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  The Arts & Crafts Society
of Central New York, in collaboration with the F. Franklin
Moon Library at State University of New York College of Environmental
Science and Forestry at Syracuse University, announces an exciting
symposium on the life and work of the American Arts and Crafts
movement artist, Dard Hunter. The symposium will focus especially
on Hunter's unique role in the twentieth-century renaissance
of hand papermaking and book design and will offer a rare opportunity
to view an extensive collection of these works at the Moon Library.
The symposium will offer diverse, original, and enlightening
perspectives from professionals in art history, book and papermaking
arts, paper science, and conservation, and connoisseurship, and
will shed new light on this towering figure by Dard Hunter Symposium web site Melanie Bazil, archivist and art historian Theories on health within the American Arts and Crafts movement existed on various levels of thought surrounding the living of the “good life’. Art, architecture, decoration, and integrated gardens were interwoven with methods of proper nutrition and natural healing modalities to form a total sensory experience aimed towards conscious health, spirituality, and the achievement of higher levels of awareness. Melanie Bazil will discuss this rarely considered aspect of the movement. Her lecture will examine the Craftsman movement in the Midwest with emphasis on the roles of the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts, the landscape designs of Jens Jensen and the doctrines of Henry Ford in relation to health. Ford, the founder of the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, introduced primary concepts of early complementary health therapies. Mary Chase Perry Stratton, founder of the Pewabic Pottery in Detroit, promoted the ideals of a healthy life, working on early hospital designs and with the many DSAC garden shows, as did George G. Booth, who founded Cranbrook. Henry Ford’s active participation in the Arts and Crafts movement included connections to Grove Park Inn, Elbert Hubbard, Luther Burbank, and an intense interest in horticulture and farming, as well as his distinctive ideas on health. Melanie Bazil is Senior Archivist at the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit. She has been on the staff of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Cranbrook Educational Community, and Pewabic Pottery, where she was the Director of its Museum/Archives from 1988 to 1996. She is a frequent lecturer on the Arts and Crafts Movement and on the ceramic work of Mary Chase Perry Stratton. Oct. 2002 The Arts & Crafts Society of Central New York,
in colllaboration with the F. Franklin Moon Library at State University
of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse
University, announces an exciting symposium on the life and work of
the American Arts and Crafts movement artist, Dard Hunter. The symposium
will focus especially on Hunter's unique role in the twentieth-century
renaissance of hand papermaking and book design and will offer a rare
opportunity to view an extensive collection of these works at the
Moon Library. The symposium will offer diverse, original, and enlightening
perspectives from professionals in art history, book and papermaking
arts, paper science, and conservation, and connoisseurship, and will
shed new light on this towering figure by freshly examining critical
issues surrounding Hunter's career. For more information, please visit
the web site below. Dard Hunter Symposium web site: www.newyorkbooks.org/dard_hunter_symposium
"The Ward Wellington Ward Memorial Fund" Dear Friend of Ward Wellington Ward, Please click here for a donation form you can fill out and mail to us. Sincerely. THE JAPANESE INFLUENCE Barbara Stone Perry Saturday, January 26, 2 PM Co-sponsored by the Arts & Crafts Society of Central New York
Barbara Perry, currently Curator of Decorative Arts at the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, served as Curator of Ceramics at Everson Museum of Art from 1985 to 1991. During her tenure in Syracuse she installed the museums's Syracuse China Center for the Study of American Ceramics and curated several major exhibitions. Her many publications include American Art Pottery (1997), American Ceramics: the Collection of Everson Museum of Art (1989), and Fragile Blossoms, Enduring Earth: The Japanese Influence on American Ceramics I (1989). She also served as Director at Tyler Art Gallery, State University of New York at Oswego, New York, as guest curator for the American Craft Museum, and as Professor of art history and museum studies at Syracuse University, LeMoyne College, and SUNY Oswego August 11, 2001
June 19, 2001 Looking for New Board Members Looking for a way to share your interest and enthusiasm in the Arts and Crafts movement with others? We are currently looking for interested individuals to join our board and/or participate in our committees. Board members attend meetings scheduled on the first Wednesday of each month. New board members will be elected at our membership meeting in September 2001 and serve a three year term. If you are interested e-mail us using the link above for more information. We are also looking for a dedicated person to fill the
position of Secretary. Computer experience would be helpful but not
required. If interested please contact Joanne at the e-mail link above
for details.
