2003 WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY EVENTS IN THE U.S. 13 February - 1 May 2003 "The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain and America" is a course offered by New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies program in Appraisal Studies in Fine and Decorative Arts. Ten class sessions on Thursdays from 2-4 pm (no classes March 20 and April 17) based at the NYU Midtown Center, 11 West 42nd St., with additional field trips to be scheduled. Instructor: James Elliott Benjamin and guest speakers. The course will examine such figures as A. W. N. Pugin, John Ruskin, William Morris, Ernest Gimson, C. R. Ashbee, C. F. A. Voysey, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Frank Lloyd Wright, Greene & Greene, Gustav Stickley, Elbert Hubbard, Henry Chapman Mercer, and Arthur Wesley Dow; consider cross-fertilizations with the Gothic Revival, the Colonial Revival, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau; and explore themes in the cultural and social history of the era. Furniture and interiors, metalwork and jewelry, pottery and tile, graphics and printing are discussed in class sessions, visits to Craftsman Farms, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as to specialist galleries, craftsmen's workshops, and a private collection. Course no. X03.9618. Tuition: $510 (plus $20 registration fee). Info: 212-998-7130, jamesben@mindspring.com, or http://www.scps.nyu.edu/departments/course.jsp?catId=11&courseId=28700. 25 February 2003, 6:00 p.m. The New Digital 'Monticello' Type: History and Impressions." A joint lecture by Matthew Carter and Charles Creesy will be held at the Grolier Club, Tuesday February 25, 2003, 6pm. The event is co-sponsored by The Grolier Club, the Society of Typographic Aficionados, and the Type Directors Club. Matthew Carter and Charles Creesy will speak about the new digital "Monticello" typeface. This typeface can claim a lineage stretching back to Thomas Jefferson and America's first type foundry, Binny & Ronaldson. Originally commissioned by Princeton University Press for the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, "Monticello" represented the desire of editor Julian Boyd and the Press to present modern documentary editing in historically allusive typography. Princeton University Press's Charles Creesy will talk about Binny Ronaldson, their relations with Thomas Jefferson and how their 1797 type inspired the 1950 linotype face "Monticello." Type designer Matthew Carter will build on this history to discuss his 21st Century digital version of this distinctively American typeface. Attendees will receive a keepsake, the first showing of Carter's new digital "Monticello," courtesy of Princeton University Press. Matthew Carter, a type designer with more than forty years' experience of typographic technologies ranging from hand-cut punches to computer fonts, has designed ITC Galliard, Bell Centennial (for U.S. telephone directories), Mantinia, Big Caslon, Miller, and the screen fonts Verdana and Georgia. The recipient of numerous awards, including the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, the Type Directors Club Medal, and the AIGA Medal, Carter is a principal of Carter & Cone Type, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Charles Creesy, Director of Computing and Publishing Technologies at Princeton University Press, was honored by the Association of American University Presses in 1996 for his efforts to help publishers adopt digital technologies. Creesy became interested in fonts while setting headlines by hand for Princeton's student newspaper in the 1960s, a skill he later applied to editing a magazine for the Peace Corps in Ecuador. Upon his return to the U.S., he worked for the New Leader in New York and became editor of the Princeton Alumni Weekly, which made the transition from hot-metal composition to computers during his tenure from 1975 to 1988. His article about the creation of the original Linotype "Monticello" and the new revival by Matthew Carter will appear in the Princeton University Library Chronicle. This presentation is part of APHA's "On the Road" series of events in 2002-2003, held across the United States. It is co-sponsored by The Grolier Club, the Society of Typographic Aficionados (SoTA), and the Type Directors Club. Free and open to the public. Reservations are not required but seating is available on a first come-first served basis. The Grolier Club is located at 47 East 60th Street, New York, N.Y. 15 March 2003 Deadline Morris Society Sessions at the 2003 Annual MLA Convention: Call for Papers The MLA annual convention will be held in San Diego, CA, 27 - 30 December 2003. The William Morris Society will sponsor two sessions on the following topics: "The Visual Imagination: Pre-Raphaelite Texts and Art." Topics may include areas such as Artistic contexts for poetry; Pre-Raphaelite illustrations; cultural artifacts; poems and visual images; associated poems and paintings. "A Vision or a Dream? Morris's Politics in the 21st Century." Topics may include political and social themes in Morris's writings; utopianism, ecology, socialism, internationalism, the "beauty of life." As always, the Society encourages participation by younger members and by those outside the profession of teaching literature and language. Please be aware that presentations are limited to 15 minutes and that this time limit will be enforced. Speakers at the MLA annual convention must be members of the Modern Language Association as of 1 April 2003, unless we can obtain a membership waiver--available for those who are not in the profession of language or literature. Deadline: March 15, 2003. For more information, or to submit a proposal, please contact: Florence Boos Department of English University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa 52242 E-mail: florence-boos@uiowa.edu 9 April - 14 September 2003 William Morris: The Reactionary Revolutionary At the Baltimore Museum of Art. See http://www.artbma.org/exhibitions/wmorris.html for more details. 