Connoisseurship Courses

Dive deep into specialized topics and build your skills

From Oriental rugs to modern prints, ISA's connoisseurship courses teach you how to appraise categories of items that you encounter as a personal property appraiser.

Courses instruct on terminology, components of identification, and value factors for appraising specific classes and categories of items
Provides comparables and common questions to ask clients
Incorporates lessons on authentication issues and common legal issues

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Find past Connoisseurship webinars in our Recorded Webinars library.

From the ISA Now Blog

Ethics in Review Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Reviewing some basic ethics points is always a good idea. For instance, did you know that ISA recently updated its Ethics Code and Ethics Disciplinary Procedures? Do you know what type of behavior ISA regulates (and does not regulate)? What are some of the most common ethics complaints and missteps?
Ask an Instructor: Limitations on Charitable Contribution Appraisals and on Art Donations Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Question 1: I understand that the effective date for a non-cash charitable contribution appraisal is the date of donation and that an appraisal cannot be done any earlier than 60 days prior to donation, but is there a limit to when an appraisal can be done after the donation?
Announcing ISA's 2020-2021 Board of Directors Monday, September 21, 2020
Voting for ISA's 2020-2021 Board of Directors has ended and we would like to congratulate our recently elected members, Kim Kasten, ISA CAPP, Sue McGovern-Hoffman, ISA CAPP, and Larissa Wild, ISA CAPP.
Announcing ISA's New Director of Marketing Thursday, September 17, 2020
On behalf of the ISA Board of Directors, I am delighted to announce that Bailey Sexton, ISA AM (member of ISA since 2013), has been appointed as the new ISA Director of Marketing, effective August 1, 2020.

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