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CATCH THE SPARK WEEKEND: Saturday Events
& Forging Ahead Forum Saturday, October 15, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Community Church of Mountain Lakes
Sunday Events DOWNLOAD BROCHURE Tweet Forum fees include lunch and break time refreshments: $25 members; $35 non-members The Catch the Spark weekend, which caps a yearlong celebration of Craftsman Farms' 100th year, will be kicked off with the Forging Ahead Forum, a full-day symposium to be held at the Community Church of Mountain Lakes in Mountain Lakes, NJ. It will be followed by Catch the Spark gala at the Mountain Lakes Club.
The Forum will mark the finale of the centennial by seeking to forge ahead into a new century and forecast an Arts & Crafts vision for the next 100 years. Drawing inspiration from the Stickley quote “…[The Craftsman Movement] must either grow or decay; it cannot stand still (The Craftsman, Oct. 1913), the Forum will look ahead to the future, hammering out the possibilities, applying, refining, and giving voice to a new century of Arts & Crafts. The Forum’s featured speakers, each representing a specific perspective, will by turns address Arts & Crafts tomorrow as a lifestyle, in the museum setting, as continuing inspiration for design, as scholarship and as a business. The Forum will be concluded with a panel discussion and Q & A session including all featured speakers.
Forum Schedule and Featured Speakers:
Bruce Johnson, "Passing the Torch: Can We Keep the Flame Burning" The veritable "Ambassador" of the Arts & Crafts Community, speaks about the Arts and Crafts lifestyle and passing the torch to the next generation.
Youth Presentation: Sam Reimnitz Junior, Montclair High School, Montclair, NJ A skilled young designer and overall winner of the 2011 Stickley Design Invitational, Sam will discuss his prize-winning design for a cafe on the grounds of Craftsman Farms. While inspired by Gustav Stickley's designs, Reimnitz' project imagines a new vision of Craftsman Farms for a new century.
Eleanore P. Gadsden, 4th Annual Amy Stahl Memorial Lecturer "Arts and Crafts in the Museum: Past, Present & Future" The Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts will speak about Arts and Crafts in museums, exploring its evolution and how it may evolve in the coming years.
Lunch Break
Youth Presentation: Cara Cavanaugh Senior, Academy of St. Elizabeth, Morris Plains, NJ In pursuit of her the Girl Scouts' most prestigious Gold Award, this talented student will discuss her project that will provide video tours of the 2nd floor of the Log House at Craftsman Farms to visitors with limited mobility. Cavanaugh's project will make the Log House and its refined 2nd-floor design accessible in new ways to new audiences.
Dr. Jonathan Clancy "Forging a Useable Past: Scholars, Scholarship, and the Arts & Crafts" The Director of the American Fine and Decorative Arts Program at Sotheby’s Institute of Art will address the state of Arts & Crafts scholarship and consider the potential for it to inform the present as it illuminates the past.
Peter Maynard "Blazing New Trails: Discovering Pathways to New Arts & Crafts Horizons Through the Eyes of a Master Furniture Maker"Cold River Furniture’s Designer and Master Craftsman will discuss Arts and Crafts as a continuing inspiration in his work.
Coffee Break
Mike Danial "Marketing the Arts & Crafts of Stickley" Using turn-of-the-century marketing and,sales strategies and advertising campaigns as a springboard, L & JG Stickley’s Corporate Historian will speak about Arts & Crafts as a business from the Stickley brothers to today.
Panel Discussion and Q & A with all featured speakers.
Speaker Bios
Gadsden has written several articles and book reviews for scholarly art journals, wrote major contributions for both A New World Imagined: Art of the Americas (2010), and MFA Highlights: American Decorative Arts & Sculpture (2006), as well as authored Art and Reform: Sara Galner, the Saturday Evening Girls and the Paul Revere Pottery (2006). An exhibition based on this publication traveled to the Milwaukee Art Museum in 2007. She has lectured to a wide variety of audiences and participated in several symposia.
