Museum of Early Traders, Crafts Announces Presentation on Arts, Crafts Movement

The Museum of Early Trades & Crafts (METC), located at 9 Main St., is scheduled to present “Looking at New Jersey: The Arts & Crafts Movement and How it Changed Our World” with Dr. Helen Schwartz on Sunday, Feb. 7 at 2 p.m. This program is free to attend and open to the public with paid admission to METC. Space will be limited. Interested attendees are instructed to contact coordinator@metc.org for reservations.

The arts and crafts movement was the aesthetic bridge that carried the world of design from an era of Victorian excess to the simpler forms and easier lifestyle of modernism. Much of the energy for the movement originated in New Jersey, as did the revival of interest and activity that continues to present day. Schwartz will look at the movement, past and present, with an eye to what survives and how to find it. Schwartz, an artist, arts journalist and author, hails from the Horizons Speakers Bureau of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, which provides humanities lecturers to New Jersey nonprofits. Her artwork is in collections of the New Jersey State Museum, Newark Museum, Harvard and Princeton Universities as well as the American Embassy in Japan. She was also an art reviewer and critic for the Princeton University Art Museum.