This module is designed to introduce students to an important part of early modern American material culture through the exploration of appropriate sites and links on the World Wide Web.

To complete the module and receive credit toward your course grade, you must answer the questions provided on the course work sheet. Some of the questions are merely factual data regarding this movement and require only short answers. Others are broader and your answers will be based on concepts after viewing the topic on the site.

1. Become familiar with the key participants of the Arts & Crafts Movement , its philosophy and aesthetics.
2. Be able to identify Arts & Crafts furniture and objects and discuss them in terms of style and appearance.
3. Appreciate the movement for its historical uniqueness and consider the appropriate use of its precepts today.
4. Develop research skills on the WWW
5. Possible shopping on the WWW

Students may use computers in the LRC or the Computer Lab during open hours. The completed module is due on the last lecture class of the semester. You may submit your completed module sheet on the WWW or you may submit a printed copy of the work sheet. No late assignments accepted. If you submit electronically you will be given a password to enter the course FORUM where you will find the work sheet. You may want to print the sheet initially for reference during you searches and later return to the FORUM to submit answers. Material covered in this module will be tested on the final exam.

1. Who founded the Roycrofters? When? Where? Why?

2. What is the CRAFTSMAN? Who was responsible for it? What was its purpose?

3. What is a bungalo? Review three floor plans for bungalos, then define and describe interior spaces and room arrangements that are common to all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. What were the usual materials used in Arts & Crafts furniture, metal work and wall surfaces. How did these materials relate to the idea/ideals of the movement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. What was the nature of the movement in California? Cite key players, locations, unique sources and later influences.

 

 

 

 

 

 

6. What was the significance of Grand Rapids, Michigan furniture and what was its relationship to the Arts & Crafts Movement.

 

 

 

 

 

7. How is Frank Lloyd Wright seen as a part of the movement

1. Cost of a 45" table c. 1905-10
2. Name of Hollywood star who paid $300,000+ for a Stickley Sideboard
3. Dealer in Washington DC who carries Arts & Crafts Furniture
4. Number of flames in the Rookwood Pottery mark
5. Name of chair currently available as a lapel pin.

Check out this site (available as a link, also) and get a new take on a local architectural gem-http://jlockhar.bevc.blacksburg.va.us/p_l/object.html

Write a page regarding the value and possible uses for this type of digital imagery.
 

For more information contact David Whipple