Host Site The beautiful Community Church of Mountain Lakes will be the host venue for this exciting conference. Founded in 1913, the church was built to serve the planned community of Mountain Lakes. Located 6 miles from Craftsman Farms, many original homes in Mountain Lakes were adapted Stickley home styles. The community, which welcomed its first families in 1911 and like Craftsman Farms is marking its 100th anniversary this year, has retained its historic character and is on the State and National Register of Historic Places. Forging Ahead ForumSaturday, October 15, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. at Community Church of Mountain Lakes, Mountain Lakes, New Jersey$25 Members $35 Non MembersLunch and break time refreshments are included in the Forum fees. BROCHURETo register by phone or for more information, call 973-540-0311. CATCH THE SPARK WEEKEND continues on Sunday, October 16 with the CENTENNIAL OPEN HOUSE |
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Bruce Johnson is an author, columnist, publisher, television host, and consultant. He is corporate spokesperson for The Minwax and Sherwin-Williams Companies. Johnson is founder and publisher of Knock On Wood Publications, Inc., a columnist for Style 1900 magazine, and author of many books including The Grove Park Inn’s Arts & Crafts Collection (2009). His numerous television appearances include The Today Show and Antique Traveler. He is the host of Do-It-Yourself Woodworking (DIY Network) and Do-It-Yourself Refinishing (DIY Network). Johnson is the founder and director of the Annual Grove Park Inn Arts & Crafts Conference. His websites include: ArtsandCraftsCollector.com and AskBruceJohnson.com. 
Eleanore P. (Nonie) Gadsden earned her B.A. from Yale University and her M.A. from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture at the University of Delaware. She has been at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston since February 2004, first as the Carolyn and Peter Lynch Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture in the Art of the Americas, and was promoted to full curator status in July 2009. Gadsden previously served as the Charles F. Hummel Fellow at the Chipstone Foundation, a private organization dedicated to promoting scholarship in the American decorative arts in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the Associate Curator of Decorative Arts at the Milwaukee Art Museum. In Milwaukee she contributed to the reinstallation of the decorative arts galleries in partnership with the Chipstone Foundation (2001), curated several exhibitions including “Skin Deep: Three Masters of American Inlaid Furniture” (2002) and “Design Reform: Decorative Arts and the Manifesto, 1850-1920” (2003), and served as the organizing curator with major contributions to “American Fancy: Exuberance and Delight in the Arts” (2004). At the MFA, she has participated in numerous gallery reinstallations, served as the organizing curator for the traveling exhibition “A New and Native Beauty: The Art and Craft of Greene and Greene” (Torf Gallery, July 14-October 18, 2009), and most recently has focused her efforts on the installation of the MFA’s new Art of the Americas Wing, which opened in November 2010. 
Peter Maynard of Cold River Furniture has been custom designing and building fine handcrafted furniture for clients nationwide for 35 years. His complete line of Arts & Crafts furniture seeks to create an indelible American style inspired by the vast North American landscape. He has been commissioned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and his furniture has been featured in The New York Times, Architectural Digest, and American Bungalow. Traditional Home magazine named Peter one of the five best contemporary American furniture makers. He resides with his family in rural New Hampshire. 
Dr. Jonathan Clancy is Director of the American Fine and Decorative Arts Program at Sotheby's Institute of Art. His publications include The Beauty of Common Things: American Art Pottery from the Two Red Roses Foundation (2008), Warman's Rookwood Pottery (2008), and numerous articles in journals such as Modern Craft, The Journal of Design History, and Style 1900. His recent work has spanned a variety of subjects including: John Singleton Copley’s Watson and the Shark, Martin Johnson Heade's early career, and Gustav Stickley’s metal wares. At present, he is directing a cataloging project for the paintings at the Redwood Library and Athenaeum in Newport, Rhode Island.
Mike Danial is a native of Syracuse, NY. He graduated from New Hampshire College in 1974 with a degree in Business Management and obtained a degree in Wood Technology from SUNY Morrisville in 1978. Mike began his career at the L. & J. G. Stickley Furniture Co. in 1974. His great-uncle, Vinchenzo Mellache worked for Leopold Stickley in the 1940's-1959. He has worked in every department including Rough Mill, Fine Mill, Sanding, Cabinet Room, and Finishing Department. He began selling Stickley to customers after giving them tours of the old factory. Later, Mike managed the Customer Service Department. In 1988 he became the Project Director of the Mission Oak Collection which now accounts for approximately 70% of company sales. In his 37 years at Stickley, he has seen the company grow from 26 employees in 1974 to a current employment of 1500. Currently, he is the Corporate Historian. Mike travels throughout the country lecturing on Stickley Furniture and the Arts and Crafts Movement in America. He is the restoration specialist for the Stickley Museum. When not lecturing, Mike is the author of Ask Sadie! The Stickley Answer Desk for the corporate level learning and information systems. 
