Celebrating the 62nd Season of Exploring, Expanding, & Enlivening the Arts in Peoria!

October 12, 2023          TEXTILES OF INDIA: 1,000 YEARS OF ART AND DESIGN 
                                                            Lee Talbot, Curator, Textile Museum at George Washington University
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CHANNY LYONS MEMORIAL LECTURE
October 20, 2023         FERN SHAFFER:  PATTERNS OF ECOLOGY
                                                           Fern Shaffer, artist, educator, Chicago
Part of the Midwest Women Artists Symposium    
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November 9. 2023      GORHAM SILVER: DESIGNING BRILIANCE, 1850-1970
                                                           Dr. Elizabeth A. Williams, David and Peggy Rockefeller Curator of 
                                                           Decorative Art and Design, Rhode Island School of Design Museum 
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                                                           Sponsored by Tom and Carol Romanowski
December 14, 2023      ANTONIO CANOVA: ITALIAN NEOCLASSICAL SCULPTOR
                                                              Dr. C.D. Dickerson III, Curator and Head of Sculpture and Decorative Arts,
​                                                              National Gallery of Arts
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​                                                              Sponsored by Marcia Burnside and Curt Ribando                                                 
BONUS LECTURE FOR MEMBERS ONLY BY ZOOM
January 18, 2024           UKRAINIAN ART IN THE 21ST CENTURY
                                                             Adrienne Kochman, Curator, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art

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February 8, 2024            IN SEARCH OF TRUTH(S): AFRICAN ART IN AND BEYOND THE
​                                                   STANLEY MUSEUM OF ART
                                                              Dr. Cory T. Gundlach, Curator of African Art, Stanley Museum of Art
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                                                              Sponsored by Carol Morrisey 
March 14, 2024                MODERN IN THE MIDDLE: CHICAGO HOUSES, 1929-1975
                                                                Michelangelo Sabatino, Director of Ph.D. Program in Architecture,
                                                               Illinois Institute of Technology

​                                                                  Anonymously sponsored in memory of Cletis Roy Foley,  one of Peoria’s 
                                                               terrific mid-century modern architects, and his wonderful wife Margaret,
                                                               a passionate Peoria community volunteer
April 11, 2024                 IT STARTED WITH A PAPERWEIGHT: BERGSTROM-MAHLER MUSEUM
                                                 OF GLASS
                                                              Carey Eichhorn, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions,
                                                              Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass

                                                              Sponsored by Sharon and John Amdall
May 9, 2024                      JOHN SINGER SARGENT: MASTER WITH A BRUSH
                                                              Jane Oneail, Culturally Curious, Manchester, New Hampshire

                                                              ​Sponsored by Maggie and Paul Nelson

​PRESENTATION AVAILABLE LIVE BY ZOOM
free to MEMBERS, watch for link to register in FAS email on May 2, 2024
NON-MEMBERS, purchase ticket at 309tix.com   

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John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925); Wyndham Sisters, 1899; oil on canvas; Collection of Metropolitan Museum Arts, Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund , 1927