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Brown Baggin’ program features antiques appraiser

Brown Baggin’ Thru History is a free program at Campus Martius Museum  from noon to 1 p.m. Oct. 7

Guest speaker is Andrew Richmond, an independent appraiser and consultant in antiques and art. With degrees in history from Kenyon College and American Material Culture from the Winterthur Program/University of Delaware, Andrew’s passion is the decorative arts of Ohio. He has lectured and published widely on the subject and has curated two major exhibitions: Equal in Goodness: Ohio Decorative Arts 1788-1860 and A Tradition of Progress: Ohio Decorative Arts 1860-1945. He also serves on the boards of several museums and decorative arts organizations.

Ohio Furniture 101: An Introduction to Styles and Cultural Groups, 1788-1888

During Ohio’s first century, immigrants flooded into the state from nearly every other state in the Union, as well as from Europe. Because of the organized method by which Ohio was parceled out and settled, oftentimes, groups of immigrants from one place came west and settled in the same area, and many of these groups brought with them lifestyles and stylistic preferences. As a result, we can use the furniture made in Ohio during its first hundred years to “map” these cultural groups, and we can see evidence of the style each brought to Ohio, and how each style was adapted to life in early Ohio.

This program is free because of the support of the Washington County Public Library and Ohio Humanities Council.

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