
Friday, October 18, 2024, Lindsy Parrott, Executive Director and Curator of THE NEUSTADT, the Tiffany Glass Archives in New York City. She will discuss the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany and his varied types of glass masterpieces.
*Gather at 6:00pm, lecture at 6:30pm followed by Dinner at the Mayfield Sand Ridge Club.
Saturday, September 21, 2024, 10:30am. Tour of the Tremaine-Gallagher House. Designed by Frederic W. Streibinger for Henry Tremaine in 1914. It is an exquisite example of Beaux Arts architecture and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Sarah Phelps Smith, PhD, informally known as "Sally" will welcome us to her home. The house is located at 3001 Fairmount Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, OH.
MEMBERS ONLY, LIMITED TO 40.
*Refreshments following the tour
Saturday, May 18,2024, Keith Letsche and Jerry Mercer, members of the Rushlight Club, will review the history of lighting bringing examples from their collections. Keith will also discuss the early electric lighting in downtown Cleveland.
*Lunch at noon at the Rowfant Club followed by the presentation.
April 12, 2024, Dr Ware Petznick will present a program on the enduring allure of Chinese Export Porcelain. She will identify both antique and contemporary examples and discuss its continuing popularity.
*Lecture at 6:00PM at the Mayfield Country Club, South Euclid, OH followed by dinner.
Saturday, March 2, 2024, Annual membership meeting. Third annual John Hellman Memorial Lecture with speakers Joseph P and Nancy F Keithley who gifted The Cleveland Museum of Art works from the impressionist period to modernism in 2020 and includes Japanese and Chinese ceramics. The donation was the largest gift since 1958. Lunch at noon followed by the Annual Meeting and lecture at the Chagrin Valley Hunt Club, Gates Mills, OH
Sunday, December 3, 2023- Holiday Party with Show and Tell 4:00pm-7:00pm Home of Gloria Beaven
Friday, October 13, 2023 - Leslie Lambour Bouterie "From Trowel to Table: Ceramic Sherds Inform History Detectives at James Madison's Montpelier" Bouterie serves as the Visiting Curator of Ceramics at James Madison's Montpelier & a Visiting Scholar for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. A career educator and ceramic specialist she provides consultation services to museums & historic sites, lectures, writes & enthusiastically shares her passion for British ceramics.
Drinks at 5:30pm, Clambake dinner at 6:00pm. Joint meeting with Dunham Tavern members.
Saturday, August 12, 2023 - Anya Rudd Tour of Harcourt Manor. Designed by Frank Meade and constructed between 1911 and 1915. It was vacant for 6 years and has been completely renovated by Rudd who is a professional interior designer and will be our guide. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. Tour starts at 2:00pm. 2178 Harcourt Drive, Cleveland Heights, OH.
Friday, June 2, 2023- David Barquist "The Mabel Brady Garvan Collection at Yale". Sponsored by Dale Hilton in honor of Rip and Charlotte Noble and in memory of R. Robertson Hilton. Dr. Barquist is the Assistant Curator of American Decorative Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 6:00pm Cocktails 6:30pm Lecture. Location Chagrin Valley Hunt Club, Gates Mills.
Sunday, May 21, 2023 - Christopher W. Lane "Chromolithographic Prints" Lane was a partner at the Philadelphia Print Shop and appraiser on the PBS Antiques Roadshow.
12noon Lecture followed by lunch at the Rowfant Club, a co-sponsor.
Saturday, April 29, 2023 - Aldous Bertram "Dragons & Pagodas: A Celebration of Chinoiserie" Lecture and Book Signing by the Author 6:00pm Cocktails, 6:30pm Lecture at the Chagrin Valley Hunt Club, Gates Mills
Saturday, March 25, 2023 - Lea C. Lane "A Marvel of Taste and Skill: Carved Pipes of the American Civil War" Civil War prisoners made these folk art treasures while far away from home. Ms. Lane is Curator at The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts and a Winterthur graduate.
11:30 Luncheon followed by lecture. Mayfield Sand Ridge Club, S. Euclid, OH.
Friday, February 10 ,2023- Annual members meeting. The 2nd Annual John Hellman Memorial Lecture featuring Dr Seth Pevnick, "Small Classical Bronzes in the Cleveland Museum of Art". 6:00pm Cocktails, 6:30pm Program. StoneWater Club, 1 Club Drive, Highland Heights, OH.
