Sessions & Speakers Introduction – 2016 ASA Personal Property Annual Connoisseurship Conference

The New Year brings anticipation for the Annual Personal Property Conference, 10 – 12 March in Vancouver, Canada. With the theme of the conference The Sacred and the Profane, the line-up of speakers and topics will ensure a provocative and stimulating time that all will want to attend. The conference will begin with an introductory lecture on the sacred and the profane by Richard Raymond Alasko, FASA. This will be followed with two and one half days of presentations and panel sessions.

Speakers include renowned author and economist Don Thompson speaking on the contemporary art market, which he has eloquently written about in The $12 Million Stuffed Shark and The Supermodel and The Brillo Box. Joining him on a panel on the profanity of the contemporary art and collector car markets and the impact on appraisers will be colleagues David Kinney, ASA, and Donald Osborne, ASA, who is also a regular contributor to Jay Leno’s Garage on CNBC. A leading art dealer will also be joining this panel.

In addition, there are sessions on appraising sacred books with Lee Biondi and John Henley, ASA. Noted authority and scholar Wendy Salmond, Chapman University Professor of Art and Art History and author of numerous books on Russian and early Soviet art and culture, will speak on icons and what appraisers need to know about them when asked to value them.

David Borondin, ASA, will speak on the Chinese fine and decorative art market and its impact on what we as appraisers should be aware of. A session involving properties from the fringe, such as Nazi memorabilia, pornography and crime material, will be led by John Henley, ASA, and Susan Golashovsky, ASA. Mary Jane Andrews, CBV and advisor to the International Valuation Council, will speak on ethics in a new appraisal environment. Ms. Andrews was recently appointed CEO of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Business Valuers and has served on the IIBV board.

Museum of Anthropology in Canada.

In addition to these sessions, there are private tours of the Museum of Anthropology and the Vancouver Art Gallery. Plans are also in the works for an opening reception.

So grab your passport and make sure you register TODAY for this exciting conference in beautiful Vancouver Canada!