On November 10, the LAL and the Tulane Office of Advancement and Alumni Association will co-host a talk by art historian and alumna Penny C. Morrill who will speak on early 20th-century Mexican art and the silver design renaissance that took place in the town of Taxco.  Titled Mexican Silver Captures the Light of Genius, the talk will be a hybrid event held in the newly expanded LAL seminar room; Dr. Morrill will deliver the talk to a local audience in person, and Tulane alums from around the world can attend virtually.  Dr. Morrill is a renowned expert on Mexican silver, especially the work of William Spratling and other Taxco and Taxco-based designers of the first half of the 20th century.  She has delivered many such presentations in the U.S. and in Mexico.  But what makes the Tulane event special is that Dr. Morrill will be able to make use of unique collections, documents, and silver pieces housed at the LAL to structure and illustrate her talk.  The LAL houses the most extensive collection of primary and unique sources on Spratling and the Mexican silver renaissance, including the Sutherland-Taxco Collection and the Ulrich-Spratling Collection of Spratling’s personal papers, all acquired with generous support from the Zemurray Foundation and Jim and Penny Morrill.  In addition, we also house an extraordinary collection of Mexican silver pieces that complement the design drawings in the collection, a generous gift from Henry and Pamela Bain in 2021.  Without a doubt, this will be a special presentation, and we are grateful to Penny Morrill for her longstanding engagement with Tulane and the Latin American Library.