Episode 55: The Arts and Crafts Movement: More Than Art; A Way of Life with Nonie Gadsden, Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Published: Jan. 6, 2020, 9 a.m.

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What you\\u2019ll learn in this episode:

  • How Nonie views a curator\\u2019s role within a museum.
  • Origins of the Arts & Crafts movement and major players.
  • Why the Arts and Crafts Movement didn\\u2019t have a particular artistic style.
  • Why MFA is focused on showing Arts and Crafts pieces from all of the Americas in its collection.
  • Overview of the \\u201cBoston Made: Arts and Crafts Jewelry and Metalwork\\u201d exhibit.

About \\u201cBoston Made Arts and Crafts Jewelry and Metalwork\\u201d Exhibit

The \\u201cBoston Made: Arts and Crafts Jewelry and Metalwork\\u201d exhibit focuses exclusively on the Arts and Crafts metalsmiths in Boston and highlights the contributions of newly empowered women artists such as Josephine Hartwell Shaw and Elizabeth Copeland, among others. \\u201cBoston Made\\u201d brings together more than 75 works, including jewelry, tableware, decorative accessories and design drawings that illuminate the passions and philosophies of this interwoven community of jewelry makers and metalsmiths. The exhibit is on display until March 29, 2020.

About Nonie Gadsden

Nonie Gadsden is the Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). She helped plan and install the MFA\\u2019s award-winning Art of the Americas Wing comprised of 53 galleries featuring the arts of North, Central and South America (opened 2010). Her exhibitions include \\u201cNature, Sculpture, Abstraction and Clay: 100 Years of American Ceramics\\u201d (2015), \\u201cSisters in Art: Women Painters and Designers from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston\\u201d (2013) and \\u201cA New and Native Beauty: The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene\\u201d (2009).

In addition to numerous articles, essays and book reviews, Nonie is the author of\\xa0Art and Reform: Sara Galner, the Saturday Evening Girls and the Paul Revere Pottery\\xa0(2006) and\\xa0Louis Comfort Tiffany: Parakeets Window\\xa0(2018), and co-author of\\xa0Boston Arts and Crafts Jewelry: Frank Gardner Hale\\xa0and\\xa0His Circle\\xa0(2018). She heads the Collections Committee of the Nichols House Museum on Boston\\u2019s Beacon Hill, serves as a Governor for the Decorative Arts Trust, and is a member of the Council of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts.

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