William Morris Society: 2005 U.S. Events Calendar

2005 WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY EVENTS IN THE U.S.

21 January - 13 March 2005
"The Beauty of Life: William Morris and the Art of Design."
     "The Beauty of Life" exhibition will travel to the Block Museum on the Northwestern University campus in Evanston, IL, in January 2005. This exhibition is primarily drawn 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 125 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.
     A companion exhibition, "How We Might Live: The Arts and Crafts Interior" will run 4 January - 6 March 2005. American furniture maker and designer Gustav Stickley took inspiration from the principles laid down by William Morris yet developed his own Arts and Crafts style. Organized by the Block Museum, this exhibition explores the two Arts and Crafts masters’ unique notions of How We Might Live through furniture and home decorative objects produced by their companies.
     See http://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/.
26 January 2005 DEADLINE
Call for papers on "Textual and Virtual Morris: Legacy, Intertext, and Hypertext."
     Papers are solicited for a Morris Society panel at the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Conference to be held in Charlottesville, Virginia 30 October - 2 November 2005. Please send 1-2 page proposals by 26 January 2005 to
Professor Florence Boos
The William Morris Society in the United States
Department of English
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
email: us @ morrissociety.org
20 February 2005 DEADLINE
MORRIS SESSION AT THE MMLA: "Morris for Our Time," at the Midwest Modern Language Association, which will take place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from November 10th to 13th of 2005. Please send proposals for prospective fifteen-minute presentations before February 20, 2005 to florence-boos@uiowa.edu.
23 March 2005
"The Arts & Crafts Movement in Europe and America 1880–1920: Design for the Modern World."
         The New-York Historical Society, Central Park West at 77th Street. 6:30 p.m.: lecture and book-signing reception. $17 general; $12 seniors, students, members of N-YHS and the William Morris Society (please mention this flyer when registering).
         The Arts and Crafts movement arose in Britain in the 19th century, as artists and artisans sought to counter what was seen as the malevolent effects of industrialization by promoting an alternative means of production and consumption. The appeal of the movement soon grew; the central tenets of integrating art into daily life, improving working conditions, and focusing on handcrafted design spread throughout Europe and North America by the end of century. Wendy Kaplan, curator of the first exhibition to assess the international scope of the movement, will discuss masterworks by key designers including William Morris (1834–1896), Peter Behrens (1869–1940), and Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), as well as lesser-known examples of European decorative arts, and will reveal that Arts and Crafts was not just an artistic style, but a worldview with an enduring effect.
         Wendy Kaplan (B.A., M.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, University of Delaware), Curator of Decorative Arts at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is a specialist in 19th and 20th-century decorative arts. She is curator of The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America, 1880–1920: Design for the Modern World and author of the exhibition catalogue.
         This program is a review of the exhibition The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America, 1880–1920: Design for the Modern World, on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from December 19, 2004 through April 3, 2005, and the accompanying publication (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2004).
         This program has been organized by The Bard Graduate Center in collaboration with the New-York Historical Society (N-YHS). To register, please call 212-817-8215 or visit http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp/.
10 April 2005
Byrdcliffe: An American Arts and Crafts Colony: A SYMPOSIUM at The New-York Historical Society presented by the WOODSTOCK GUILD.
         This symposium explores the life lived and work produced at Byrdcliffe, a colony founded in 1903, by wealthy Englishman, Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead and his American wife, Jane Byrd McCall. They chose to live the "art that is life" and reject the machine age they believed was destroying artistic creativity. Their "brotherhood of artists" was to be inspired by nature and create works by hand. Byrdcliffe brought the first artists to Woodstock, NY forever changing its cultural and intellectual landscape. Today, Byrdcliffe continues serving artists on its 20 cottage 300 acre campus, now a National Register Site.
         At The New-York Historical Society from March 15-May 15, 2005, this traveling exhibition features over 190 examples of Byrdcliffe artists' furniture, metalwork, textiles, ceramics, drawings and paintings. It has been seen at Cornellís Herbert F. Johnson Museum and The Albany Institute of History and Art, following its opening at the Milwaukee Art Museum. The exhibition's last stop is the Winterthur Museum from June 11-September 5, 2005.
         Talks presenting heretofore unheard perspectives on material and topics of signal importance are complemented by a reception and an opportunity to view the exhibition in the company of curators, scholars and other enthusiasts.
Agenda:

