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  • Through March 3, 2024 – Garden of Hearts: Madeline Yale Wynne and Deerfield’s Arts and Crafts Movement

    In 1903, Madeline Yale Wynne (1847-1918), a leader in the American Arts and Crafts movement, constructed an oak bride’s chest ornamented with hammered copper panels, wrought iron hinges, and semi-precious stones. Known as the Garden of Hearts for its carved and painted scene of three inverted heart-shaped trees standing alongside a winding river, the chest is a tour-de-force of Arts and Crafts design—which favored handcraftsmanship over mechanized production—and showcases Wynne’s many talents as a painter, metalsmith, and woodworker. Historic Deerfield will highlight her work in an exhibition at the Flynt Center of Early New England Life now through March 3, 2024. For more information visit https://www.historic-deerfield.org/events/

  • Saturday, November 11, 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Hands-On Hearth Cooking Workshop: Game Dinner

    Early New Englanders supplemented their meat supply with wild game such as turkey, rabbit, squirrel, bear, and venison. In this Historic Deerfield hands-on workshop, we will explore period recipes using game and eat one as the main course. The venue is located at 80 Old Main Street in Deerfield.

    Kitchen Fee: $75/$70 members. Advanced registration required. Register at www.historic-deerfield.org

  • Friday, September 29 & Saturday, September 30 – Historic Deerfield Fall Forum: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America’s Northeast

    Registration is open for Historic Deerfield’s Fall Forum focused on the history of the Arts and Crafts movement in Deerfield and the Northeast. Visit the forum forum event page to see the program schedule and learn about a great scholarship opportunity provided by the The Decorative Arts Trust. Please note that the scholarship application deadline is August 28th.

    Artists and architects in America’s northeast made significant contributions to the burgeoning Arts and Crafts Movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, producing work that is still keenly studied. Arts and Crafts communities flourished not only in urban centers such as Boston and New York City, but also in regional communities including Rose Valley, Pennsylvania; East Aurora and Woodstock, New York; and Marblehead, Gardner, Worcester, and Deerfield, Massachusetts. In many of these locations, artists looked for inspiration not only in the work of their domestic and international contemporaries, but also in the early American or colonial past. In doing so, they produced original works of art that expanded the corpus of American Arts and Crafts design. 

    Historic Deerfield’s 2023 Fall Forum, The Arts and Crafts Movement in America’s Northeast, aims to address and celebrate this rich history by exploring the variety of artwork—from woodworking to metalwork—produced by urban and rural crafters of the northeast. The program features an impressive group of lecturers who will share new insights and information on a variety of topics, from the Marblehead Pottery of Marblehead, Massachusetts, to the Elverhoj Arts and Crafts colony of Milton-on-Hudson, New York. Keynote speaker Dr. Jonathan Clancy, Director of Collections and Preservation at The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms, will discuss the rise of Arts and Crafts metalwork. The forum will also offer optional special demonstrations in the areas of metalwork and bookbinding.   Register at https://www.historic-deerfield.org/events/2023/fallforumartsandcrafts

  • Saturday, June 17 & Sunday, June 18, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm – Historic Deerfield Antiques Show

    The ADA show is back in Deerfield for the first time in six years! The show brings together some of the nation’s finest dealers featuring the best of 18th -, 19th – and 20th-century American art, antiques, and design. Remarkable objects that will improve any collection and home will be on view and for sale.

    Your ticket to the antiques show grants you access to Historic Deerfield, including the Flynt Center and tours of our historic homes. $18 (free for Historic Deerfield members) Pre-registration is required at https://www.historic-deerfield.org/events/antiques, as space is extremely limited.

    Saturday, June 17, 9:30–10:30 a.m  – Join Historic Deerfield President Emeritus Philip Zea for a hands-on look at highlights from Historic Deerfield’s nationally renowned collection of early American powder horns. $65 (Includes admission to the Antiques show. Pre-registration required.) 

    Sunday, June 18, 9:30–10:30 a.m. – Join Historic Deerfield curators Amanda Lange and Dan Sousa for an up-close study of the museum’s finest pieces of English ceramics. $65 (Includes admission to the Antiques show. Pre-registration required.) 

    Saturday and Sunday, June 17 & 18, 9:30– 10:30 a.m. – Come take a special walk through of the newly restored/reopened 1795 Barnard Tavern with curatorial staff present to answer your questions. Walk-through time slots are 30 minutes and start at 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. Included with admission but pre-registration is required.

  • Friday, June 23 & Saturday, June 24, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm – Indigenous Histories in New England: Pastkeepers and Pastkeeping – 2023 Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife

    The Historic Deerfield seminar on June 23 and 24 will address the gaps in Indigenous voice and visibility in public views of the past. We will critically consider who has claimed responsibility for “keeping” the Indigenous past in New England, including how it has been represented, how historical research can be decolonized and improved, and what museums and tribal nations have done to engage the public in better understandings.

    Presenters will explore Indigenous forms of memory-making and pastkeeping, on landscapes and in oral tradition; Native American authors of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century, including autobiography and tribal histories; collections of material culture; histories of tribal museums; repatriation and cultural recovery; language reclamation; and artwork as vehicles for historical reflection.

