About the Speaker
Alyce Perry Englund oversees the 17th- to early 19th-century American furniture and Shaker collections at The Met. Prior to joining The Met in 2015, she worked at the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Historic New England/SPNEA. Alyce holds a BA in Art History from the University of Vermont, an MA from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, and is an alumna of The Attingham Summer School. She has published widely on early furniture and most recently authored “American Japanned Furniture at The Met,” in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (Winter 2025). Her Met exhibitions include Simple Gifts: Shaker at the Met (2016), Chippendale’s Director: The Designs and Legacy of a Furniture Maker (2018), The Calculated Curve: Eighteenth-Century American Furniture (2024), and Cottage Industry: The Val-Kill Furniture Shop (opened July 18, 2026).
