About Us   •   Our Mission   •   Boettcher Mansion Colorado Arts & Crafts Society members enjoy discounted rates at a variety of special events held year-round throughout the Denver metro area. Our regular calendar kicks off with the Winter Symposium, held each January. This cozy gathering includes the Society's annual business meeting, followed by a catered dinner and keynote address (past guest lecturers have included David Rago, Suzanne Perrault, Dard Hunter III, Paul Duchscherer, Tommy and Beth Ann McPherson, Bruce Smith, Dianne Ayres, Bruce Bradbury, Robert Rust, Richard Guy Wilson, Ann Chaves and Lawrence Kreisman). When winter starts to wear out its welcome, the Society delights in sponsoring a Garden Lecture focusing on different aspects of Arts & Crafts-style landscape design. Learn about the traditions and techniques favored by historic and modern-day master gardeners at this popular event, which is guaranteed to inspire you to plant your own period garden with heirloom varieties. In late May, the Society holds its biggest undertaking - the annual Show, Sale & Workshops.  In 2007, after trying out such locations as the El Jebel Shrine and Sixth Avenue United Church of Christ in Denver, the event returned to the newly rejuvenated Boettcher Mansion.   Geared for the Arts & Crafts aficionado, whether a Craftsman-style homeowner/buyer or a student/collector, this weekend event combines experts lecturing on the subject of old-house restoration, decoration and design with vendors specializing in a wide array of vintage and reproduction items (including furniture, lighting, textiles, ceramics, jewelry, art and books). Periodically, the Society leads walking tours in and around Denver's most charming neighborhoods, filled with textbook examples of housing styles from the early 1900s. Narrated by architectural historians, these tours focus on identification of the exterior (and sometimes interior) elements of the Arts & Crafts style. Planned exclusively for Society members, the gatherings offer a great opportunity to learn about local building trends vs. neighborhood cohesiveness and to socialize in a more intimate setting. Other past special events have included periodic lectures and/or field trips to significant Arts & Crafts sites (to date, Society members have enjoyed behind-the-scenes visits to such local treasures as the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Arts in Denver, the Van Briggle Memorial Pottery in Colorado Springs, and the the Forbes famiy's Trinchera Ranch near Alamosa).