Ohioana Citation for Historic Preservation of Decorative Arts: 2005
Sue Studebaker, Dayton OH
Sue Studebaker has
presented lectures, courses and symposiums on Ohio decorative arts throughout the Midwest, most notably at Colonial
Williamsburg and at various museums in Ohio. She also served as curator for the Ohio Sampler exhibit at the Warren County Historical Society in 1988 and the
Ohio Is My Dwelling Place exhibit at the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio in Lancaster in 2003.
Along with articles in Early American Homes and Ohio Antique Review, she has written two books on needlework:
Ohio Samplers: Schoolgirl Embroideries, 1803-1850, and Ohio Is My Dwelling Place: Schoolgirl Embroideries,
1800-1850.
In 1988, she received the Award of Achievement from the Ohio Association of Historical Societies and Museums, and in 1996, the
Montgomery County Historical Society presented her and her husband Richard with its Heritage Award for their restoration of Quaker Hill, their
1797-built home and Dayton-area landmark.
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