WELCOME
The Connecticut Ceramics Circle is pleased to
announce our Speakers and Membership Plans
for the 2024-2025 lecture year.
October 14: Chinoiserie: The Art of the Exotic in the Royal Collection, by Nicola Turner Inman, Curator of Decorative Arts, The Royal Collection Trust, St. James's Palace, London, via Zoom.
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November 11: Back and Forth: Clay and Glass, China and West Asia, 6th-12th Century, by Denise Patry Leidy, Ph.D., Ruth and Bruce Dayton Curator of Asian Art, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, and Brooke Russell Astor Curator of Chinese Art Emerita, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, in person at the Bruce Museum and via Zoom.
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December 9: All Walks of Life: Meissen Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century, by Dr. Vanessa Sigalas, Associate Curator for Collections Research, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum in Hartford, CT, via Zoom.
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January 13: City of Tiles: New York from Subway Stations to the Tops of Skyscrapers, by Francis Morrone, Architectural Historian and Critic, and Historic Preservation Consultant, via Zoom.
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February 10: SEMINAR: Ceramics in the English Country Houses of the National Trust: Asian Stories and European Stories, by Patricia Ferguson, Former Curator, the British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and Honorary Advisor on Ceramics to the National Trust, via Zoom.
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March 10: Modernist Ceramics Between the Wars, by Stephen Harrison, Director and Chief Curator, the Munson Museum of Art, Utica, NY, via Zoom.
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April 14: At Home in the Seventeenth Century, by Femke Diercks, Head of the Decorative Arts Department, the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, via Zoom.
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May 12: The Extraordinary Art Collection of Lady Charlotte Schreiber, by Dr. Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth, the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in person at the Bruce Museum and via Zoom.
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MORE INFORMATION ON THESE LECTURES AND ZOOM LINKS WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON
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These presentations are for educational purposes only. Opinions or views expressed are solely those of the speaker and do not represent those of the Connecticut Ceramics Circle.
Our Past 2023-2024 Lectures:
Members Can Request Recordings
Becky MacGuire Paul Crane Claudia Lehner-Jobst
Eunice Maguire Ivan Day Lars Tharp
John Whitehead Ulysses Grant Dietz Nonie Gadsden
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