Presented by Aimee Froom, Ph.D.
Curator, Arts of the Islamic World,
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Presented by Chelsea Dacus,
Assistant Curator of the Arts of the Indigenous Americas, Africa, the Pacific, and Antiquities, and Assistant Curator of Ancient Art

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Presented by Daniel K. Ackermann, Ph.D.
Director of Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
From imported Madeira sipped from glass at mahogany tables to local whisky swigged out of redware jugs, explore the decorative arts that defined the early Southern drinker.

Presented by David Barquist, H. Richard Dietrich Jr. Curator of American Decorative Arts
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Dr. David Barquist, world renowned expert, will chronicle the history of porcelain table wares owned and used by American presidents and their families for public and private dining. As part of the most highly visible household in the nation, the presidential china in the McNeil Americana Collection offers an overview of the changing styles, tastes, and modes of entertaining across four centuries of American history, from George Washington to Ronald Reagan. The lecture will also look at the changes over time in the ceramics available to fashion-conscious Americans, from goods imported from China and Europe to domestically-made products.

Presented by Suzanne Marchand, Ph.D.
Boyd Professor, Department of History
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Tour of private ceramic collection, by reservation only.

Presented by R. Ruthie Dibble, Ph.D.
The Robert N. Shapiro Curator of American Decorative Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
While the Peabody Essex Museum is known for its Chinese export porcelain, the museum also stewards an important, fascinating, and lesser known collection of ceramics from England, Europe, New England, and the broader Americas. This talk will highlight the rich and varied ceramics that fall under PEM’s American Decorative Art department and explore the intersection of trade and collecting, artistry and industry, that shapes each pot and the collection as a whole.

Presented by Jill Weitzman Fenichell
Antique Ceramics Expert; Appraiser: Furniture & Decorative Arts, New York, NY

In this presentation, Leslie Grigsby, Senior Curator of Ceramics and Glass at Winterthur, Emerita, will analyze a range of classical ceramics, sculptures, and other artworks that influenced English and Continental earthenware, stoneware and porcelain of the 1600s through early 1800s.

Daniel Ackermann, Director, Bayou Bend Collection & Gardens will highlight southern pottery in the William C. and Susan S. Mariner Southern Ceramics Gallery at MESDA and discuss the interplay between maker, consumer, culture and geography.

Misty Flores, Assistant Curator, Rienzi, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston recently hosted the "Crowning the North; Silver Treasures from Bergen, Norway" exhibition, which ran from February 11 to May 5, 2024. In this lecture Misty will highlight silver and ceramic pieces from Bergen.

Barry Greenlaw, Private consultant, appraiser and lecturer specializing in the decorative and fine arts of England and America. Barry Greenlaw will speak about Lady Bradford's personal collection of oriental porcelain.