Join Homewood Museum for the grand opening of its new exhibition,Naturally Beautiful: Uncovering Nature in the Nineteenth-Century Home. Explore the museum-wide exhibition, enjoy refreshments in the Wine Cellar, and hear a special talk by Dr. Laura Turner Igoe, Curator of American Art at the Michener Art Museum, titled “A Mass of Materials: An Eco-critical Approach to Early American Decorative Arts.”

Laura Turner Igoe, Ph.D., is the Curator of American Art at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. She specializes in American art and material culture of the long nineteenth century, and its engagement with environmental conditions and change. She is the co-editor of A Greene Country Towne: Philadelphia’s Ecology in the Cultural Imagination, and she has contributed essays to the journals American Art, Panorama, Common-place, and the award-winning exhibition catalog Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment.