SALEM — The Burchfield Homestead Society Inc., will honor its founders and welcome an expert on wallpapers designed by Charles E. Burchfield during its annual membership meeting at 11 a.m., Sunday, April 6, at the Homestead at 867 E. Fourth St. in Salem.

The individuals who will be in attendance and recognized for their service to the nonprofit include Frederic E. Naragon, who is retiring after 32 years as the Homestead Society’s treasurer and secretary; Carolyn Caldwell and Jeanne Elser, former trustees; and Jay Wootten, widow of Richard Wootten.

Beginning in the 1980s, Richard Wootten led efforts to preserve Charles E. Burchfield’s artistic history in Salem. He was a founding trustee and the first president and curator of the Homestead Society. Naragon, Caldwell, and Elser were among the seven founding trustees who signed the nonprofit’s articles of incorporation in June 1993. The other founders were Janis A. Yereb and Lois Elser, who are deceased, and Marsha Drake.

“We are eternally grateful to the founding trustees of BHS. Their collective vision and energy snatched Burchfield’s boyhood home from the edge of destruction. It is now preserved to tell the story of Charlie’s childhood and early adulthood, and to inspire new generations of artists who can visit the home in person, create new artwork at our special events, or through Wildflower Arts & Crafts lessons in the Night Wind House, or tour remotely through the Bloomberg Connects App,” said Sara Baer, president of the Burchfield Homestead Society.

The featured speaker for this year’s annual meeting is Bo Sullivan, an architectural historian. He will talk about Charles E. Burchfield’s work as a wallpaper designer in the 1920s at M.H. Birge & Sons in Buffalo, New York. Bolling & Company, which Sullivan launched in 2013, is the country’s leading source for rare and original American wallpapers printed between 1880 and 1915. The company’s collection of wallpaper and research materials related to M.H. Birge & Sons is the largest in private hands. Sullivan also leads Arcalus Period Design, a consulting resource for owners of older homes, preservationists, architects, and design professionals engaged in projects seeking a deep and meaningful connection to history.

Prior to forming Arcalus in 2009, Sullivan was the senior designer and architectural historian for Rejuvenation Inc., the country’s leading manufacturer of authentic reproduction lighting, hardware and house parts. At the Portland, Oregon, company Sullivan designed and developed period-inspired products, wrote the company’s national mail-order catalogs, purchased and authenticated salvaged lighting, hardware and architectural remnants, and gave trainings and public presentations on American building traditions.

In his role as design historian, he built and managed a research archive of more than 4,000 rare original period trade catalogs, plan books, photographs, sales samples and other ephemera related to the American building arts from 1870 to 1970.

The meeting is open to the public.