More than fifty people gathered on October 19th, 2024, at Syracuse University's Bird Library for a day of presentations about our region's wide and deep history and art linked to the Arts & Crafts Movement. Speakers included many of our local experts in ceramics, furniture, fashion and architecture. Five presentations and a panel discussion drew these varied media and their makers into a linked network of crafts and culture of the early 20th century, and a potentially linked network of sites and venues in the 21st century.
ACSCNY president and architectural historian Sam Gruber introduced the wide range of collections and places that show off Arts & Crafts movement achievements. Garth Johnson, Paul Phillips and Sharon Sullivan Curator of Ceramics at the Everson Museum of Art, made the case for the primacy of Adelaide Alsop Robineau in shaping the local (and national) Arts & Crafts Movement and aesthetic. David Rudd, founder of the Dalton's American Decorative Arts and Amanda Clifford, Director of the Stickley Museum in Fayetteville demonstrated the mastery and some of the variety of all the Stickley brothers. Beth Crawford showed the role of the Gustav Stickley's factory and workers in shaping the Village of Eastwood, and fashion historian Jeffrey Mayer, showed remarkable parallels in Arts & Crafts design and contemporary fashion. Together in the closing panel all the speakers spoke of how this hostoiry could and should be knit together as part of our local history, and to attract more cultural heritage visitors to our region.
The talks can now be found on the ACSCNY Youtube channel. Here are links to most of the talks:
Samuel D. Gruber: Preservation and Presentation of the Arts & Crafts Movement in Central New York
Garth Johnson: Adelaide Alsop Robineau: Syracuse’s Most Influential Arts & Crafts Figure?”
David Rudd: A Close Look at Stickley Furniture I
Amanda Clifford: A Close Look at Stickley Furniture II
Jeffrey Mayer: Arts and Crafts Influence on American Textiles and Fashion
Beth Crawford: From Gustav Stickley to Ward Wellington Ward: The Arts & Crafts Movement in Syracuse’s Eastwood
Closing Panel: CNY as a A&C Destination and Q & A (with Sam Gruber, David rudd, Amanda Clifford, Beth Crawford and Jeffrey Mayer).
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