PISCATAQUA DECORATIVE ARTS SOCIETY
Louise Richardson is a Portsmouth native, past President of the China Students Club of Boston, and a Research Associate for Ceramics at Strawbery Banke Museum.
Johanna McBrien is Editor-in-Chief of “The Catalogue of Antiques & Fine Art.” She received her Master’s degree from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture and has attended the Attingham School for the English Country House. She has published in the field and regularly lectures and teaches on American furniture and decorative arts.
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Emerson W. Baker is a resident of York, Maine and Professor of History at Salem State College. He has written extensively on the early history of New England and is co-author with John Reid of “The New England Knight: Sir William Phips, 1651-1695,” University of Toronto Press, 1998.
For the last 35 years, Elaine Tefft has researched New Hampshire decorative arts with a strong emphasis on early silver. She has lectured at the Connoisseur’s Seminar at the New Hampshire Historical Society, the DAR and other groups. She co-founded the Bedford Antiquarian & Literary Society, owns Bedford Antiques, and has been a member of NHADA and the NE Appraisers’ Association for 25 years. She is currently writing a book on New Hampshire silver.- Tom Hardiman is currently Keeper of the Portsmouth Athenaeum. He has contributed extensive research in many areas; portraiture is one of his specialties.
Ron Bourgeault is the owner and chief auctioneer of Northeast Auctions, headquartered in Portsmouth. With over 40 years in the business, Ron has a wide network of contacts among collectors, dealers, and museum staff. He has been a guest lecturer and appraiser at numerous conferences and events and is a member of the Appraisers Association of America and the National Auctioneers Association. Ron also appears regularly on PBS’ “Antiques Roadshow” and was named one of the art world’s “Power Fifty: Who Mattered Most in 2002” by Art & Auction Magazine.- Barbara McLean Ward is the Director/Curator of the Moffatt-Ladd House. She teaches and has written extensively on several aspects of material culture.
Nicole Luongo Cloutier has been a Special Collections Librarian at the Portsmouth Public Library since 2001. She holds a B.A. in Art from the University of New Hampshire, as well as an M.A. in Library and Information Science from Simmons College. Prior to coming to Portsmouth, she was a slide Librarian and Visual Archives Manager at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Brock Jobe is well-known locally for his insightful work, “Portsmouth Furniture,” published in 1993. He has written several articles and contributed to other scholarly books. He is currently Professor of American Decorative Arts at Winterthur Museum.
Peter W. Cook has enjoyed a long career as a museum curator and educator. He continues to teach at Lesley University, where he trains educators in the use of material culture as a vehicle for integrated instruction. He and his wife, Nancy, own historic Tare Shirt Farm where they collect. Practice and interpret pre-industrial textile technology.
Carolyn Roy is a former Curator of Strawbery Banke Museum.
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Richard M. Candee, Professor Emeritus of American and New England Studies at Boston University, is author of “Atlantic Heights: A World War I Shipbuilder’s Community” (1985); “Building Portsmouth: The Neighborhoods and Architecture of New Hampshire’s Oldest City” (1992); “Social Conflict and Urban Rebuilding: The Portsmouth, New Hampshire Brick Act of 1814” in Winterthur Portfolio (1997); “The Artful Life of Thomas P. Moses (2002); “Old Portsmouth… Home of the Stocking Business: A Forgotten 19th Century Industry and Its Inventors” in Historical New Hampshire (Fall/Winter 2006); and a contributor to “The Warner House: A Rich and Colorful History” (2006). His book, “Wallace Nutting’s Portsmouth: Photographing the ‘Colonial Past’” will be published in June, 2007.- Kevin G. Lafond, an accountant and tax expert, has been researching New Hampshire history and merchants for over 15 years. He is currently working on a publication on scrip issued by New Hampshire merchants from 1734 to 1933, including their biographical data, to be completed in 2008.
Peter Michaud is Special Projects Director at the New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. A life-long resident of the Piscataqua, he has been involved with researching and interpreting Rollinsford’s Salmon Falls mill Village for over a decade. In 2005, Peter curated the exhibit “This Promising Little Place: The Village of Salmon Falls” at the Old Berwick historical Society in South Berwick, Maine.
Bethany Groff earned a B.A. in History and an M.A. in European and Public History from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She did post-graduate study at Trinity College, Oxford, and worked at Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London. Since returning to the States, she has been the Director of Cultural Tourism at the Essex National Heritage Commission. Consulting clients include the Old North Church Foundation, the Trustees of Reservations, and the Old State House in Boston. She is currently the North Shore Regional Manager for Historic New England, based at the Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm.
Deborah M. Child is an independent art historian and museum consultant based in Portsmouth, NH. For the last five years, she has been researching Piscataqua portraiture of the Federal period with a special interest in genealogy and provenance searches. Currently she is the project curator for the John Samuel Blunt catalogue raisonné project (see www.portsmouthathenaeum.org/blunt) |