Sunday, December 4, 2022, 4:00 to 7:00 PM. A CDA Member Only Event. CDA Holiday Party / Show and Tell at Maggie Calkins' house. Invitations will be mailed in early November!
Saturday, November 19, 2022, 11 AM. A CDA Member Only Event, Private tour of the Rose Iron Works. Members will meet for Lunch afterward at the Goldhorn Brewery.
Friday, November 11, 2022, 6:00 PM. New Light on American Furniture. with Matt Thurlow, Executive Director of The Decorative Arts Trust and Winterthur graduate.
September 17, 2022, from 11:00 AM to ? PM. Tour of 1845 National Register Charles Brown Gothic Cottage, North Bloomfield Ohio. Many original features still in place. Being respectfully restored on the exterior and interior spaces. Followed by a Picnic Luncheon.
Friday, May 6, 2022, 6:00 PM. The Myth of the Continental Dollar with Erik Goldstein, Senior Curator of Mechanical Arts & Numismatics at Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, VA.
Friday, April 1, 2022, 6:00 PM. Feasts & Banquets: Luxurious Designs for the Table 1600 - 1910 with Sarah D. Coffin, Former Curator & Head of Product Design; Decorative Arts at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Manhattan, NY.
Saturday, February 19, 2022, 4:00 PM. British Porcelain through the Teapot, with Eric Nilson, collector - A CDA MEMBERS ONLY EVENT. At the Nilson residence in Shaker Heights, OH
Friday, January 28, 2022, 6:00 PM. Annual Meeting and the first John Hellman Memorial Lecture. Restoring the Seiberling's Collection at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens, Akron, OH, with Julie Frey, Curator. Program and dinner will be at StoneWater Golf Club in Highland Heights, OH.
CDA Holiday Party / SHOW AND TELL
at Maggie Calkins' house.
Friday December 3, 2021, 6:00 PM
Invitations will be mailed in early November!
Decorative Arts & Dunham Tavern Clambake
Date: October 15, 2021, 6:00 PM
Place: Dunham Tavern
Speaker: Christine Edmonson
Subject: Resources for Collectors: Researching Collections Locally and at Home
Christine served the Cleveland Museum of Art for many years in the Ingalls Library so she has much to tell us about how to navigate the world of reference material available locally and online.
Traditional clambake with baked chicken, rolls and desert, wine , beer and softdrinks. $40 per person. This event requires that all attendees be fully vaccinated for Covid-19. Invitations have been sent to Decorative Arts and Dunham Tavern members.
*6:00pm Social Time, Presentation at 6:30pm at the Chagrin Valley Hunt Club, Gates Mills, Ohio, followed by dinner.
, February 15, 2025 Annual membership meeting. Fourth annual John Hellman Memorial Lecture with speaker Dr. Ada de Wit, Decorative Arts Curator at The Cleveland Museum of Art. "For the Benefit of All the People Forever. The Cleveland Museum of Art's Collection of Decorative Arts".Dr. de Wit will discuss the CMA collection of decorative arts, her first acquisitions, current projects, and plans.
*Lunch at noon followed by the Annual Meeting and lecture at the Mayfield Sand Ridge Club, South Euclid, Ohio.
Sunday, December 1, 2024, Holiday Gathering, Members only, Show and Tell by members
Home of Maggie Calkins, Cleveland Heights, 3:00pm-6:00pm. Savory and sweet holiday treats.
Saturday, November 16,2024, Tommy Hines, director of the South Union Shaker Village in Auburn, KY will explain the differences between the Kentucky Shakers and the Ohio Shakers and their furniture and lifestyles.
Lunch at Noon at the Chagrin Valley Hunt Club followed by the presentation.
Friday, October 18, 2024, Lindsy Parrott, Executive Director and Curator of THE NEUSTADT, the Tiffany Glass Archives in New York City. She will discuss the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany and his varied types of glass masterpieces.
*Gather at 6:00pm, lecture at 6:30pm followed by Dinner at the Mayfield Sand Ridge Club.
