BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202929Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211009 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577384082 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202929Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211010 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577386131 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202929Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211011 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577387156 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202929Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211012 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577389205 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202929Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211013 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577390230 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202929Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211014 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577391255 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202929Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211015 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577393304 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202929Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211016 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577394329 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202929Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211017 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577396378 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202929Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211018 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577397403 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202929Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211019 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577399452 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202929Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211020 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577401501 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202929Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211021 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577402526 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211022 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577404575 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211023 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577405600 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211024 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577407649 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211025 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577408674 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211026 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577410723 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211027 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577411748 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211028 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577413797 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211029 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577414822 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211030 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577416871 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211031 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577417896 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211101 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577419945 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211102 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577420970 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211103 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577423019 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211104 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577424044 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211105 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577426093 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211106 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577428142 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211107 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577430191 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211108 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577431216 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211109 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577432241 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211110 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577434290 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211111 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577435315 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211112 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577436340 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211113 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577438389 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211114 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577439414 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211115 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577441463 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211116 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577442488 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211117 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577443513 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211118 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577445562 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211119 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577446587 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211120 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577447612 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211121 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577449661 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211122 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577450686 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211123 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577452735 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211124 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577453760 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211125 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577455809 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211126 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577456834 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211127 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577457859 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211128 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577459908 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211129 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577460933 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211130 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577462982 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211201 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577464007 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211202 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577466056 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211203 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577467081 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211204 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577468106 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211205 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577470155 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211206 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577471180 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211207 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577472205 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211208 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577474254 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211209 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577476303 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211210 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577477328 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211211 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577478353 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211212 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577480402 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211213 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577481427 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211214 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577483476 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211215 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577484501 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211216 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577486550 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211217 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577487575 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211218 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577488600 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211219 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577490649 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211220 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577491674 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211221 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577493723 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211222 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577494748 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211223 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577495773 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211224 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577497822 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211225 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577498847 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211226 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577500896 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211227 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577501921 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211228 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577502946 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211229 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577504995 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211230 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577506020 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211231 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577508069 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220101 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577509094 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220102 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577510119 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220103 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577512168 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220104 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577513193 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220105 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577515242 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220106 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577516267 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220107 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577518316 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220108 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577519341 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220109 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577520366 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220110 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577522415 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220111 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577523440 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220112 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577525489 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220113 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577526514 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220114 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577527539 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220115 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577529588 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220116 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577531637 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220117 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577533686 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220118 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577534711 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220119 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577536760 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220120 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577537785 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220121 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577539834 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220122 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577540859 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220123 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577542908 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220124 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577543933 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220125 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577612542 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220126 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577613567 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220127 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577615616 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202930Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220128 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577616641 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220129 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577618690 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220130 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577619715 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220131 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577620740 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220201 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577622789 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220202 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577623814 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220203 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577625863 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220204 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577626888 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220205 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577628937 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220206 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577629962 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220207 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577632011 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220208 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577633036 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220209 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577635085 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220210 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577636110 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220211 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577638159 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220212 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577640208 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220213 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577642257 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220214 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577643282 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220215 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577645331 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220216 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577647380 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220217 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577649429 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220218 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577650454 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220219 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577652503 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220220 