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Collectors for Connoisseurship
National Symposium:
Patronage and Collecting:  Then & Now

Friday, October 13, 2017
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY
Sacerdote Auditorium Uris Center
81st Street Entrance on Fifth Avenue

Schedule to date:
10:00-12:45
For Founding Connoisseurs Only

  • Check-In for Founding Connoisseurs at Entrance to Uris Center at The Met
  • Welcome to Founding Connoisseurs in Sacerdote Auditorium
  • Alison Nogueira, Curator Tour, Leonardo to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection
  • Prix-Fixe Three Course Luncheon at The Petrie Café in The Met

For Founding Connoisseurs, ArtLover Members and Invited Guests
Session 1: 1:00-2:00pm

Moderator: Shannon Robinson
Panelists:

  • Dita Amory, Curator in Charge, Robert Lehman Collection,
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Esmée Quodbach, Assistant Director, Center for the History of Collecting, Frick Museum
  • Jennifer Tonkovich, Eugene and Clare Thaw Curator, Department of Drawings, Morgan Library & Museum

Session 2: 2:15-3:15pm

  • Joint Presentation by Shannon Robinson (Patronage, Collecting and Marketing in Today’s Global Art Market) and Betsy Thomas, an independent art advisor and former Vice President of Christie’s in New York (Navigating the World of Art Dealers, Art Fairs and Auction Houses: Challenges and Rewards for Collectors and Artists);

Session 3: 3:30-4:30pm
Moderator: Shannon Robinson
Panelists:

  • Shelley Farmer, Director of Hirschl & Adler Modern
  • Gregory J. Peterson, Esq., Private Collector, Contemporary Realism
  • Betsy Thomas, Betsy Thomas Fine Art Advisory, LLC
  • Peter Trippi, Editor-in-Chief, Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine

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CONNECT-DEVELOP-THRIVE

Tuesday, June 20, 2017 @1:00pm-5pm
Cocktail party hosted by Dr. Richard & Linda VG Kelley @5:00pm-6:30pm
Prizes by Art Cantina
Space Gallery
400 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, Colorado

Is the uncertainty of the rapidly changing global art market causing you anxiety? With galleries closing, are you wondering about the most effective ways to sell your art? Are you concerned that the professional artist may become an endangered species?

Don’t miss this game changing forum sponsored by Windows to the Divine and the Clark Hulings Fund for Visual Artists (CHF) that will provide practical advice about how to connect with art industry players and develop your marketing efforts in ways that will make you and your business thrive.

For more information about the speakers and the sessions, visit CHF.  The Forum is open and free to all Collectors for Connoisseurship (C4C) ArtLover members who are artists.  Register here.  If you are not a member, join now for $49 for the year, and then register.

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Masterworks Exhibition of Mower Collection

Mower Exhibition, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Young Mother (La Jeune mere), 1898, oil on canvas, 22 x 18
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Young Mother, 1898, oil on canvas

Curator Private Tour
Exhibition & Program

Fulginiti Pavilion
CU Anschutz Campus
13080 E. 19th Ave. Aurora, CO 80045

Monday, April 17, 2017
11:15am-1:00pm

The CU Medical School is sponsoring an exhibition at the Art Gallery in the Fulginiti Pavilion Center for Bioethics and Humanities on the Anschutz Campus from March 31-May 24 which will showcase works from the Morton and Tobia Mower private collection which includes major paintings by Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, Cassatt, Degas, Chagall, and Leger as well as selected Rodin sculptures.

On Monday, April 17, in connection with the exhibition, C4C will host a special event for C4C members as follows:

  • Guests View Works: 11:15-11:30am
  • Private Tour by Simon Zalkind, Curator of Masterworks Exhibition: 11:30am-11:50am
  • Program in Gossard Forum Auditorium next to Art Gallery: Noon-1pm
  • Meet the Collectors: “Curator Conversation with the Mowers”
  • Art History Presentation by Dr. Molly Medakovich from the Denver Art Museum about Impressionism and its legacy in the context of the Mower Collection. With Paris as a setting, she will explore the spirit of innovation that characterized artists working in this cultural and artistic epicenter from the 1870s to the 1930s.
  • Lunch Option: Bring your own brown bag lunch to eat during the program in the auditorium.

Open to C4C members and invited guests. Reservation required.

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Michael Paglia

Michael Paglia is a professional writer working as an art critic. During his over twenty-year-long writing career, he has focused on the art and architecture of the American West, and has gained specialized knowledge of the art scene in Colorado. His columns have appeared in Westword, a Denver weekly, since 1995. In that capacity, he covered the art boom in the area that occurred over the last fifteen years. In addition to the landmark events that occurred during this very significant period for art in the area, notably the museum-building boom, Paglia also reviewed the work of hundreds of artists, many from Colorado, and he continues to do so.

Paglia’s reviews, reports, essays and features on the visual arts and the built environment have also been published in regional and national periodicals including Art News, Architecture, Modernism, Art & Auctionand Sculpture Magazine. Since 2009, he has been the Denver correspondent and a contributing editor for Art Ltd., a Los Angeles-based art magazine.
In addition he is the author or co-author of more than a dozen monographs and books on art, artists and architecture. Paglia has also worked as a script writer and voice-over narrator for documentaries about art and artists including Museum/Museum: Vance Kirkland; Allen True’s West; Birger Sandzén: Ecstasy of Color; and; Edgar Payne: The Scenic Journey. All were done with CPT-12, a PBS affiliate. His most recent film is Frei Otto: Spanning the Future, also done for CPT 12 examining the work of this visionary architect.

In 2016, Paglia curated the exhibition Colorado Women in Abstraction presented at the MSU Center for Visual Art.

Paglia was born in Philadelphia but has lived in Colorado since he was a child, attending the University of Colorado at Boulder where he earned both a B.A. and an M.A. Paglia taught at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design and is currently a lecturer in art history at the University of Colorado Denver.

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