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JEFFREY S. EVANS
PRESIDENT, PRINCIPAL AUCTIONEER & SPECIALIST

 Ron Blunt Photography

Jeff Evans' expertise in early American glass and 18th and 19th century Shenandoah Valley furniture and decorative arts is recognized throughout Virginia and across the United States. He has worked as an appraiser and consultant for Virginia collections at the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace in Staunton, the Stonewall Jackson House in Lexington, the Frontier Culture Museum in Staunton, the Shenandoah Valley Folk Art and Heritage Center in Dayton, and the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley in Winchester. Some of the numerous national institutions with which Evans has worked closely include the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY, the Sandwich Glass Museum in Sandwich, MA, the Museum of American Glass in WV, and the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) in Winston Salem, NC.

Jeff Evans is on the Board of Directors at the Museum of American Glass in WV, and for more than fifteen years Jeff served on the board at the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society where he was also the head of the Shenandoah Valley Folk Art & Heritage Center's Museum Committee.

Jeff has lectured and conducted classes on antiques including American glass and Shenandoah Valley pottery, and in 2004, Jeff's extensive knowledge of Valley pottery was showcased when he served as guest curator and co-authored the accompanying catalogue for the exhibit, A Great Deal of Stone & Earthen Ware, The Rockingham County, Virginia School of Folk Pottery.

As a guest speaker at the 2009 MESDA furniture seminar, Jeff lectured on Shenandoah Valley of VA Seating Forms of the Late 18th to Early 20th Centuries, a subject he has been documenting and researching since the early 1970s.  Jeff served as guest curator for the related exhibit at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley in Winchester, VA, titled Come In and Have a Seat: Vernacular Chairs of the Shenandoah Valley.  On display from 12/19/2009 through 06/20/2010, the exhibit also yielded the exceptional Evans-authored catalogue/reference volume of the same name, which was the first catalogue ever published in conjunction with an MSV-organized changing exhibition.      

BEVERLEY A. EVANS
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

Beverley Evans served on the Board of Directors at the Virginia Quilt Museum in Harrisonburg, VA for 10 years, and currently serves on the Board at Fort Harrison, Inc. in Dayton, VA. 

In 1992, Beverley completed five years of overseeing the restoration of the Sites House in Broadway, Virginia, a circa 1800s stone home that is on the Virginia and National Historic Registers. In 1997 Beverley won two awards for the Sites House - the Frederick Doveton Nichols Award, presented by the Preservation Alliance of Virginia, and the Great American Home Award, presented by the National Trust for Preservation.

Over the years, Jeff and Beverley have performed countless hours of antiques research with special interest in material made in the Shenandoah Valley, and they have graciously contributed pieces from their private collection to various museum exhibits.

 Above: Jeff Evans & Beverley Bailey at their Senior Prom (1979)

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