The Arts and Crafts Movement in America

The Arts and Crafts movement was born out of the despair of the ornate clutter of the Victorian era. Works of extraordinary vibrancy and intellectual rigour were produced. The crafts persons opposed vulgarity, pretension and shoddy workmanship.  

The movement championed the maker and the process of making, as much as the objects made.

This illustrated lecture will offer an overview of this highly popular intellectual and artistic movement which transformed the expectations of architecture and objects and spread the ideas world wide.