Rienzi Symposium | Skillful Hands
William Hogarth, Industry and Idleness, Plate I: The Fellow ‘Prentices at Their Looms, October 1747, etching and engraving, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston.
November 9, 2024
The 2024 Rienzi Symposium, “Skillful Hands: Apprentices and Networks of Learning 1650–1950,” explores the networks of learning available—and unavailable—to diverse groups of people, examining how access to training and materials through apprenticeships shaped craft traditions. Selected participants present their research.
The symposium takes place on the MFAH main campus in Lynn Wyatt Theater, located in the Kinder Building. A live stream of the event can be accessed here.
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Education programs at Rienzi receive generous funding from the Sterling-Turner Foundation; Alkek and Williams Foundation; Carroll Sterling and Harris Masterson III Endowment; and the Caroline Wiess Law Endowment for Rienzi.