Gain practical, pragmatic knowledge about copyrights, common e-commerce legal issues, trademarks, and how they affect your art and business with Mentor Program Speaker Douglas Sorocco, Esq.

Learn how a self-taught machinist and metalworker created a self-sustaining career inventing a new craft medium with Mentor Program Speaker Chris Bathgate.

Unfortunately, we have had to reschedule this event. Stay tuned for a new date coming in 2023.

Mentor Program Speaker Ulysses Grant Dietz reflects on his 37 years as Decorative arts curator at the Newark Museum and discusses his personal history, acquisition priorities, and curatorial goals.

Learn the history of the laws of fashion from Mentor Program Speakers Richard T. Ford, author and Professor at Stanford Law School, and Petra Slinkard, Fashion Curator at Peabody Essex Museum.

Learn how a self-taught machinist and metalworker created a self-sustaining career inventing a new craft medium with Mentor Program Speaker Chris Bathgate.

This event has been cancelled.

Join Mentor Program Speaker Michelle Millar Fisher to learn about “Craft Schools”, a multi-year project encompassing public programs, artwork acquisitions to expand the MFA’s contemporary craft collection, travel to meet artists across all 48 contiguous United States, and, ultimately, a publication framing modern-day craft as expansive, inclusive, and alive—inside and outside the walls of museums.