6 May 2003 "J. W. Waterhouse: Paintings as 'Decorative Panels of Colour'" Lecture at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture: 38 West 86th Street , New York, NY 6:00 - 7:15 p.m.: lecture 7:15 - 8:00 p.m.: book-signing reception $20.00 general admission; $15.00 seniors, students, and members of the William Morris Society      Although the richly colored canvases of John William Waterhouse RA (1849-1917) are usually described as "late Pre-Raphaelite" and "Academic," progressive critics in the 1890s praised their "decorative" character. Pursuing an avenue opened in his new biography of Waterhouse (Phaidon, 2002), art historian Peter Trippi will consider how Waterhouse and other Englishmen embraced the French Symbolists' notion of paintings as harmonious "decorations" that could produce an emotional response and sense of completeness, quite apart from what they illustrated. Particularly supportive of this view was Gleeson White (1851-98), influential editor of the Studio magazine and a member, like Waterhouse, of the Art-Workers' Guild in London. A close reading of Waterhouse's works will reveal why they were associated with tapestries, Japanese prints, and mosaics, and why White celebrated their "beauty of line, beauty of mass, and beauty of colour." Trippi will investigate whether it is fair to relate Waterhouse to better-known "decorators" of this period, including William Morris (1834-1896), Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), Albert Moore (1841-1893), James Whistler (1834-1903), and Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956).      Peter B. Trippi (B. A., College of William and Mary, Williamsburg; M. A., New York University; M. A., Courtauld Institute of Art, London) is Assistant Vice Director for Development: Exhibitions and Collections at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He helped organize and wrote catalogue essays for the Baltimore Museum of Art's international touring exhibition A Grand Design: The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum (1997-99). Trippi is the author of the recent monograph J. W. Waterhouse and the entry on Waterhouse for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He is also founding Executive Editor of the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art's e-journal, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/).      This program is a review of J. W. Waterhouse (Phaidon, 2002), and has been organized in association with Phaidon Press, Inc. and the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture (http://www.bgc.bard.edu). 15 Jul 2003 DEADLINE "'Michael Field' and Their World: An Educational Weekend" University of Delaware, Newark, DE 27 - 29 February 2004 CALL FOR PAPERS This event will be the first scholarly conference devoted to examining the lives and literary achievements of the British poets and playwrights Katherine (often spelled "Katharine") Bradley (1846-1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913), the lesbian couple who wrote and published collaboratively under the pseudonym of "Michael Field." At the same time, this weekend will explore and illuminate the late-Victorian intellectual and cultural milieu surrounding them, by focusing upon the visual artists (including the Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic painters) who influenced them; the many famous friends (such as Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, Robert Browning, John Ruskin, "Vernon Lee," William Rothenstein, George Meredith, and Bernard Berenson) who formed their social circle; and the avant-garde publishers and designers who produced their books (including John Lane and Elkin Mathews, along with Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon). The conference organizers welcome proposals that address any of these subjects, as well as those that consider their groundbreaking work as educated women who entered the masculine spheres of Classical scholarship, art criticism, and Victorian drama, and as sexual dissidents who also became Catholic converts. Already the subject of recent studies by British, Irish, and American scholars, "Michael Field" are the center of a transatlantic revival of interest, studied for their approaches to feminism, aestheticism, female sexuality, collaborative creativity, spirituality, and journal writing. In keeping with their interdisciplinary cultural vision, the weekend will include a visit to the Delaware Art Museum, home of one of the largest and finest collections of Pre-Raphaelite art. The organizers request 1-2 page proposals for 15-20 minute papers. Please send proposals before 15 July 2003 via email or regular mail to: Margaret D. Stetz Mae & Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies Ewing Hall 109 University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 a href="mailto:Chavvy@aol.com">Chavvy@aol.com OR Mark Samuels Lasner Senior Research Fellow University of Delaware Library Newark, DE 19717 marksl@udel.edu Biblio@aol.com 14 - 19 September 2003 ROYCROFT INN INVITES MORRIS SOCIETY MEMBERS FOR EVENT The historic Roycroft Inn is hosting their 18th Elderhostel program Sept 14-19, 2003 (for people 55 and over) and have issued a personal invitation especially to Morris Society members. The Inn is located near the Roycroft Campus in East Aurora, New York, placing it near Niagara Falls and 2 hours from Toronto. The week long event includes college level classes including: The History And Renaissance Of The Roycroft Campus And Its People: Immerse yourself in Roycroft's Art History with craft demonstrations by Roycroft's Renaissance artisans and lectures on Roycroft philosophy and it's part in the Arts & Crafts Movement. Across The Atlantic: Leaders Of The Arts And Crafts Movement: An enlightening look at the history and philosophy of the Arts and Crafts movement great European artisans and architects. Frank Lloyd Wright And Other Famous Architects: Enter the world of Frank Lloyd Wright with lectures and field trips to the Darwin Martin Complex--Martin and Barton Houses and Gardener's Cottage. Visit Graycliff, the Martin's summer home, and tour