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Page Talbott is Associate Director and Chief Curator of the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary. The international traveling exhibition will open in Philadelphia on October 6, 2005, and will circulate to several venues in the United States and abroad. In addition, she is an independent curator and decorative and fine arts consultant for museums, historical societies, and historic house museums. Recent clients include the Owens-Thomas House and the Davenport House in Savannah, the Decatur House in Washington, and Rockwood Mansion in Wilmington, Delaware. Talbott also serves as Senior Arts and Culture Consultant to The Barra Foundation. She was co-editor (with Katharine Martinez) of and contributor to Philadelphia's Cultural Landscape: The Sartain Family Legacy, published by Temple University Press in 2000 (winner of the Ewall Newman Award from the American Historical Print Collectors Association and the Philadelphia Book Guild Award). In 2000, she curated the exhibition Two Hundred Years of Caring: The Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital, which received awards from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and the American Association of State and Local History. In 1999 she curated Boston in the Age of Neoclassicism and wrote the essay for the catalogue of the same name. In 1998 she co-curated the traveling exhibition The Philadelphia Ten: A Women's Artist Group, 1917-1945 and co-authored the catalogue of the same name. She was the guest curator for Classical Savannah: Fine and Decorative Arts 1800-1840 at the Telfair Museum in 1995 and author of the accompanying catalogue. She has lectured and written on a variety of topics, including the Classical Revival in America, Victorian furniture, Boston classical furniture, furnishing the historic house museum, and women's art education. She has published articles, reviews, and essays. Page Talbott holds a B.A. from Wellesley College, an M.A. from the University of Delaware/ Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania. |