Art and Gold Investing: All that Glitters

California Arts and Sciences Institute (CASI) presents a Members Only Winter Gala on investing in art and gold. The featured speaker is eminent art appraiser Claudia Worthington Hess, who will discuss methods of selecting art for investment. She will discuss historically important art as well as contemporary art. Hess belongs to the Appraisers Association of America, and is a certified fine art appraiser. 

Hess not only provides discreet, independent information to clients throughout the USA and in Canada on insurance, donation and estate appraisals. She also consults on art buying, selling and collecting. She is the only Personal Property Appraiser with an MBA, who  is fluent in French and German and conversational in Spanish.

Previously, Hess worked in the art world on the gallery side for over 25 years, thus having contacts in the local to blue chip art market coast to coast. Her acumen is critical for performing high net worth art appraisals and art consulting. She is current with USPAP and continually learns and travels to stay abreast of art trends and valuation information. 

An ancillary presentation will be given by Dr. C. Michael Hogan, who is an expert on gold investing. He will cover alternative methods of addressing gold, including: bullion, numismatic coins, ETF instruments, gold mining companies and options trading to leverage these investments. 

The event will be in a luxurious private home in the gated Monterra community. You have time to Become A Member – California Arts & Sciences Institute by visiting https://casicalifornia.org, and you will have two complementary tickets to this gala event on January 11, 2025, as well as other CASI events for 2025. 100% of your membership fees go to funding youth scholarships to CASI’s student art and science writing contests. CASI is a 501c3 charity and memberships are thus tax deductible. CASI was elected as one of the top three non-profits in the Central Coast in the Carmel Chamber of Commerce 2024 Excellence Awards.