Saturday, September 21, 2024, 10:30am. Tour of the Tremaine-Gallagher House. Designed by Frederic W. Streibinger for Henry Tremaine in 1914. It is an exquisite example of Beaux Arts architecture and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Sarah Phelps Smith, PhD, informally known as "Sally" will welcome us to her home. The house is located at 3001 Fairmount Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, OH.
MEMBERS ONLY, LIMITED TO 40.
*Refreshments following the tour
Saturday, May 18,2024, Keith Letsche and Jerry Mercer, members of the Rushlight Club, will review the history of lighting bringing examples from their collections. Keith will also discuss the early electric lighting in downtown Cleveland.
*Lunch at noon at the Rowfant Club followed by the presentation.
April 12, 2024, Dr Ware Petznick will present a program on the enduring allure of Chinese Export Porcelain. She will identify both antique and contemporary examples and discuss its continuing popularity.
*Lecture at 6:00PM at the Mayfield Country Club, South Euclid, OH followed by dinner.
Saturday, March 2, 2024, Annual membership meeting. Third annual John Hellman Memorial Lecture with speakers Joseph P and Nancy F Keithley who gifted The Cleveland Museum of Art works from the impressionist period to modernism in 2020 and includes Japanese and Chinese ceramics. The donation was the largest gift since 1958. Lunch at noon followed by the Annual Meeting and lecture at the Chagrin Valley Hunt Club, Gates Mills, OH
Sunday, December 3, 2023- Holiday Party with Show and Tell 4:00pm-7:00pm Home of Gloria Beaven
Friday, October 13, 2023 - Leslie Lambour Bouterie "From Trowel to Table: Ceramic Sherds Inform History Detectives at James Madison's Montpelier" Bouterie serves as the Visiting Curator of Ceramics at James Madison's Montpelier & a Visiting Scholar for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. A career educator and ceramic specialist she provides consultation services to museums & historic sites, lectures, writes & enthusiastically shares her passion for British ceramics.
Drinks at 5:30pm, Clambake dinner at 6:00pm. Joint meeting with Dunham Tavern members.
Saturday, August 12, 2023 - Anya Rudd Tour of Harcourt Manor. Designed by Frank Meade and constructed between 1911 and 1915. It was vacant for 6 years and has been completely renovated by Rudd who is a professional interior designer and will be our guide. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. Tour starts at 2:00pm. 2178 Harcourt Drive, Cleveland Heights, OH.
Friday, June 2, 2023- David Barquist "The Mabel Brady Garvan Collection at Yale". Sponsored by Dale Hilton in honor of Rip and Charlotte Noble and in memory of R. Robertson Hilton. Dr. Barquist is the Assistant Curator of American Decorative Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 6:00pm Cocktails 6:30pm Lecture. Location Chagrin Valley Hunt Club, Gates Mills.
Sunday, May 21, 2023 - Christopher W. Lane "Chromolithographic Prints" Lane was a partner at the Philadelphia Print Shop and appraiser on the PBS Antiques Roadshow.
12noon Lecture followed by lunch at the Rowfant Club, a co-sponsor.
Saturday, April 29, 2023 - Aldous Bertram "Dragons & Pagodas: A Celebration of Chinoiserie" Lecture and Book Signing by the Author 6:00pm Cocktails, 6:30pm Lecture at the Chagrin Valley Hunt Club, Gates Mills
Saturday, March 25, 2023 - Lea C. Lane "A Marvel of Taste and Skill: Carved Pipes of the American Civil War" Civil War prisoners made these folk art treasures while far away from home. Ms. Lane is Curator at The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts and a Winterthur graduate.
11:30 Luncheon followed by lecture. Mayfield Sand Ridge Club, S. Euclid, OH.
Friday, February 10 ,2023- Annual members meeting. The 2nd Annual John Hellman Memorial Lecture featuring Dr Seth Pevnick, "Small Classical Bronzes in the Cleveland Museum of Art". 6:00pm Cocktails, 6:30pm Program. StoneWater Club, 1 Club Drive, Highland Heights, OH.
Sunday, December 4, 2022, 4:00 to 7:00 PM. A CDA Member Only Event. CDA Holiday Party / Show and Tell at Maggie Calkins' house. Invitations will be mailed in early November!
Saturday, November 19, 2022, 11 AM. A CDA Member Only Event, Private tour of the Rose Iron Works. Members will meet for Lunch afterward at the Goldhorn Brewery.
