Anne Forschler-Tarrasch received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles. She completed her PhD in Art History at the Technical University in Berlin, Germany, with a focus on European decorative arts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Anne Forschler-Tarrasch received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles. She completed her PhD in Art History at the Technical University in Berlin, Germany, with a focus on European decorative arts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Her research strengths are in cast iron and ceramic arts. Dr. Forschler-Tarrasch has been the Marguerite Jones Harbert and John M. Harbert III Curator of Decorative Arts at the Birmingham Museum of Art since 1999, where she oversees the care, display, and interpretation of a 12,000-object collection. During her Museum tenure she has curated a number of exhibitions and reinstallations in European and American decorative arts and contributed to a series of Museum publications. She was recently awarded the Peter Krueger-Christie’s Foundation Fellowship in the Decorative Arts to research the Museum’s collection of early nineteenth-century German cast iron. Her most recent projects include an overseeing the cataloging, conservation, exhibition and catalog of a significant 18th-century English ceramics collection; the reinstallation of the Museum’s English galleries; co-curating an exhibition of historic Alabama pottery; and the reinstallation of the Museum’s 19th-century European collection.