2012 Speakers & Panelists


Tova Brandt - Curator, Danish Immigrant Museum, Elk Horn, Iowa  

Furnishing with a Scandinavian Accent: Ethnic Identity meets Material Culture



Wes Cowan - Founder and owner of Cowan's Auctions, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

The Sandbottles of Andrew Clemens

 

Hollie Davis - Senior Editor, p4A.com & co-author of the Maine Antique Digest column "The Young Collector"

The Marketplace for Midwestern Decorative Arts: The Year in Review



Amy Miller Dehan - Curator of Decorative Arts & Design, Cincinnati Art Museum

Cincinnati: A Center for Silver 



Andrew Richmond - Vice-president, Garth’s Auctions, Delaware, Ohio

Buy Local or By River: Furnishing the Early Midwest



Ellice Ronsheim - Cataloger, Garth's Auctions; former curator, Ohio Historical Society

Interpreting Early Midwestern Paintings: What Portraits and Landscapes Can Tell Us



Ian Simmonds - Scholar, Dobb's Ferry, New York

Midwestern Contributions to American Glass, 1797-1880



Panel Discussion: To Restore or Not to Restore

Panel members:

Amy Miller Dehan - Curator of Decorative Arts & Design, Cincinnati Art Museum

Doug Eisele - President/Owner of Eisele Gallery and Old World Restorations, Cincinnati, Ohio

Frank Farmer Loomis - Appraiser, author and radio host of Keep Antiquing!

Melvin and Connie Porcher - Collectors, Piqua, Ohio

Andrew Richmond - Vice-president, Garth’s Auctions, Delaware, Ohio