About Us

The Charleston Art & Antiques Forum is a non-profit charitable 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to presenting the best fine and decorative arts scholarship, while benefiting arts education and preservation initiatives in South Carolina. Each year our board of volunteers awards the proceeds from events along with additional tax deductible donations to our non-profit beneficiaries. Past recipients include College of Charleston-School of the Arts, Gibbes Museum of Art, Historic Charleston Foundation and many others over the years.

Founded in 1997 by our Chair Jean Y. Helms, The Charleston Art & Antiques Forum opens Antiques Week each year with noted national and international scholars addressing topics relating to fine, decorative, cultural and material history. The Forum offers superb lectures in small-scale sessions with lively question and answer sessions that often continue over lunch or dinner. Speakers and participants enjoy special camaraderie as they study collections, visit historic properties and experience the best in Southern hospitality at receptions in landmark venues.

The Forum Board and its Advisors volunteer their time, talent and expertise to offer you the Premier Lectures Series in America!

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

NATIONAL BOARD OF ADVISORS

Jean Y. Helms, Founder & Chair

Roy D. Fuller
Sarah Horton
Reba Huge
Marion Simons Letts
Ronald D. Long
Harriet Pratt
James Pratt
Elizabeth J. Savage
Elizabeth S. Tucker

Sarah Lund Donnem, Chair

Carrie Rebora Barratt, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wendell D. Garrett, The Magazine ANTIQUES
Ralph Harvard, III, Ralph Harvard, Inc.
Robert A. Leath, Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts
Angela D. Mack, Gibbes Museum of Art
Margaret B. Pritchard, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
J. Thomas Savage, Winterthur Museum and Country Estate
Elle Shushan, Portrait Miniature Consultant/Dealer
Catherine Sweeney Singer, Winter Antiques Show
Elizabeth S. Tucker, Liz Tucker Consulting

HONORARY TRUSTEES


Ann Higdon

 

 

 

 

 

 

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