Kimberly Alexander
@ksalex10.bsky.social
Historian: Material Culture, Museums, Educator & Author
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*Plantation Goods* has had an incredible run, beyond anything I could have imagined. I am absolutely thrilled that the book is being honored with the Horowitz Prize from the Bard Graduate Center for scholarship on decorative arts, design history, or material culture. @uchicagopress.bsky.social
2024 Horowitz Book Prize Winner
Bard Graduate Center is pleased to announce that the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Book Prize for the best book on the decorative arts, design history, or material culture of the Americas published...
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October 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
*Plantation Goods* has had an incredible run, beyond anything I could have imagined. I am absolutely thrilled that the book is being honored with the Horowitz Prize from the Bard Graduate Center for scholarship on decorative arts, design history, or material culture. @uchicagopress.bsky.social
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Women Artists From Antwerp To Amsterdam, 1600-1750
by Z.G. Burnett for Antiques and the Arts
www.antiquesandthearts.com/women-artist...
by Z.G. Burnett for Antiques and the Arts
www.antiquesandthearts.com/women-artist...
Women Artists From Antwerp To Amsterdam, 1600-1750 - Antiques And The Arts Weekly
WASHINGTON, DC — The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) is rewriting art history with its groundbreaking exhibition “Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750.” The Dutch version of ...
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October 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Women Artists From Antwerp To Amsterdam, 1600-1750
by Z.G. Burnett for Antiques and the Arts
www.antiquesandthearts.com/women-artist...
by Z.G. Burnett for Antiques and the Arts
www.antiquesandthearts.com/women-artist...
This year’s perfect #pear. I count the blossoms in the spring, watch the fruit grow all summer, knowing only one or two will survive to ripen in September — but that it will be indescribably delicious and worth the wait. #pearsofbluesky #autumn #bounty
September 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This year’s perfect #pear. I count the blossoms in the spring, watch the fruit grow all summer, knowing only one or two will survive to ripen in September — but that it will be indescribably delicious and worth the wait. #pearsofbluesky #autumn #bounty
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The 2026 Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife will take place on June 26–27 here at Historic Deerfield.
That will be the seminar’s 50th year, so there will be celebrations and reminiscences.
The topic will be how New Englanders have envisioned and shaped the future.
That will be the seminar’s 50th year, so there will be celebrations and reminiscences.
The topic will be how New Englanders have envisioned and shaped the future.
June 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The 2026 Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife will take place on June 26–27 here at Historic Deerfield.
That will be the seminar’s 50th year, so there will be celebrations and reminiscences.
The topic will be how New Englanders have envisioned and shaped the future.
That will be the seminar’s 50th year, so there will be celebrations and reminiscences.
The topic will be how New Englanders have envisioned and shaped the future.
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Excited to start my new read, especially after hearing Zara Anishanslin speak at @dublinseminar.bsky.social this weekend! She was gracious enough to sign her book for my fangirl self 😉 #nerdalert
June 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Excited to start my new read, especially after hearing Zara Anishanslin speak at @dublinseminar.bsky.social this weekend! She was gracious enough to sign her book for my fangirl self 😉 #nerdalert
More of #EdwardSteichen's fashion photography for Vogue Magazine. He was especially adept at capturing the essence of his subject via stylish footwear of the 1920s & 1930s. Here fresh & fabulous 1930s sandals appear so contemporary. For more: silkdamask.blogspot.com/2014/07/edwa...
July 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
More of #EdwardSteichen's fashion photography for Vogue Magazine. He was especially adept at capturing the essence of his subject via stylish footwear of the 1920s & 1930s. Here fresh & fabulous 1930s sandals appear so contemporary. For more: silkdamask.blogspot.com/2014/07/edwa...
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You cannot hide the soul.
July 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
You cannot hide the soul.
#FootcandyFriday Archive: Edward Steichen created iconic fashion photography for #Vogue Paris Here, a 1920s classic 'barrette' shoe with revived French or Louis heel. Romantic skirt floats at the knee. Lovely. Read on: www.silkdamask.org/search/label... @vogueparis.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
#FootcandyFriday Archive: Edward Steichen created iconic fashion photography for #Vogue Paris Here, a 1920s classic 'barrette' shoe with revived French or Louis heel. Romantic skirt floats at the knee. Lovely. Read on: www.silkdamask.org/search/label... @vogueparis.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Today’s front page of The National, a Scottish newspaper.
July 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Today’s front page of The National, a Scottish newspaper.
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Looking for your next creative fix? Wolsey Art Gallery has just what you need.
