WELCOME
The Connecticut Ceramics Circle is pleased to present both Live and Zoom lectures this year.
Our Live meetings will take place at The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut. Members and first time guests attend at no charge. The $25 fee for others can be applied to a membership.
Members also receive a link to the recordings of our Zoom lectures.
2024-2025 List of Programs
October 14: “Chinoiserie: The Art of the Exotic in the Royal Collection” by Nicola Turner Inman, Curator of Decorative Arts, The Royal Collection Trust, 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, and Brooke Russell Astor Curator of Chinese Art Emerita, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 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, David Dangremond Associate Curator for Collections Research, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 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 author, via Zoom.
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February 10: Seminar: “Ceramics in the English Country Houses of the National Trust: Asian Stories (Part I); European Stories (Part II)” by Patricia Ferguson, Former Curator, 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, Munson Museum of Art, Utica, via Zoom.
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April 14: “At Home in the Seventeenth Century” by Femke Diercks, Head of the Decorative Arts Department, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, via Zoom.
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May 12: “The Extraordinary Art Collection of Lady Charlotte Schreiber” by Dr. Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in person at the Bruce Museum and via Zoom.