Jackie Killian
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EDUCATION
2015 M.A. Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, University of Delaware. Lois F. McNeil Fellow.
Thesis: United by Water: Cabinetmaking Traditions in the Delaware River Valley, 1670-1740
2006 M.A. History of Decorative Arts & Design, Bard Graduate Center, Bard College
Thesis: The Artifactual Life of Mr. & Mrs. Jay Gould, 1863-1892
2002 B.A. Art History; Architectural History minor, Pennsylvania State University
International Study: University of Manchester, UK (1999)
2015 M.A. Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, University of Delaware. Lois F. McNeil Fellow.
Thesis: United by Water: Cabinetmaking Traditions in the Delaware River Valley, 1670-1740
2006 M.A. History of Decorative Arts & Design, Bard Graduate Center, Bard College
Thesis: The Artifactual Life of Mr. & Mrs. Jay Gould, 1863-1892
2002 B.A. Art History; Architectural History minor, Pennsylvania State University
International Study: University of Manchester, UK (1999)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Grants Manager, Philadelphia Museum of Art (May 2017 to present)
Asst. Dir. of Major Giving and Major Gifts Officer, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library (June 2015-May 2017)
Sewell C. Biggs Curatorial Fellow, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library (June 2014-May 2015)
Curatorial Assistant & acting Collections Manager, Department of Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design,
Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY (2007-12)
Restoration Project Manager & Historian, Joseph Pell Lombardi & Associates, Architects, New York and Irvington, NY (2005-07)
NEH Curatorial Intern, Lyndhurst National Trust Historic Site, Tarrytown, NY (2004-05)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Undergraduate Summer Intern (The Cloisters), New York, NY (2001)
Grants Manager, Philadelphia Museum of Art (May 2017 to present)
Asst. Dir. of Major Giving and Major Gifts Officer, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library (June 2015-May 2017)
Sewell C. Biggs Curatorial Fellow, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library (June 2014-May 2015)
Curatorial Assistant & acting Collections Manager, Department of Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design,
Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY (2007-12)
Restoration Project Manager & Historian, Joseph Pell Lombardi & Associates, Architects, New York and Irvington, NY (2005-07)
NEH Curatorial Intern, Lyndhurst National Trust Historic Site, Tarrytown, NY (2004-05)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Undergraduate Summer Intern (The Cloisters), New York, NY (2001)
SELECT PRESENTATIONS & LECTURES BY INVITATION(**)
"Methods: Finding Enslaved Makers in Documentary Sources,” University of Delaware-Winterthur Program in American Material Culture Summer Institute (2021). **
"What Furniture Can Tell Us About Creating Home in Antebellum Northern Alabama," Colonial Williamsburg Antiques Forum (2020). **
"In the Newest Fashions, and of the Best Materials: New York's Furniture Trade in Natchez,” Natchez Antiques Forum, Natchez, MS (November 2016). **
"Crafting a New Colony: Carpentry and Joinery in the Delaware River Valley," National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, New Jersey Chapter (January 2015). **
"New York Cabinetmakers and Commercial Merchants in Natchez," Decorative Arts Trust Fall Symposium, Natchez, MS (October 2014). **
"Why Things Matter," Winterthur Institute, Winterthur Museum (September 2014, 2015); **
Osher Institute, University of Delaware (May 2015). **
"The Classical Taste in American, 1800-1840," and "Competing Interests: Revivalism in the Antebellum Gulf South,"
Classical Institute of the South Summer Field Study Orientation Program, New Orleans, LA (June 2014). **
“Finding Philadelphia Furniture and Its Patrons in the Gulf South,” with A. Nicholas Powers. Philadelphia Furniture Forum , Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE (March 2014). **
“Report on the New Acquisitions to the Collection,” Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA (2010). **
“The Stained Glass Designs of Alice Cordelia Morse (1863-1961)," American Glass Guild Conference, Buffalo, NY (2009).
"Methods: Finding Enslaved Makers in Documentary Sources,” University of Delaware-Winterthur Program in American Material Culture Summer Institute (2021). **
"What Furniture Can Tell Us About Creating Home in Antebellum Northern Alabama," Colonial Williamsburg Antiques Forum (2020). **
"In the Newest Fashions, and of the Best Materials: New York's Furniture Trade in Natchez,” Natchez Antiques Forum, Natchez, MS (November 2016). **
"Crafting a New Colony: Carpentry and Joinery in the Delaware River Valley," National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, New Jersey Chapter (January 2015). **
"New York Cabinetmakers and Commercial Merchants in Natchez," Decorative Arts Trust Fall Symposium, Natchez, MS (October 2014). **
"Why Things Matter," Winterthur Institute, Winterthur Museum (September 2014, 2015); **
Osher Institute, University of Delaware (May 2015). **
"The Classical Taste in American, 1800-1840," and "Competing Interests: Revivalism in the Antebellum Gulf South,"
Classical Institute of the South Summer Field Study Orientation Program, New Orleans, LA (June 2014). **
“Finding Philadelphia Furniture and Its Patrons in the Gulf South,” with A. Nicholas Powers. Philadelphia Furniture Forum , Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE (March 2014). **
“Report on the New Acquisitions to the Collection,” Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA (2010). **
“The Stained Glass Designs of Alice Cordelia Morse (1863-1961)," American Glass Guild Conference, Buffalo, NY (2009).