Friday, November 11, 2022, 6:00 PM. New Light on American Furniture. with Matt Thurlow, Executive Director of The Decorative Arts Trust and Winterthur graduate.
September 17, 2022, from 11:00 AM to ? PM. Tour of 1845 National Register Charles Brown Gothic Cottage, North Bloomfield Ohio. Many original features still in place. Being respectfully restored on the exterior and interior spaces. Followed by a Picnic Luncheon.
Friday, May 6, 2022, 6:00 PM. The Myth of the Continental Dollar with Erik Goldstein, Senior Curator of Mechanical Arts & Numismatics at Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, VA.
Friday, April 1, 2022, 6:00 PM. Feasts & Banquets: Luxurious Designs for the Table 1600 - 1910 with Sarah D. Coffin, Former Curator & Head of Product Design; Decorative Arts at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Manhattan, NY.
Saturday, February 19, 2022, 4:00 PM. British Porcelain through the Teapot, with Eric Nilson, collector - A CDA MEMBERS ONLY EVENT. At the Nilson residence in Shaker Heights, OH
Friday, January 28, 2022, 6:00 PM. Annual Meeting and the first John Hellman Memorial Lecture. Restoring the Seiberling's Collection at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens, Akron, OH, with Julie Frey, Curator. Program and dinner will be at StoneWater Golf Club in Highland Heights, OH.
CDA Holiday Party / SHOW AND TELL
at Maggie Calkins' house.
Friday December 3, 2021, 6:00 PM
Invitations will be mailed in early November!
Decorative Arts & Dunham Tavern Clambake
Date: October 15, 2021, 6:00 PM
Place: Dunham Tavern
Speaker: Christine Edmonson
Subject: Resources for Collectors: Researching Collections Locally and at Home
Christine served the Cleveland Museum of Art for many years in the Ingalls Library so she has much to tell us about how to navigate the world of reference material available locally and online.
Traditional clambake with baked chicken, rolls and desert, wine , beer and softdrinks. $40 per person. This event requires that all attendees be fully vaccinated for Covid-19. Invitations have been sent to Decorative Arts and Dunham Tavern members.
Friday, June 1, 2018, 6:00 PM
Joshua W. Lane
Curator of Furniture at Winterthur Museum
Furniture in a New Taste:
Early Anglo Cabinetmakers and the Lure of the East
The Kirtland Country Club, 39438 Kirtland Rd., Willoughby, OH 44094
Friday, April 20, 2018, 6:00 PM
Andrew Richmond, Owner,
The Ohio Company Antiques & Art, Sunbury, Ohio
From Crocks to Jazz Bowls: 150 Years of Ohio Pottery
Mayfield Sand Ridge Club, 1545 Sheridan Rd., South Euclid, OH 44121
Friday, January 12, 2018 6:00 PM
Jane Hammond
"Material Matters: Care & Handling of Textile Collections in the Home Environment"
Mayfield Country Club
1545 Sheridan Rd.
South Euclid, Ohio
Sunday, September 9, 2018, 3:00 PM
Picnic and House Tour of Brownwood,
the National Register 1819 Western Reserve Federal Farm Mansion. Home of Cleveland Decorative Arts Members Judi and Terry Sheridan, North Bloomfield, OH
Picnic and House Tour of Brownwood,
the National Register 1819 Western Reserve Federal Farm Mansion. Home of Cleveland Decorative Arts Members Judi and Terry Sheridan, North Bloomfield, OH
Friday, October 26, 6:00PM
Brock Jobe
Professor Emeritus, Winterthur Museum
The Time to Buy: American Antiques in 2018 and Beyond
Chagrin Valley Hunt Club, 7620 Old Mill Rd., Gates Mill, OH 44040
Brock Jobe
Professor Emeritus, Winterthur Museum
The Time to Buy: American Antiques in 2018 and Beyond
Chagrin Valley Hunt Club, 7620 Old Mill Rd., Gates Mill, OH 44040
Date: Saturday, August 14, 2021 - Visit to Private Home and Museum followed by a picnic luncheon.
