But Is She an Arts and Crafts Ghost?
This week, as we were working on room requests and assignments for the National Arts and Crafts Conference at the Grove Park Inn in February, a familiar question came up: Is the Grove Park Inn really haunted?
While I don’t want to conjure…
A Call For Small Group Discussions
In the early years of the Arts and Crafts Conference at the Grove Park Inn, our seminar audience was small enough to enable attendees to ask questions of the speakers or to engage in a spirited discussion of the topic at hand. But once our numbers…
Speakers Preparing For the 31st National Arts and Crafts Conference
As I mentioned back in October, by far one of the most enjoyable aspects of organizing the annual Grove Park Inn Arts and Crafts Conference is selecting and working with the six seminar speakers. Each year I scour the country for energetic,…
Poster Released for 2019 Arts & Crafts Conference
No, that’s not a typo.
Each year the attendees at the National Arts and Crafts Conference at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC, receive a free poster – announcing the next year’s dates. In February they will find in their canvas tote…
It’s an East Aurora – Roycroft Weekend
East Aurora, New York could well claim to have been the birthplace of the American Arts and Crafts movement, for it was there in a drafty barn in 1895 that Elbert Hubbard, inspired by William Morris, first began publishing his hand-illuminated,…
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