Stories Never Told
Behind every successful celebrity there is a hard-working publicist.
While we tend to put our Arts and Crafts heroes on pedestals, there were, in fact, very few of whom in their lifetimes would have been called celebrities. When they did…
831 Missed Opportunities
Over the course of the past 28 National Arts and Crafts Conferences at the Grove Park Inn, I have sat in the back of the room next to the audio-visual team for all 196 seminar presentations.
I should be a lot smarter, but too often I was…
Something in the Mail for You
I’ll leave it to someone more qualified than me to write an appropriate Christmas column, for around here for the past 28 years the two weeks before Christmas have been more consumed with preparing the ten-page Pre-Conference Packet than…
Getting Around the Grove Park Inn
With the National Arts and Crafts Conference just two months away, we’re getting questions about the differences between the three sections of the hotel. This seems like a good time, then, to quickly review just how the 510-room Grove Park…
Of Pigments and Printer’s Ink
My latest little journey took me to Santa Fe, where I met my oldest son Eric, who is finishing his doctorate in chemistry at the University of Utah. Fortunately, it didn’t take much to convince Eric to let his lasers cool in the lab over…
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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.