March 27, 2022 2:00 pm
Head to Strasburg to celebrate 250 years of Shenandoah County history with a look at the arts of Strasburg with MSV Curator of Collections Nick Powers. Drawing from the MSV collection and others, this presentation will survey some of the best examples of fine, decorative, and folk art, and material culture produced in the Strasburg area from the 1700s through the present day.
Free. Register by March 26; visit www.theMSV.org or call 540-662-1473, ext. 240. This program takes place at Strasburg Square, 216 E. King St., Strasburg, VA. This program is part of the Strasburg MSV Sampler Series supported in part by an award from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the Town of Strasburg.
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Nick Powers is a native of Winchester and became interested in the history and material culture of the Shenandoah Valley at a young age. Nick completed his undergraduate work at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, where he majored in History and minored in Historical Archaeology. While with the JMU Archaeology Department, Nick assisted in the excavations at the nearby Cedar Creek Battlefield. Nick later graduated from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware. There he completed his Master’s thesis on early cabinetmaking in Winchester and Frederick County. After leaving Winterthur, Nick returned home to join the staff of the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley as Curator of Collections. There he oversees, researches, and exhibits the fine and decorative arts of the Shenandoah Valley ranging from the earliest settlements to the present day. Nick is a three-time graduate of the MESDA Summer Institute and participated in the Classical Institute of the South Field Research Fellowship, a program that documents objects made and used in the nineteenth-century Gulf South.