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The Handcrafted Utopia: Arts and Crafts Communities in America’s Progressive Era

When
Saturday, October 24
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM · 21 days ago
Where
Museum of the Amercian Arts and Crafts Movement
355 4th Street North, St. Petersburg
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In response to the trauma of industrialization and urbanization in the late 19th century the emergence of Arts and Craft communities like Rose Valley, Byrdcliffe, and Roycroft endeavored to reform the economic and social inequalities of industrial capitalism through communal living, artistic development, craft, and the sale of finely crafted furniture, architecture, metalwork and more. Join Dr. Guiler as he shares how these communities dedicated themselves to handicraft, worker dignity, and t...