If Spring Comes, Can Winter Be Far Behind?
I awoke this morning to the sounds of frogs croaking, robins singing and daffodils pushing their way through crusty flowerbeds.
And, no, I did not take an early vacation in Florida.
This is still North Carolina and even in North Carolina…
An Arts and Crafts Dinosaur?
Remember the movie "You've Got Mail" with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks?
It was playing this past weekend on the small, dusty television set I have hanging on the wall of my workshop, as I was making the quartersawn oak frames some of you will be…
Taking the Arts & Crafts Time Machine
With the Arts & Crafts Conference just a month away, I haven’t ventured far from Asheville this week. We've stayed busy wrapping up the 88-page Conference Catalog, printing name badges, finalizing tours and demonstrations, coaching speakers…
Parties, Poets and Goats
I struggled most of last summer trying to think of something special to do to mark our 25th meeting at the historic Grove Park Inn on February 17-19. If you have attended any of our previous 24 conferences, you know that the ballroom and meeting…
Picking Up Where Michael Left Off
In one of my conversations I had with Jill Thomas-Clark last week, she made the comment, "I only wish that Michael could have heard all of the wonderful things people have said about him."
It made me pause and wonder, "Had I told Michael how…
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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.