12.05.2025 — I presented our “States of the Union” exhibition to the coverlet study group that meets monthly on Zoom. The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. This exhibition honors that milestone with representative coverlet selections from sixteen different states of the early nation.

09.29.2025 — On Friday, I taught a workshop on weave structures (click HERE for the handout). I also gave a talk on Sunday about the Coverlet Documentation Project.

On Saturday, SVC junior Jonah Weaver delivered a talk entitled “He Can Do It Good: Coverlet Weavers of the Central Susquehanna Valley.”

05.03.2025 — I gave an overview of the McCarl Coverlet Gallery’s history and current initiatives at the annual meeting of the Colonial Coverlet Guild, which was hosted this year by the McCarl Gallery.

04.04.2025 — I presented the “Practically (Im)perfect” exhibition to the coverlet study group that meets monthly on Zoom.

From mismatched seams to skipped threads to ‘typos’ in the signatures, this exhibition lovingly celebrates the imperfections that reveal the maker’s hand, preserved in the fabric from his loom.

03.27.2025 — I delivered an informal talk at Ligonier Vallery Historical Society’s Compass Inn Museum in Laughlintown, PA. After a brief introduction to 19th-century coverlets and their weavers, I presented the coverlets in the LVHS collection, which we had photographed several months earlier, with brief commentary on each.

01.03.2024 — I presented the “Flights of Fancy” exhibition to the coverlet study group that meets monthly on Zoom.

From pheasants and turkeys to homely passenger pigeons and exotic birds-of-paradise, this exhibition pairs coverlets with the field guide prints that may have inspired their designs.

10.17.2024 — I presented an introduction to 19th-century coverlets and their weavers to the Chestnut Ridge Historical Society in Stahlstown, PA.

9.28.2024 — I presented my preliminary work on the coverlet pattern index in a talk entitled “A Rose By Any Other Name.” This work has transformed since that time into The Coverlet Index online wiki.

11.3.2023 — I presented an overview of the current state of the Foster and Muriel McCarl Coverlet Gallery, about six months after starting my role as the new curator.