Alexis Fair, a masters candidate in the Cooper Hewitt/Parsons program, sat down with me to talk about the Weeksville Heritage Center. Which she covered in a course on period rooms. Founded in 1838, Weeksville was the second largest free, African American community in the U.S. in the pre-Civil War era. The settlement was named for James Weeks who, along with a group of African-American investors, acquired property in the area. Weeksville was almost lost to history when urban development thr...
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Alexis Fair, a masters candidate in the Cooper Hewitt/Parsons program, sat down with me to talk about the Weeksville Heritage Center. Which she covered in a course on period rooms. Founded in 1838, Weeksville was the second largest free, African American community in the U.S. in the pre-Civil War era. The settlement was named for James Weeks who, along with a group of African-American investors, acquired property in the area. Weeksville was almost lost to history when urban development thr...
This week Sydney Friedman and I talked about Stig Lindberg (1916-1982) and the Bersa pattern. This is part one of a two part series that focuses on Scandinavian design. Check out the pictures for this episode at the @DecArtsPodcast twitter feed.National Museum page for Gustavsberghttp://www.nationalmuseum.se/sv/English-startpage/Visit-the-museum/NM-runt-om-i-Sverige/Gustavsbergs-porslinsfabrik/Gloria Cecelia Ray Karlmark, Little Rock Ninehttp://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entr...
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Alexis Fair, a masters candidate in the Cooper Hewitt/Parsons program, sat down with me to talk about the Weeksville Heritage Center. Which she covered in a course on period rooms. Founded in 1838, Weeksville was the second largest free, African American community in the U.S. in the pre-Civil War era. The settlement was named for James Weeks who, along with a group of African-American investors, acquired property in the area. Weeksville was almost lost to history when urban development thr...
