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EVELYN WELCH, ETC RECIPIENTS OF BARD’S IRIS AWARDS

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NEW YORK CITY — Susan Weber Soros, founder and director of the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, has announced the recipients of the ninth annual Iris Foundation Awards for Outstanding Contributions to the Decorative Arts.

This year’s awardees are Evelyn Welch, Jane Nylander and Mitchell Wolfson Jr. The awards will be presented at a luncheon at the St Regis Hotel on April 12.

Welch joined the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London, in September 2004 from the University of Sussex. She is an art historian with a special interest in Renaissance visual and material culture. She is the author of Art & Authority in Renaissance Milan (Yale, 1995).

Nylander was president of Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities from 1992 to 2003. She has taught at Boston University, the University of New Hampshire, Monadnock Community College and New England College. In addition to publishing more than 90 articles and book reviews, she is the author of Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home, 1760–1860.

Wolfson established The Wolfsonian Foundation in 1986, a research center and museum in Miami Beach. His mission was to support and promote scholarly research, preservation, education and the collection of decorative, design and propaganda arts of the 1885 to 1945 period. In 1997, he donated the collection and a historic building to Florida International University. In 1986, Wolfson also established the Wolfsonian Foundation for Decorative and Propaganda Arts, which publishes The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts and is now published by the Wolfsonian-Florida International University.

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VALUABLE COIN EXHIBIT REOPENS

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NEW YORK CITY — The American Numismatic Society exhibit “Drachmas, Doubloons and Dollars” has reopened at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 33 Liberty Street.

In August 2004, the exhibit was temporarily closed after a sudden Orange Alert from the department of Homeland Security. The exhibit includes the rare 1933 Double Eagle, valued at $7.59 million dollars.

For information, amnum soc.org/frbny.html.

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MATTATUCK RECEIVES $50,000

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WATERBURY, CONN. — The Mattatuck Museum, 144 West Main Street, will receive a grant for $50,000 from the Connecticut Community Foundation to support the installation of a 6,000-square foot-exhibit on the history of the city and suburbs of Waterbury.

This $2.1 million project will involve reinstalling the entire Brass Roots exhibit that tells the history of the region. The installation will follow the cycles of urban development, including for the first time, the deindustrialization of a once-thriving industrial center, and will incorporate first-person accounts of the urban experience in an environment offering dynamic visitor activities.

The new history exhibit will include open storage displays with Touch Screen Computer Stations, providing access to many objects not currently on exhibit. An Interactive Oral History Center will also enable visitors to actually hear many of the stories of city life in the Twentieth Century.

The museum is at 144 West Main Street. For information, 203-753-0381 or www.MattatuckMuseum.org.