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Across the Pacific: Eastern Inspiration in Gilded Age Craft

Lora Jean Kilroy Center, MFAH 6003 Memorial Drive, Houston

Benjamin Miller will share how the latter part of the 19th century saw a furious exchange of commerce and aesthetics between America and Asia. Nowhere was this more influential than in the decorative arts, where visual vocabulary and technical abilities rapidly proliferated between continents. In America, craftspeople wasted no time incorporating these fresh ideas into their practice, leading to an explosion of creativity and innovation.