ML Centennial Resources
Ideas for ML Allied & Practical Arts, grades 6-12 Frank Sรกnchez & the ML100 Education Sub-committee ISSUE 1 June 1, 2010
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Stickley Museum @ Craftsman Farms
The Stickley Museum
Last week I joined the Mountain Lakes Centennial Committee for a lovely afternoon at the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms. Based on our meeting with Vonda Givens, the Director of Education, and a subsequent tour of the museum, the committee brainstormed some ways we at Briarcliff & MLHS can best exploit the great resources that are available there. I hope this only serves to spark some interest of just one of the great resources from the ML100 website that can help each of us celebrate the Mountain Lakes centennial with our students. Also, please share any of your ideas with colleagues and of course our committee so we can help!
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Stickley Museum @ Craftsman Farms
The Stickley Museum Gustav Stickley Craftsman Farms, located in and owned by the Township of Parsippany-Troy Hills, is the former home of noted turn-of-the-century designer Gustav Stickley, a major proponent of the "Arts and Crafts" home building and furnishing style. The site, which consists of 30 acres of the original 650-acre tract, has been designated a National Historic Landmark.1 The Craftsman Stickley combined the roles of furniture designer/manufacturer, architect, publisher, philosopher & social critic. Based on his work & his writing of the Craftsman Magazine2 , Stickley has made a lasting impression on American decorative arts. Craftsman Farms In 1908 Stickley moved from Manhattan and designed Craftsman Farms to be self-sufficient, with gardens for vegetables and flowers, orchards, dairy cows and chickens. The property contains numerous support buildings including craft workshops, stables, a dairy barn, chicken coop, other farm buildings, and three cottage dwellings.
The three passages are culled from the museum’s website “About Craftsman Farms” http:// www.stickleymuseum.org/aboutcf.php 1
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The entire Craftsman archive can be accessed at the University of Wisconsin’s website
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Stickley Museum @ Craftsman Farms
Possible Curricular Connections
Drafting & Design Students can take a tour of ML Hapgood homes (w/blueprints) & then compare the style with Stickley’s work @ Craftsman Farms. Plus, this article deals with one Bergen County family restoring a Stickley home.
Visual Art & Design Using The Craftsman digital CDRom, students can scan the magazine’s archive and contrast it with ads promoting ML homes. Plus, students can use the magazine & tour the facility to sketch interior designs. http://ml100.org/
Wood Shop & Design One of the tour’s highlights was the talk on Stickley’s use of articulated joinery. Students will love to take an up-close look at Stickley’s favored tenon-and-key joints and then look around the museum for examples. Stickley Museum @ Craftsman Farms
Stickley’s Resources Ms. Vonda Givens, the Stickley’s Education Director, has several presentations for art, wood shop & des ign classes. You can call her at 973-540-0 311. She also helped the current Newark Museum exhibit on Stickley’s work.
students Ms. Givens can also speak to our and about the Arts & Craft movement dents Stickley’s place in it. Then our stu what can tour Craftsman Farms to apply also has they have learned. The gift shop scores of treasures!
Finally, Ms. Given s was gracious en ough to add two articles from their “Notes From The Farm” newsletter that fo cuses on ML history. I h ave added one PD F copy to this issue. Please check it ou t as you make your M L100 plans!
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Stickley Museum @ Craftsman Farms
http://ml100.org/
Stickley Museum @ Craftsman Farms
http://ml100.org/
Stickley Museum @ Craftsman Farms
http://ml100.org/
Stickley Museum @ Craftsman Farms
http://ml100.org/
Stickley Museum @ Craftsman Farms