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Online Presentations Celebrate Arts and Crafts Aesthetics and California Printmaker Frances Gearhart
DESIGN & HISTORY: THE PAST IS ALWAYS PRESENT 6 Sessions | $25/session | Location: Zoom Online Classroom Saturdays at 1:00 PM Eastern Time | January 23 – February 27, 2021 The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms https://www.stickleymuseum.org/design-history-the-past-is-always-present/ Diptych with the Coronation of the Virgin and the Last Judgment (French), ca. 1260-70. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Week 1: Reimagining the Gothic: Roots of a Revolution There is no period more appropriate to begin the historical precedents of the Arts and Crafts movement than the Gothic, a new expression of religious sentiment that flourished in Europe during the 12th to 15th centuries. It …
Little Journeys
By Bruce Johnson
Growing Stronger
This year’s virtual 34th National Arts and Crafts Conference is a far cry from what our conference and show looked like in 1988, or what any conference or show looked like three decades ago. Long after vaccines, face masks, and stringent sanitary measures will have enabled us to move past this deadly rampage, life will not simply return to how it had been back then. Just as forecasters predict that a percentage of business air travel will forever be erased by a continued reliance on Zoom, some aspects of a virtual Arts and Crafts Conference may also remain in …
Collector’s Guide
How To Shop Our Virtual 34th Arts and Crafts Shows
As I mentioned in today’s Little Journey, the first National Arts and Crafts Conference was held at the historic Grove Park Inn in February of 1988. It featured thirty antiques dealers and one craftsman, that being metalsmith Michael Adams of Aurora Studios. Each year, as the conference grew in popularity, the number of exhibitors increased proportionally until we maximized the available show space at the famed resort hotel. From the beginning, we separated the antiques dealers from the contemporary craftsfirms, simply because the artists and artisans were so skilled that it was often impossible to distinguish their work from …
Traveler’s Guide
Whether it be a museum with an Arts & Crafts collection, a nearby Prairie School home, a bungalow neighborhood, an Arts & Crafts gallery or a Frederick Law Olmstead park, just being able to add an Arts & Crafts side trip to our journey would add to our enjoyment and our education.
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How-To Videos
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how valuable is a video?
Here at ArtsandCraftsCollector.com we have been busy making brief, informative videos to educate and instruct viewers in a variety of aspects of Arts & Crafts collecting.
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Know Your Shopmarks
We are currently in the process of collecting, organizing, identifying and displaying on this website as many Arts & Crafts shopmarks as possible. And like our Reference Library, we need your help. While we have documented the shopmarks of the major Arts & Crafts firms, we need for you to email us a photograph of any shopmarks you have from lesser known firms, along with a brief description of the piece.
Shopmark Guide
Books Worth Reading
As both a collector and a researcher, I have often wished there was one site where every book ever written on the Arts & Crafts movement was listed. Now that place exists. Together we can compile on this website a list of every book of interest to Arts & Crafts collectors. All you have to do is pull some of the books off your bookshelf (go for the less obvious ones – and check below for duplicate entries) and email me the title, author, publisher and most recent copyright date. I will sort them by category and list them here so that anytime you or anyone else wants to research anything relating to the Arts & Crafts movement, you will start your search here.
Reference Library
