Georgia in Our Times: Modern Design and Contemporary Lens: The 11th Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts

This volume includes the following papers delivered at the 11th Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts, held August 5 and 6, 2022: “The Power of Black Hands: Honoring Black Craftspeople of the Southern Landscape,” by Torren L. Gatson and Tiffany Momon; “‘I learn a little something wherever I go!’: What Georgia’s Bill Gordy Learned and What He Left Behind While Making Pottery in North Carolina,” by Stephen C. Compton; “Mattie Lou O’Kelley: The Long Journey to Success,” by John Daniel Gilford; “William Spratling, the ‘Cellini of Taxco,’” by Joseph P. Brady; “Georgia’s Twentieth-Century Tufted Fashions,” by Ashley Callahan; “A Retired Woodworker’s Journey: A Twenty-First-Century Craftsman and American Period Furniture,” by Bill Markert; “Building Georgia’s Oldest” by Bill Markert; “Musings on the Salzburger Table,” by Dale L. Couch (these two republished with permission from American Period Furniture); “Studio Furniture: A Five-Piece Adventure,” by Abraham Tesser; “An Architect in the Garden: Thornton Marye,” by Stephen J. Goldfarb and Nicholas Langhart; “Cobbham’s Augusta Desk and Bookcase,” by William Dunn Wansley; and “The Accidental Collector,” by Jason Wech as well as a foreword by Annelies Mondi and acknowledgments by Dale L. Couch. Full-color illustrations throughout.

Publishing Date: January 2024

186 pages

ISBN: 978-1-946657-15-2