Lecture: "Understanding Southern Silver" by Gary Albert

Event:  Joel Lane Museum House presents a lecture on "Understanding Southern Silver” by Gary Albert of MESDA

Time:  Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 7 pm

Location:  160 South Saint Mary’s St., Raleigh, NC  (at the corner of Hargett St.), which is two blocks south of Hillsborough St., not far from downtown.

Contact Information: tel: (919) 833-3431; email: joellane@bellsouth.net

A lecture on "Understanding Southern Silver” by Gary Albert of MESDA will take place on Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 7 pm at the Visitors Center of the Joel Lane Museum House at 160 South Saint Mary’s Street, Raleigh, NC 27603. Admission will be $16 for the general public and $11 for members of the Joel Lane Historical Society. Refreshments will be served. Seating is limited, and advanced payment is required. 

Gary Albert will discuss silver’s role in material culture, care of silver, and identifying marks and dating through style and design.

Gary is Editorial Director at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts and Editor of the MESDA Journal. He also serves as the museum’s adjunct curator of silver and metals. He has presented lectures at Colonial Williamsburg’s Antiques Forum, the Charleston Art and Antiques Forum, and other noteworthy conferences. Gary has edited significant books on American material culture, including The Furniture of Charleston, Virginia Silver, and The Furniture of John Shearer, and has written articles for The Magazine Antiques, Antiques and Fine Art, and the MESDA Journal.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Ohio University and is a graduate of the University of Virginia/MESDA Summer Institute in Early Southern Material Culture & Decorative Arts.

For more information, please call 919-833-3431, email joellane@bellouth.net, or visit www.joellane.org.