Membership

Membership in the American Decorative Arts Forum of Northern California includes the following benefits:

• Free monthly slide lectures on a variety of topics by prominent scholars from around the country.
• Special receptions for our guest speakers, often held in members' homes or shops, providing the opportunity for personal interaction and one-on-one learning with some of the foremost authorities in American Decorative Arts, not to mention the opportunity to see some of the Bay Area's finest collections.
• Curator-guided walk-throughs of special museum exhibitions.
• Intensive study groups with nationally renowned decorative arts scholars featuring in-depth examinations of specific object categories.
• Day and weekend trips to California collections, historic areas and museums.
• Bi-monthly newsletter, sent to your home, as well as updated on this web site.
• Periodic tours of significant regions of the United States and Europe led by a decorative arts expert offering behind-the-scenes examination and study of historic sites, period homes and museum collections.
• Pre-lecture mini exhibitions from our members' collections providing hands-on examination of many of the objects discussed.
• Unlimited opportunities to share you interest, knowledge and friendship with others committed to American decorative arts.

Half price memberships are available from March through June. The membership application form is a downloadable .pdf:   

In addition to membership support, the American Decorative Arts Forum welcomes sponsorship of its lecture series. Lecture sponsorship costs $500.00. Underwriting one or more lectures is tax deductible and gratefully accepted. For further information, please call 415.249.9234 or email info@adafca.org.