WORKSHOPS
"New York Furniture Exhibition Tour," in conjunction with Joshua Lane and Mark Anderson, Winterthur Museum Furniture Forum (March 2015)
"Philadelphia Furniture Gallery Walk," in conjunction with Brock Jobe & Stephanie Auffret, Winterthur Museum Furniture Forum (March 2014)
"New York Furniture Exhibition Tour," in conjunction with Joshua Lane and Mark Anderson, Winterthur Museum Furniture Forum (March 2015)
"Philadelphia Furniture Gallery Walk," in conjunction with Brock Jobe & Stephanie Auffret, Winterthur Museum Furniture Forum (March 2014)
PUBLICATIONS & DIGITAL PROJECTS
"The Half Not Told: Enslaved Furniture-making in Northern Alabama Prior to 1865," in Black Craftspeople on the Southern Landscape, 1650–1865 (working title), edited by Drs. Torren Gatson and Tiffany Momon (University of South Carolina Press; in progress, 2022).
United by Water: Cabinetmaking in the Delaware River Valley, 1670-1740. M.A. Thesis (University of Delaware, 2015).
“Town and Country: Early New Jersey's Carpenters & Joiners” digital project (May 2014)
"Craft and Commerce in the Early Delaware River Valley," in Delaware Antiques Show Exhibition Catalogue (November 2014).
"New Jersey Made Furniture: Fact or Fiction?" in Decorative Arts Trust Newsletter (Fall 2014).
“Selected Artist Biographies,” in Gail S. Davidson & Floramae McCarron-Cates, House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection (New York: Smithsonian Institution, 2009).
"The Half Not Told: Enslaved Furniture-making in Northern Alabama Prior to 1865," in Black Craftspeople on the Southern Landscape, 1650–1865 (working title), edited by Drs. Torren Gatson and Tiffany Momon (University of South Carolina Press; in progress, 2022).
United by Water: Cabinetmaking in the Delaware River Valley, 1670-1740. M.A. Thesis (University of Delaware, 2015).
“Town and Country: Early New Jersey's Carpenters & Joiners” digital project (May 2014)
"Craft and Commerce in the Early Delaware River Valley," in Delaware Antiques Show Exhibition Catalogue (November 2014).
"New Jersey Made Furniture: Fact or Fiction?" in Decorative Arts Trust Newsletter (Fall 2014).
“Selected Artist Biographies,” in Gail S. Davidson & Floramae McCarron-Cates, House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection (New York: Smithsonian Institution, 2009).
HONORS and AWARDS
Dewey Lee Curtis Symposium Scholar, Decorative Arts Trust, 2014
Coco Kim Travel & Research Fellowship, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, 2014
Dewey Lee Curtis Summer Research Travel Grant, Decorative Arts Trust, 2013
Classical Institute of the South Field Study Fellow, 2013
Colonial Williamsburg Antiques Forum Scholarship, 2013
Lois F. McNeil Fellow, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, University of Delaware, 2012-14
Victorian Society in America Summer School London Scholarship, 2011
Eleanor Norcross Curatorial Fellowship in Decorative Arts, Fitchburg Art Museum, 2010
Awards Juror, 68th Annual Member Exhibition, Audubon Artist Society, 2010
Victorian Society in America Summer School Newport Scholarship, 2006
Prendergast Travel Research Grant, Bard Graduate Center, 2004
Academic Fellowships, Bard Graduate Center, 2003-05
Dewey Lee Curtis Symposium Scholar, Decorative Arts Trust, 2014
Coco Kim Travel & Research Fellowship, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, 2014
Dewey Lee Curtis Summer Research Travel Grant, Decorative Arts Trust, 2013
Classical Institute of the South Field Study Fellow, 2013
Colonial Williamsburg Antiques Forum Scholarship, 2013
Lois F. McNeil Fellow, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, University of Delaware, 2012-14
Victorian Society in America Summer School London Scholarship, 2011
Eleanor Norcross Curatorial Fellowship in Decorative Arts, Fitchburg Art Museum, 2010
Awards Juror, 68th Annual Member Exhibition, Audubon Artist Society, 2010
Victorian Society in America Summer School Newport Scholarship, 2006
Prendergast Travel Research Grant, Bard Graduate Center, 2004
Academic Fellowships, Bard Graduate Center, 2003-05
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Society of Winterthur Fellows, Board of Directors (Membership Co-Chair and Mentor: 2019 to present)
National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Public Programs
Reviewer: Digital Projects for the Public (2020); and Public Humanities Projects (2018).
Victorian Society New York, Board of Directors (2008-11):
Awards Committee and Membership Committee Chair (2009-11)
Society of Winterthur Fellows, Board of Directors (Membership Co-Chair and Mentor: 2019 to present)
National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Public Programs
Reviewer: Digital Projects for the Public (2020); and Public Humanities Projects (2018).
Victorian Society New York, Board of Directors (2008-11):
Awards Committee and Membership Committee Chair (2009-11)
SKILLS
PROFESSIONAL: Project management, budgeting, grant-writing, grant management, grant administration, donor cultivation, exhibition planning & development, historical research, editing, processing loans, acquisitions; digital photography, materials identification, proper care and handling of objects.
DIGITAL: MS/Mac environments, collection database software (TMS, EMU, Past Perfect), Adobe products, Raiser’s Edge, MS Office, Google Drive, Dropbox, SharePoint, virtual meeting platforms, social media, Basecamp and Asana web-based project management software.
LANGUAGES: Elementary proficiency in German and Italian; some reading ability in German
PROFESSIONAL: Project management, budgeting, grant-writing, grant management, grant administration, donor cultivation, exhibition planning & development, historical research, editing, processing loans, acquisitions; digital photography, materials identification, proper care and handling of objects.
DIGITAL: MS/Mac environments, collection database software (TMS, EMU, Past Perfect), Adobe products, Raiser’s Edge, MS Office, Google Drive, Dropbox, SharePoint, virtual meeting platforms, social media, Basecamp and Asana web-based project management software.
LANGUAGES: Elementary proficiency in German and Italian; some reading ability in German