the architecturally rich City of Buffalo to view world class masterpieces by HH Richardson, McKim, Mead & White, Louis Sullivan, EB Green and other great architects. The cost for the Elderhostel is $1,052.00, which includes 5 nights at the restored Roycroft Inn, all meals, seminars and tours. For more information, call Elderhostel toll-free at: 1-877-426-8056 or go to www.elderhostel.org and search for Roycroft. DEADLINE: 1 October 2003 GREEN LETTERS Green Letters, the journal of ASLE-UK (the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK Branch), is devoted to exploring interdisciplinary interfaces between humans and the natural environment. Articles are invited for our 2003 fall edition that consider the relations between scientific theory and literature, as well as the scientific foundations of literary theory, especially concerning postcolonialism and ecocriticism. Literary, historical, aesthetic and cultural studies approaches, sociological and anthropological studies, as well as perspectives from the scientific disciplines, are encouraged. Possible subjects of exploration include: ecofeminist theory and the biological body; the impact of Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis on literature; evolution and literary theory; Darwinian analysis of specific texts; fusing deep ecology and quantum mechanics; discourses on scientific innovation and perceptions of the natural environment. We would also like to encourage contributions of book reviews and thematically related creative nonfiction. Green Letters is a peer-reviewed journal and all articles will be subject to the usual refereeing process. Each article should be accompanied by an abstract and a brief biographical note. Articles should be typed double-spaced, with references in the Harvard Style and substantive footnotes at the end of the article. Manuscript length should be between 4,000 and 6,000 words. Submissions should be made via email with a MS Word attachment of the document. Please send submissions and any inquiries to the Green Letters editorial board at: GreenLetters@ntlworld.com. 24 - 25 October 2003 THE AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOCIATION (APHA) 27TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE will be held from 24-25 October 2003 at the Grolier Club in New York City. The theme of the conference will be "New Work in Printing History." Papers are sought which fit into the rubric of "new work in printing history." Printing history is broadly defined as the history of printing in all its forms, including all the arts and technologies relevant to printing, the book arts, and letterforms-typography, typefounding, presses and presswork, papermaking, calligraphy, bookbinding, illustration, publishing, and the literature of printing. Apart from its annual conference, APHA supports research and scholarship through its journal "Printing History," occasional special publications, an oral history project, and a recently-inaugurated fellowship program. The association, founded in 1974, encourages the preservation of printing artifacts and source materials for printing history. It recognizes achievement in the field through annual Individual and Institutional Awards and by means of the J. Ben Lieberman Lecture given each year at a different host institution by a distinguished figure in printing history or the book arts. These national events are supplemented by the activities of APHA's regional chapters, which sponsor programs of lectures, field trips, and other opportunities to meet fellow members. Additional information, including a membership form, may be found online at: http://www.printinghistory.org/. If you are interested in attending the conference, please contact: Mark Samuels Lasner Vice-President for Programs, APHA P.O. Box 4519 Grand Central Station New York, NY 10163 e-mail: programs@printinghistory.org or marksl@udel.edu 8 November 2003 - 4 April 2004 "The Beauty of Life: William Morris and the Art of Design."      An exhibition, drawn primarily from the Sanford and Helen Berger Collection. The exhibition examines William Morris's place in the history of design, drawing upon the Huntington's extensive Arts and Crafts holdings, which include the largest collection of Morris materials outside of the United Kingdom. The exhibit features over 200 works, including a ten-panel stained glass window, wallpaper and textile samples, original designs for stained glass, wallpaper, textiles, embroidery, tapestry, and books, as well as manuscripts, correspondence, and a selection of rare books published by Morris's Kelmscott Press. The exhibition will be on view at the Huntington from November 8, 2003 - April 4, 2004 and will then travel to the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, from October 14, 2004 - January 2, 2005. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California will host a two-day conference, "William Morris and His Legacy: Art, Design, and Politics," on December 5 and 6, 2003 to coincide with the exhibition "The Beauty of Life: William Morris and the Art of Design." Bringing together an international group of art, design, and architectural historians and curators, the conference will provide a forum for new scholarship on the work of William Morris and his continuing significance in the history of design in Britain and America. A public lecture, "William Morris: From Red House to Pasadena," will also be given by Richard Guy Wilson on December 4 at 7:30 p.m. To receive a brochure with more information and a registration form, please contact Carolyn Powell at (626) 405-2194 or cpowell@huntington.org. Registration is $25.00 (graduate students free), with optional lunches available at an additional cost. For more information, contact The Huntington Library 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, CA 91108 (626) 405-2100 http://www.huntington.org/ HOME · NEW · EVENTS · NEWSLETTER · SITE ARCHIVE · ABOUT THE SOCIETY MORRIS' LIFE AND WORKS · PRODUCTS · LINKS · SITE MAP · CONTACT US LAST UPDATE 10 NOV 2003 · PLEASE REPORT BROKEN LINKS TO WEBMASTER@MORRISSOCIETY.ORG