    The Seminar will give particular attention to the work of museums, archives, historic preservation organizations, cultural centers, and initiatives that over the past thirty years have worked to provide more holistic and inclusive representations of regional Indigenous peoples and histories. 

    The Seminar will convene in Deerfield, Massachusetts. This will be a hybrid program, with both on-site and virtual registration options for attendees. Speakers will present on site at Historic Deerfield. Special thanks to sponsors American Antiquarian Society. Amherst College Library, Boston University American and New England Studies Program, Smith College Department of History, University of Massachusetts Department of History, and University of Massachusetts Public History Program.

    The Deerfield Inn has a block of rooms dedicated to the Dublin Seminar. Room rates vary depending on the room. To make a reservation at the Inn call (413) 774-5587 and use the code “HDF11”.

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  • Monday & Tuesday, November 28 & 29, 2:00 pm – 8:00 pm, and Wednesday, November 30, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Wreath Making Workshops at Historic Deerfield

    Help create beautiful, natural wreaths to decorate the doorways of Deerfield. Bring your creativity, enthusiasm, and an extra pair of pruning shears. No experience required. Supplies and refreshments provided. Free, pre-registration required. To sign up, visit https://www.historic-deerfield.org/events

  • Sundays, January 23, February 27, and March 27, 2:00 pm – The Big Chill: Early Environmental Histories of Climate Change, Online

    Historic Deerfield presents a free three part virtual lecture series beginning Sunday, January 23 at 2 pm, and continuing monthly. From a centuries-long Little Ice Age to the global aftermath of the largest volcanic eruption in the last 10,000 years, this year’s series is devoted to early environmental histories and their impact on people and places. Join us for three virtual webinars this winter exploring how North American Indigenous communities and European colonizers understood and experienced the plunging temperatures and deep freezes, catastrophic flooding, and severe droughts and famine that became part of cultural memory and identity.

    Topics include The Problem of Climate in Early Colonial History, presented by Sam White of Ohio State University, Tambora: The Eruption that Changed the World, presented by Gillen D’Arcy Wood of University of Illinois, and Snow Cover and Winter Knowledge of the Little Ice Age, presented by Thomas M. Wickman of Trinity College. Thomas Wickman, by the way, is author of Snowshoe Country: An Environmental and Cultural History of Winter in the Early American Northeast.

    Free, but registration is required by clicking HERE This lecture series will be presented live via Zoom webinar. The link to the webinar will be sent to registrants prior to the event. Webinar will be recorded and available to registrants for viewing for two weeks after the live event.

  • Tuesday, November 15, 6:00 pm – Making History/Making Place: Celebrating Local Learning and Discovery

    William Hosley, principal of Terra Firma Northeast, has been a curator, museum director, public speaker, project manager, writer, photographer, and cultural resource entrepreneur. With more than thirty years’ experience in museums and historic preservation, his affiliations have included Historic Deerfield, the Winterthur Museum, the Wadsworth Atheneum, and, most recently, Connecticut Landmarks and the New Haven Museum, where he served as executive director. Author of five books and many articles, his work has appeared in dozens of magazines and newspapers. His Tuesday, November 15 talk at the Gibson House Museum, 137 Beacon Street, will center on the role of small museums–such as the Gibson House–as “civic miracles” that serve as educators, preservationists, and stewards of “local stuff and stories.” A reception begins at 6 pm, and program begins at 6:30. $10 for Gibson House members, $15 for nonmembers. For more information and to make reservations call 617-267-6338.

  • Saturday, March 15, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm – The Art of Science in New England, 1700 – 1920

    The 2014 Wellesley-Deerfield Symposium on Saturday, March 15, from 9 – 4, will explore visual representations of scientific inquiry produced, collected, distributed or otherwise circulating in New England from the start of the 18th century to the first decades of the 20th century.  Scholars from a wide range of disciplines will address a variety of topics from the use of anatomical and biological models in scientific pedagogy to the impact of mechanical inventions for enhancing vision on artistic and scientific practice.  Presenters include Daria D’Arienzo, Archival Consultant, Nancy Siegel, Associate Professor of History, Towson University, Ellery Foutch, Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Adam M. Thomas, Ph.D. Candidate, Art History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Dennis Carr, Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Lita Tirak, Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies, The College of William and Mary, Peter Benes, Co-Founder, Director, and Editor of the Dubin Seminar for New England Folklife, Naomi Slipp, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of the History of Art & Architecture, Boston University, Catherine Newman Howe, Research Associate, Department of Art, Williams College, and Kathleen M. Raley-Susman, Professor of Biology and Jacob P. Giroud, Jr. Chair of Natural History, Vassar College.

    The Symposium will take place in the Collins Cinema, Davis Museum at Wellesley College.  Free and open to the public, but seating is limited.  For further information call 781-283-2043.  Sponsored by the Grace Slack McNeil Program for Studies in American Art at Wellesley College, the Office of Academic Programs at Historic Deerfield, and the Barra Foundation.

    Accompanying the Symposium is the Davis Museum exhibit “The Art of Science: Object Lessons at Wellesley College, 1870 – 1940,” in the Robert and Claire Freedman Lober Viewing Alcove, on view through June 22, 2014.

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