Lectures

May 12 and June 9, 2018, Tour of Stained-Glass in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY.

March 16, 2018, Stained Glass in New York, Lotos Club, New York, NY.

January 23, 2018, Stained Glass of John La Farge, National Arts Club, New York, NY.

November 6, 2017, Stained Glass in New York, Lotos Club, New York, NY.

October 3, 2017, “Tiffany Day,” American Appraisers Association, New York, NY.

February 21, 2017, New York: Birthplace of American Stained Glass, General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York.

March 3, 2016, Comments on restroration of stained glass window City Hall, Holyoke, MA, for Historical Commis-sion fundraiser.

September 17-19, 2015, Stained Glass in Pittsburgh, Arts & Crafts Conference, Initiatives in Art and Culture, Pittsburgh, PA

June 4, 2015, Storied Windows Richly Dight: Stained Glass of Detroit, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI.

April 29, 2015, Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park annual lecture, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO.

November 9, How Stained Glass Windows are Made, St. Mary's-on-the-Highlands, Birmingham, AL.

March 11, 2014, The Berkshire Glass Works, (with William Patriquin), Sand Lake, NY, Historical Society.

October 18, 2013, Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Annual Conference, Grand Rapids, MI.

October 14, 2013, Stained Glass Restoration in New York: Recent (and not so recent) Projects, Association for Preservation Technology Annual Conference, New York, NY.

July 16 and August 6, 2013, Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright, Landmarks of America Work-shops, Mason City, IA.

May 14, 2013, Frederic Crowninshield: A Renaissance Man in the Gilded Age, Victorian Society of America, New York, NY.

July 25, 2012, The Berkshire Glass Works, (with William Patriquin), Museum of the Gilded Age, Ventfort Hall, Lenox, MA.

July 21, 2012, John La Farge’s Stained Glass in Pittsburgh and Sewickly, PA, (with Dr. James Yarnall), American Glass Guild annual conference, Pittsburgh, PA

July 20, 2012, Member of Panel Discussion on Restoration Standards for Stained Glass, American Glass Guild annual conference, Pittsburgh, PA

June 14, 2012, The Stained Glass and Rivalry Between John La Farge and Louis Comfort Tiffany, Springfield Museum, Springfield, MA

March 29, 2012, Frederic Crowninshield: A Renaissance Man in the Gilded Age, (with Gertrude deG. Wilmers), Chilton Club, Boston, MA

March 22, 2012, Frederic Crowninshield: A Renaissance Man in the Gilded Age, (with Gertrude deG. Wilmers), First Congregational Church, Providence, RI.

May 17, 2011, Frederic Crowninshield: A Renaissance Man in the Gilded Age, (with Gertrude deG. Wilmers), Boston Atheneum, Boston, MA

April 29, 2011, Stockbridge’s Frederic Crowninshield: A Renaissance Man, (with Gertrude deG. Wilmers), Ventfort Hall, Lenox, MA.

October 16, 2010, Restoring Grace Church: The Craft and Preservation of Stained Glass, Grace Church in New York, NY

October 3, 2010, The Rose and the Sumac: The Stained Glass of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Frank Lloyd Wright, 400th Anniversary of Scottish Glassmaking, Edinburgh

September 30, 2010, The Rose and the Sumac: The Stained Glass of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society, Glasgow

April 10, 2010, Docents Training, Wilderstein, Rhinebeck, NY

March 22, 2010, History of Stained Glass in America, Glass Conference, Cambridge, MA

March 4, 2010, Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA

November 13, 2009, The History of Stained Glass as Illustrated by Scenes of the Nativity, Society of the Crèche, Salt Lake City, UT.

October 6, 2009, The Stained Glass of John La Farge, The Metropolitan Glass Club, New York, NY.

June 1-3, 2009, Poster: Twentieth-Century Hazards in Stained Glass: Asbestos, Forum for the Conservation and Restoration of Stained-Glass Windows, Corpus Vitrearum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

March 13, 2009, The Berkshire Glass Works: First Makers of Cathedral Glass in the US, Association for Preservation Technology, Northeast Chapter, Symposium and Annual Meeting, 2009, Boston.

July 31, 2008, Early Twentieth Century Stained Glass, and Stained Glass Restoration at St. Thomas Church, New York, NY: The Whitefriars Windows, Annual Conference, British Society of Master Glass Painters, London.

June 21, 2008, Stained Glass in Cincinnati, Arts & Crafts Conference, Cincinnati Art Museum.