A DAY IN THE COUNTRY
Join us as we visit the 1828 Elam Jones Public House in Hartford, OH on August 14 at 11:00 am. On the main travel route (Ohio Route 7) for settlers between Youngstown and Conneaut and only a few miles from the Pennsylvania border this special restoration is the home of Chris and Diane Klingemier. Chris spoke to CDA in 2019 about the Trumbull County clock industry and has built and dedicated a room to house his collection of locally made wooden works clocks. Diane collects early decorative antiques and their house is a treasure trove of unique items. The tour will be followed by a picnic luncheon across the street from the house. This private home is a true gem in the Western Reserve.
A DAY IN THE COUNTRY
Join us as we visit the 1828 Elam Jones Public House in Hartford, OH on August 14 at 11:00 am. On the main travel route (Ohio Route 7) for settlers between Youngstown and Conneaut and only a few miles from the Pennsylvania border this special restoration is the home of Chris and Diane Klingemier. Chris spoke to CDA in 2019 about the Trumbull County clock industry and has built and dedicated a room to house his collection of locally made wooden works clocks. Diane collects early decorative antiques and their house is a treasure trove of unique items. The tour will be followed by a picnic luncheon across the street from the house. This private home is a true gem in the Western Reserve.
DATE: Friday, February 7, 2020 6:00 pm Shaker Heights Country Club
SPEAKER: Patricia Edmonson, Museum Advisory Council Curator of Cosume & Textiles at WRHS
PROGRAM: "Si Jolie! French Fashion in Cleveland" and Annual Meeting
SPEAKER: Patricia Edmonson, Museum Advisory Council Curator of Cosume & Textiles at WRHS
PROGRAM: "Si Jolie! French Fashion in Cleveland" and Annual Meeting
Friday, November 8, 2019, 6:00 PM Mayfield Country Club
Trumbull County Clock Industry in the Young Western Reserve
Chris Klingemeier, Independent Scholar, Hartford, OH
Rebecca Rogers, Historic Preservationist, Poland, OH
Trumbull County Clock Industry in the Young Western Reserve
Chris Klingemeier, Independent Scholar, Hartford, OH
Rebecca Rogers, Historic Preservationist, Poland, OH
Friday, October 18, 2019, 6:00 PM The Racquet Club
The Democratization of Interior Fabrics
Rabbit Goody, Textile Historian, Mill Owner,
Thistle Hill Weavers, Cherry Valley, NY
The Democratization of Interior Fabrics
Rabbit Goody, Textile Historian, Mill Owner,
Thistle Hill Weavers, Cherry Valley, NY
Friday, September 13, 2019, 6:00 PM, Shaker Heights Country Club,
Scottish Furniture Makers in the Early South
Robert Leath, Vice President, Collections,
Research & Archaeology; Chief Curator,
Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA),
Winston-Salem, NC
Scottish Furniture Makers in the Early South
Robert Leath, Vice President, Collections,
Research & Archaeology; Chief Curator,
Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA),
Winston-Salem, NC
Friday, May 3, 2019, 6:00 PM, The Chagrin Valley Hunt Club,
Chinese Export Porcelain and the Dawn of an Interconnected World
Ron Fuchs, Curator of Ceramics, The Reeves Collection,
Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
Chinese Export Porcelain and the Dawn of an Interconnected World
Ron Fuchs, Curator of Ceramics, The Reeves Collection,
Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
Friday, April 5, 2019, 6:00 PM, Mayfield Sand Ridge Club, Wilton House, a Virginian Story
Keith D. MacKay, Executive Director,
Wilton House Museum, Richmond, VA
Keith D. MacKay, Executive Director,
Wilton House Museum, Richmond, VA
Friday, February 15, 2019, 6:00 PM, Annual Meeting, Cleveland Racquet Club Whistlers' Silver Collection and Their Distinguished Collectors Mark
Ware Petznick, Executive Director, Shaker Historical Society,
Shaker Hts., OH.
Ware Petznick, Executive Director, Shaker Historical Society,
Shaker Hts., OH.
Friday November 9, 2018
Tom Kelleher
Historian & Curator of Mechanical Arts
Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA
New England Tavern Life
Joint Meeting with Dunham Tavern Museum
Tom Kelleher
Historian & Curator of Mechanical Arts
Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA
New England Tavern Life
Joint Meeting with Dunham Tavern Museum