2025 Summer Institute Final Presentations

Friday, June 27
10:00am - 3:00pm

James A. Gray Auditorium,
Old Salem Visitor Center
900 Old Salem Road
Winston-Salem, NC  27101

For forty-eight years the MESDA Summer Institute has trained the next generation of southern decorative arts scholars.  Please join us from 10:00am - 3:00pm on Friday, June 27 as the 2025 MESDA Summer Institute students present their original research.  The 2025 Summer Institute emphasizes the objects, buildings, and landscapes of the Chesapeake, as well as the people who created them.

Event generously sponsored by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of North Carolina.