Screening of The Arts and Crafts Club of New Orleans, a film by Stephanie Riegel and Wade Henderson and produced by The Historic New Orleans Collection

6:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 7, 2009

Williams Research Center, The Historic New Orleans Collection, 410 Chartres Street, New Orleans, LA

From the 1920s until the early 1950s, in an attempt to preserve the cultural life of the French Quarter, the Arts and Crafts Club of New Orleans provided local artists with a venue for their work, educated young art students and brought traveling exhibitions of cutting-edge modern art to the Crescent City. Stephanie Riegel and Wade Henderson’s film, The Arts and Crafts Club of New Orleans, explores the club’s legacy using rich imagery of the Club’s members’ original works, excerpts from the writings of its founder Lyle Saxon, and interviews with surviving Club members, their families and friends. The Historic New Orleans Collection, which commissioned and produced the film, will present a screening with the filmmakers on Thursday, May 7, at 6:30 p.m. at the Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street. The screening is free and open to the public.