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Professor, History of Art; Chair, History of Art Program | Wheaton College
Keynote | Only Connect: Storytelling and Place
R. Tripp Evans is Professor and Chair of the History of Art Department at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, where he specializes in American material culture and historic preservation. He earned his BA in architectural history from the University of Virginia and his Ph.D. in the History of Art from Yale University, where he was named the Henry S. McNeil Fellow in American Decorative Arts. The author of three books, he is a recipient of the National Award for Arts Writing. Prof. Evans is a frequent public lecturer on topics ranging from historic preservation to house museums to LGBTQ+ history, and in 2017 Governor Gina Raimondo appointed him State Commissioner on the Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission. Today he will offer us a glimpse of his current curatorial partnership with Historic New England, an exhibition that will open at the organization’s Eustis Estate in June 2024.
