Welcome to the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms!  
 

This 30-acre National Historic Landmark is the centerpiece of Gustav Stickley’s early 20th century country estate.  The Stickley family’s home, known as the Log House, was built in 1911 and is one of the most significant landmarks of the American Arts and Crafts movement.  It has been restored to its 1911 appearance and is operated by the Craftsman Farms Foundation as a historic house museum.  Tours of the Log House are available year round, as well as group tours for clubs, churches, special interested groups, schools, scouts, etc.  

The Museum also offers lectures, workshops, and numerous educational programs, plus two family days each year.   Off-site exhibitions are mounted and exhibition catalogues, which include new scholarship, are produced annually.   

The Museum’s growing collection includes numerous Stickley furnishings, many which are original to the Log House, plus textiles, pottery, metalwork, and archival materials.  In addition to these priceless objects on view in the Log House, an original Stickley bungalow has been furnished with touchable Arts and Crafts furnishings.  A visit to this bungalow, known as North Cottage, allows visitors the opportunity sit in the chairs and fully experience Arts and Crafts living.  Tours of North Cottage must be books in advance. 

The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms is committed to assuring that all individuals can participate in our programs. If you require the use of assistive listening devices or other special assistance please call at least two weeks in advance.   Five handicapped parking spaces are available opposite the Museum entrance, and the building is equipped with a fully handicapped accessible bathroom.  The historic Log House walkways are gravel, but have been graded to make wheel chair access possible.

Visitor amenities include the well-stocked Museum Shop, which carries handmade Arts and Crafts style pottery, tiles, jewelry, as well as books, magazines, and Stickley Museum souvenirs.  A guidebook to the history of the site has been produced and is available on-line and in the Museum Shop.  Beverages and packaged snack food are available for purchase and picnic tables are situated throughout the site.

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“Infinite Variety: Women of the Arts and Crafts Movement” by Pat Bartinique

In celebration of Women’s History month Pat Bartinique will present a lecture exploring the role of women in the Arts and Crafts Movement. The lecture will be on Saturday, March 7 at 4:00 p.m. and will include a reception honoring the members of the Museum’s Craftsman Guild.

Bartinique, a Professor of English at Essex County College and Founding Member of the Craftsman Farms Foundation, states that “at the beginning of the Twentieth Century the dominant views of women were that of wives and homemakers,” but “there was also the emerging image of the working girl struggling in ever-enlarging cities.” Although the first names associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement are those of men, as Bartinique will discuss, it is important to recognize that wherever one looks, there are prominent women equally participant.  Women were active as furniture designers, artists, potters, writers, publishers and editors, architects, and metal workers.  They were involved in the settlement houses and in giving expression of the Arts and Crafts aesthetic in the areas traditionally associated with women, such as handicrafts.

Guest Curator and author of the exhibition catalogue Gustav Stickley—His Craft : A Daily Vision and a Dream, Bartinque also curated and authored the exhibition catalogue for Kindred Styles: The Arts and Crafts Furniture of Charles P. Limbert.  A participant in the Grove Park Inn Arts and Crafts Conference since the first conference in 1987, Bartinique’s platform talks/seminars at the conference include “The Spirit That Endures: Gustav Stickley and The Craftsman Magazine” (1997) and “1901 and The Arts and Crafts Movement”  (2001).  Since 2005, she has led the Arts and Crafts Conference Book Club. Her 2009 Small Group Discussion topic is “Living the Arts and Crafts Lifestyle: A philosophy in Action.”

Lecture and reception:

Saturday, March 7 at 4:00 p.m.

Space is limited

Advance reservations are highly recommended

$12 Nonmembers

$10 Members

Free to all members of the Craftsman Guild.

