Midwest Antiques Forum: Lancaster, Ohio, May 13 -15

Online auction database Prices 4 Antiques is sponsoring the new Midwest Antiques Forum, being held in Lancaster, Ohio at the Decorative Arts Center May 13-15.

The mission of the forum and schedule includes:

Through the Midwest Antiques Forum, we hope to encourage and support scholarship of the understudied area of Midwestern decorative arts and material culture.

We believe this region with its unique settlement patterns and diverse population offers many opportunities to study the cultural development of America's heartland and how this blend of stylistic influences played a role in forging the modern American identity.

• Ellen Denker, "Sermons in Stone: Kirkpatrick Brothers' Anna Pottery"

• Emily Pfotenhauer, "Of Every Variety: Wisconsin Decorative Arts 1820-1900"

• Francis J. "Bill" Puig, "Creole Furniture from the Upper Valley of Louisiana"

• Andrew Richmond, "Big, Heavy, and Brightly Painted: The Germanic Furniture of the American Midwest"

• Dean Zimmerman, "Treasures of the Western Reserve Historical Society: 140 Years of Collecting"

With a closing lecture by Brock Jobe, Professor of American Decorative Arts, Winterthur Museum.

Also Included:

The conference will be held in connection with the landmark exhibition currently at the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio, Equal in Goodness: Ohio Decorative Arts 1788-1860 and will also include a panel discussion on Midwestern decorative arts in the marketplace with auctioneers Wes Cowan and Jeff Jeffers, dealer/scholar Chuck Muller, collector Susan Widder, and curator Dean Zimmerman. Optional tours of local historic homes are also available.

For more information and to register for the forum, click HERE.