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.
Save the date: Saturday, April 2nd, 2022
details coming soon!
details coming soon!
PAST PETITE ANTIQUES FORUMS
2021
Speaker: Dr. Wayne Stromeyer, preservationist
"Chêne Vert's Gardens: Recreating an Early Louisiana Landscape"
Speaker: Dr. Wayne Stromeyer, preservationist
"Chêne Vert's Gardens: Recreating an Early Louisiana Landscape"
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”
