Join the Art Deco Society of New York and the NYUSPS Center for Applied Liberal Arts on Thursday, November 10th for a rare evening when authors and experts Judith Miller and Tom Folk, will offer their views on how the clean lines and innovative techniques of Art Deco ceramics continue to excite collectors today, evoking the glamour and glitter of the inter-war years.
Judith 
Miller, author of more than 100 books on antique collecting, will utilize her latest publication Art Deco: Living with the Art Deco Style to explore the key collecting areas of Art Deco ceramics and how designers decorated traditional ceramic forms such as vases and bowls with Art Deco patterning, while others created innovative shapes on which to base their modern decoration. Miller will also highlight how designers used the new aesthetic mode to depict motifs including the human form and classical themes in a modern graphic way.
Tom Folk will focus on celebrated ceramicist and sculptor Waylande Gregory and his involvement in the Cleveland School, while also exploring the craftsman’s growing collectability. His talk will highlight how Gregory’s groundbreaking techniques enabled him to create monumental ceramic sculpture, such as the 1939 New York World’s Fair Fountain of the Atom, as well as more 
of his revolutionary developments that lead to advancements in the field of ceramics sculpture.
There will be a Q&A session following the talks.
More on the evening’s speakers:
Judith Miller began collecting in the 1960s while studying at Edinburgh University in Scotland. She has since extended and reinforced her knowledge of antiques through international research, becoming one of the world’s leading experts in the field. In 1979 she co-founded the international best-seller Miller’s Antiques Price Guide and has since written more than 100 books which are held in high regard by collectors and dealers.
Miller appears regularly on TV and radio, is regular lecturer and contributor to numerous newspapers and magazines including at the V&A in London and the Smithsonian in Washington, and has a online course available through MyAntiqueSchool on their website LearningWithExperts.com
Tom Folk, former curator at the James Michener Museum, specializes in American ceramics. He currently teaches in the appraisal program at New York University and is on the education committee of the Appraisers Association of America. In Spring 2017, he is teaching the course: Reconsidering American Art, From Peales to Pollock.
The event is taking place at 7 E. 12th Street on Thursday, November 10th, 630-8pm
Registration instructions + fees for this event are listed on the Art Deco Society’s website here:
Current NYUSPS students are eligible to attend for free, but must RSVP by e-mailing alicia.kubes@nyu.edu. Seats are limited.
Courses still open for registration in Fall 2016
Creating Public and Private Collections
Gilded Age New York and the “Other Half”
Courses available in Spring 2017
Asian Fine and Decorative Arts
Vienna 1900: Artistic Modernism and the Austrio-Hungarian Empire
Appraising 20th Century Decorative Arts
Appraisal of Historical Textiles and Costumes
The Bauhaus: Modernism in Art, Architecture, and Design