By RJ Lara, WPAMC Class of 2019 Amongst the smell of hot dogs and the sound of well-hit baseballs cracking off wood bats, ballparks offer a relaxed and low-stakes setting where I get to take part in two of my favorite pastimes: watching baseball and connoising. With popular baseball culture and the vernacular architecture [...]

By Alexandra Rosenberg, WPAMC Class of 2019 One of my favorite aspects about classes at Winterthur is their hands-on nature. However, what I love even more is actually getting out of the classroom and museum in order visit other historic sites. The American Interiors class I am taking this semester enabled me to do [...]

By Eliza West, WPAMC Class of 2019 As a craftsperson myself, I’m always intrigued by how other makers solve their problems. Connoisseurship classes at Winterthur provide me endless opportunities to explore this by analyzing some of the more technical aspects of the objects we study. Since September, we’ve been meeting with curator, Josh Lane, [...]

By Rachel Asbury, WPAMC Class of 2018 I had the opportunity to attend the 3rd annual Smithsonian Food History Weekend at the National Museum of American History. It was a chance for museum professionals, researchers, chefs and cooking enthusiasts, and the general public to come together in a dialogue about the current state of food [...]

By Allison Robinson, WPAMC Class of 2018 More than a backdrop for the beautiful historic homes that we visited, garden spaces informed us about the dynamic relationship between people and the land that they lived on – both the ways in which the land shaped human activities and the ways in which people have [...]