Little Journeys

“Is That an Arts and Crafts Fence?”

    As you no doubt have learned, when you move into a house, you inherit the previous owner’s improvements. In our case, in 2002 we inherited a five-foot tall chain link fence encircling the wooded knoll which is our back yard.…

Mark Mazzuki, AAPA President, Passes Away

  Last month we lost the talented graphic designer Mark Mazzuki, age 54, who in his own modest, unassuming way served for more than twenty years as the amazing creative force behind each issue of The Journal of the American Art Pottery…

Learning New Tricks

  In dog years, I must be about 490 years old, but I can say without hesitation that even old dogs can learn new tricks. We just have to be enticed by the right treats . . . . My two sons have long since moved away and built their own…

Powered by Zoom — Inspired by Zoom

  When Kate and I decided that in place of a three-day live 34th National Arts and Crafts Conference at the 1913 Omni Grove Park Inn we would organize and host a 28-day Arts and Crafts Month, I had no idea how people would respond. I literally…

An Arts and Crafts Conference Contest

by Bruce Johnson   Now that you are all even more familiar with the Arts and Crafts movement and its current revival, we thought we would conclude our month-long 34th National Arts and Crafts Conference and Shows with an Arts & Crafts…

Show & Tell: Arts & Crafts Style

by Bruce Johnson   As much as we all lament not being able to see each other face-to-face in the Great Hall, at the seminars, and in the shows at the Omni Grove Park Inn Resort, we have found a few silver linings inside the dark Covid…

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