Arts & Crafts Events at Gabberts
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Gabberts Design Studio & Fine Furniture
3501 Galleria, Edina
Free admission but reservations requested
Register online at www.gabberts.com or call 952-927-1500
Annual Artisan and Restoration Expo
12 p.m.
Spend some time with craftspeople to help you complete the look for your home. Arts and Crafts style artisans exhibiting include Stone Hollow Tile, Boom Glass Art, North Prairie Tileworks, Steve Salek Restoration, Master Framers, The Parchment Press, and Cindy Lindgren illustrations.
Stickley Roadshow
1 p.m.
Enjoy a rare insider’s look at one of America’s most legendary furniture companies with Mike Danial, Stickley historian. Danial is an expert in furniture history as well as woodworking and furniture care.
Leonard Parker: An Architect’s Architect
Opening reception Friday, March 23, 2012
6 p.m.
HGA Gallery, Rapson Hall
89 Church Street SE, Minneapolis
Free and open to the public
This exhibition, open March 17 through May 6, explores the work of Leonard Parker, who taught for several decades in the School of Architecture and ran a successful architectural practice in the Twin Cities. He had a major impact on generations of students, demonstrating not only how to become skilled designers, but also how to work in ways that would help ensure their own success in the profession.
For more information contact the Goldstein Museum of Design at gmd@umn.edu or 612-624-7434.
A Comparison of Arts & Crafts Antiques:
Vintage Objects that are Good, Better, Best
Thursday, April 12, 2012
7–9 p.m.
Eastwood Gallery, Lower level (stair access only)
404 S. Snelling Avenue, St. Paul
Have you ever wandered through an antiques shop and wondered why a pot made by Weller is marked $80, while one of similar shape and size made at the University of North Dakota is marked $800? Or why an unmarked set of vintage copper bookends is $60; a set by Roycroft is $500; and one made by the Handicraft Guild of Minneapolis is $1,100? Why does one table lamp with an art glass shade sell for $300, while another goes for $1,400? Why does one Mission chair sell for more than twice another? At Eastwood Gallery in St. Paul, owners Cameron Quintal and Brian Smith will use antiques from their shop to explain how quality, rarity, and provenance help determine what ends up on the price tag. The owners are longtime collectors and students of the period, as well as organizers of the Annual Twin Cities Arts & Crafts Show and the Annual Chicago Arts & Crafts Show.
Capitol Construction Tour
Saturday, April 14, 2012
1 p.m.
Minnesota State Capitol, St. Paul
Fee: $9 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $6 children ages 6-17; $2 discount for Minnesota Historical Society members.
Reservations: required, call 651-296-2881
From 1896 to 1905, hundreds of skilled workers came together to create one of the most beautiful capitol buildings in the United States. Iron beams were riveted together to create it’s framework, and derricks lifted cut stone into place inside and outside the state’s third capitol building. A 90-minute guided tour features the construction method used, the planners, and the workers who helped create the building. Learn how the building’s elements, decorations, and furnishings come together to create a harmonious blend of architecture and art in Minnesota’s most important public building.
2012 Twin Cities Bungalow Club Home Tour
Saturday, May 12, 2012
10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Bungalow Club members free; non-members $5
Mark your calendar for the annual Twin Cities Bungalow Club celebration of vintage homes.
For more information, visit www.bungalowclub.org or call 612-724-5816.
Hennepin Avenue Theatre Tours
- Second Saturday of each month at 10:00 a.m. or the last Monday of each month at 1:00 p.m.
- All tours meet in front of the State Theatre Box Office, 805 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis.
- $5 per person (Children 5 and under attend free of charge)
State Theater, photo: Jeremiah Peterson, some rights reserved
Come inside the majestic State, Orpheum, or Pantages theatres and gain a fascinating historical perspective that can’t be experienced during regular events. Talented guides will highlight historical facts and stories about the architectural gems that anchored the region’s “Theatre Row” when more than 30 show houses lined Hennepin Avenue. Each tour lasts approximately one hour. Advance reservations and payment must be made at least one day prior to the monthly tour.
For more information go to
www.hennepintheatretrust.org or call 612-373-5696.
St. Paul Cave Tours
- 215 Wabasha Street S., St. Paul
- Tours year-round, reservations not required
- $6 adults, $5 students (Children 5 and under attend free of charge)
Wabasha Street Caves offers theme tours and events that include 1930s gangsters and speakeasies, ghostly haunts and swing dance. Entertaining tour leaders in period costume make history come alive at a one-of-a-kind site.
View their full calendar at www.wabashastreetcaves.com or call 651-292-1220.
