Curator Tour – On Point: Needlework from the Garthwaite Family Collection
Sally Parker, Memorial for Bridget Parker, ca. 1820. Paint and printed collage on paper, 15 9/16 x 18 5/8 in. Collection of Shelburne Museum, Garthwaite Family Collection. 2025-10.90. Photography by Andy Duback.
Join Katie Wood Kirchoff, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen Curator of American Decorative Arts, for a guided tour of On Point: Needlework from the Garthwaite Family Collection, with extraordinary examples of schoolgirl artworks made in Vermont, ranging from samplers, silk-on-silk embroideries, and sewing boxes to memorials, family registers, theorem paintings, and more.
Free for Members or with Museum admission.