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SHARED DREAMS LECTURE BY NANCY GREEN, THE GROLIER CLUB

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NEW YORK CITY — “Shared Dreams: Partnerships of the Arts and Crafts Movement” is the first in a series of lectures and programs being offered collaboratively by the William Morris Society in the United States, the American Friends of Arts and Crafts in Chipping Campden, the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms and the Victorian Society in America. Nancy Green will present the lecture on October 30 at 6 pm at the Grolier Club; a reception follows.

A leading expert on the Arts and Crafts movement, Green is senior curator of prints, drawings and photographs at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University. During the past 22 years she has organized dozens of exhibitions and published numerous books including, most recently, Byrdcliffe: An American Arts and Crafts Colony, 2004, and Surrealist Works on Paper from the Drukier Collection, 2003.

She is the recipient of fellowships from the Getty, Winterthur, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, the Paul Mellon Centre, the Wolfsonian, Huntington-British Academy and a grant from the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design.

Green is currently working on a catalog and exhibition “A Room of Their Own: The Artists of Bloomsbury.”

The Grolier Club is at 47 East 60th Street. Tickets are $12 for members of the sponsoring organizations; $18 for others. Tickets may be purchased from the William Morris Society in the United States, via the society’s website www.morrissociety.org (PayPal and credit cards accepted) or by sending a check (please mark the envelope “Green lecture”) to William Morris Society, PO Box 53263, Washington DC 20009.

For information, 212-838-6690 or www.grolierclub.org.