Directory

Industry Experience

• Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator of American Decorative Arts & Sculpture Emeritus, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Consulting Curator and Editor of the Portsmouth Marine Society Press, Portsmouth Historical Society, Portsmouth, NH

Exhibitions

• 2019 – Curator, “New Hampshire Folk Art: By the People, for the People, and Contemporary NH Folk Art with the League of NH Craftsmen,” Discover Portsmouth Center, April 5-September 29, 2019
• 2011 – “Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass.” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, April 10, 2011-August 7, 2011
• 2010 – Co-Curator. Art of the Americas Wing. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, permanent installation, opened November 2010
• 2003 – Co-curator. “The Maker’s Hand: American Studio Furniture, 1940-1990.” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, November 2003-February 2004

Publications & Presentations

• 2019 – New Hampshire Folk Art: By the People, For the People, and Contemporary NH Folk Art with the League of NH Craftsmen. Portsmouth Marine Society Press, no. 40. Portsmouth, Portsmouth Historical Society
• 2018 – “Northern Circles: An Innu Ceremonial Robe.” In Pat Warner and Gerald W.R. Ward, eds., American History, Art, and Culture: Writings in Honor of Jonathan Leo Fairbanks (Brockton, Mass.: Fuller Craft Museum, 2018), 96-99
• 2016 – Co-editor and contributor. Boston Furniture, 1700-1900. Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts
• 2016 – Paul Revere: Sons of Liberty Bowl. Boston: MFA Publications
• 2008 – Editor, The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art. New York: Oxford University Press

Awards & Recognitions

• 2013 – Wendell D. Garrett Award, Winterthur Museum

Professional Affiliations

• 1990-present – Editorial Board, American Furniture
• 2013 to 2019 – President, National Council, Strawbery Banke Museum (Elected to Council in 2003)
• 2018, 2016, 2014, 2012 – Elected New Hampshire State Representative, Portsmouth Ward 4 (Rockingham County District 28)
• 2017, 2015, 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2005, 2003 – Elected for two year terms as Clerk and/or Moderator, Ward 4, City of Portsmouth, NH
• 2015 – Elected Board Member, Piscataqua Decorative Arts Society
• 2013 – Elected Fellow, Massachusetts Historical Society
• 2013 – Elected New Hampshire Furniture Masters Association
• 2013 – Elected Advisory Board Member, Historic New England
• 2011 – Elected National Council Member, Newport Historical Society
• 1989 to 2008 – Editorial Board, Winterthur Portfolio
• 2003 – Fellow, The Pilgrim Society, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Elected 2003)
• 1992-2002 – President, The Decorative Arts Society, Inc.
• 2001 – Elected to The Colonial Society of Massachusetts
• 1994-1995 – Editorial Board, Journal of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• 1991, 1996 – Percent for Art Selection Committee, New Hampshire State Council on the Art (Served as Expert on New Hampshire antiquities)
• 1991, 1993 – Board of Directors, Portsmouth Athenaeum (Elected 1988)
• 1993,1986 – Chair, Montgomery Award/Prize Committee
• 1984, 1976 – General Commission on Archives and History, The United Methodist Church