Summer Speaker Series: 'Art & Industry' with Patricia E. Kane

Description

Enjoy light bites and wine as Patricia E. Kane from Yale University covers ‘Art and Industry: Furniture Making in Rhode Island in the Colonial Era’.

Since 2002 she has directed the Rhode Island Furniture Archive at the Yale University Art Gallery which documents furniture making in Rhode Island from 1650 to 1830. Furniture made in Rhode Island during the Colonial Era has long been acknowledged as masterpieces of American furniture.