Events


Director Valerie Balint and Chris Morris, Manager of the National Trust’s initiative, Where Women Made History,
will moderate a panel and workshop featuring projects from the Radgowski Grant program. Learn more about
the innovative ways that HAHS sites are centering women’s narratives in  education STEAM programming for youth.

This free program was part of Housatonic Heritage’s annual autumn Heritage Walks. Visitors took a leisurely walk through the various artist-designed
landscape features at Chesterwood, including the house environs, formal gardens, and woodland walks. The tour was led by HAHS Director,
Valerie Balint, and placed what French created here within the greater context of artist-designed landscapes throughout the country.

Transnational Art in Heritage Network (Newcastle University) and our colleagues at the Artist Studio Museum Network, both in the UK,
invited HAHS to participate in a convening centered around Contemporary ‘authenticity’ in the artist’s studio museum. HAHS colleague,
Kate Menconeri, Chief Curator at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site (Catskill, NY) was asked to present alongside, Gaia Giacomelli
Curatorial Assistant for the Jenks Foundation at the Cosmic House in London, UK

Three presentations about the role LGBTQ+ artists have played in influencing American cultural life, featuring presentations from
Alice Austen House and the Demuth Museum. In celebration of Pride Month and in partnership with The Glass House, hosted by
the New York Studio School, home of the Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Studio

An exhibition in collaboration with Heather James Fine Art presented at Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens (West Palm Beach, FL),
featuring works by sixteen HAHS artists and an introductory panel by HAHS Director Valerie Balint.

Panel Discussion at Chicago Architecture Center exploring the intersectionality of Chicago creatives, Imagist painter Roger Brown
and iconic architect Mies van der Rohe. Presented in Partnership with the Edith Farnsworth House, site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The places where women artists were inspired to produce their work is as significant as their artwork. Yet too often these sites of creativity
are not considered critical when assessing an artist’s work, influences, or impact. Held in conjunction with an exhibition at Lyndhurst,
site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Where Women Made History. Presentations by HAHS Director Valerie Balint,
Alice Austen House and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.

7th Biennial Grant Wood Symposium: A Home and Studio of One’s Own – Co-sponsored by HAHS

A series of presentations investigating 20th-21st-century artists who, like Grant Wood, extended their practice to creating distinctive homes and studios.
Featuring talks on HAHS artists Grant Wood, Alice Austen, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Henry Chapman Mercer.    

This conference was hosted in partnership with the Mellon Centre for the Study of British Arts and the Henry Moore Foundation,
with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art. It presented new research and scholarship centered around artists’ preserved homes
and studios in the United States and United Kingdom

Twenty-three case study presentations from the HAHS membership convening, including colleagues from preserved artists’ homes
in Britain. Made possible through grants from the Terra Foundation and Wyeth Foundation. Featuring a keynote on Georgia O’Keeffe
by HAHS Advisory Chair, Wanda Corn.