We’re at over 200 votes, with 2 days of voting left. If you’ve already voted, please help spread the word to your Facebook friends! Use the Post to Wall button to quickly let your friends know about the Craftsman Farms Foundation.
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We just broke 100 votes for the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms on Chase Giving! Thanks so much! We’re well on our way to that $25,000 grant! Stop by and vote for us, invite your friends to vote too, and share the link on your own Facebook wall to help spread the word.
And, while you’re on Facebook, have you seen the Stickley Museum’s Facebook page?
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Saturday and Sunday, December 5-6 & December 12-13 from 11-4 p.m.
Visitors are invited to stroll through the house and enjoy the candlelight and Christmas decorations at their own pace. The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms will be all decked out for the holidays as Stickley and his family would have decorated it in 1915. The Christmas tree will sparkle with Bavarian glass ornaments that were the fashion at the time the Log House was built. Evergreen garlands festoon the staircase and poinsettias, which Stickley described as “the Christmas Flaming Star,” will brighten the three fireplaces.
HOLIDAY CARDS: An exhibition of approximately 40 recently acquired vintage holiday postcards from the period will be on display along with an accompanying text.
LIVE MUSIC: Holiday music from the period completes the open house atmosphere. On both Saturdays from 1:30 – 3:30 pianist John Baratta will perform authentic period music on the antique piano in the Stickley’s living room. On both Sundays at 2:00 the Community Theater Performing Arts Company will sing holiday favorites and lead family sing-alongs!
ESPECIALLY FOR CHILDREN: Daily changing activities will be based on holiday celebrations in the early 1900’s and will include special times for children to make paper chain garlands and string popcorn. On both Saturdays at 11:30 Children ages 6 -9 are invited to a special Story Hour concluding with a special Christmas-tree craft project.
CRAFTS: A trunk show featuring the high quality work of present day artisans from around the country will be open both weekends for your shopping pleasure. These crafts include pottery, woodwork, jewelry, papermaking, block prints and more. The exceptional work reflects the ethics of the Arts and crafts movement.
REFRESHMENTS: Gingerbread cookies and hot cider round out the open house atmosphere.
ALL-INCLUSIVE ADMISSION: Members: $4 Non-members: $8 (Free to children age 2 and under)
Chase is giving $25,000 grants to winning non-profits. Please fan the group, vote for the Craftsman Farms Foundation, and help spread the word! It only takes a few moments, and it’s completely free to help support the Stickley Museum. Your votes really help us out!
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This recent Star-Ledger article on Morristown historical attractions discusses all the great local attractions, like Jockey Hollow, Historic Speedwell, Villa Fontana, and — of course — Craftsman Farms.
“We can hold our own against so many other destinations,” said Leslie Bensley, executive director of the Morris County Tourism Bureau, which is the former Morristown Visitor’s Center, promoting the area’s historic, cultural, and recreational opportunities.
Which ones have you visited?
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Special holiday hours at the Stickley Museum means your gift shopping doesn’t have to be a chore. Visit the Museum Shop between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Friday, November 27 to discover wonderful gifts and escape the frenzy of the shopping mall. And get a free museum tree ornament for yourself with any purchase of $50 or more. Just take a quick turn off of Route 10, and you’ll find yourself surrounded by the natural beauty of Craftsman Farms, and while you’re here, join a tour and relax in the candlelit beauty of the Log House. Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends!
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“For Gustav Stickley and other American Arts & Crafts designers the word ‘Mission’ contained a variety of meanings. Initially Stickley embraced the word and published articles promoting it along with calling his furniture ‘Mission Style.’ However in time he abandoned it, perhaps to distinguish himself from other furniture makers.” So states, Dr. Richard Guy Wilson, who will be the featured speaker at the Stickley Museum’s 2nd Annual Amy Stahl Lecture at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 14.
Wilson also suggests that use of the term “‘Mission’ was an attempt to distinguish the American Arts & Crafts from English and European sources. Mission styled furniture, ironware, pottery and buildings became commonplace in the 1890s and 1900s throughout the United States as the Arts & Crafts took hold. The word also implied reform and fit in with the intent that product design and production along with much more political issues were part of the Arts & Crafts mission.”
Richard Guy Wilson holds the Commonwealth Professor’s Chair in Architectural History at the University of Virginia (Thomas Jefferson’s University) in Charlottesville, Virginia. His specialty is the architecture, design and art of the 18th to the 20th century both in America and abroad. He was a visiting fellow at Cambridge University, England during the Winter-Spring 2007. He received his undergraduate training at the University of Colorado and MA and Ph.D. at the University of Michigan.
