A ticket includes the guided tour and admission to the Museum. Tours will meet in the Welcome Center near the Admission Desk.

Decorative Arts: The Art of the Everyday
Friday, November 13, 1 pm  

Meet Amy Simon Hopwood, Associate Curator, Decorative Arts  

Amy Simon Hopwood is the Associate Curator of Decorative Arts at The Newark Museum of Art. She oversees the collections of American and European ceramics, clothing, furniture, glass, jewelry, metals, organic materials, studio craft, textiles, tools, toys, and works on paper, as well as four historic buildings. She co-managed the 2021-2023 restoration and reinterpretation of The Ballantine House (1885) and has developed exhibitions including Unexpected Color: A Journey Through Glass; Four Quiltmakers, Four American Stories; ReVision and Respond: 2021 New Jersey Arts Annual; Innovators in Southwestern Jewelry, and Diversity in Sand and Clay. She was the first Costume and Textile Curator at the San Diego Historical Society and taught Honors courses on social history and gender studies at Long Island University, Brooklyn. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from Amherst College and a MA from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture at the University of Delaware.