THE CHICAGO ARTS & CRAFTS MOVEMENT Exhibitions and events NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1997 Second Presbyterian Church The Art Institute of Chicago Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Foundation Prairie Avenue House Museums St. James Episcopal Cathedral Historic Pleasant Home Chicago Architecture Foundation Ragdale Foundation   Second Presbyterian Church 1936 South Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60616, Tel. (312) 225-4951. EXHIBITION: The Chicago Arts and Crafts Movement, tracing the movement from its origins in England to its flourishing in Chicago. Second Presbyterian Church which was redesigned in the Arts and Crafts style by architect Howard Van Doren Shaw and muralist Frederic Clay Bardctt. It' many stained glass windows by Tiffany Studios and Morris and Co. are highlights of this National Landmark treasure. TOURS OF THE EXHIBITION AND CHURCH: Wed, Thurs, Fri, 10am to 3pm; Sat, 9am to 12noon; Sundays following the 11am worship service. Voluntary admission $3. OPEN HOUSE AND SLIDE LECTURE: Sherry Richmond, curator of The Chicago Arts and Crafts Movement exhibition, 21 November, 5-7pm. EXHIBITION GRAND FINALE: Sunday, 7 December, 3pm. Performance of Handel's "Messiah" with Chicago Chamber Orchestra and soloists (there will be an offering foe Chicago Hunger Fund). The Art Institute of Chicago 111 South Michigan Avenue at Adams Street, Chicago, IL, 60603, Tel. (312) 443-360$. EXHIBITION: The Art Institute of Chicago's permanent collection of 20th-Century Decorative Arts in Gallery 358 includes newly installed Arts and Crafts silver and a recent acquisition of a copper plaque by Gustav Stickley. LECTURES: assistant curator Seth A. Thor on 12 November, 12.15pm,discusses Chicago Arts and Crafts Metalwork, and on 1 December Chicago Arts and Crafts Furniture (Morton Auditorium). Lectures are free with voluntary museum admission, recommended $7 adults, $3.50 children, students, and senior citizens. STUDY DAYS: Department of Museum Education offers two Chicago Arts and Crafts Study Days on 3 or 4 November, from 9am to 4pm. These include a gallery talk at the Art Institute and visits by bus to the Second Presbyterian Church exhibition; Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, and Ragdale, Howard Van Doren Shaw's home in Lake Forest. Box lunch included. Cost $65. Registration limited. Call (312) 443-3680 for information on availability. Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at University of Illinois at Chicago 800 5. Halated Street, Chicago, IL 60602, Tel. (312)413-5353. EXHIBITION: Art and Labor: Hull-House and the Chicago Arts and Crafts Society, documenting the formation of the society at Chicago's famous social settlement in October 1897. The exhibition traces the evolution of art and craft programs at Hull-llouae, highlighting the relationship between social issues and aesthetic reform. EVENTS: A year long program exploring the influence of the Chicago Arts and Crafts Society on aspects of Chicago life and history will include lectures, educational programs and walking touts, dates to be announced. The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum is housed in two original Hull-House buildings: the Hull Mansion (1856), a focal point of settlement house activities, has been restored to look a, it did in the early years; the Residents' Dining Hall (1905), designed by Arts and Crafts architects Allen and Irving K. Fend, is currently being restored by the University. HOURS: Mon-Fri, 10am-4pm; Sun 12noon-5pm. Admission free. The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Foundation 951 Chicago Avenue, Oak Park, IL 60302, Tel. (708) 848-1976. EXHIBITION: modest display highlighting the connection between the Chicago Arts and Crafts Society and Frank Lloyd Wright, a founding member, is on view at Wright's own home and studio, a building which exhibits characteristics of both Arts and Crafts and Prairie Style architecture. Included is an original printed volume of Wright's famous address "The Art and Craft of the Machine" delivered at Hull-House in 1901. The display may be viewed by attending a guided tour of the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, 31 October-21 November. TOURS: given weekdays at 11am, 1pm and 3pm; weekends every 15 minutes from 11am to 3.30pm. Admission $8 adults, $6 senior (65+) or youth (7-18). Prairie Avenue House Museums 1800 South Prairie Avenue, Chicago, IL 60616, Tel. (312) 326-1480. EXHIBITION: The Decorative Arts of Frances Glessner. One of the social and cultural leaden of Chicago's Gilded Age, Frances Macbeth Glessner was also an accomplished silversmith and textile artisan. Her work will be on display in an interpretive exhibit in the Prairie Avenue House Museums Tour Center. Olessner House contains many decorative objects and furnishings of the English Arts and Crofts movement, all original to the Glessner family. HOURS: Wed-Sun, 12noon-4pm. St. James Episcopal Cathedral 675 North Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611, Tel. (312) 787-7360. St. lames Cathedral features one of the finest Arts and Crafts interiors in Chicago. Its superb stenciling was designed in 18138 by E.J. Neville Stent, a student of William Morris. St. James is one of the city's oldest eborebra and parts of the building survived the Chicago Fin of 1871. TOURS: 1pm on the following Sundays: 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 November, and 7 December. A donation it suggested. Historic Pleasant Home 217 South Home Ave, Oak Park, Illinois 60302, Tel. (708) 383-2654. Pleasant Home was designed in 1897 by nosed Prairie School architect George W Maher for investment banker and philanthropist John Parson. In the forefront of the Prairie School movement, Maher developed a style distinct from that of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School architects Though Maher designed more than 300 structures in the United States Pleasant House Is the only one open to the public. TOURS: Thurs-Sun, Ipm, 2pm, and 3pm, Cost $4 adults, $3 students. SPECIAL TOUR: of private residences designed by Maher in the historic Hutchinson Street District will be offered on 8 November. Call for mote information Chicago Architecture Foundation 224 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60604, Tel. (312) 922-3432. EXHIBITION: Prairie School Architecture. 25 September-30 November. Hours: Mon-Sat, 9am-6pm; Sun, 9.30am-5pm. Admission free. Ragdale Foundation 1260 N. Green Bay Road, Lake Forest, IL 60045, Tel. (847) 234-1063. The Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, IL, is an artists' retreat housed in the 100-year-old summer home of Arts and Crafts architect Howard Van Doren Shaw. 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