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GREEN SYMPOSIUM
The 12th Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts will be held February 2 and 3, 2024, at the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education & Hotel.
Titled “The Past Made Public: Taking Stock,” this year’s symposium focuses on the wealth of decorative mate- rials in the public sphere in Georgia. Our universities and schools, churches and synagogues, public buildings and offices, state parks and historic sites, libraries and historical organizations, cemeteries and gardens, military bases, historic forts and craftspeople all hold elements of Georgia’s material culture. Speakers will explore the contents of museum collections large and small, public art, religious objects and government institutions. With Dale Couch, our former curator of decorative arts, well and truly retired, Caroline Rainey (UGA MHP ’19) has taken the reins of the symposium. Rainey has presented at the symposium previously and was an intern at the museum from 2015 to 2016. She currently works at the Georgia Department of Community Affairs in its Division of Historic Preservation, where she serves as a rehabili- tation tax incentives specialist and architectural reviewer. She previously worked as a curatorial assistant for the National Council of Preservation Education, under the National Park Service, and she wrote her master’s thesis for UGA on the use of interior easements and New York’s landmark preservation ordinance for the protection of historic interiors. Rainey has assembled an impressive slate of speakers for the 2024 symposium, with Ulysses Grant Dietz, chief cu - rator emeritus, Newark Museum of Art, set to deliver the keynote speech, “Go Big AND Go Home: Collecting Re- gionally While Thinking Nationally.” Dietz, a descendent of President Ulysses S. Grant, was decorative arts curator at the Newark Museum for 37 years and has written books on Victorian furniture, art pottery, studio ceramics, jewelry and the White House. Every year on April 27 he gives a speech at Grant’s Tomb in New York City. He is also on the board of the U.S. Grant Presidential Library and Museum at Mississippi State University.
Charles Pinckney (American, b. 1953), “U,”2013. GMOA 2022.331. Pinckney’s work is an example of contemporary studio jewelry, which Ashley Callahan will discuss at the symposium.
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