Wilson has received a number of academic honors, among them a Guggenheim fellow, prizes for distinguished writing, and in 1986 he was made an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). He received the outstanding professor award at the University of Virginia in 2001. He has directed the Victorian Society’s Nineteenth Century Summer School since 1979. He has served as an advisor and commentator for a number of television programs on PBS and A&E, most significantly over sixty-five segments of America’s Castles.
A frequent lecturer for universities, museums and professional groups, he has also published widely with many articles and reviews to his credit. Wilson has been the curator and author for major museum exhibitions such as The American Renaissance, 1876-1917; The Art that is Life: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America; The Machine Age in America, 1918-1941 and The Making of Virginia Architecture.
He is the author or joint author of 16 books that deal with American and modern architecture which include studies of McKim, Mead & White, Thomas Jefferson’s design of the University of Virginia, Monument Ave in Richmond, the AIA Gold Medal, a contribution to the recent book on RM Schindler (2001), and principle author and editor of the Society of Architectural Historians book, Buildings of Virginia: Tidewater and Piedmont (2002). His The Colonial Revival House was published in the fall of 2004 and Harbor Hill: Portrait of House was published in 2008. Following the lecture Wilson will sign copies of this most recent book, which explores Harbor Hill, a lavish mansion designed by Stanford White and built in the early 1900s on Long Island.
For tickets or to receive further information, please contact the museum at 973-540-0311 or education@stickleymuseum.org
To download the registration form, please click here.
Amy Stahl Lecture and Book Signing:
by Richard Guy Wilson
Sat., Nov. 14 at 4:00
$10 Members
$12 Non Members
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Travel Everywhere! discusses the Must-See Museums in Morris County, NJ, including the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms:
Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms is the only house Gustav Stickley, the foremost spokesman for the American Arts and Crafts Movement, designed and built for himself. Stickley, known for his Mission furniture, revolutionized American decorative arts.
The log house, built in 1911, is one of the most significant landmarks of the American Arts and Crafts movement, and the site, which consists of 30 acres of the original 650-acre tract, has been designated a National Historic Landmark. The focal point of Stickley’s “Garden of Eden” was a large log house constructed of round, hewn chestnut logs that were cut from the property’s woods and local stone also found on the property.
Via 3 Marvelous, Must-See Museums in Morris County, New Jersey | Travel Everywhere!
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Join us for this fascinating lecture by Mary Greensted at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 10 at the Grolier Club. Mary Greensted’s talk will examine the influence of William Morris, father-figure of the Arts and Crafts movement, on the ideas and work of one of the most important British designers of the turn-of-the-century, Ernest Gimson. The direct impact on Gimson’s furniture, metalwork, embroideries, plasterwork and architecture will be discussed.
Our speaker, Mary Greensted, is a curator, lecturer, and writer, who was for many years responsible for Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum’s significant Arts and Crafts collection. A trustee of the Court Barn Museum, Chipping Campden, and the chairperson of the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen, she is the author of numerous books, including Craft and Design: Ernest Gimson and the Arts and Crafts Movement and The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Cotswolds, along with three catalogues on Cheltenham’s Arts and Crafts collections (as joint author/editor). Her most recent publication was An Anthology of the Arts and Crafts Movement, published by Lund Humphries in 2005. She is currently a recipient of Birmingham University’s Leventis studentship for researching links between Greece and the Arts and Crafts movement.
This lecture is the latest in the ongoing collaboration between the William Morris Society in the United States, the American Friends of Arts and Crafts in Chipping Campden, the Grolier Club, the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms, and the Victorian Society in America.
As always, members of the Stickley Museum and other sponsoring organizations are offered reduced rate tickets. $12 for members; $18 for others. To order send a check to William Morris Society, P.O. Box 53263, Washington, DC 2009 or pay by credit card at www.morrissociety.org. The Grolier Club is located at 47 East 60th Street, New York, NY.
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We are pleased to announce a special opportunity for Stickley Museum members. Show your current Stickley Museum membership card for a $10 discount on A Centennial Conversation: Art Pottery Discovery Day, a special educational program featuring David Rago, Suzanne Perrault and Decorative Arts Curator Ulysses Grant Dietz. The event will take place at The Newark Museum on Saturday, November 21, 1 – 4:30 p.m. Participants are invited to bring a piece of pottery to The Newark Museum for this Centennial Conversation, to share with the experts their stories of what their pots mean to them and to learn more about the pottery. The program is being held in conjunction with the Newark Museum’s current exhibition, 100 Masterpieces of Art Pottery 1880-1930, which will be on view through January 10. Pre-registration is required. For more details call 973.596.6613.
Members of the Stickley Museum or The Newark Museum $25
Non-members $35
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