Joint meeting with the Silver Study Society ---     Presented by Dr. Christopher Maxwell, Curator of Applied Arts of Europe, Art Institute of Chicago.  Mr. Maxwell will highlight objects from the newly designed Eloise W. Martin Galleries for the Applied Arts of Europe that opened on July 11, 2025. The elegant space presents more […]

Engineer and long time Asian ceramics collector, William Huvar, will present on the sacking of Yuanmingyuan by British and French forces in 1860. Among the valuable objects stolen, many were ceramics and paintings.    

Misty Flores, Assistant Curator at Rienzi, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will present on art and innovation in the museum's collection of works by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons. Photo courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston      

"China Painting Redeemed: Florence Pratt Steward and Chicago's Atlan Ceramic Art Club", presented by Sharon Darling, award-winning author and former curator of decorative and industrial arts at the Chicago History Museum and former director of Motorola Inc.’s corporate museum.

"Ceramic Highlights from the Bayou Bend Collection" presented by Bradley Brooks, curator of the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, and Remi Dyll, collections manager of the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens.