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2010 William Morris Society Events in the United States

Full listing of 2010 US Events

Current United States Newsletter

23 January - J. W. Waterhouse: The "Modern Pre-Raphaelite, lecture by Peter Trippi sponsored by the Royal Oak Foundation, at the Grolier Club, New York, NY.

Until 31 January - Apostles of Beauty: The Arts and Crafts Movement from Britain to Chicago, exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

5 March–5 June - Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, exhibition at the Henry B. Plant Museum, Tampa, FL. Occassioned by the Nineteenth Century Association's annual conference, annoual conference, "Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century."

15 March - Deadline for submission of proposals for Useful & Beautiful: The Transatlantic Arts of William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites. See the call for papers

20 March - Deadline for submission of proposals for William Morris Society sessions at the 2011 Modern Language Associaiton Annual Convention: "Morris and the Arts" (Morris Society session) and "Pre-Raphaltie Use of History" (proposed session in collaboration with the Society for Arthurian Literaure), 2011 MLA Annual Convention, 6–9 January 2011, Los Angeles, CA

7–9 October - Useful & Beautiful: The Transatlantic Arts of William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites, conference and related exhibitions at the University of Delaware, Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, and Delaware Art Museum

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2010 William Morris Society of Canada Events

The William Morris Society of Canada

25 February - Pub Night!, Madison Pub, Toronto. Show off your knowledge of Morris trivia at the WMSC Pub Night. Quizmasters Sheila and David Latham will have a stack of questions on all aspects of Morris's life and career.

29 January–25 April - Ottawa Collects Edward Burne-Jones, exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

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2010 William Morris Society Events in the United Kingdom

Full listing of 2010 UK Events

27 February - William Morris's Legacy Here and Now, talk by Mohamed Ali, at Kelmscott House Museum. The first in a new series, to include designers, conservationists, artists, craft workers, writers and others whose work is inspired by Morris. A contemporary artist speaks about his work, art and politics, and the influence of William Morris.

10 March - World Premiere of The Earthly Paradise by Iac Mcqueen, BBC Sympony Orchestra, Barbican Hall, London

13 March - Ian Hamerton on W. A. S. Benson, at Kelmscott House Museum. Morris's friend and colleague William Arthur Smith Benson headed Morris & Co. Decorators after Morris's death. Our speaker is the leading authority on Benson's work.

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More News

New William Morris Society Book, The History of Kelmscott House by Helen Elletson. Click here for details and ordering information.

Education programs at Kelmsoctt House Museum, aimed at students in levels KS1 and KS2. These free school visits to Kelmscott House Museum encompass units in History and English.

News from Anywhere, the blog of the William Morris Society

Online archive of full-text articles from the Journal of William Morris Studies., 1961–2007


Forthcoming

One of the Morris Society's major projects is the Morris Online Edition. We hope to be able to reproduce and create scholarly editions of nearly all of Morris's writings and make them available to the public for free.


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LAST UPDATE 17 FEBRUARY 2010