New England Chapter Meeting to Host
Patricia E. Kane, Alf Sharp and Steve Latta
Saturday, March 10, 2012
The New England chapter of the Society of American Period Furniture Makers is pleased to announce that their next meeting is scheduled for March 10, 2012, from 10am - 5pm and will be hosted once again by Bob Van Dyke and the Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking, in Manchester, CT. All SAPFM members are welcome.
The non-refundable SAPFM member registration fee for the day-long event is $35 per person. The non-member fee is $40 per person. Seating will be limited, and registration in advance will be necessary to ensure admittance. Light refreshments and lunch are included in the registration fee and will be available throughout the day in the form of coffee, tea, juice, water, donuts, etc. In addition, a lunch of sandwiches, pizza, chips, and soft drinks will be provided. Salads will be available for those with vegetarian diets.
Click here to register for the event. Presenter information appears below.
The featured speaker will be Patricia E. Kane, Friends of American Arts Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, CT. Patricia has been at Yale since receiving her M.A. in 1968 from the University of Delaware's Winterthur Program in Early American Culture. She later received her Ph D. from Yale. With Edwin A. Battison, she published The American Clock, 1725-1865: The Mabel Brady Garvin and Other Collections at Yale University. In addition, she has written 300 Years of American Seating Furniture: Chairs and Beds from the Mabel Brady Garvin and Other Collections at Yale University and she has published Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers: A Biographical Dictionary based on the Notes of Francis Hill Bigelow and John Marshall Phillips.
SAPFM is pleased to have Patricia as a guest speaker. Her talk will be “A New Way to Look at Old Furniture: The Rhode Island Furniture Archive at the Yale University Art Gallery.” The talk will share new information on the work of known furniture makers of Newport and Providence and introduce emerging regional traditions that are crystallizing for the towns of Warren, Portsmouth, South Kensington, and Warwick, Rhode Island.
In addition to Patricia E. Kane, the program will include talks and demonstrations by noted SAPFM members Alf Sharp and Steve Latta. Alf’s talk and demonstration will cover the carving of the iconic Newport ball-and-claw foot with pierced talons. In addition, he will be available on Sunday, March 11, at CVSW, where he will give a one day hands-on class on the carving of the concave Newport shell. Steve’s talk will delve into the history of American furniture, and in particular, on a class of specialists, the inlayer, whose work reached its zenith during the Federal period. Stringings, bandings, pictorials, and elaborate veneer work became the preferred method of ornamentation during this time as the styling rebelled against what was perceived as the excesses of the Chippendale era. In his presentation, Steve will provide insight into the history and practice of this specialty, along with a look at a few of its known practitioners.
To download a pdf with complete program and speaker information click here.
