Decorative Arts Lecture Series
The LSU Museum of Art’s Decorative Arts Lecture Series explores the Museum’s legacy of decorative art objects held in the permanent collection. The program invites experts and artists from across the country to speak on various topics related to craft, furniture, glassware, ceramics, woodwork, metalwork, and textiles. To donate to this program series or any of LSU MOA’s education initiatives, please contact Nedra Hains, Deputy Director, at nhains1@lsu.edu
Upcoming Programs
2022 Program Series
Lecture: The Art of Collecting Glass: A Personal Journey in the Field of Decorative Arts Lecture by Darius A. Spieth, PhD (Professor of Art History at the LSU School of Art, College of Art & Design).
Watch and learn during this discussion of the “golden age” of Murano glass design from the 1920s to the 1960s, as well as the colorful Memphis design movement from the 1980s. This talk reviewed the attempts to convert a centuries-old glass tradition into a fun version of the machine age at the dawn of computer aesthetics and concluded by looking at Murano-inspired figures of the American Studio Glass Movement, such as Dale Chihuly and Richard Marquis. Among the artists discussed are Napoleone Martinuzzi, Carlo Scarpa, Ettore Sottsass, Matteo Thun, Renato Toso, and Peter Shire, amongst others.
Learn about the career of French interior/fashion designer and decorative arts extraordinaire, Vincent Darré during this lecture. Darré is known for creating timeless spaces and whimsical works filled with extravagant creativity. Vincent Darré has studied selected decorative art works from the LSU Museum of Art permanent collection to create three response pieces. Inspired by these works, Darré has added his unique vision to ceramic works created by the LSU School of Art to be added to the permanent collection.
Lydia Blackmore, the Decorative Arts Curator at The Historic New Orleans Collection, details the lively and profitable Louisiana ceramics trade during the 1800s. Lydia Blackmore is the decorative arts curator at The Historic New Orleans Collection (THNOC). She earned an MA and certificate in museum studies from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware; she also holds a degree in history from the College of Williams and Mary. In addition to expanding and researching the decorative arts collections at THNOC, including the Williams Residence historic home, Blackmore has curated or co-curated several exhibitions, including Pieces of History: Ten Years of Decorative Arts Fieldwork (2021) and Making Mardi Gras (2022).
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Dr. Blaise Ducos, the Curator of 17th- and 18th-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings at the Musée du Louvre, discusses European decorative arts. Dr. Blaise Ducos will give a lecture at LSU MOA titled, Metal into Paint: The Many Lives of the Van Vianen Vase during the annual Decorative Arts Lecture Series.