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577654552 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220221 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577655577 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220222 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577657626 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220223 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577659675 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220224 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577660700 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220225 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577662749 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220226 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577664798 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220227 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577666847 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220228 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577668896 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220301 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577670945 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220302 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577672994 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220303 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577674019 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220304 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577677092 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220305 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577679141 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220306 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577681190 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220307 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577682215 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220308 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577684264 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220309 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577686313 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220310 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577688362 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220311 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577689387 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220312 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577691436 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220313 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577692461 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220314 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577694510 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220315 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577696559 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220316 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577698608 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220317 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577699633 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220318 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577701682 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220319 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577703731 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220320 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577705780 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220321 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577706805 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220322 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577708854 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220323 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577710903 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220324 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577712952 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220325 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577715001 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220326 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577716026 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220327 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577718075 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220328 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577720124 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220329 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577721149 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220330 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577723198 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220331 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577725247 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220401 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577726272 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220402 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577728321 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220403 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577730370 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220404 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577732419 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220405 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577734468 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220406 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577736517 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220407 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577737542 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220408 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577739591 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220409 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577740616 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220410 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577741641 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220411 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577743690 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220412 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577744715 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220413 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577745740 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220414 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577747789 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220415 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577749838 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220416 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577751887 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220417 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577753936 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220418 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577754961 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220419 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577757010 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220420 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577758035 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220421 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577760084 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220422 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577761109 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220423 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577763158 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220424 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577764183 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220425 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577765208 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220426 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577767257 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220427 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577769306 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220428 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577771355 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220429 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577772380 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220430 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577774429 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220501 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577775454 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220502 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577777503 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220503 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577778528 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220504 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577779553 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220505 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577781602 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220506 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577782627 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220507 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577784676 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220508 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577785701 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220509 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577787750 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220510 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577788775 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220511 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577790824 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220512 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577791849 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220513 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577792874 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220514 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577794923 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220515 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577795948 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220516 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577797997 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220517 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577799022 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220518 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577801071 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220519 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577803120 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220520 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577804145 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220521 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577806194 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220522 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577807219 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220523 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577809268 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220524 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577810293 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220525 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577811318 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220526 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577813367 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220527 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577814392 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220528 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577816441 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220529 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577817466 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220530 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577819515 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220531 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577820540 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220601 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577822589 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220602 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577823614 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220603 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577825663 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220604 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577827712 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220605 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577828737 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220606 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577830786 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220607 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577832835 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220608 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577833860 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220609 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577835909 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220610 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577836934 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220611 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577838983 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220612 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577840008 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220613 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577841033 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220614 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577843082 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220615 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577844107 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220616 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577846156 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220617 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577847181 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220618 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577849230 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220619 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577850255 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220620 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577855376 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220621 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577856401 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220622 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577858450 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220623 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577859475 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220624 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577860500 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220625 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577862549 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220626 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577863574 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220627 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577865623 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220628 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577866648 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220629 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577870745 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220630 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577871770 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220701 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577873819 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220702 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577875868 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220703 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577876893 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220704 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577878942 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220705 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577880991 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220706 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577882016 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220707 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577884065 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220708 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577885090 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220709 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577886115 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220710 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577888164 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220711 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577889189 