✨ Colour Shape Pattern is open through winter. Don’t miss it: ipswich.cimuseums.org.uk/colour-shape-pattern
✨ Colour Shape Pattern is open through winter. Don’t miss it: ipswich.cimuseums.org.uk/colour-shape-pattern
July 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Looking for your next creative fix? Wolsey Art Gallery has just what you need.
✨ Colour Shape Pattern is open through winter. Don’t miss it: ipswich.cimuseums.org.uk/colour-shape-pattern
✨ Colour Shape Pattern is open through winter. Don’t miss it: ipswich.cimuseums.org.uk/colour-shape-pattern
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12 Women Old Masters to Know
by Karen Chernick
www.artnews.com/list/art-new...
To learn more about premodern #womenartists, visit:
A Dozen Great Women Artists, Renaissance and Baroque
artherstory.net/a-dozen-grea...
Another Dozen Great Women Artists from Long Ago
artherstory.net/another-doze...
by Karen Chernick
www.artnews.com/list/art-new...
To learn more about premodern #womenartists, visit:
A Dozen Great Women Artists, Renaissance and Baroque
artherstory.net/a-dozen-grea...
Another Dozen Great Women Artists from Long Ago
artherstory.net/another-doze...
12 Women Old Masters to Know
Here are 12 women Old Masters benefitting from a tide of rediscovery
www.artnews.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
12 Women Old Masters to Know
by Karen Chernick
www.artnews.com/list/art-new...
To learn more about premodern #womenartists, visit:
A Dozen Great Women Artists, Renaissance and Baroque
artherstory.net/a-dozen-grea...
Another Dozen Great Women Artists from Long Ago
artherstory.net/another-doze...
by Karen Chernick
www.artnews.com/list/art-new...
To learn more about premodern #womenartists, visit:
A Dozen Great Women Artists, Renaissance and Baroque
artherstory.net/a-dozen-grea...
Another Dozen Great Women Artists from Long Ago
artherstory.net/another-doze...
Happy summer Monday 🌞🌞🌞
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
July 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Happy summer Monday 🌞🌞🌞
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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About to say goodbye to #SHEAR2025 and Providence, so here is another bank note for you. It features a portrait of Samuel Slater and a vignette of mills by the Pawtucket Falls on the Blackstone River. Slater Bank, North Providence, RI, $10, July 1, 1862.🗃️
July 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
About to say goodbye to #SHEAR2025 and Providence, so here is another bank note for you. It features a portrait of Samuel Slater and a vignette of mills by the Pawtucket Falls on the Blackstone River. Slater Bank, North Providence, RI, $10, July 1, 1862.🗃️
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The proofs are turned in and the website is up!🎉 📖
"Canal Dreamers" is now available for pre-order with delivery in August (just in time for classes 😉). Use code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%! 🗃️
@uncpress.bsky.social #history
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"Canal Dreamers" is now available for pre-order with delivery in August (just in time for classes 😉). Use code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%! 🗃️
@uncpress.bsky.social #history
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Canal Dreamers | Jessica M. Lepler | University of North Carolina Press
In the 1820s, there was a little-known quest to unite the world by building a waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. As new Spanish American natio...
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May 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The proofs are turned in and the website is up!🎉 📖
"Canal Dreamers" is now available for pre-order with delivery in August (just in time for classes 😉). Use code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%! 🗃️
@uncpress.bsky.social #history
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
"Canal Dreamers" is now available for pre-order with delivery in August (just in time for classes 😉). Use code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%! 🗃️
@uncpress.bsky.social #history
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
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To Woolwich to the Rope-yard; and there looked over several sorts of hemp, and did fall upon my great survey of seeing the working and experiments of the strength and the charge in the dressing of every sort.
July 21, 2025 at 8:38 AM
To Woolwich to the Rope-yard; and there looked over several sorts of hemp, and did fall upon my great survey of seeing the working and experiments of the strength and the charge in the dressing of every sort.
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Constitutional crisis is here
July 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Constitutional crisis is here
Hello Seacoast New Hampshire #fiberfolk Join the UNH #FlaxFiles at the Newmarket Historical Society’s Stone School Museum for a #flax processing #demo & try your hand at #braking & #scutching flax. Let’s talk about #sustainability & #circulardesign #saynotofastfashion
July 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Hello Seacoast New Hampshire #fiberfolk Join the UNH #FlaxFiles at the Newmarket Historical Society’s Stone School Museum for a #flax processing #demo & try your hand at #braking & #scutching flax. Let’s talk about #sustainability & #circulardesign #saynotofastfashion
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Good morning #SHEAR2025! WE’VE GOT BOOKS.
July 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Good morning #SHEAR2025! WE’VE GOT BOOKS.