Dates have been confirmed!

Opening sessions/location TBD

Email erin.welsh@artinitiatives.com with any questions

Among committed venues are the following: the Union Club (established 1872; present building:Charles F. Schweinfurth; 1905), The Cleveland Museum of Art ([CMA]1916, Hubbell & Benes in a landscape designed by the Olmsted Brothers; 1970 educational wing, Marcel Breuer; addition 2009 – 2012, Rafael Viñoly), and at Oberlin, AMAM and First Church (The Meeting House; cornerstone laid,1842).

Among confirmed presenters are the following:

Mark Cole, Chair of Modern, Contemporary and Decorative Art and William P. and Amanda C. Madar Curator of American Painting and Sculpture, CMA;

Jeannine deNobel Love, author of Cleveland Architecture 1890 – 1930: Building the City Beautiful (Michigan State University Press, 2020);

Annie Storr, Resident Scholar, Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University, an authority on the influence of John Ruskin, William Morris, and the Arts & Crafts Movement on Ellen Gates Starr and the Movement at Hull-House Settlement;

Stephen Harrison, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Museum of Art Munson–Williams–Proctor Arts Institute;

Leslie Cade, Director of the Ingalls Library and Museum Archives, CMA;

Andrea Durstine, Director, AMAM, Oberlin College;

Richard Guy Wilson, architectural historian and Commonwealth Professor Emeritus in Architectural History at the University of Virginia.