"'A Marvel of Woman's Ingenious and Intellectual Industry': The Adeline Harris Sears Autograph Quilt"

Amelia Peck graduated from Brown University, and received an MS in Historic Preservation from Columbia University. Her areas of expertise include American textiles and period rooms. In her more than 40 years at The Met, she has curated numerous exhibitions and installations, and has been the author or general editor of many publications, including Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500–1800 (2013). Since 2010, she has also been responsible for new research on the history of the American Wing’s period rooms that has been published on the Museum’s website; it also appears on the period-room interactive computers.