Conference Closeup: Special Fundraiser Events

by Kate Nixon

 

Every year, the National Arts and Crafts Conference holds special fundraiser events, where conference attendees can join in on the fun! For an additional price for a ticket to these events, attendees can get to know the organizations that help raise awareness of both the historic Arts & Crafts Movement and its revival – and have fun while doing so! Within your Pre-Conference Information Packet, there are flyers for each: the Craftsman Farms Kick Off Party, the Historic Home Tour, and a presentation by the Asheville Art Museum. We have a preview for each event including the location, date, and time, and the process for registering for each event. Read on to see the details for each event and how you can get into the room where it happens below.

 

Craftsman Farms Kick-Off Party: BBQ, Brew, Bluegrass, and Friends

In honor of their 30th anniversary, on Valentine’s Day, the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms will start off our Arts and Crafts Weekend with a bang and host BBQ, Brew, Bluegrass and Friends, a special fundraiser event at the 32nd National Arts and Crafts Conference at the Omni Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC. The kick off party will include a mouthwatering meal of your favorite southern comfort foods and BBQ, a local selection of craft beer and wine, bluegrass music guaranteed to get your feet tapping, door prizes, and even a commemorative beer mug with each ticket purchase – which you can use while in Asheville, that’s “Beer City, USA!”

The party all takes place on Valentine’s Day at 7:00 PM – a new time for the kick off party – at the Skyline Room at the Grove Park Inn. The tickets cost $150 each and must be purchased through the Stickley Museum’s website. Net proceeds from the Kick-Off Party directly support the maintenance and operations of The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms, the early 20th-century home of Gustav Stickley in Parsippany, NJ and a significant landmark in the early 20th century American Arts and Crafts Movement. $50 of each ticket is tax deductible within the limits of the law. You must RSVP by February 8th, 2019.

To purchase tickets for the Craftsman Farms party, click this link to the online event page.

 

Craftsman Farms Kick-Off Party: BBQ, Brew, Bluegrass, and Friends

Date: Thursday, February 14th, 2019

Location: Skyline Room, Omni Grove Park Inn

Time: 7:00 PM

RSVP by February 8th, 2019

Tickets: $150 each ($50 tax deductible), sign up and pay online at the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms website.

 

 

 

Historic Home Tour

We’re pleased to welcome back the Preservation Society of Asheville and Buncombe County and their historic home tour to the National Arts and Crafts Conference. Each year, they offer a tour of five or more historic homes in Asheville – this year the tours will be offered both Saturday, February 16th and Sunday, February 17th. All homes are located in National Register-listed Norwood Park, offering an eclectic mix of houses built between 1912 and 1930s. This year, such examples include:

The Clyde R. Pike House at 25 Norwood Ave – a Craftsman bungalow with classical columns and Craftsman-era trim. The roof features the Grove Park area’s curved “false thatched” treatment with bracketed soffits. The interior walls are made of first growth heart pine panned walls and coffered ceilings.

30 Norwood Ave. – a house built by E.W. Grove’s engineer, he incorporated broken roof tiles he brought home from the Grove Park Inn construction into the concrete blocks he used to construct the house.

Gray Line Trolley Tours are providing the transportation for the home tours with the pick up point located at the Sammons Wing doors by the check in table. The tour transportation will run every 30 minutes with the last shuttle leaving at 3:30PM. This tour – offered the Saturday and Sunday of the conference – will happen rain or shine, so please be prepared with a raincoat or umbrella as needed. Participants should be able to walk several city blocks and negotiate stairs and public walkways.

Tickets for this event are $35 each – please see the bottom portion of the flyer located in your packet to fill out and mail to the Preservation Society of Asheville and Buncombe County. There are no paper tickets to receive in advance for this event – you can pick up your pass at the Preservation Society table in the Sammons Wing before the tour. The proceeds will go to the Preservation Society of Asheville and Buncombe County. No refunds will be made after February 1st, 2019.

For additional up-to-date information, please visit https://psabc.org for more info

 

Historic Homes Tour

Date: offered both Saturday, February 16th and Sunday, February 17th

Location: tour pick up and drop off located at the Sammons Wing by the Preservation Society table, tour will visit homes in nearby historic Norwood Park

Time: Saturday tours from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM and Sunday tours run from 12:30 PM to 5:00 PM (tours run every 30 minutes)

Tickets: $35 each – fill out your form you received in your Pre-Conference Information packet. The day of the event, check in at the Preservation Society table in the Sammons Wing for your pass.

Questions? Call 828-254-2343 or email [email protected]

 

 

An Evening With the Museum: “Women & American Art Pottery”

“Art pottery was a business in which decorative ceramics were mass produced but finished – and often painted in detail – by hand. Even more significantly, at a time before women had the right to vote, they led the way in these potteries, thereby dictating the taste of fashionable decorative arts to collect and display in one’s home…These inspired women were not only incredibly talented but also proved to be innovative entrepreneurs in the early 20th-century revival of the craft.” – The Asheville Art Museum

The significance of contributions to the early American Arts and Crafts Movement by women will be featured in this presentation by Asheville Art Museum curator Whitney Richardson on Saturday, February 16th at 5 PM at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Asheville. Richardson, who holds degrees in architectural history and design and decorative arts,  will give a presentation on contributions by women to pottery and the American Arts and Crafts Movement at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Asheville, whose red-brick structures were designed in the original Arts and Crafts style by Biltmore Estate architect Richard Sharp Smith. An optional tour of the Church is offered at 4:30 PM before the presentation.

Tickets to the presentation – and optional pre-presentation architecture tour of the church – are $25 for Asheville Art Museum and SMEC Members and $35 for non-members and Conference attendees. The cost includes a light reception and shuttle transportation from the Grove Park Inn. Tickets can be purchased online at the Asheville Art Museum online shop – click here to go to the event page to purchase tickets.

Questions? call 828-253-3227 ext. 122

 

An Evening With the Museum: “Women & American Art Pottery”

Date: Saturday, February 16th, 2019

Location: St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 337 Charlotte Street, Asheville, NC 28801

Time: 5:00 – 7:00 PM (optional church architecture tour at 4:30 PM)

RSVP by February 10th, 2019

Tickets: $25 for museum and SMEC members, $35 for non-members and Conference attendees, sign up and pay online at the Asheville Art Museum event page.

 

 

For more information on the conference, please consult your information packet or visit the National Arts and Crafts Conference website. If you have not registered for the conference yet and would like to, please see our registration info page on our website.

For more information, see the links below for important information about the 2019 and 2020 National Arts and Crafts Conferences:

Conference Information Packet: What Should You Know?

A Valentine’s Day Warning for the 2019 National Arts and Crafts Conference

Our 2019 Conference Demonstrators

2019 Pre-Conference Workshops

Getting Your Room for the 2020 National Arts and Crafts Conference