Held each year, the Friends of Magnolia Mound Petite Antiques Forum features a lecture by a renowned expert, lunch, and a tour of a home or a garden not usually open to the public.
UP COMING FORUM to be held at magnolia mound
Sunday April 11, 2021
(New date due to inclement weather on Saturday)
Speaker: Dr. Wayne Stromeyer
“Chêne Vert’s Gardens: Recreating an Early Louisiana Landscape”
The Friends of Magnolia Mound cordially invite you to experience the grandeur and grace of “Historic Louisiana Gardens” at this year’s Petit Antiques Forum on Saturday, April 10th. With an emphasis on antique garden design and indigenous plants as well as those plants introduced to early South Louisiana, our day will begin with an open-air lecture by Dr. Wayne Stromeyer on “Chêne Vert’s Gardens: Recreating an Early Louisiana Landscape” followed by a socially-distanced “Picnic Basket” lunch on the lovely grounds of Magnolia Mound.
Guests will then tour a private historic garden on 11 acres in Baton Rouge.
Tickets include lunch, as well as the lecture and the tour of the private garden. As transportation is not provided, please plan to travel from the Mound to the garden tour in your own vehicle or preferably by carpool with other attendees. Masking and social distancing are required.
TICKETS: $100 per person (nonrefundable)
For more information and tickets, please call Babeth Schlegel at 225-421-3162
(New date due to inclement weather on Saturday)
Speaker: Dr. Wayne Stromeyer
“Chêne Vert’s Gardens: Recreating an Early Louisiana Landscape”
The Friends of Magnolia Mound cordially invite you to experience the grandeur and grace of “Historic Louisiana Gardens” at this year’s Petit Antiques Forum on Saturday, April 10th. With an emphasis on antique garden design and indigenous plants as well as those plants introduced to early South Louisiana, our day will begin with an open-air lecture by Dr. Wayne Stromeyer on “Chêne Vert’s Gardens: Recreating an Early Louisiana Landscape” followed by a socially-distanced “Picnic Basket” lunch on the lovely grounds of Magnolia Mound.
Guests will then tour a private historic garden on 11 acres in Baton Rouge.
Tickets include lunch, as well as the lecture and the tour of the private garden. As transportation is not provided, please plan to travel from the Mound to the garden tour in your own vehicle or preferably by carpool with other attendees. Masking and social distancing are required.
TICKETS: $100 per person (nonrefundable)
For more information and tickets, please call Babeth Schlegel at 225-421-3162
PAST PETITE ANTIQUES FORUM
2020
Speaker: Claudia Kheel, Adjunct faculty member at the School of Professional Advancement, Tulane University
“A Lasting Legacy: Southern Artistic Tradition”
Speaker: Claudia Kheel, Adjunct faculty member at the School of Professional Advancement, Tulane University
“A Lasting Legacy: Southern Artistic Tradition”
2019
Speaker: Brock Jobe, Professor emeritus of American Decorative Arts Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
“The Time to Buy: Collecting American Antiques in 2019 and Beyond”
2018
Speaker: Janine Skerry, Senior Curator of Metals Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
“The Post Revolution Evolution of Dining in America”
2017
Speaker: Walter Denny, Distinguished Professor of Art History at the university of Massachusetts at Amherst
“Gracious living and the Mysterious East: Oriental Carpets in North America”
2016
Speaker: Thomas Savage, Director of museum affairs The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museums and Gardens
“Life in Low country: Fine and Decorative Arts of Charleston’s Golden Age”
2015
Speaker: Ronald L. Hurst, Vice president for collections, conservation and museums The Carliste H. Humesline, Chief curator of Colonial Williamsburg
“A Rich and Varied Culture: The Material World of the Early South”
2014
Speaker: Carolyn Weekley, Juli Granger curator of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
“Painters and Painting in the Early American South”
2013
Speaker: Robert Leath, Chief curator and vice-president of collections and research at the museum of early southern decorative arts in Raleigh North Carolina
“Many Hands, Many Voices: Two Centuries of Southern Furniture 1660–1860”
2012
Speaker: Barbara Ross Luck, Curator of paintings, drawings and sculpture the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
“Symposium on American Folk Paintings”
Speaker: Brock Jobe, Professor emeritus of American Decorative Arts Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
“The Time to Buy: Collecting American Antiques in 2019 and Beyond”
2018
Speaker: Janine Skerry, Senior Curator of Metals Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
“The Post Revolution Evolution of Dining in America”
2017
Speaker: Walter Denny, Distinguished Professor of Art History at the university of Massachusetts at Amherst
“Gracious living and the Mysterious East: Oriental Carpets in North America”
2016
Speaker: Thomas Savage, Director of museum affairs The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museums and Gardens
“Life in Low country: Fine and Decorative Arts of Charleston’s Golden Age”
2015
Speaker: Ronald L. Hurst, Vice president for collections, conservation and museums The Carliste H. Humesline, Chief curator of Colonial Williamsburg
“A Rich and Varied Culture: The Material World of the Early South”
2014
Speaker: Carolyn Weekley, Juli Granger curator of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
“Painters and Painting in the Early American South”
2013
Speaker: Robert Leath, Chief curator and vice-president of collections and research at the museum of early southern decorative arts in Raleigh North Carolina
“Many Hands, Many Voices: Two Centuries of Southern Furniture 1660–1860”
2012
Speaker: Barbara Ross Luck, Curator of paintings, drawings and sculpture the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
“Symposium on American Folk Paintings”
