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Peters Valley School of Crafts (formerly the Peters Valley Craftsmen) is a nonprofit arts organization and craft school within the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area in Layton, New Jersey. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is located an hour and a half drive from New York City, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and is part of the NRHP-listed Peters Valley Historic District .
The School for American Crafts (originally the School for American Craftsmen, SAC) was founded by Aileen Osborn Webb and the American Craftsmen's Council (ACC) in the 1940s. It sought to provide training in traditional crafts and "to develop and raise the standards of the hand arts in the United States." [1] [2] [3]
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The Arts and Crafts movement originated in Europe during the late 19th century as a response to the industrial aesthetics of the machine age. Followers of the movement advocated an integrated approach to art, design, and craft. [4] The initial campus was in the "Studio Building" at 2045 Shattuck Avenue, and they had forty three enrolled ...
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China Academy of Art (China), an art school of mainland China, founded in 1928 by the government of the Republic of China; Cranbrook Academy of Art (United States), a school of architecture and design, founded in 1932, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Estonian Academy of Arts (Estonia), a public arts school that offers education in arts at ...
ArtCenter College of Design was founded in 1930 in downtown Los Angeles as the ArtCenter School. In 1935, Fred R. Archer founded the photography department, and Ansel Adams was a guest instructor in the late 1930s.
The Crafts' initial $4 million pledge in support of the Academy was the single-largest cash gift in the history of MSU. [5] In 2019, Joe Craft and his wife Kelly Craft committed an additional $3.5 million across five years. [6] By 2019 they had committed over $10 million to the Academy. [6]