The 2015 David B. Warren Symposium on American Material Culture and the Texas Experience

“Creators and Consumers: Women and Material Culture and Visual Art in 19th-Century Texas, the Lower South, and the Southwest”

Keynote Address:
Carving Out Creative Enterprise as a Woman in 19th-Century Texas 
Paula Mitchell Marks, professor of American studies, St. Edward's University
A reception follows.

Image: Unknown, Beaded Purse, c. 1843, glass beads, nickel silver, and textile support, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Bayou Bend Collection, gift of William J. Hill.