Celebrating our 60th Season of Exploring, Expanding, and Enlivening the Arts in Peoria!


Lectures are presented  at the Peoria Riverfront Museum (lower level).
Social time begins at 9:30 AM, lectures start at 10:00 AM unless otherwise indicated.
​Admission is free for Members. Tickets available at the door: adults $12, students $5.
October 14, 2021              ART FOR ALL: POSTERS OF THE LONDON UNDERGROUND      
                                                       Teri J. Edelstein, President, Teri J. Edelstein Associates Museum Strategies
NOTE: Welcome back to in-person lectures!  Breakfast buffet and 60th season celebration begins at 9:00 AM.
Please RSVP to president@fineartssociety.net.
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November 11, 2021         THE MONUMENTS MEN: PAST AND PRESENT
                                                       Julia Fischer, Assistant Professor of Art History, Lamar University

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December 9, 2021              ​VIDA AMERICANA: MEXICAN MURALISTS REMAKE AMERICAN ART, 1925-1945
                                                        Sarah Humphreville, Senior Curatorial Assistant, Whitney Museum of American Art

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February 10, 2022               JACOB LAWRENCE: THE AMERICAN STRUGGLE
                                                         Lydia Gordon, Associate Curator for Exhibitions and Research, Peabody-Essex Museum
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March 10, 2022                      ARTEMESIA GENTILESCHI: NARRATIVE PAINTER EXTRAORDINAIRE
                                                          Dr. Judith W. Mann, Curator of European Art to 1800, Saint Louis Art Museum

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April 14, 2022                         FLEETING AND ETERNAL: MONET'S IMPRESSIONS
                                                          Katie Hanson, Curator of Paintings, Art of Europe, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 

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May 12, 2022                           VICTORIAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE IN THE UNITED STATES
                                                          Christopher Yerke, Historic Building Restoration Specialist