March 29, 2008, Stained Glass in Detroit, for the conference, "Life's Pleasures: The Ashcan Artists' Brush with Leisure, 1895-1925," Detroit Institute of Arts.

March 28, 2008, Stained Glass in Detroit and in the DIA Collections; Circa 1900: Celebrating American Turn-of-the-Century Arts, March 27 - 31, 2008, Detroit Institute of Arts.

January 27, 2008, The Worship of Wealth: Stained Glass in the Mansions of the Wealthy, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MA.

August 8, 2007, Stained Glass of the Berkshires, Museum of the Gilded Age, Ventfort Hall, Lenox, MA.

April 10, 2007, Frank Lloyd Wright in the Light of His Contemporaries and Frank Lloyd Wright's Light Screens: How They Were Made, Price Tower, Bartlesville, OK.

December, 2006, Tiffany and La Farge, Unitarian Universalist Church, Amherst, MA.

Sept. 16, 2006, Focus Session: Stained, Leaded, and Art Glass, Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Annual Meeting, Southfield, MI.

July, 2006, Tiffany and La Farge, Museum of the Gilded Age, Ventfort Hall, Lenox, MA. June 21-26, Crystallization of Form: The Leaded Glass of the Prairie School, Arts & Crafts Conference, Initiatives in Art and Culture, Minneapol-lis, MN

June 3, 2006, Stained Glass Tour, Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, NY.

July, 2006, Tiffahy and La Farge, Museum of the Gilded Age, Ventfort Hall, Lenox, MA.

Oct. 18, 2005, Parables of Sunlight: Arts & Crafts Stained Glass, Sidney D. Gamble Lecture, Friends of the Gamble House, Pasadena, CA

June 17, 2005: Parables of Sunlight: Arts & Crafts Stained Glass, Crafting Community conference, Initiatives in Art and Culture, New York University, Buffalo, NY

April 9, 2005: Paint, Paper, Stone: The Stained Glass Techniques of John La Farge, Cherries Jubliee Conference, Yale University and New York University

April 16, 2005: Tour, Suburban Glass: Stained Glass in Westchester, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

April 9, 2005, Paint, Paper, Stone: The Stained Glass Techniques of John La Farge, Cherries Jubliee Conference, Yale University and New York University

February 28, 2005, Paint, Paper, Stone: The Stained Glass Techniques of John La Farge, Worshipful Company of Glaziers Annual Lecture, London Review

February 28, 2005, Conservation of American Stained Glass, Annual Meeting of the British Society of Master Glass Painters, London

January 13-February 18, 2005, Stained Glass, Berkshire Institute for Lifelong Learning, Pittsfield, MA

January 22, 2005, Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS

October 26, 2004, "Frank Lloyd Wright's Light Screens," Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan, Tokyo, Japan

March 11, 2004, "Restoration of Opalescent Windows," Thursday Morning Club, Lenox, MA.

March 7, 2004, "History of Stained Glass in America," St. Peter's Catholic Church, Great Barrington, MA

November 23, 2003, "A Luminous Art," Eldridge Street Synagogue Lecture Series, New York, NY

June 28, 2003, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Associatiates, "Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright."

January 30, 2003, "Tiffany and La Farge," Saratoga Historical Society.

December 4, 2002, One day training session, Technical Services Division, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Peebles Island, NY.

October 3-5, 2002, "Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright," Orange County Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA.

June 20, 2002, "John La Farge as a Designer of Stained Glass," NYU Appraisal Studies in Fine and Decorative Arts, Sources and Inspiration: Boston as a Beacon for the American Arts and Crafts Movement.

May 6, 2002, "The Stained Glass of John La Farge," Westchester Glass Club, White Plains, NY

May 4, 2002, "Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright," Pleasant Home, Oak Park, IL

March 5, 2002, "Wright's Light Screens in the Light of his Contemporaries," Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA

February 12, 2002, "Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright," Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA

November 14, 2001, "History of Stained Glass in America," Charles J. Connick Memorial Lecture, Boston Public Library

June, 2001, Arts & Crafts Conference, Chicago, IL, for New York University, Appraisal Studies Program, "Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright"

June, 2001, Museum of American Craft and Christie's, New York, in association with my exhibit, "Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright"

April, 2001, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Historic Preservation Program, "Conservation of Stained Glass."

October 1, 2000, St. John's Episcopal Church, Williamstown, MA. Discussion of their windows.

May 11, 2000, Stained Glass Workshop, Alabama Preservation Alliance, Montgomery, AL.

April 26, 2000, Arts & Crafts Society of Central New York, "The Sumac and the Rose: Stained Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright and Charles Rennie Mackintosh."

