Events
Winter Symposium | Spring Show | Other Events
Winter Symposium (Saturday, January 23, 2010)
Location:
The Boettcher Mansion (Lookout Mountain)
900 Colorow Road
Golden, CO 80401
(720) 497-7632
Our regular calendar kicks off with the Winter Symposium, held in late January at the Boettcher Mansion. This cozy Fireside Room gathering includes the Society's annual business meeting, followed by a catered dinner and keynote address (past guest lecturers have included David Rago, Suzanne Perrault, Dard Hunter III, Paul Duchscherer, Tommy and Beth Ann McPherson, Bruce Smith, Dianne Ayres, Bruce Bradbury, Robert Rust, Richard Guy Wilson, Ann Chaves, Lawrence Kreisman and Christian Gladu. Our next Symposium will focus on "The Art & Craft of Navajo Weaving" and will include an all-day weaving workshop prior to the dinner. For more information on this outstanding event, click here
Spring Show, Sale & Workshop (May 8-9, 2010)
Last Year's (2009) Spring Show, Sale & Workshop Program (pdf)
Location:
The Boettcher Mansion (Lookout Mountain)
900 Colorow Road
Golden, CO 80401
(720) 497-7632
This popular event, sponsored by Stickley, features decorative arts and other items pertaining to the Arts and Crafts period (1895-1920), such as books, furniture, jewelry, lighting, metalwork, paintings, pottery, prints, tiles and textiles. Past vendors have included American Bungalow, Arts & Crafts Homes and Style 1900 magazines; Arts & Crafts Press, Craftsman Wooden Lite Company, Cobre Copper, Dard Hunter Studios, Diverse Ayres Fine Art, Door Pottery, Dry Creek Art Press, Head, Heart & Hand, Interior Vision, Laura Wilder Period Style Artwork, Modern Bungalow, Mountain Hawk Fine Art, North Prairie Tileworks, Phoenix Window Restoration, 2R Fine Arts-Roycroft Associates, Thistle Handwerks and The Tile Restoration Center. Last year's show also included local artisans selling fresh food and other handmade wares outdoors on the patio (farmers-market style).
Workshops
This year, we have invited a series of local guilds to offer a special hands-on workshops on their respective trades (Fees TBD). This trend began in 2009, when Don Nord from the Craftsman Wooden Lite Company in Williams, Arizona taught 10 lucky students how to assemble and finish a Mission-Style clock made of quarter-sawn white oak to take home at the end of the day (see photo at right). Other recent workshops have featured gardening, letterpress and weaving demonstrations by locals Chad Brunette, Tom Parsons and Kathy Strathearn respectively.
Seminars
The daily seminars, to be held in the Carriage House, will be led by recognized experts who will focus on different aspects of the Arts and Crafts movement (Fees TBD).
Other Events
Periodically, the Society organizes walking tours in and around Denver's older neighborhoods (such as Highland, Park Hill and Washington Park), filled with textbook examples of the Bungalow and Craftsman styles. Narrated by architectural historians, these outings focus on characteristic exterior and interior elements. Planned exclusively for Society members, these special gatherings offer a great opportunity to learn about local building trends vs. neighborhood cohesiveness and to socialize in a more intimate setting.
Other past events have included field trips to significant Arts and Crafts sites (to date, Society members have enjoyed behind-the-scenes visits to such local treasures as the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art in Denver, the Van Briggle Memorial Pottery in Colorado Springs, the Trinchera Ranch near Alamosa, Colorado and La Foret (To read article about La Foret view our Summer 2009 Newsletter) in the Black Forest near Colorado Springs).
Winter photo of La Foret in the Black Forest near Colorado Springs, CO.