Museum admission / free for members 

Lecture begins at 6pm 

Art After Hours mixes art and entertainment every third Thursday of the month. Visit exhibitions, create art, and socialize with friends! Hyde Members and a guest are invited to join us for our Member Mixer on March 19 from 5 to 8 pm. Mingle with your fellow members, view the special exhibitions, and munch on light refreshments. Hyde members can also enjoy a 20% discount on Museum shop items! 

Sana Arif will explore A Seat at the Table: Hospitality and Fine Dining in Gilded Age Upstate New York, an exhibition drawn from the museum’s decorative arts collection. Focusing on porcelain, silver lusterware, and imported Chinese wares, the talk will examine how dining objects functioned as tools of social performance, refinement, and identity among elite households. Additionally, Sana will reflect on her experience curating the exhibition and working behind the scenes as an intern at The Hyde Collection, offering insight into the research, interpretation, and decision-making that shaped the show. 

Sana Arif was the summer curatorial and collections intern at The Hyde Collection and a Senior art history student at Skidmore College, with interests in material culture, museum studies, and domestic histories. She curated A Seat at the Table: Hospitality and Fine Dining in Gilded Age Upstate New York, an exhibition examining how dining objects shaped social rituals and expressions of status. Her work focuses on translating everyday objects into accessible, historically grounded museum narratives. 

Isadora Fuller is an Art History student at Skidmore College who has worked with The Hyde Collection during the fall 2025 semester to organize, catalogue, and curate French Prints from The Tobin Sparling Collection, an exhibition featuring nineteenth-century French prints from the recent Sparling Family donation. Her academic work is complemented by hands-on experience through curatorial and gallery internships, where she has conducted original research, catalogued works on paper, and written texts for exhibitions. Fluent in French and English, she brings a transnational perspective to her scholarship, with particular interest in modern print culture, museum practice, and the histories of display.

Isadora will present on the collection that she helped to curate, examining nineteenth-century French prints and their cultural, artistic, and historical contexts.

Thank you to our food and beverage partner Ledge Rock Hill Winery.