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Presented by David Taylor

Thursday, 12 March 2009 . 6 p.m., reception to follow

The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York

Although he was a friend and colleague to many famous artists, authors, and activists, the lawyer and positivist Vernon Lushington (1832–1912) remains virtually unknown today. In “Vernon Lushington: Pre-Raphaelite, Friend of William Morris, and Father of ‘Mrs. Dalloway,’” historian David Taylor will draw upon previously unavailable materials from the Lushington archive to shed light on the interesting and influential figure who arranged the first meeting between Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti and who visited with William and Jane Morris at Kelmscott Manor. Taylor will also discuss the connection between the Lushingtons and the Stephen family. After the death of Mrs. Lushington, Vernon’s three daughters were taken under the wing of Julia Stephen, wife of Leslie Stephen and mother of Virginia Woolf. Vernon Lushington’s eldest daughter, Kitty, became the model for the title character of Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway (1925). The Lushingtons also spent summers with the Stephen family at Talland House in Cornwall, which provided the setting for the Ramseys’ summer home in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse (1927). Letters in the archive offer insight into Woolf’s fiction.

David Taylor is a historian, writer, and lecturer living in Cobham, Surrey. A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, Taylor has published several works on the history of Cobham and presented lectures to the Virginia Woolf Society, the Pre-Raphaelite Society, and the William Morris Society. Vernon Lushington is the subject of Taylor’s doctoral research.

Event sponsored by the William Morris Society in the United States, the American Friends of Arts and Crafts in Chipping Campden, The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms, and the Victorian Society in America.

Tickets ($12 for members of the Stickley Museum or the other co-sponsoring groups, $18 for others) may be purchased from at www.morrissociety.org or by sending a check to William Morris Society, P.O. Box 53263, Washington, DC 20009.

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The 22nd Annual Arts & Crafts Conference and Antiques Show is scheduled for February 20-22, 2009, at the Grove Park Inn Resort in Asheville, North Carolina. This event is recognized as the premier weekend for Art and Crafts collectors and aficionados, offering lectures, an antique show, contemporary craft show, “hands-on” workshops, small group discussions, house tours, and much more.

The Grove Park Inn itself is a work of art and a piece of early 20th century history.  Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this 95 year old inn has hosted F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and a president or two.  Visitors can still enjoy the same hickory rockers and Roycroft chandeliers that these prestigious guests experienced in another century.  With one of the largest collections of Arts and Crafts furniture in the world, Grove Park’s ambiance makes it the perfect setting for the Annual Arts and Crafts Conference.

The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms will host its annual pre-conference Gala Benefit Dinner, on Thursday evening, February 19 at 6:00 p.m. Plan to come a day early and enjoy a fabulous evening, meeting old and new friends from around the country. The evening will begin with a cocktail hour, followed by a gourmet dinner. Entertainment will include a lively Arts and Crafts trivia contest with prizes. Tickets are $130 and advance reservations are required. Get your tickets by clicking here!

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We are pleased to announce the launch of the Amy Stahl Memorial Lecture Series this fall. Established in honor of Amy Stahl, longtime dedicated supporter of The Farms and wife of former Trustee Dr. Don Stahl, the annual series is devoted to lectures of scholarly significance.

Joseph Cunningham, Ph.D will be the first speaker in this series. He will speak on the topic, “Was Gustav Stickley a Modernist?: New Perspectives on Early Masterworks.” Stickley is widely heralded to be among the most important proponents of the Arts and Crafts Movement in America, but, as Dr. Cunningham will discuss in his lecture, it is now possible to take a wider perspective on his exceptional contribution to the development of Modernism. More than a mere advocate of British design reform theory or exponent of good design and honest craftsmanship, Dr. Cunningham proposes, Stickley, his Craftsman Magazine and the United Crafts’ enterprise can be considered as important modernizing forces in American design, beginning around 1900.

The Curator of the American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation, Dr. Cunningham is currently at work on the exhibition The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs, which will open at the Milwaukee Art Museum in June 2009 and travel to the Carnegie Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Huntington Art Galleries and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A book signing of Dr. Cunningham’s book The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs will follow the lecture. The American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation is collaborating with the Dallas Museum of Art on their forthcoming Gustav Stickley exhibition and book, to which Dr. Cunningham will contribute an essay on Irene Sargent and the Ideological foundations of the United Crafts and Craftsman enterprises.

Set for Saturday, November 8 at 4:00 p.m., a book signing will follow the lecture. Light refreshments will be served. Tickets are $5 Members and $10 for Non Members. Purchasing tickets in advance is strongly encouraged.

Saturday, November 8 at 4 p.m.

$5 for Members and $10 For Non Members

For tickets, call 973-540-0311.

For more upcoming events, please visit our website.

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