Bus Tours

BUS TOURS - Friday, July 8, 2016
Stained Glass in the Chicago Area
Jointly sponsored by the American Glass Guild and the Stained Glass Association of America in partnership with Solstice Stained Glass of Chicago.

$80 includes box lunch 

HOW IT WORKS:
Sign up for one of 2 round trip buses:
Hyatt Orrington, Evaston, IL to Second Presbyterian, Chicago
or
Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago to Second Presbyterian

After arrival at Second Presbyterian, you then go on ONE of two SEPARATE tours:
# 1 Tiffany and the Gilded Age in Chicago
(limited to 52 people)
or 
# 2 Edgar Miller Legacy
(limited to 34 people)

Register Online through Formstack
https://agg2015.formstack.com/forms/chicago_stained_glass_tours_2016

SITE INFORMATION (subject to change)

Second Presbyterian Church (central location)
Tiffany, Burne-Jones
1936 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60616

Windows from 2nd Presbyterian - Kline, Tiffany, Burne-Jones
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Tour #1 - Tiffany and The Gilded Age in Chicago
With tour guides Rolf Achilles and Neal Vogel
    See Chicago windows and interiors like you've never seen them before with your two expert Chicago guides, Neal Vogel and Rolf Achilles. Gather at Second Presbyterian Church on South Michigan Avenue to ride our coach to the Macy's pedway, an underground display of 22 American made stained glass windows from E.B. Smith Collection seen by more than 3,000 people each day as they walk between train stations. Nearby is the Chicago Cultural Center, the first of its kind in the US, where you'll see the largest dome created by Tiffany & Co. above a mosaic and marble clad room designed by J.A. Holzer. In the same building you'll also stand under a comparably sized dome by the Chicago firm of Healy & Millet in the former Grand Army of the Republic rooms.
    Then we'll ride to Old St. Patrick's Church to see the incomparable Celtic Revival tour de force windows by Thomas O'Shaughnessy. By then our time will be almost over as we rush you back to where we started, Second Presbyterian Church, so you have time to see the only Burne-Jones windows in a sacred space in the Midwest and many Tiffany windows in a unique interior from 1900. Along the way, Neal and Rolf will regale you with history and facts. 
Google Map Link for the Tiffany/Gilded Age tour
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zOcK_vTaXzNM.ku9xuaUSbgZ0&usp=sharing
 

Chicago Cultural Center (wiki)
Tiffany Dome, Preston Bradley Hall, J. A. Holtzer, artist, Tiffany Studio, 1897
Grand Army of the Republic Dome, Healy & Millet, 1892
78 East Washington Street, Chicago, IL 60602

Dome, Tiffany Studios, Chicago Cultural Center

Windows at Macy's Pedway
22 Victorian Windows installed under Macy's
111 North State Street, Chicago, IL 60602

Century Towers
182 W Lake St, Chicago, IL
Lead Overlay Windows

The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
Tiffany, and other opalescent
40 East Erie Street, Chicago, IL 60611

Tiffany Studio Landscape Windows from the Driehaus Museum (via flickrite jasonlsraia) 


Old St. Patrick's Church
Celtic Style Windows by Thomas O'Shaughnessy circa 1911-1922
700 West Adams Street, Chicago, IL 60661

Detail of O'Shaughnessy Window at Old St. Patricks (flickrite seanbirm)


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Tour #2 - The Stained Glass Legacy of Edgar Miller
With tour guides Larry Zgoda and Zac Bleicher
   Edgar Miller is something of an enigma today, his prolific career mostly forgotten by art historians and regular Chicagoans alike, but in his heyday of the 1920s-1950s, Miller produced a vast display of work for private residences and public buildings across the Chicagoland area and beyond. Miller was known for being able to work in any medium with expert prowess. He excelled at stained glass work, and he also painted murals and frescoes and executed sculptures ranging in style from art deco to neoclassical. He is also well-known for his work as an untrained architect. In the late 1920s through the mid-1930s, he designed and executed a radical do-it-yourself project involving the rehabilitation of several North Side homes into what became artistically designed art colonies.
   The Edgar Miller’s Chicago Tour will take us to the inception of these colonies— the Carl Street Studios— in the neighborhood of Old Town. We will also tour Miller’s masterpiece of home design, The Glasner Studio, once home to an enthusiastic art patron by the name of Rudolph Glasner, who funded one of the colony’s construction, as well as home to later under-the-radar philanthropists such as Lucy Montgomery, a strident advocate during the civil rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as Mark Mamolen, a businessman and art patron who meticulously restored the home in the early 2000s. We will also visit some choice other sites of Miller’s installed work in Chicago to get a flavor of what this great artist-craftsman was capable of producing. 
Edgar Miller Legacy
Edgar Miller and the Hand-Made Home: Chicago's Forgotten Renaissance Man
Critically acclaimed book by by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams.

1734 N Wells St. (aka The Glasner Studio)
Chicago IL
Flickr page with 1734 N Wells St. (Aug 14, 2015)










InterContinental Hotel

155 W Burton Pl aka Carl Street Studio
Chicago IL
http://www.edgarmiller.org/carl-street-studios/



















2 comments:

  1. How can the Tiffany tour NOT INCLUDE the Driehaus Rooms on Navy Pier? A dozen actual Tiffany windows on display. I'm sure that if you contacted the Pier, they'd let you pull the bus right up to them. This is an inexcusable oversight.
    https://navypier.com/driehaus-gallery-of-stained-glass/

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