Newsletters

In keeping with MAACM's mission and commitment to educate, the MAACM Newsletter is a regular feature sent only to subscribers. It provides a variety of scholarly essays about rare and important objects from the collection, new acquisitions, rich historical context about the Arts and Crafts movement, upcoming exhibitions, and future members-only and public events.


2026
July 15, 2026 Collection Spotlight: The Grueby Daffodil Vase
June 15, 2026 Collection Spotlight: The Making of the Eudora Welty Portfolio
May 11, 2026 New exhibition alert! Faces of Inequality: Depression Era Photography opens June 2, 2026 at MAACM
March 30, 2026 Celebrating an Icon of American Design: Gustav Stickley
February 24, 2026 Celebrating an Icon of American Design: Louis Comfort Tiffany
February 9, 2026 Love is in the Air as Valentine’s Day Approaches
January 20, 2026 A Life in Craft: Celebrating Ernest Batchelder (1875–1957)
January 9, 2026 A Legacy Illuminated: A New Fulper Vasekraft Lamp on View at MAACM
2025
August 20, 2025 Big News from One of St. Pete’s Newest Cultural Gems: MAACM Is Expanding!
August 5, 2025 Charles Prendergast: Frame-Maker and Post-Impressionist Visionary
July 8, 2025 Herman Dudley Murphy and the Carrig-Rohane Shop
June 10, 2025 Thomas Pollock Anshutz: American Realist and Influential Educator
May 12, 2025 Masterworks of American Frame Design
April 28, 2025 Collection Spotlight: Frederick Bosley’s Woman and Children with Apples
April 18, 2025 Collection Spotlight: Stanford White, A Great American Frame Designer
February 17, 2025 Collection Spotlight: Elizabeth Eaton Burton: Three Masterworks of Lighting Design
January 21, 2025 Collection Spotlight: Arlyn Table
January 8, 2025 Collection Spotlight: New Additions to the Collector's Gallery
2024
December 17, 2024 Collection Spotlight: Marie Zimmermann’s Heron
November 12, 2024 Collection Spotlight: Charles S. Hopkinson, William Merrit Chase, and John White Alexander
October 31, 2024 Collection Spotlight: Gertrude Fiske
October 15, 2024 Sneak Peek: Collector's Gallery Re-Install
August 20, 2024 We're Making Changes to the Galleries!
July 10, 2024 New Acquisition Alert: Rookwood Geese Tableau
July 1, 2024 New Acquisition Alert: Grueby Desert and Jungle Tile Friezes from the Bronx Zoo
June 11, 2024 New Acquisition Alert: Anna Marie Valentien
May 30, 2024 New Acquisition Alert: Artus Van Briggle: Despondency
May 14, 2024 New Acquisition Alert: Alfred Stieglitz: The Net Mender
April 29, 2024 The Pratt Fall Front Desk: A Greene and Greene Masterpiece
March 5, 2024 New Acquisition Spotlight: Grueby's Daisy Vase
February 12, 2024 HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!
January 16, 2024 Clara Driscoll, the Tiffany Girls, and the Fancy Goods Department
January 4, 2024 New Acquisition Alert: Sigfried Sees Himself in the Stream by Arthur Rackham
2023
December 19, 2023 Collection Spotlight: Christmas Roses
November 20, 2023 New Acquisition Spotlight: Van Briggle Chalice
October 24, 2023 New Acquisition Spotlight: Nine New Vases Now on Display
October 13, 2023 New Acquisition Spotlight: Roycroft Books from the Blacher Collection
September 25, 2023 Celebrating Fall at MAACM with beautiful autumn colors from Rookwood!
September 7, 2023 MAACM Celebrates Year 2!
August 14, 2023 New Acquisition Alert: Batchelder Chandelier
July 31, 2023 A Day at the Beach with Edward Henry Potthast
July 3, 2023 American Made: The American Arts and Crafts Movement
June 5, 2023 New Acquisition Spotlight: The Gorham Art Nouveau Martelé silverware
May 22, 2023 The Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement Receives Eagle Award for Excellence in Construction
May 8, 2023 Collection Spotlight: “Like walking into a pond” Childhood memories from our mother’s Iris Bathroom
April 24, 2023 New Acquisition Spotlight: Two Stunning Tiffany Lamps come to MAACM
April 17, 2023 New Acquisition Spotlight: Karl Kipp Copper Plaque
April 10, 2023 New Acquisition Spotlight: Rookwood Sea Green Vase with Dragonfly
April 5, 2023 New Acquisition Spotlight: Dard Hunters Galleon Lamp
March 28, 2023 A Unique Masterpiece The Newcomb Pottery Iris Blossom Lamp
March 20, 2023 New Acquisition by Samuel Yellin
March 15, 2023 New Acquisition Spotlight: Frank Lloyd Wright Urn from the Edward C. Waller House
March 7, 2023 New Acquisitions: Frank Marshall
February 27, 2023 Coming Soon to MAACM - Dignity and Grace: These Humbler Metals
February 7, 2023 Dignity & Grace - Coming Soon
January 17, 2023 Collection Spotlight: What’s inside?
