Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color opens to the public today at the Renwick Gallery. Day was a free African American who owned and operated one of North Carolina's most successful cabinet shops prior to the Civil War. Beginning in the 1820s, he produced fine furniture for prominent citizens, and was noted for both designing interior spaces and the furnishings. The exhibition presents items created in his shop, as well as photographs of his architectural work.
Installing Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color
If you're in D.C. there's a gallery talk and book signing today at noon with Jo Ramsay Leimenstoll, co-author of the exhibition catalogue and professor and historic preservation coordinator at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. See our online calendar for more info.