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220712 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577891238 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220713 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577892263 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220714 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577893288 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220715 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577895337 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220716 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577896362 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220717 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577898411 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220718 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577899436 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220719 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577901485 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220720 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577902510 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220721 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577904559 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220722 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577905584 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220723 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577907633 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220724 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577908658 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220725 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577910707 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220726 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577911732 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220727 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577912757 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220728 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577914806 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202932Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220729 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577915831 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220730 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577917880 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220731 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577918905 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220801 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577919930 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220802 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577921979 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220803 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577923004 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220804 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577925053 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220805 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577926078 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220806 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577928127 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220807 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577930176 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220808 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577932225 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220809 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577933250 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220810 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577935299 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220811 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577936324 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220812 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577938373 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220813 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577939398 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220814 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577941447 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220815 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577942472 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220816 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577944521 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220817 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577945546 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220818 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577947595 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220819 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577948620 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220820 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577950669 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220821 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577952718 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220822 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577953743 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220823 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577955792 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220824 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577956817 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220825 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577957842 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220826 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577959891 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220827 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577960916 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220828 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577962965 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220829 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577963990 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220830 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577966039 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220831 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577968088 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220901 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577969113 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220902 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577971162 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220903 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577972187 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220904 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577974236 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220905 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577975261 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220906 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577977310 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220907 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577978335 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220908 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577979360 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220909 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577981409 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220910 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577982434 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220911 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577984483 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220912 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577985508 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220913 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577986533 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220914 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577988582 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220915 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577989607 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220916 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577991656 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220917 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577992681 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220918 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577994730 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220919 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577996779 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220920 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577997804 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220921 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434577998829 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220922 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434578000878 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220923 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434578002927 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220924 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434578003952 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220925 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434578006001 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220926 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434578008050 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220927 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434578009075 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220928 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434578011124 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220929 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434578013173 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220930 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434578014198 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221001 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434578016247 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibit,Art DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 2021\, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles\, I nfluence and Inspiration in Arts and Crafts Silver\, focusing on the artist ic work\, career\, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs. Showcasing works in the collections of the JSMA and the Portland Art Museum\, together with rarely exhibited pieces from select private collections\, the show will be on view at the JSMA through October 2\, 2022. It will be accompanied by a publication including essays by noted scholars of American Arts and Crafts metalwork\, Sharon S. Darling and Darcy L. Evon.\n\nClara Barck Welles has long been recognized as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago\, famous for its elegant Arts and Craft silver hollowware\, flatware\, and j ewelry. Under her tutelage\, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generation s of designers\, jewelers and silversmiths from its heyday from thecearly 1 900s through the depression\, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally f ormed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other w omen graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago\, the Kalo Shop wa s incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her\, it was\, as Da rling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths\, “the city’s most influential concern p roducing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor\, manager\, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939\, when she moved to San Diego. I n 1959\, at the age of 91 years old\, she gave the business to its remainin g four employees.\n\nClara Barck was born in Ellenville\, New York\, in 186 8. When she was ten\, her family moved west to a farm in Oregon City\, near Portland. After a stint as a weaver\, business classes\, and work in depar tment stores in Portland and San Francisco\, she moved to Chicago to study design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1905 to 1916 she was married to George S. Welles\, eventually filing for divorce. In 1916 s he shocked the divorce court by asking for no alimony\, offering the explan ation that she was a business woman with a good income\, while her husband had none.\n\nA New Woman will be the first museum exhibition centered on th e Kalo Shop\, Clara Barck Welles\, and her influence. In conjunction with t he exhibition\, a commissioned essay by Darcy L. Evon\, author Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry\, 1890 – 1940\, will outline Welles’s role as an artisan-entrepreneur and pioneering businesswoman\, making a cas e for the Kalo Shop as most important and influential center of American hand wrought silver.\n\nThroughout the half-century of Welles’s tenure ther e\, the Kalo Shop established a reputation for design and craft of the high est order\, and for furthering the Arts and Crafts ethos in America. As the works in A New Woman demonstrate\, Kalo Shop silver embodied the company’s motto\, “beautiful\, useful\, and enduring.” Welles directed all operation s\, established a school to teach aspiring women artisans and designers\, i nterviewed customers about their commissions\, designed many Kalo Shop piec es\, and always oversaw the exquisite quality of Kalo Shop production. She supported the individual creativity of her artisans\, but insisted on “Kalo Shop” as the sole brand marking.\n\nThe shop served intentionally as a hav en\, mentorship and training facility for women artisans and recent immigra nts seeking to establish themselves in the United States. Welles supported employees who wanted to start their own studios and businesses\, which crea ted a plethora of new jobs in design and craftsmanship industries. A number of her most skilled craftsmen and women did so\, spreading the Kalo Shop’s influence from coast-to-coast. Reflecting this and the Kalo Shop’s stylist ic impact on other silversmiths\, A New Woman will include works from the K alo Shop itself along with pieces by artisans such as David and Walter Mulh olland\, Julius Randahl\, and Lebolt & Company\, all whom either worked for Welles\, or hired artisans who trained at the Kalo Shop. Together\, the wo rks on view will encompass a range of hollowware\, flatware\, and other pie ces\, demonstrating the remarkable and distinctive work of American Arts & Crafts silversmiths in the Chicago area during the first half of the 20th c entury.\n\nAt the center of the Kalo Shop was Clara Barck Welles herself\, and her activities as an exemplar of the New Woman movement extended well b eyond her role and noteworthy success as a woman entrepreneur and business executive. Recent research by silver scholar and curator Sharon S. Darling has documented Welles’s long record of activism on behalf of woman and immi grants and will be incorporated into the exhibition’s didactic texts and pu blication. As Darling has noted\, Welles was a moving force in the progress ive social movements of early 20th century Chicago\, a highly active leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, and a colleague of other noted social r eformers such as Jane Addams of Hull House\, a center of immigrant support. Based on her activities as the chair of the publicity committee of the Ill inois Equal Suffrage Association\, Welles was selected to lead the Illinois delegation to the 1913 national march for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D .C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president. The following June\, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to ratify w omen’s right to vote. Darling’s essay for A New Woman will recount this and other aspects of Welles’s life\, linking them to her artistic and business success as head of the Kalo Shop.\n\nFocusing on a select number of stella r works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit\, and complementin g the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns\, A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration and Influ ence in Arts & Crafts Silver will document an important chapter in the hist ory of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibiti on publication will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view\ , and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their center. A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration an d Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver is made possible at the Jordan Schnitze r Museum of Art through generous donations supporting the museum. The exhib ition and its installation design are being planned in collaboration with M arilyn Archer\, Curatorial and Design Consultant\, and Margo Grant Walsh\, Consultant. DTSTAMP:20260416T202933Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221002 GEO:44.044315;-123.076986 LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles\, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_38434578018296 URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/a_new_woman_clara_barck_welles_inspi ration_influence_in_arts_crafts_silver END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR