Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

1/1/1986 - 6/30/1987

Funding Totals

$15,000.00 (approved)
$15,000.00 (awarded)


The American Craftsman and the European Tradition, 1620-1820

FAIN: GM-23029-86

Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, MN 55404-3506)
Francis J. Puig (Project Director: June 1985 to October 1990)

To support planning of an exhibition which will compare examples of glass, ceramics, silver, and furniture produced in Europe and the United States between 1620 and 1820. The cultural circumstances behind the transferral, syncretism, and change of European forms and technology in America will be highlighted.