Wyck-Strickland Award

Wyck Honors Dr. Page Talbott as the 2024 Wyck-Strickland Awardee

Thursday, November 14, 2024 | Merion Tribute House, Merion Station, PA

5:30pm Cocktail Reception
7:00pm Dinner and Award Presentation

Award Chair: Ros Remer

Address
Merion Tribute House
625 Hazelhurst Ave, Merion Station, PA 19066

Attire
The suggested dress is business or cocktail attire.

Parking
Free parking is available in the parking lot just beyond the Tribute House. The Tribute House is also within walking distance of the Merion Station on SEPTA’s R-5 line.

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About the Awardee:

Page Talbott is a cultural and social historian with an emphasis on American material culture. With a B.A. from Wellesley College, an M.A. from the University of Delaware/Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania, her work includes producing historic furnishing and interpretive plans for historic sites, creating exhibitions, and strategic and institutional planning.

Talbott is currently the Director of Museum Outreach at Drexel University’s Lenfest Center for Cultural Partnerships and is project director for the Atwater Kent Collection Evaluation. The Atwater Kent team has curated the exhibition Philadelphia Revealed, Unpacking the Attic, on view from July 18 to December 1 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

In addition to the current exhibition, Talbott has curated numerous other landmark exhibitions: Seeing Philadelphia at PAFA in 2023, A Seat at the Table, the Vision 2020 exhibition commemorating the centennial of the 19^th Amendment at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts; Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World,” the international traveling exhibition commemorating the anniversary of Franklin’s 300th birthday (2003-2008);The Philadelphia Ten: A Women’s Artist Group, and Philadelphia’s Cultural Landscape: The Sartain Family. From 2013 to June 2016, she served as President of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Among her career highlights was the creation of the content for the Benjamin Franklin Museum at Franklin Court. 

She was selected as a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania by Governor Wolf and was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society. She has served on the boards of the Conservation Center for Art and Historical Artifacts, Wyck Historic House, garden, & Farm, and on the Academic Affairs Committee of Winterthur Museum, among others.

The Wyck-Strickland award honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the cultural life of Philadelphia through work that reflects a drive for progress and modernity with a sensitivity to the past. 

About the Award

The Wyck-Strickland Award Dinner has been Wyck’s annual benefit for over 30 years.  The Award is inspired by the balance of tradition and innovation created at Wyck when architect William Strickland remodeled the house in 1824 for his friends, then residents Jane and Reuben Haines.  The award honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the cultural life of Philadelphia through work that reflects a drive for progress and modernity and a sensitivity to the past. This honor has evolved over the years to include architects, landscape architects, engineers, urban planners, historians, museum curators, and librarians. All share a love of Philadelphia and its rich history and cultural life.

Previous Recipients