Monthly Update
An Amazing Year — Thanks To You!
As we look back at 2022, we marvel at the many exciting ways in which the OA+D Archives flourished and grew. In no small part this was due to the outpouring of financial support from all of you, for which we are extremely grateful! Here are just a few of the highlights you helped successfully support:
• This year saw more groundbreaking journals published, with the winter issue on the Walker House set to establish a new level of scholarship on one of Wright's individual works.
• We were able to put a special publication together on the work of David Elgin Dodge in time for his memorial in November. Our goal is to expand on this effort to produce a larger monograph on the work of David Dodge in the near future.
• We also released our first hardcover trade title under the OA+D Archives Press publishing arm. Frank Lloyd Wright's Jacobs Houses: Experiments in Modern Living is the most comprehensive book on both Jacobs Houses and is edited by noted scholar Neil Levine, and features additional essays by all three Jacobs children and Michael Desmond.
• The OA+D Chandler Study Center turned 1-year-old in November and hosted an open house to celebrate in conjunction with the 90th Taliesin Fellows Reunion.
• Work organizing the Taliesin Architects Collection continues at a brisk pace by our excellent volunteers, with significant updates added as well to the TA cataloging efforts on our online archival collections catalog.
• Through generous donations, we were able to add a state of the art large format scanner to the Study Center to help in the digitization process of the collections.
• OA+D continued its education mission to service requests for materials for scholars, researchers, building owners, authors, and students. We also lent materials for a special exhibit this fall in conjunction with The School of Architecture at Arcosanti and the John Lautner Foundation.
• Finally, the year brought several amazing donations of materials to the Archives, including rare Frank Lloyd Wright-designed items from the Imperial Hotel and Dana House; rare architectural photos, slides, and books on Wright, Sullivan, and Goff works; and significant collections from Taliesin Fellows like Charles Schiffner, Kamal Amin, Cary Caraway, William E. Davies, and Susan Jacobs Lockhart.
A lot happened in just a year, but we're just getting warmed up!
2023 is set to become even more transformative and exciting thanks to a host of new trade publishing initiatives, new and exciting topics for our journals, expanded discoveries working with the TA Collection, further growth and development on our online catalog, participation in new exhibits, and the saving and preservation of more important archival collections and items — including one of the largest and most important pieces to be added to the OA+D Archive: a 20 foot long Eugene Masselink-painted mural salvaged from the fire-destroyed Flying Dutchman Bar, formerly of Spring Green, WI.
One of our main goals for 2023 will be to raise the funds necessary to fully restore this remarkable mural and also develop traveling exhibition and other educational programs around the Taliesin Tradition of abstract design.
But all of these exciting and important efforts require your support to help make them successful.
As we near the end of the year, please consider making a tax-deductible financial gift so that we can start 2023 strong acting on the many wonderful ways in which the OA+D Archives works towards preserving the legacy of Organic Architecture and Design.
Please follow THIS LINK to give and thanks as always for your ongoing generosity!