Brought to you by the Grosse Pointe Artist Association:

This year, the Grosse Pointe Artists Association's annual lecture series,  "Your Old Mansion," celebrates the nation's 250th birthday. We thank members of the William L. Clements Library staff on the U of M Ann Arbor campus for sharing the library's resources to help us better understand our country's historical roots.

All lectures are at 2 pm on Sundays in the library of the Alger Mansion on The War Memorial campus.

You can register for the lectures that interest you. If you register for all four lectures about early America,  you will be entitled to a fifth lecture by artist and Detroit historian Mike Kroll recounting the precedent-setting Valentiner era at the DIA.

2 pm, Sunday, Jan. 11: "Face Value: Contextual Cataloging of Historic Native American Photographs" with Jakob Dopp will open the lecture series.  During the afternoon he will explain the challenges he has encountered working with 19th and early 20th century photographs from the Richard Pohrt, Jr. Collection of Native American Photography.  Click here for details and to register.

2 pm, Sunday, Feb. 15: Come celebrate Valentine's Day with Associate Curator of Manuscripts Jayne Ptolemy who will share some heartwarming ways people displayed their love through the centuries. Click here for details and to register. 

2 pm, Sunday March 8: Join Sierra Laddusaw, Curator of Maps and Graphics, and Mary Pedley, Assistant Curator of Maps, at the William L. Clements Library, for a walk through the history of mapping Michigan. Click here for details and to register.

2 pm, Sunday, March 29:  To cover the costs of the seven-year French and Indian War, the British Parliament levied taxes and enacted harsh laws that enraged the colonists. One thing led to another, or one could say, to the Lexington Green where the British Redcoats met the American Minutemen, igniting the Revolutionary War between the British Empire and its North American colonies. Curator of Manuscripts at the Clements Library Cheney Schopieray, who developed a recent exhibition titled “Bloody Work: Lexington and Concord 1775," will help us relive this pivotal time in American history. Click here for details and to register.

BONUS LECTURE: 2 pm, Sunday, April 12: For the BONUS lecture,  artist and Detroit historian Mike Kroll will help us remember early 20th-century Detroit, when art, industry and civic vision converged in transformative ways. Center stage were Dr. Wilhelm Valentiner and Edsel Ford. Click here for details and to register.

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This lecture series is the Grosse Pointe Artists Association's only fund raiser. The association thanks the presenters for donating their time and The War Memorial for its support. Proceeds from the series funds free arts programming for veterans, senior citizens and high school art students.