Traveling to the Seattle area? You won’t want to miss a major new exhibition, The Arts & Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest, which opens on May 30, 2009 at the Museum of History & Industry in Seattle. The exhibition brings to light the exceptional work from the Arts and Crafts Movement in Washington and Oregon during the first quarter of the twentieth century. It showcases significant buildings and interiors, furniture, glass, metalwork, ceramics, textiles, fine arts, graphics and book arts, and photography with over one hundred objects drawn from public and private collections. Curators for the exhibition are Lawrence Kreisman, Hon. AIA Seattle, program director of Historic Seattle; and Glenn Mason, co-owner of Cultural Images, a museum and historical society consulting firm.
The Arts & Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest is based on the critically acclaimed publication by the same title by Kreisman and Mason. The book, published by Timber Press, Portland, explores the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement within a theme of regional identity, which found fertile ground in Washington and Oregon. Both states participated actively in the national Arts and Crafts Movement encouraged by exposure at two world’s fairs that put the Pacific Northwest on the national and international map, Portland’s Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition (1905) and Seattle’s Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909). There were significant contributions to a broad range of architecture and design arts, some of the most successful strongly influenced by the remarkable setting, climate, local raw materials, crafts of native inhabitants, and exposure to Pacific Rim cultures.
Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI)
2700 24th Avenue E., Seattle, WA
(206) 324-1126
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