Google Readertag:google.com,2005:reader/user/11035256590072449650/label/MESDA EventsMuseum of Early Southern Decorative Arts2009-11-13T14:17:30Ztag:google.com,2005:reader/item/4df3c9de6d810c7e2009-11-13T14:17:30Z2009-11-13T14:17:30Z<h2><span style="font-weight:bold">October 1, 2009 - March 31, 2010</span><span style="font-weight:bold"><br><a href="http://mesda.org/programs_sprite/prog_calendar_sprite/mesda_a-land-of-liberty-and-plenty-georgia-decorative-arts-1733-1860.html">Douglas Gallery Exhibition: <br>"A Land of Liberty and Plenty": Georgia Decorative Arts, 1733 - 1860</a></span></h2><p style="text-align:left">See some of MESDA's newest objects and explore the diverse decorative arts traditions of Georgia, the last of Great Britain's North American colonies and the center of the modern American South.</p><hr><h2>February 26 - 27, 2010</h2><h2><a href="http://mesda.org/programs_sprite/prog_calendar_sprite/mesda_mesda-furniture-seminar.html">MESDA Furniture Seminar<br>Mechanics, Masters, Builders &amp; Businessmen: <br>Making furniture in the early South</a></h2><p>MESDA&#39;s 2010 Furniture Seminar will explore the complex world of the southern cabinetmakers&#39; trade from the city to the country and from the indentured artisan to the master of a large shop. Featured will be the work of Baltimore inlay makers, master builder William Buckland and his carver William Bernard Sears, North Carolina cabinetmaker Thomas Day and the Burgner family of east Tennessee. The seminar will also include an open house in the MESDA collection. .  </p><hr><h2>March 18 - 19, 2010 </h2><h2><a href="http://mesda.org/programs_sprite/prog_calendar_sprite/mesda_mesda-textile-seminar.html">MESDA Textile Seminar</a></h2><p>Celebrate the opening of MESDA's new textile gallery with a look at new findings in Southern needlework and textiles.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MESDAEvents/~4/zXeYAv3k7VA" height="1" width="1"/>(author unknown)tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/11035256590072449650/source/com.google/linkhttp://mesda.org/programs_sprite/mesda_prog_calendar_sprite.html