Colin G. Pearson

Delivers appraisal services with:

  • Integrity

  • Expertise

  • Independence

  • Professionalism

  • Diligence

  • Care

  • Timeliness

Colin has over a decade of experience curating collections of musical instruments, ceramics, artworks, craft items, and ethnographic artifacts.

As a curator at the Musical Instrument Museum, Colin curated special exhibitions of Chinese antiquities and custom-inlaid guitars. He cultivated and refined a broad collection of instruments and artifacts from Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East, as well as familiar instruments from Europe and North America.

As a curator for the Zayed National Museum in the United Arab Emirates, he has cultivated extensive knowledge of ceramics and other export goods from China, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, and India traded along overland and maritime routes.

Colin also cataloged an extensive and diverse collection of artworks and artifacts from Asia for the Center for Asian Research at Arizona State University.

Colin frequently gives public talks and lectures on a broad variety of topics, including the musical and artistic cultures of Asia, connoisseurship and classification schemes, and the global legacies of cultural interactions throughout history.

  Located in the Phoenix metropolitan area and available for in-person consultations throughout the state of Arizona and the United States.

Memberships/Organizations

  • Candidate, American Society of Appraisers (ASA), 2022 

Education

  • PhD candidate in Design, Environment, and the Arts (History, Theory, and Criticism) with a focus on the art history of Asia, Arizona State University

  • MA in Ethnomusicology, University of California at Riverside

  • BM in Music Performance, California State University at Long Beach

 Professional Training

  • Principles of Valuation course series for personal property, American Society of Appraisers (ASA)

  • Appraising Personal Property for Non-Cash Charitable Contributions and Estates course, American Society of Appraisers (ASA)

  • Uniform Standards for Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) for Personal Property, American Society of Appraisers (ASA)