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EVENTS
Frank Lloyd Wright Gardens
Newtown, PA: April 24 Photographer/author Derek Fell will discuss his recent book The Gardens of Frank Lloyd Wright at the annual Tyler Gardens & Landscape Lecture at Bucks County Community College, giving special attention to Wright’s own gardens at Taliesin, Taliesin West, and his Oak Park, Illinois, home (215-504-8500 x6007 or rosenbel@bucks.edu).
Art Pottery in Ohio
Cleveland, OH: April 21 – 25 Ohio’s abundant clay deposits made it a vibrant center for ceramics. The American Art Pottery Association (AAPA) returns to these roots for its 30th annual convention, featuring a two-day show and sale of vintage and contemporary art pottery, an art pottery auction, and seminars on Pewabic and luster pottery, the unique metal-clad pottery of Charles Clewell, and the renowned ceramists who have won the Charles Fergus Binns Medal from Alfred University. Tours will highlight the newly installed decorative arts and ceramics galleries at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the pottery collections of the Western Reserve Historical Society, the Cowan Pottery Museum, and Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens, one of the finest examples of Tudor Revival architecture in America (609-407-9997 or www.aapa.info).
Craftsman Farms Events
Parsippany, NJ Special events at the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms include the Spring Members’ Reception (April 10), with Perdita Buchan discussing her book Utopia, New Jersey: Travels in the Nearest Eden. Open to the public, May Family Day (May 1) recreates a 1911 May Day celebration with maypole dancing, craft activities and more (973-540-0311 or www.stickleymuseum.org).
Things Roycroftie for Spring
East Aurora, NY Workshops on the historic Roycroft campus include Basket Weaving with Roycroft Master Artisan Kathleen Currie (February 13), Arts and Crafts Style on the Cheap! with homestylist Julie Dana (February 27), Make a Stained Glass Window Pane with Roycroft Artisan Yvonne Stoklosa (March 27-28), Beginner’s Copper Repoussé with Roycroft Master Artisan Frank Glapa (April 9-11) and Chasing and Metalsmithing for Jewelry with Roycroft Master Artisan Ron Van Ostrand (April 16-18). Information: 716-655-0261 or www.roycroftcampuscorporation.com.
Colorado Arts & Crafts Society Show, Sale and Workshops
Golden, CO: May 9 – 10 The Boettcher Mansion, a 1917 Arts and Crafts lodge, hosts the 13th annual Colorado Arts & Crafts Society Show & Sale. Browse among vendors specializing in vintage and reproduction furniture, lighting, textiles, ceramics, jewelry, art and books, and take part in hands-on workshops sponsored by local guilds (720-497-7632 or www.coloarts-crafts.org/events.htm).
Walking with Wright
Oak Park, IL: May 13-16 The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust’s 36th annual Wright Plus Housewalk (Saturday, May 15) features rare interior tours of eight private homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and his contemporaries, plus entry to three landmark Wright buildings. Thursday, Friday and Sunday add-ons—exclusive dinners, excursions and other options—are available, too (708-848-1976 or www.gowright.org).
Denver Old House Fair
Denver, CO: March 27 Solve all your restoration challenges with one stop at the Denver Old House Society’s gathering, where architects and other restoration experts hold workshops, answer questions, and fill you in on neighborhood preservation efforts (303-916-4359 or www.denveroldhousesociety.org).
Grove Park Inn Arts & Crafts Conference & Antiques Show
Asheville, NC: February 19-21 The massive 1913 Grove Park Inn hosts three packed days of seminars, tours, book signings, demonstrations, workshops, special exhibits, work by contemporary craftsfirms—and, of course, the perfect antiques for your Craftsman-style home (828-628-1915 or www.arts-craftsconference.com).
Gamble House Lectures & Tours
Pasadena, CA The Sidney D. Gamble Lecture Series continues as Brian Kaiser discusses “Everlasting Tile: The Life and Work of Rufus B. Keeler,” founder of both Calco and Malibu tile studios (March 13), with a tour of Keeler’s Spanish Colonial Revival home following on March 20. Dana Hutt speaks on Frank Lloyd Wright’s eldest son, “Lloyd Wright: Architect of Sunshine and Shadow” (May 1), with a tour of three Lloyd Wright homes on May 8 (626-793-3334 or www.gamblehouse.org).
Bungalow Heaven Tour
Pasadena, CA: April 25 Between 1905 and 1920, hundreds of Craftsman-style homes were built in central-northeast Pasadena, now known affectionately as Bungalow Heaven—Pasadena’s first Landmark District, recently added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Sponsored by the Bungalow Heaven Neighborhood Association, the 21st annual self-guided home tour opens several of these houses to the public, with docents stationed at each to answer architecture and design questions. Proceeds will fund neighborhood revitalization efforts and community events (626-585-2172 or www.bungalowheaven.org).
San Francisco Show & Sale
San Francisco, CA: August 14-15 Now in its 16th year, the Arts & Crafts San Francisco show features over one hundred exhibitors selling Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, Native American and California Rancho antiques and contemporary wares (503-936-9509 or www.artsandcrafts-sf.com).