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Decorative Arts Trust

Discover the Beaauty Announces 2024 Failey Grants

of Antique Americann Glass MEDIA, PA – The Decorative Arts Trust is pleased to announce that the

Always Buying, Check Out Our Website, Call foor Free Appraisals 2024 Dean F. Failey Grant recipients are the Andrew Jackson Foundation
in Nashville, TN; the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art in
Chadds Ford, PA; Fallingwater in Mill Run, PA; Museo de las Americas in
Denver, CO; the Newport Historical Society in Newport, RI; and the
Tomaquag Museum in Exeter, RI.
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S e n r e t s o s e l t t The Failey Grant program provides support for noteworthy research,
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exhibition, and conservation projects through the Dean F. Failey Fund,
named in honor of the Trust’s late Governor. Each of these projects also
incorporates contributions from an emerging scholar.
The Andrew Jackson Foundation will conserve and exhibit Sarah Yorke
Jackson’s 1820–30 Spanish guitar attributed to Cabasse-Visnaire L’ainé.
The project will be led by Collections Manager Jennifer Schmidt and
Collections Aide Haley Weltzien.
The Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art will publish the catalog
for The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick exhibition.
Fallingwater will restore 24 oversized blueprints of shop drawings for
Frank Lloyd Wright’s built-ins and furniture as well as 28 blueprints of the
guest house.
Museo de las Americas plans to launch a digital resource focusing on a
collection of Latin American textiles, which includes containers, clothing,
and blankets.
The Newport Historical Society will develop A Name, a Voice, a Life:
The Black Newporters of the 17th–19th Centuries, an exhibition about how
1 1-800-806-7722 the lives of Africans and African Americans have been interpreted from the
written record.
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V isit our website at ammericanbottle.com or email us at info@ameericanbottle.com The Tomaquag Museum will conserve an 1840s Narragansett birchbark
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Auc tioninng Antique Bottles for 25 YYear s! canoe, which was crafted by the great uncle of Ferris Dove, the Narragansett
Chief Roaring Bull.
Failey Grant applications are due October 31 annually. For more
information, visit decorativeartstrust.org/failey.

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