RIT’s visual-art programs enjoy a long and distinguished history, starting with the first mechanical drawing class in 1885 at what was then called the Mechanics Institute. A few years later, at the ...

CHMMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Foreword / Stephen Enniss -- Introduction: Ruskin's two paths and the Arts and Crafts Movement / Christopher Long -- I. The ...

The Arts & Crafts Movement began as a response to social changes and the decline of design standards in the mid-19th century in industrialized Britain. Emphasis was placed on handcraftsmanship, ...

A group of women artists in early 20th century Chicago exemplified the connection between the decorative arts and feminist movements in the United States and is the focus of a new book published by ...

ROSE VALLEY – When the Rose Valley Museum learned of an available $23,000 grant through the Decorative Arts Trust, its board knew exactly how it could use the funds: compile a coffee table book. “Rose ...

The world’s only museum dedicated to the late 19th- and early 20th-century American Arts and Crafts movement opened today in St. Petersburg, Florida. Fittingly named the Museum of the American Arts ...

It was a well-made reproduction of a bookcase by Gustav Stickley, the furniture maker and early champion of the American Arts and Crafts movement, that first sparked entrepreneur Rudy Ciccarello’s ...

‘Art for art’s sake” is definitely not the rallying cry of our age. That motto may have worked for modernists who examined relations between color and line, or created dense narratives, or invented ...

An investment must be continually supported to fulfill its ultimate potential. Early in the 2000s, St. Petersburg, Florida, began making a major investment in the arts. That investment has seen the ...

An Arts and Crafts house is more of a philosophy than a single architectural style. The homes built during the Arts and Crafts era include elements like built-ins and stained glass that other ...