Our 58th Season of Exploring, Expanding, Enlivening the Fine Arts in Peoria!
Peoria Riverfront Museum Auditorium (lower level) unless otherwise indicated.
Social time at 9:30 AM, lecture starts at 10:00 AM unless otherwise indicated.
Tickets are available at the door:  adults: $12 / students $5.
​October 10, 2019​             Dr. Marin R. Sullivan, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Sculpture
                                                    at Cheekwood Estate
                                                    HARRY BERTOIA: SCULPTING MID-CENTURY MODERN LIFE   
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November 14, 2019         Dr. Craig Adcock, University of Iowa
                                                    JAMES TURRELL: SKYSPACES
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December 12, 2019         Dr. Rolf Achilles, Independent Art Historian
​                                                    FORM SHIFTERS, ONE PURPOSE: BUILT FOR WORSHIP

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February 13, 2020           Julia Foulkes, New School
                                                   MAKING DANCE AMERICAN: BALLET & MODERN DANCE
​                                                                         IN THE 20th CENTURY
March 12, 2020                 Juarez Hawkins, Professor of Art History, Chicago State University
                                                    AFRICAN AMERICAN ART IN BRONZEVILLE

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April 9, 2020                       Melinda Watt, Curator of Textiles, Art Institute of Chicago
                                                   TEXTILE TREASURES IN THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
CANCELLED
2ND ANNUAL CHANNY LYONS MEMORIAL LECTURE 
at Bradley University's Caterpillar Global Communications Center
April 30, 2020                    Phyllis Bramson, artist
 5:00 pm                                THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND SOMETIMES .... THE UGLY!

TO BE RESCHEDULED TO SEPTEMBER 2020
May 14, 2020                     Dr. Dana Byrd, Professor of Art History, Bowdoin College
​                                                   WINSLOW HOMER AND THE TROPICS
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