Apr 2021
Artists At Home: Photography of Historic Artists’ Homes & Studios Program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
Daniel Chester French, Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA April 17 through June 2021 The images in this exhibition represent the artists whose homes, studios and landscapes, now open as public sites, comprise the membership of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s national consortium, the Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios Program. This group of forty-four affiliated sites, and the artists associated with them, represent the historical evolution of art in America, with breadth that spans over 150 years, tremendous geographic diversity, and representation…
Find out more »Speaker Series: Genius Loci: Preserved Artists’ Homes and Studios as Models of Creative Placemaking
Valerie A. Balint - Program Manager, Historic Artists' Homes & Studios Program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation The Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios program (HAHS) is a coalition of more than 30 museums that were the homes and working studios of American artists. Special guest Valerie Balint joins us for Genius Loci: Preserved Artists’ Homes and Studios as Models of Creative Placemaking, a talk that explores this question and highlights the vitality of these places not only as beautiful and…
Find out more »Speaker Series: Why Old Places Matter
Saturday, April 17, 2021 11 am Thompson Mayes –Author of Why Old Places Matter & Chief Legal officer and General Counsel of the National Trust for Historic Preservation Tom Mayes, of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, will explore through an illustrated presentation how places evoke feelings of belonging, continuity, stability, identity and memory, as well as the more traditional reasons that old places have been deemed by society to be important such as history, national identity, and architectural merit.…
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