9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast.
9:30 - 9:40 a.m. Introduction. Lisa Koenigsberg.
9:45 - 10: 30 a.m. Spreading William Morris' Gospel Across America: Ralph and Jane Whiteheads' Arcadian Experiments in California and the Catskills. Cheryl Robertson.
10:35 a.m. - 11:20 a.m. Art at Byrdcliffe. Tom Wolf.
11:25 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. The Aesthetic Evolution of Simple Living in Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead's Artistic Environs. Heidi Nasstrom Evans.
12:15 a.m. - 1:45 p.m. Lunch (On your own).
1:50 p.m. - 2:35 p.m. The Art and Craft of Byrdcliffe without Arts & Crafts. Robert Edwards.
2:40 p.m. - 3:25 p.m. Purely for Pleasure: Ceramics at Byrdcliffe. Ellen Paul Denker.
3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Panel discussion. Panelists: Robert Edwards, Heidi Nasstrom Evans, Ellen Paul Denker, Cheryl Robertson, and Tom Wolf. Moderated by Lisa Koenigsberg.
4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Exhibition Viewing and Reception.
         PRESENTERS - All presenters contributed to Byrdcliffe: An American Arts and Crafts Colony (ed. Nancy E. Green) the publication accompanying the exhibition: Robert Edwards, manager of the Willcox collection of Byrdcliffe related objects from the Whitehead Estate since 1976 has edited and written widely on aspects of the Arts and Crafts movement and organized the first Byrdcliffe exhibition (1984); Heidi Nasstrom Evans, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maryland is writing her dissertation on Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead and curated a recent exhibition on her; Ellen Paul Denker, is an independent scholar, writer and exhibition curator of American decorative arts specializing in ceramics history; Cheryl Robertson, is an independent scholar and consultant specializes in 19th-20th-century American decorative arts; and Tom Wolf, a professor of art history at Bard College has published widely in the area of 20th century American art and co-curated the Byrdcliffe exhibition. The symposium is organized and moderated by Lisa Koenigsberg, Advisor to the Dean for Arts Initiatives, adjunct professor of arts, NYU/SCPS, and founder and president of Initiatives in Art and Culture.
         REGISTRATION - The symposium fee is $75. A special rate of $40 is available for students (ID required). To register, call 845-679-2079 or visit the website http://www.woodstockguild.org/. For further information, contact The Woodstock Guild at 845-679-2079, or via email at wguild@ulster.net.
15-20 May 2005
Roycroft & Frank Lloyd Wright Elderhostel* Program
         The Foundation for the Study of the Arts & Crafts Movement at Roycroft and Elderhostel USA are sponsoring a weeklong program, May 15-20, 2005 that looks into the history, philosophy and ideals of the historic Arts & Crafts era domestically and internationally. Lodging for the five nights are at the restored historic Roycroft Inn in East Aurora, NY.
         East Aurora is located 15 miles south of Buffalo, NY. Lectures on the Arts & Crafts Movement, and visits to historic sites such as Frank Lloyd Wright’s Graycliff and Martin House and Blue Sky Mausoleum, a City tour of architectural gems in Buffalo, and a VIP tour of the Roycroft Campus and East Aurora community are part of the five day program.
         Seeing Roycroft artisans at work and special receptions and some meals at private East Aurora homes are some of the unique opportunities we are offering. Five dinners and four lunches, (some at the Roycroft Inn) are included in the program fee.
         Kitty Turgeon, Founding member of the Roycroft Renaissance and Education Director of the Roycroft Campus Corporation will be your hostess for the week and will share many stories of her 33 years of experience on the Roycroft Campus.
         For more information or to register please call Sandy Starks at 716-839-5150 or log on to http://www.elderhostel.org/.
         *There are no minimum age requirements for this program.
7-9 October 2005
Roycroft–Chautauqua, "The Connection: 2005." An Historic Arts & Crafts Trail
         We are pleased to announce the Second Arts & Crafts Conference at the National Historic Landmark Chautauqua Institution this autumn October 7-9, 2005.
         The Athenaeum Parlor will be filled with Roycroft Renaissance artisans and Roycroft Campus vendors. Our keynote speaker is Stuart Robertson from the Mackintosh Society in Glasgow, Scotland. We are proud to have speakers on our agenda discussing various aspects of the Arts & Crafts Movement. Jack Quinan is returning to discuss his new book, Frank Lloyd Wright's Martin House and will be joined by John Vanco of the Erie Art Museum; John Courtin, Executive Director of the Darwin Martin House; Patrick Mahoney, Vice President of FLW's Graycliff Conservancy; Jill Peters, discussing her dissertation on the Women of the Roycroft; and Doug Swift, President of the Roycroft Campus Corporation. Other weekend festivities include an Appraisal Fair, tours of Arts & Crafts sites at the Chautauqua Institution, and the highly acclaimed "The Art and Craft of Dining Experience."
         Check out our web site http://www.roycroftconference.com/. You are welcome to inquire further at (716) 839-5150 or email info@roycroftconference.com.
December 2005
2006 William Morris Stained Glass Calendar
         The calendar features previously unpublished images of details from the Vanderpoel Memorial Window in Trinity Episcopal Church, Saugerties, New York. This important window dates from 1874 and is the first recorded stained glass commission undertaken by the William Morris Company for an American client.
         The window is comprised of 15 panels and the designs include works by Edward Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown and William Morris himself, all dating from the 1860s and 1870s.
         The calendar is available on a print-on-demand basis from CafePress but it is also available at a discounted price from StainedGlassPhotography. In case of purchase from the latter allow 2-weeks of turnaround due to the need to consolidate orders placed with the publisher.
         There is a second calendar, '2006 in Stained Glass', also being published by CafePress, which includes images of William Morris stained glass combined with images of works by other makers. This is available from the same sources.
         The discounted calendars may be found at: .
         If time is of the essence then orders may be placed at http://www.cafepress.com/ralley.
5 December 2005, 7:00 pm
A Reading of Red House, written by Society Fellowship awardee Igancio Zulueta.
FREE to Society members
         The Magic Theatre and Z Space Studios present Z Magic Mondays: an ongoing series of new play readings, written and performed by Bay Area artists at Fort Mason by the bay.
         Red House is an intimate and intense view of the entangled lives of Victorian counterculture artists William Morris, Dante Rossetti, and Edward Burne-Jones. Spun from the memories of Georgiana Burne-Jones, the oft-neglected biographer of her husband's life, the colorful lives of the Pre-Raphaelites become violently caught up in one woman's paradoxical attempt to relive her own past while simultaneously destroying it.
         Admission free to Morris Society members & Magic Theatre subscribers.
         Need to find the Magic? http://www.magictheatre.org/pages/location.shtml.

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