CLEVELAND.-The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) hosts the groundbreaking exhibition, The Arts & Crafts Movement in Europe and America, 1880-1920: Design for the Modern World. This exhibition includes more than 300 influential objects between 1880 and 1920 in all media, from ceramic and metalwork to textiles and works on paper. Some of the key designers of this period that will be showcased include Frank Lloyd Wright, William Morris, Josef Hoffmann, Eliel Saarinen, Gustav Stickley and Henry Van de Velde. The exhibition will be on view through January 8, 2006.

The Arts and Crafts movement began as a reaction to social and economic anxiety after nearly a century of intense industrial modernization. Great Britain, the most industrialized country at the turn of the century, became the initial hub of the Arts and Crafts movement. The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society was founded in 1887 in London on the belief that a culture’s applied art was as vital to that culture as its fine art. Individuality in a crafter’s piece, along with innovation and creativity, molded the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society into a significant artistic movement that later grew into one of a philosophical, political and cultural nature. This exhibition is the first to demonstrate the significance of the widespread international Arts and Crafts Movement of Europe and the United States.