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  Fine Arts Society of Peoria
Our 57th Season of Exploring, Expanding, Enlivening the Fine Arts in Peoria!
Peoria Riverfront Museum Auditorium (lower level) unless otherwise indicated.
Social time at 9:30 a.m., lecture starts at 10:00 a.m.

Tickets are available at the door:  adults: $12 / students $5.
October 11, 2018           Cynthia Weese, FAIA, Principal, Weese Langley Weese Architects Ltd.,
                                               Chicago, Illinois
                                                           ARCHITECTURE AND LIFE
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November 8, 2018        Alejo Benedetti, Assistant Curator, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art,
                                               
Bentonville, Arkansas

                                                       CRYSTAL BRIDGES: AN EXPERIMENT IN THE OZARKS
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December 13, 2018      Monica Obniski, Curator of 20th & 21st Century Design,
                                               Milwaukee Art Museum, 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

                                                          THE SERIOUS PLAY OF ALEXANDER GIRARD
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February 14, 2019        Janice Katz, Associate Curator of Japanese Art, Art Institute of Chicago,
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Chicago, Illinois

                                                          FOR THE LOVE OF JAPANESE PRINTS: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT  
                                                          AND THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
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March 14, 2019              Mary Cronin, Director of Education, Brandywine River Museum of Art,
                                              Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania

                                                         THE ART OF ANDREW WYETH
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BONUS EVENING LECTURE at Peplow Pavilion, Hayden-Clark Alumni Center, Bradley University -- FREE
March 27, 2019           Susan Weininger, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Art History, Roosevelt
 6:00 PM                            University, Chicago

                                                             "IT'S ALWAYS MYSELF THAT I PAINT" - THE WORK AND LIFE OF
​                                                             GERTRUDE ABERCROMBIE
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April 11, 2019                 Christopher Long, Ph.D., Martin S. Kermacy Centennial Professor in           
                                               Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

                                                        THE RISE OF THE VIENNA SUCCESSION:
​                                                        MODERN ART, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
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May 9, 2019                    Kate Kunau, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, Cedar Rapids
​                                                Museum of Art, 
Cedar Rapids, Iowa

                                                      GRANT WOOD: FROM FARM BOY TO AMERICAN ICON

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LECTURE Location: peoria Riverfront Museum, 225 SW Washington St. 
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unless otherwise indicated)

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Fine Arts Society of Peoria
PO Box 10002
Peoria, IL  61612-0002


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  • About FAS
  • Lecture Schedules
    • Our next lecture
    • 2022-2023 season
    • 2021-2022 season
    • 2020-2021 Season
    • 2019-2020 Lecture Schedule
    • 2018-2019 Lecture Schedule
    • 2017 - 2018 Lecture Schedule
    • 2016-2017 Lecture Schedule
  • Special Programs/Trips
    • Trips
  • Become a Member
  • Programs of Interest Elsewhere