2022
December 17, 2022 Seven Swans a Swimming
December 6, 2022 Collection Spotlight: Zulma Steele, Wild Carrot Cabinet
November 28, 2022 Collection Spotlight: Blanche Lazzell’s white-line woodcut prints
November 22, 2022 Collection Spotlight: Then the Epicure by Jessie Wilcox Smith
November 14, 2022 Collection Spotlight: Craftsman Workshops Sideboard and Hutch
November 7, 2022 Collection Spotlight: Flanders Poppies by Ora Maxim
October 25, 2022 Collection Spotlight: Arthur E. Baggs
August 3, 2022 Collection Spotlight New Acquisition: Frank Lloyd Wright Urn from the Edward C. Waller House
July 19, 2022 Collection Highlight: Crystalline Glazes
June 28, 2022 Collection Highlight: Louis H. Sullivan and the Chicago Stock Exchange Stairs
June 21, 2022 Collection Highlight: Byrdcliffe Art Colony
May 25, 2022 In Honor of Oak: Special installation, on view now on MAACM's second floor
May 2, 2022 Collection Spotlight: Happy Mother's Day!
April 18, 2022 Collection Spotlight: Spring Has Sprung!
2021
July 14, 2021 Hermann Dudley Murphy and the Art of Frames
June 1, 2021 MAACM Sneak Peek: The Children's Gallery
May 12, 2021 The MAACM Library Sneak Peek
April 28, 2021 A Stylish Pendant by Jarvie
April 20, 2021 Dard Hunter's Modern Lighting
April 4, 2021 MAACM Sneak Peek: The Antique Bar
March 17, 2021 Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
March 3, 2021 Pierrot, The Lovesick Clown
January 17, 2021 Kataro Shirayamadani’s Rookwood Lamp
2020
November 16, 2020 A Utopian Artist Colony: Byrdcliffe
September 24, 2020 A Unique Portrait of Newcomb’s Master Potter
August 3, 2020 Gertrude Käsebier: The Woman Behind the Lens
July 9, 2020 On Display: Arts and Crafts at Exhibitions
April 22, 2020 A Glimpse into A Child's Storybook World
February 6, 2020 Celebrate "Valentien's Day" with Us!
January 20, 2020 Fairy Tales with a Purpose
2019
December 9, 2019 Setting an Arts and Crafts Holiday Table
November 6, 2019 California’s Landscape in Lighting: The Works of Elizabeth Burton
October 7, 2019 Buttoned In Fashion: Fasteners Of The Arts And Crafts Era
July 24, 2019 Arthur Wesley Dow: Moonrise
June 16, 2019 Sarah Stilwell Weber: American Illustrator
May 21, 2019 Jessie Marion King: A “Glasgow Girl” Designer
February 13, 2019 Color and Beauty from Village Looms
2018
September 1, 2018 An American in Paris: Ethel Mars
June 1, 2018 Innovative, Versatile, Independent: The Multi-Talented Craftsmanship of Marie Zimmermann
February 12, 2018 New Life for the Noble Tree: George Nakashima's “Arlyn” Table
2017
October 17, 2017 Tiffany & Redlands: Two Tiny Treasures
July 5, 2017 Patterson's Petunias: The Making of a Color Woodcut
May 8, 2017 Sculpture, Pottery and Art Nouveau Imagery: The French Connection
January 20, 2017 Vintage British Arts & Crafts Jewelry
2016
November 23, 2016 The Skyscraper Ascendant: A Staircase from the Chicago Stock Exchange
October 13, 2016 Gustav Stickley 1900: A Fine, Rare "Spanish" chair.
August 17, 2016 Richly Wrought: A Chalice by Elizabeth Copeland
May 31, 2016 TRRF Acquires Three Treasures from the Blacker House
April 26, 2016 Rudolf Koppitz’s Masterpiece: Bewegungsstudie ('Movement Study')
March 17, 2016 Uncommon Beauty: Exquisite Works in Silver and Enamel by Women Metalsmith Pioneers
February 17, 2016 Sadie Agnes Estelle Irvine: The Cornerstone of Newcomb College
January 18, 2016 Christmas Roses and a Frame by Charles Rohlfs
2015
December 17, 2015 Robj Paris: Where Playful Collecting Meets Art Deco Whimsy
November 13, 2015 Frederick Rhead: An Artistic Appetite for Fish
October 21, 2015 Lights on the Prairie: The New Aesthetic
September 11, 2015 Bear's Belly, Ḳúnúḣ-kanánu
July 10, 2015 Artus Van Briggle, Rookwood Pottery and the Lorelei Vase
June 12, 2015 The California Decorative Style
May 11, 2015 The Eclectic Interior Designs of George Mann Niedecken
April 1, 2015 New York, New York. It's a Wonderful Town
March 3, 2015 A Stunning Arts & Crafts Fireplace: A Mayan Revival
February 1, 2015 Baron Adolf de Meyer: Maria, A Study
January 5, 2015 Charles Rohlfs' Safe Cabinet & Edward Potthast's Impressionism
2014
December 3, 2014 Woodblock Prints: Complex In Their Simplicity
October 31, 2014 Ansel Easton Adams and Taos Pueblo
October 2, 2014 On The Wrong Side of History: The Enigma That Is William Mortensen
August 29, 2014 The Arthur E. Baggs Archives
August 18, 2014 Eanger Irving Couse: The Pottery Maker
August 4, 2014 The Aloha Boathouse and Iris Bathroom