23rd Annual Conference on the Arts & Crafts Movement

1800 S. Prairie Avenue,Chicago IL 60616

23 September, 2021

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23rd Annual Conference on the Arts & Crafts Movement Chicago and Environs Thursday, September 23 - Sunday, September 26 23rd Annual Conference on the Arts & Crafts Movement Chicago and Environs Thursday, September 23 - Sunday, September 26, 2021 For more information, call: +1 646-485-1952 or email: [email protected] Conference Highlights include (as of 2/19/2021): • Opening formal sessions to take place at The Glessner House (H. H. Richardson, 1887) • Among highlights of sites to be visited: o Tours of the Fine Arts Building (also known as the Studebaker Building, 1884–5, Solon Spencer Beman) the interior of which features murals by artists such as Frederic Clay Bartlett, Frank Xavier Leyendecker, and Bertha Sophia Menzler- Peyton dating from the building's 1898 renovation o Private lunch at the University Club (Holabird & Roche, 1907-1909) in the Michigan Room featuring stained glass and a ceiling depicting a medieval feast, (1908-9, both designed by Frederic Clay Bartlett) o Chicago Cultural Center (1892 - 1897) designed by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge for the city's central library and Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) meeting hall and memorial. Rare, imported marbles, polished brass, fine hardwoods, and mosaics of Favrile glass, mother-of-pearl and colored stone to create an architectural showplace. The building’s south side features the world’s largest stained glass Tiffany dome (restored, 2008), while the north side boasts a dome with some 50,000 pieces of glass in an intricate Renaissance pattern, designed by Healy & Millet o Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral, Louis Sullivan, (1903) featuring an elaborate chandelier and stained glass by Healy & Millet o Old St. Patrick's Church, the city's oldest standing church building and one of a handful of structures predating the 1871 Great Chicago Fire; From 1912 through 1922, the interior was redecorated by Thomas A. O’Shaughnessy and others in the Celtic Revival style, with some ornamentation modeled on the illuminations from the Book of Kells o Pullman, the first industrial planned community in the U.S, was built in the 1880s by George Pullman, as workers' housing for employees of his eponymous railroad car company, the Pullman Palace Car Company. Among Pullman’s many remaining historic and architecturally significant buildings are the Hotel Florence; the Clock Tower and Factory, the complex surrounding Market Square, and Greenstone Church. Distinctive rowhouses that contained such amenities as indoor plumbing, gas, and sewers. Pullman's architect, Solon Spencer Beman, was said to be proud that he had met all the workers' needs within the neighborhood he designed. o Frank Lloyd Wright's Johnson Wax Headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin, featuring the Johnson Wax Administration Building (1936 – 1939) and the Johnson Wax Research Tower (1944–1950) designed for the company's president, Herbert F. "Hib" Johnson for whom Wright also designed Wingspread (1939) which the architect termed, "the last of the Prairie houses,” at which there will be a luncheon and a lecture. Among those participating are (as of 2/19/2021): • Susan S. Benjamin, Benjamin Historic Certifications, LLC and co-author, Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses, 1929 – 1975 (with M. Sabatino, 2020) • T. Gunny Harboe, FAIA, president, Harboe Architects • MichaelAngelo Sabatino, Professor + Director PhD Program in Architecture Inaugural John Vinci Distinguished Research Fellow, College of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology • Rima Lunin Schultz, historian and author, Women Building Chicago 1790 – 1990: A Biographical Dictionary • William Tyre, Curator & Program Director, Glessner House Confirmation of purchase will be sent through Eventbrite. Please check your junk/spam folders if you do not receive your confirmation email. Please note that you will receive a dear attendee letter one week prior to the conference. This letter will contain paperwork related to transportation information, event participation, lunch options and instructions on how to order. Hotel Accommodations A room block has been secured at Staypineapple, located at 1W Washington St., Chicago, IL 60602. Stay tuned for further details. If you have any questions please contact Erin at [email protected].  We hope you can join us for another GREAT conference with amazing sites, insightful information and great people.   Notice of withdrawal must be made in writing to Initiatives in Art and Culture at  333 East 57th Street, Suite 13B New York, New York 10022 or via email [email protected] prior to August 26, 2021 Program subject to change Captions from top: Frank Lloyd Wright, Johnson Wax Building, 1939 Louis H. Sullivan; Holy Trinity Cathedral, 1903.