I don’t usually do PR releases, but I was sent the information for an upcoming arts and architecture conference that will take place here in Seattle, Washington from September 23rd through September 27th, and it well deserves any additional pre-event chatter it can get.
The event is titled – Enduring Legacies: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Seattle and Environs, and will feature numerous lectures from experts in the Arts and Crafts field, tours of architecturally significant private homes and gardens, trips to area museums, lunches, receptions at area gallerys, and more.
Architects Charles and Henry Greene are some of the most famous (or notable) of the Arts and Crafts movement (Frank Lloyd Wright is another); unfortunately, there are no examples of Greene and Greene homes in the Seattle area (they worked mostly in California and the Northeast), but if you’re wondering what people mean when they talk about the Arts and Crafts movement, Greene and Greene is a great place to start.
A video clip below of a tour of Falling Water, one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most well-regarded and well-known designs:
While the Gamble House in Pasadena would likely be considered the best existing example of the work of Greene and Greene. Here’s a link to a Flickr slideshow of the house: Gamble House on Flickr
The Enduring Legacies conference is sponsored by the Art Initiative out of New York, and admission is $475.00 for the full five days of the conference. Other attendance options are available. Here’s a link to the PDF file that details the full schedule as well as the roster of experts that will be lecturing: Enduring Legacies PDF
