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
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
February 14, 2019        Janice Katz, Associate Curator of Japanese Art, Art Institute of Chicago,
​                                                Chicago, Illinois
                                                          FOR THE LOVE OF JAPANESE PRINTS: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT  
                                                          AND THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
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
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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:
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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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