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Summerfest Returns, Online Classes, and The Largest Batchelder Ship Tile: Your Weekend At A Glance
by Kate Nixon This weekend holds plenty of excitement: another annual tradition returns in-person in East Aurora this weekend, a popular online course returns, and an Arts and Crafts Auction will start this Friday! 45th Annual Roycroft Summer Festival to be held at the Classic Rink on June 26 & 27, 2021 The Roycrofters-At-Large Association is excited to announce that it will be back again live and in person for the 45th annual Roycroft Summer Arts & Crafts Festival at the Classic Rink on Saturday, June 26th and Sunday June 27th! The festival runs from 10 a.m until 5 p.m both days at the Classic Rink, located at 41 Riley Street in East …
Little Journeys
By Bruce Johnson
Close Encounters of the Deer Kind
Like many of you, here in Western North Carolina we have had to learn to share our backyards and gardens with whitetail deer. More recently, as our urban sprawl has invaded their natural habitat, we have also experienced a growing number of encounters with black bears, especially the night before trash pickup. A few months ago, I leaned into one of our windows to peer out onto our dark deck, only to discover a mother bear leaning in to look at me. Startled, we both jumped back, before she and her cub quickly shimmied down the poplar tree next …
Collector’s Guide
The Allure of Rookwood: An Art Pottery Auction at Toomey & Co
by Kate Nixon The enthusiasm of American art pottery collectors online and otherwise was on hand at a full intensity last Thursday as the Keramics & Rookwood: American & European Art Pottery started as the Spring/Summer auction season continues. The special 412 lot auction featured a variety of works of Rookwood Pottery, many of them early and important examples. The notable artists who works captured the attention of collectors all over the country this past Thursday included Maria Longsworth Nichols Storer, Kataro Shirayamadani, Sara Sax, Arthur Conant, and William Hentschel, whose porcelain Mat Moderne vase sold for $20,000. The …
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
