An Artisan in the Making?
A special edition of Little Journeys written by Kate Nixon - Bruce Johnson's assistant - on her views of the Arts & Crafts movement
It was my first month here in 2017 and I wanted to get a sense of Bruce’s research, so I remember…
Getting Ahead of the Rain
Each February when we gather at the historic Grove Park Inn for the National Arts and Crafts Conference and Shows, we each leave behind our regular lives and for three days put aside all thoughts of work. Rather than playing the roles…
Letting Go
Original Date of Publication: October 23rd, 2017.
Tryon, North Carolina, is a small town that literally straddles the invisible border with South Carolina. Located just 45 miles south of Asheville, it, too, lies at the base of the Blue…
Collecting Stories
I grew up in a small town on the Illinois prairie, one which fit Garrison Keillor’s classification of being so small that no one ever used their turn signal, simply because everyone already knew where you were going.
With…
Thinking Through Craft at the Grove Park Inn
“We’re different.”
That’s one of the first lines you’ll read when you go to the website of Warren Wilson College, which I did last Monday in preparation for a tour I volunteered to lead for a group of their students enrolled…
About Us
ArtsandCraftsCollector.com is a website dedicated to exploring the works, artisans, historical origins and the contemporary revival of the American Arts & Crafts Movement. The historic movement started as a response to the country’s Industrial Revolution and encouraged simple design paying tribute to the natural world over the intricate design of the Victorian era.