From Margin to Mainstream: Enfranchising the Decorative Arts in Academic and Civic Life

This paper outlines how a college art museum used its diverse collection of objects, most linked to local culture and history, to advance course-based undergraduate research opportunities for students in a range of majors. It described the creation of a Mellon Foundation funded seminar taught by Eliza Reilly and Philip Zimmerman called “Museum Mysteries.”

Paper delivered as part of panel "Guerilla Approaches to the Decorative Arts," College Art Association Annual Meeting, February 2015