WEBINAR| Hidden Collections: The Story of Charity and Sylvia

WEBINAR: Hidden Collections: The Story of Charity and Sylvia

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Join us for a conversation with Eva Garcelon-Hart, the Stewart Swift Research Center Archivist, about her work with Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake’s papers. This collection of papers details the relationship of Charity and Sylvia as they lived as “husband and wife” in Weybridge, Vermont. Discover how these papers found their way to the Research Center and the impact Charity and Sylvia’s story has had on the museum and the history of New England.

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About the Speaker:

Eva has overseen the Sheldon Museum Stewart-Swift Research Center archival collections since 2011. She earned her Master’s Degree in History of Art and MLIS from the University of California at Berkeley. Since the mid-1980s, she has worked for institutional and private archives, including that of Nobel Laureate Czesław Miłosz and The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. In 1999 she moved to Vermont, where she worked as a consultant for the Vermont State Archives, Vermont Folklife Center, and artists’ estates. In her work at the Research Center, she is particularly interested in bringing to public attention its overlooked stories and collections through exhibits and public programing.