4:00pm - 7:00pm

Registration/Check-In

5:30pm - 7:00pm

Welcome Reception

7:00am - 8:00am

Breakfast

8:00am - 8:15am

Welcome & Opening Remarks

8:15am - 9:15am

Early Houston Families Who Changed the Global Museum Map

9:15am - 10:00am

Toshiko Takaezu (retrospective exhibition at MFAH) & Market Survey

10:00am - 10:30am

Toshiko Takaezu Market Survey

10:30am - 10:40am

Break

Morning Panel: Asian Markets

10:40am - 11:30am

Case Study: Donation of an Important Imperial Chinese Screen in the MFAH

11:30am - 12:20pm

Market Focus: Contemporary Chinese, Korean Art & Japanese Art

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch & Learn:
Historical Archive Donation Appraising: A Case Study of African American Archive Donation

1:30pm - 2:20pm

Market Changes from an Art Advisors Perspective: Art Basel, NY, and Contemporary Art

Afternoon Panel: Prints, Photography, Books & Manuscripts

2:20pm - 3:20pm

Illustration Art Including Posters and Comics  

3:20pm - 3:30m

Break

3:30pm - 4:30pm

Photography Market Trends – What’s Hot and What’s Not 

4:30pm - 5:30pm

Market Highlights: Historical Documents, Rare Books and Ephemera 

Enjoy the evening on your own to explore the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Museum is located directly across from the Hotel Zaza, is open late and is free on Thursdays.

7:15am - 8:15am

Breakfast

Morning Panel: Auction Markets: Insights & Resources for Appraisers

8:15am - 9:15am

Auction World Records: Examples of Fine Art, Furniture and Decorative Art

9:15am - 10:15am

American Art and Artifacts Market Trends: A Study of the Past Ten Years at Auction

10:15am - 10:30am

Break

10:30am - 11:30am

MODERN vs OLD Market Trends Decorative Arts (including Tiffany) and Furniture

11:30am - 12:00pm

Auction House Round Table Q&A

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch & Learn: Celebrity/Art/Classic Cars: Collector Market for Exotic Cars

Afternoon Panel: Latin American, Southwest & Contemporary Native American Markets

1:30pm - 2:20pm

Market Focus: Southwest Art & Artifacts

2:20pm - 3:10pm

Market Focus: Native American Modern & Contemporary Art

3:10pm - 3:25pm

Break

3:25pm - 4:15pm

Market Focus: Latin American Art

5:15pm - 7:30pm

Private Art Collection Visit and Reception.
Bus transportation provided.

8:00am - 8:30am

Breakfast

8:30am - 11:00am

Appraisers as Expert Witnesses

Tour 1: Decorative Arts
Bus Departs Hotel ZaZa at 12pm.

Bayou Bend & Rienzi at MFAH
$90 includes transportation, docent tours and 3 hours of CE credit

Join us for docent led tours of the MFAH’s famed Bayou Bend and Rienzi house museums and gardens. 

Bayou Bend Collection and Garden, designed by architect John Staub, is the former home of Houston philanthropist Ima Hogg. Ms. Hogg competed with her contemporary rival, Henry du Pont, to acquire the finest examples of American decorative arts. The collection showcases approximately 4,700 objects from 1620 to 1876 installed, much like at Winterthur, in some 28 period room settings.  

Rienzi is the MFAH house museum for European decorative arts. Originally the home of arts patrons Carroll Sterling Masterson and Harris Masterson III, Rienzi comprises a remarkable art collection, house, and gardens. For more than 40 years, the Mastersons collected European decorative arts, paintings, furnishings, and porcelain made from the 17th to mid-19th centuries.

Tour 2: Fine Arts
Walkable or Transportation on Your Own.

The Menil Collection
No charge, no CE credit offered (visitor guide & map provided)

Enjoy an afternoon on your own to explore the Menil, a collection of art buildings and green spaces nestled within a residential neighborhood in Houston’s Museum District, just 1 mile from Hotel ZaZa. Spanning the prehistoric era to the present day, the Menil’s holdings, now over 20,000 works, grew out of personal and intellectual passions rather than encyclopedic ambitions. The heart of the collection is comprised of artworks and objects gathered by founders and human rights activists, John and Dominique de Menil, who left Nazi-occupied France in 1941 and settled in Houston.

Enjoy free access to Menil’s main museum building, Drawing Institute, Cy Twombly Gallery, Dan Flavin Installation at Richmond Hall and Fresco Building and the Rothko Chapel’s Welcome House. And don’t miss the neighborhood and green spaces, punctuated with outdoor sculpture by a variety of artists. Enjoy lunch on your own at the Bistro Menil and time permitting, the Sicardi Gallery is just two blocks away.