April, 2000, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Historic Preservation Program, "Conservation of Stained Glass."

March 5, 2000, Saratoga Preservation Exposition, "Caring for Stained Glass Windows."

September, 1999. "American Opalescent Window Glass: Composition and Deterioration Issues," Glass and Ceramics Group, 12th Triennial ICOM-C meeting, Lyon, France.

September, 1999. "Sumac and the Rose: Stained Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright and Charles Rennie Mackintosh", The Corning Museum of Glass and The Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY.

September, 1999. "A History of Stained Glass and its use in Decoration at St. John the Evangelist in Barrytown, St. Margaret’s in Staatsburg and Wilderstein", Twelfth Annual Country Seats Tour.

May, 1999. Guest lecture for the Building Conservation class at Columbia University.

May, 1999. "Stained Glass Restoration for Building Owners", The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, Waltham, MA

March, 1999. " Luminous Color and Radiant Light: Reflections on Tiffany and Simmons Stained Glass, The Springfield Museums, Springfield, MA.

May, 1998. "Environmental Effects on Installations of Restored Plated American Stained Glass Windows," Scottish Society for Conservation and Restoration, Dundee, Scotland.

September 17-19, 1997 "Living with Frank Lloyd Wright's Art Glass," Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Annual Conference, Buffalo, New York. Call the Conservancy office at (312) 663-1786 for further information.

May, 1998. "Conservation issues for American Plated Stained Glass Windows Reinstalled in Buildings," Scottish Society for Conservation and Restoration, Dundee, Scotland.

February, 1997. "Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright." Westchester (NY) Glass Club, White Plains, NY.

March, 1997. "Stained Glass Restoration," Congregation Shearith Israel, New York, NY. Sponsored by the Sacred Sites Program, New York Landmarks Conservancy.

April, 1997. "The Stained Glass of John La Farge and Louis Comfort Tiffany."Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY.

April, 1997. "History of Stained Glass in America." Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY.

October, 1996. "The Stained Glass of John La Farge." Hermitage Auxiliary, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA.

October, 1996. "Conservation of La Farge and Tiffany Windows." Glass Club, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA.

October, 1996. "Conserving 20th Century Materials: Skylights in New York's City Hall Subway Station." Restoration'96 , Chicago, IL.

June, 1996. "The Stained Glass Windows of St. Columba's Chapel, Middletown, RI," Symposium on The Berkeley Memorial, St. Columba's Chapel, Middletown, RI.

April, 1996. "Tour of Stained Glass in New York Churches." Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY.

February, 1996. "Preparing for Stained Glass Restoration." Sacred Sites Program, New York Landmarks Conservancy, Interchurch Center, New York, NY.

January, 1996. "History of Early Stained Glass in New York." Morris Jumel Mansion, New York, NY.

October, 1995. "Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright," Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA.

September, 1995. "The Worship of Wealth: Stained Glass in the Homes of America's Wealthy," Winterthur Conference, Winterthur Museum, DE.

June, 1995. "Art Glass by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Robie House: A Procedure for Condition Analysis." Annual Meeting of the American Institute for Conservation, St. Paul, MN.

May, 1995. "Conservation of John La Farge's Stained Glass." Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY.

April, 1995. "Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright." Arts & Crafts Society of Central New York, Syracuse, NY.

April, 1995. "History of Stained Glass." Alabama Constitution Village, Huntsville, AL.

May, 1994. "Frank Lloyd Wright's Leaded Glass." National Glass Seminar, Winter Park, FL.

April, 1994. "Conservation Issues of 19th Century European Windows." Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

December, 1993: Restoration'93, Boston, MA. "Stained Glass Restoration at Harvard University's Memorial Hall;" "Tiffany and La Farge: Restoration Case Studies."

October, 1993: American Standards and Testing Materials Annual Conference, Fort Worth, TX. "Specifications for Stained Glass Restoration."

September, 1993, Association for Preservation Technology Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Canada. "Stained Glass Restoration at Harvard University's Memorial Hall."

June, 1993: American Institute for Conservation, Denver, CO. "Conservation Issues in John La Farge's Stained Glass Windows."

February, 1993. Art Institute of Chicago. "Analysis of the windows of Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House."

September, 1992. Association for Preservation Technology Annual Conference: Three day Training Session, Stained Glass Conservation.

June, 1992. World Glass Congress, Reno, NV. "Light Screens: The Leaded Glass Windows of Frank Lloyd Wright."

September, 1991. Museum of American Craft, New York. "Light Screens: The Leaded Glass Windows of Frank Lloyd Wright."