The Arts & Crafts Society
of Central New York, in collaboration with the F. Franklin Moon
Library at State University of New York College of Environmental Science
and Forestry at Syracuse University, announces an exciting symposium
on the life and work of the American Arts and Crafts movement artist,
Dard Hunter. The symposium will focus especially on Hunter's unique
role in the twentieth-century renaissance of hand papermaking and
book design and will offer a rare opportunity to view an extensive
collection of these works at the Moon Library. The symposium will
offer diverse, original, and enlightening perspectives from professionals
in art history, book and papermaking arts, paper science, and conservation,
and connoisseurship, and will shed new light on this towering figure
by Dard Hunter Symposium web site "The Ward Wellington Ward Memorial Fund" Dear Friend of Ward Wellington Ward, We have just learned a surprising fact! Central New York's Arts and Crafts architect, Ward Wellington Ward, has been lying for seventy years in an unmarked grave! He is buried in the Moyer plot (his wife's family) in Woodlawn Cemetery. Ward has given the region so many monuments that it seems right that he have one too. Many of you have talked to Ward's grandson, Peter Forgan, who is creating a documentary film about his family. We hope that Peter, his mother Peggy, and his sister Sandy can come to Syracuse from their home in Washington State for the placing of a monument on Ward's grave next fall. A graveside service would be followed by a reception to meet the family. To accomplish this we need your help. The Arts and Crafts society of Central New York a few years ago marked the grave of Gustav Stickley's great designer, Harvey Ellis. The Society now proposes to mount a campaign to do the same for Ward. Claire Sturr and I visited the cemetery and learned that the stone must conform to the others that surround the Moyers' central obelisk. The company that provided the other family stones estimates a cost of nearly $2000 to mark the grave. We hope the A&C Society members, Ward House owners, friends in the community, and relatives of Ward will pitch in to raise the needed funds. If 100 people each gave $20, we would reach our goal. Some may wish to give more. All contributions are tax-deductible as charitable gifts. Checks should be made to the Arts and Crafts society of Central New York and sent to ACSCNY, PO Box 35082, Syracuse NY 13235. We can also accept credit cards. To learn more, call David Rudd at (315) 463-1568 Please click here for a
donation form you can fill out and mail to us. Who Made All Those Wooden Brown Lamps? A prevailing question has perplexed those interested in the lighting of Arts and Crafts interiors: who created the generic oak and leaded glass fixtures found in so many of these period environments? Some of these lighting devices were one-of-a-kind workshop projects created in schools or from popular craft books. Others, judging by their frequent appearances, were produced in numbers on high-quality, high-precision, factory assembly lines. New research by Michael Clark and Jill Thomas-Clark reveals that a large number of these fixtures were created by a single firm: the W. B. Brown Company of Bluffton, Indiana. Michael's talk will shed light on the significance of Brown's fixtures, which were created to blend harmoniously with the Arts & Crafts or structural "Craftsman" environment. The Arts and Crafts Society of Central New York is pleased
to welcome back to our speaker's forum fellow member, Dr. Michael
Clark, Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Elmira College. He and
his wife, Jill Thomas-Clark, Registrar for the Corning Museum of Glass,
work as a team. They have spoken and published widely on the Arts
and Crafts movement, focusing especially on second tier furniture
makers in Central New York such as Harden, the Majestic Furniture
Company, the Quaint Art Furniture Company of Syracuse, New York, the
Cortland Cabinet Company, and others. The Clarks have contributed
over thirty articles to Style 1900 on such wide-ranging Arts and Crafts
topics as ceramics and manual art training and, most recently, on
glass and lighting. Their recent book The Arts and Crafts Furniture
of J. M. Young will soon be followed by The Stickley Brothers (Gibbs
Smith, in press). They are now working on two more books, one on Arts
and Crafts lighting and another on Central New York Furniture Makers.
In Harmony with Nature: 2:00 pm at the Co- Sponsored by the Arts and Crafts Society of Rick Darke,
landscape consultant, author, and photographer, focuses on the balance
of nature and culture in regional American landscape and is an This talk is free and open to the public with a $15.00 recommended tax-deductible donation to the "Arts and Crafts Society of Central New York". Bring a friend! For Information call Dalton's 463-1568 ‘Craft in Campden’: a weekend to celebrate the centenary
of the arrival of the Guild of Handicraft in Chipping Campden, Charles Robert Ashbee (1863-1942) was one of the most
remarkable figures The Guild as a whole only lasted for six years in the
country, but their The weekend will include: A visit to an exhibition, ‘Comrades in Arcadia:
Ashbee and the Guild in Lectures on craft in Campden in the twentieth century:
lecturers include Visits to the former workshops of the Guild of Handicraft,
to the Norman The high point of the weekend will be a play, Against
the grain, written A celebratory church service at Saintbury parish church,
where the The launch of Felicity Ashbee’s biography of her
mother, Janet Ashbee: And the launch of a guide-book to Arts and Crafts in
Broadway and The weekend is being organised by the Guild of Handicraft
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internationally
recognized authority on Arts & Crafts period landscapes and ornamental
grasses. His writing and photography have been published in numerous
books and magazines, including Landscape Architecture, The American
Gardener, Horticulture Magazine, The Royal Horticultural Society Journal
(The Garden), and Garden Design. His books include The Color Encyclopedia
of Ornamental Grasses (1999), The Color Encyclopedia of Ornamental
Grasses on CDROM (2000), and In Harmony with Nature: Lessons from
the Arts & Crafts Garden (2000). His next book, The American Woodland
Garden: Capturing the Spirit of the Deciduous Forest will be published
in late 2002 by Timber Press. In 1998, the American Horticultural
Society honored Darke with its Scientific Award, which recognizes
individuals "who have enriched horticulture through outstanding
and notable research."
