American Interiors

The Carder Steuben Symposium will feature speaker Mary Cheek Mills, Education Programs Manager at the Corning Museum of Glass. Mary’s presentation is entitled, “Carder Steuben is American Interiors.” This will be a visually stimulating lecture that will use period advertising, images of historic interiors, museum collections and a discussion of design to place Carder Steuben glass in context with other decorative arts in fine American homes.

Mary Cheek Mills joined the staff of CMOG in 2005. As Education Programs Manager she develops and implements curriculum-based tours for school groups, trains the Museum’s docents, oversees the teen programs, plans and directs the Annual Seminar on Glass, and creates interpretive gallery materials.

She lectures extensively on glass and teaches European and American glass for graduate programs in decorative arts at Sotheby’s in New York City and the Winterthur Museum in Wilmington, DE. She also taught for the masters programs at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and the Smithsonian Associates for many years.

Mills holds a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, a master’s degree in applied history from Appalachian State University, and a master’s from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture. She has also studied decorative arts through the Attingham Study of Country Houses in England and the Victorian Society Summer School in London.

Register for the Symposium today! Remember – the deadline for registration is September 9.

WHY?

Wow! I can’t believe all this angst over what now turns out to be a pretty theoretical discussion. I, too, thought there was a post-Carder group from the discussions. So if there is no group to merge, no one has surveyed to find out if there’s even any interest, and there is no criteria about collecting interests in order to join the Carder-Steuben Club…. just why are we entertaining all of this?

I don’t remember that the membership application asked about my collecting interests. And, in fact, I collect glass in the period 1880-1930, so my Carder-Steuben pieces are only a very small portion of my collection. I have to think that anyone with an interest is welcome to join whether they collect Carder-Steuben or not. How active they are or the direction they might try to get the Club to move would just be a natural evolution of any Club which tries to reflect the interests of its members.

Janet E. Ziffer, Columbia, MD

It’s in the Books Already

Why do we need a web site? I am well-served by having both Madigan books and annual Steuben catalogs.

Brent Wedding, Corning, NY

2013 Carder Steuben Club annual Symposium will be held at The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY from September 19-21, 2013. The festivities will begin with Frederick Carder’s 150th birthday celebration on the evening of September 18, 2013.

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