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LINDA FERBER JOINS N-YHS

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NEW YORK CITY — Dr Louise Mirrer, president and CEO of New-York Historical Society (N-YHS) has announced that Dr Linda S. Ferber will become a new vice president and director of the museum division for the historical society.

Dr Ferber is currently chair of the American art department at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art. Prior to that role, she served as chief curator for the Brooklyn Museum from 1985 to 2000.

“Linda Ferber is a superb historian of American art and artifacts, who fully understands the importance of our collections, both aesthetically and historically,” said Dr Mirrer. “Her appointment underscores the society’s seriousness about taking its rightful place within the pantheon of New York cultural institutions.

Dr Mirrer said that she expected to work very closely with Dr Ferber in charting the society’s future.

Dr Ferber will be co-curator of an upcoming exhibition of the society’s famous Hudson River School paintings, which will open in mid-May. She will also be very closely involved with the next major exhibit at N-YHS, “Slavery and the Making of New York,” which opens in October.

Dr Ferber has worked in the museum field for 35 years, with extensive experience in academic and exhibition activities, as well as her curatorial work. She is a founding trustee of the Association of Art Museum Curators and serves on the New York Advisory Committee for the Archives of American Art. She is a member of the Art Advisory Council for the International Foundation for Art Research and belongs to the Century Association. She graduated Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Barnard College in 1966 and received her PhD in art history from Columbia University in 1980, where she served as an adjunct professor until 1998.

Dr Ferber was the project director for the newly opened Visible Storage Study Center that completes the Luce Center for American Art at Brooklyn Museum. In 2002, she received the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the field of American Art History from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.

MUST RUN 4/15 FAIRY LAMP CLUB

MUST RUN 4/15

FAIRY LAMP CLUB MEETING

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NEW BEDFORD, MASS. — The Fairy Lamp Club’s first meeting will be held on May 20 and 21. On Friday evening a reception is scheduled for members to meet and share information and experiences collecting fairy lamps. On Saturday, members will be able to visit the Whaling Museum to see, in addition to other exhibits, examples of Mount Washington and Pairpoint glass. A new glass museum has just opened in New Bedford that members will be able to visit.

Other interesting places are also available around New Bedford or in Sandwich at its glass museum. Saturday evening there will be a banquet at which the speaker, Louis St Aubin, will discuss Mount Washington and Pairpoint glass.

A meeting registration form and information about the Fairy Lamp Club can be found on the club’s website at www.fairylampclub.com.

For additional information, email Connie Scott at connie7 @aol.com or Jim Sapp at jimsapp@wispertel.net, or call 303-816-2613.