Prairie Arts Blog

Prairie Arts Lecture at FLW School of Architecture

 We'll be giving a presentation at 7:30pm on Friday July 25th, 2008 at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture in Spring Green, WI. As Prairie Design Group, we'll be sharing our expertise about branding, plus the processes we've developed as design entrepreneurs. The lecture is titled Brand Architecture: Building Ways to Market You and Your Ideas.

You can read more about it in today's Wisconsin State Journal. Come out and see us if you can!

Sneak Peek: New 2008 Teco Shapes!

These babies are unavailable until early fall 2008, but we thought you'd like to see what the new shapes will look like! We're already seeing a dramatic response to this exciting upcoming release. Don't you think these go well with our 2007 Magnificent Seven line up?

For questions or more info, contact 800.594.3148 x3 or email us.

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New Aqua & Orange Teco Glazes = Tons of Press!

If you haven't seen the news on our sister blog for the Teco Art Pottery Collection™, we have recently introduced two new gorgeous glaze colors: Aqua & Orange! As a result, there has been a lot of buzz in the media about the collection. Below are links to some of the recent clippings...

Newspapers -
San Francisco Chronicle
Detroit News
NY Times
Minneapolis Star Tribune

Blogs -
Design Milk
Glam
Minnesota Monthly
Chicago Home & Garden
Michelle Kaufmann's blog

Also, the Summer 2008 issue of Atomic Ranch Magazine as a nice feature on our vases.

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Prairie Arts Mini Screens in the Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune had a small write up about Prairie Arts and our mini screens in the November 25th, 2007 Sunday Paper. The feature was in the Home & Garden section and you can read the text here.

If you're looking for retailers carrying the mini screens, check out PrairieMod.com or WrightCatalog.com.

Many New Retailers!

We've added many new select retailers to our Where to Buy page on the website! So many more, that we've actually had to redesign our web page to accommodate the growing list. You'll see the map of the US, which wasn't there before.

If you haven't found a place near you that carries our Frank Lloyd Wright Collection® items or the Teco Art Pottery Collection™, be sure to check the list again.

If you still do not have a retailer in your area, please visit one of these fine online retailers on the internet:

Craftsman Touch
805-736-3354

Decorative Hardware Store
502-893-3312         

Fair Oak Workshops
800-341-0597

Just Art Pottery
309-690-7966

Maclin Studio
888-240-0808

Nova68
800-952-9168

Oak Park Home & Hardware
708-445-3606

PrairieMod
610-643-3160

Signals
800-669-9696

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Teco Art Pottery Collection™ at Room & Board

I walked into the Room & Board in Oak Brook, IL a couple weeks ago and was thrilled to see our Teco Art Pottery Collection™ on display. The folks at the store did a wonderful job placing the product in a great spot and coordinating it with the color palette of the gallery space. Stop by and see the collection if you're in the Chicago area (or any of the other cities Room & Board has a presence).

We're looking forward to taking or receiving photos of other retail spaces carrying the Teco Art Pottery Collection™, so we'll post those to the blog as we get them!

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Many Magazines, One Great Collection

We are just thrilled with all the attention our new Teco Art Pottery Collection™ has been receiving in the press! If you don't usually read any of these publications below, this is your chance to see our spotlight coverage. We've recently been featured in Style 1900, Time Out Chicago, Old House Journal, Chicago Home & Garden and American Bungalow. Thank you to all the editors and writers who had many wonderful things to say about our pottery.

You can click each image below for a larger view or stop by your local bookstore to pick-up a copy.

In the coming months, we'll have even more magazine features that we'll update you with as they are published.

Arts & Crafts Homes and the Revival Magazine Feature: Teco Art Pottery Collection™

For those of you who don't subscribe to Arts & Crafts Homes Magazine, the Teco Art Pottery Collection™ was featured in the newly released Summer 2007 issue of the publication. You can download the actual PDF here.

We are extremely excited about this coverage and many other features that will be popping in magazines between now and the holiday season. Keep checking back often to see what others are saying about the pottery!

PS - For those of you waiting to get your hands on the actual pottery...many stores will have inventory by the end of August 2007. Also, a handful of online retailers are taking pre-orders and will ship product at the end of August as well.

Please feel free to email us at info@prairie-arts.com with any specific questions!

Prairie Arts At Wright And Like

Prairie Arts teamed up with our friends at Copeland Furniture to present official Frank Lloyd Wright Collection licensed products at the 2007 Wright and Like event in Wisconsin. We also brought along some  prototype Teco Art Pottery Collection™ pieces to debut at the event--and people we're definitely excited! Look for more info on the official Teco launch later this month.

The wonderful people at the Wright in Wisconsin did an outstanding job of putting together a great set of tours and activities for this year's Wright and Like event. If you missed it, look forward to 2008 to attend what will surely be another fantastic time. For more info, visit the Wright and Like website.

Prairie Arts At Unity Temple Benefit Gala

The 5th Annual Restoration Gala to benefit Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple was a success! The Wright designed building was all a glow with dramatic lighting and Japanese lanterns. Traditional Japanese drummers performed for the audience, who also enjoyed sake tastings and fine food from Oak Park area restaurants.

Prairie Arts was proud to donate two pieces from our product line to the silent auction fund raiser: A large Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Playroom Art Screen and a framed Unity Temple Wasmuth fine art print. We we're glad to contribute to this worthy cause!

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New Place To Shop

Check out one of the newest places online to buy our products, PrairieMod.com! PrairieMod promotes 10 Principles based on the ideas of the Prairie School architects and designers to help people live an individual and beautiful life in the Modern world ("Prairie" + "Mod" = "PrairieMod"). If you're looking to apply the "art of living in the modern world" to your own home environment, then check out the PrairieMod blog and store.

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Prairie Arts at WrightPlus 2007

Prairie Arts will be guests of the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust at their annual WrightPlus event on May 19th, 2007. Our team will be available all day to answer questions about our products, plus there will be a special stencil demonstration time from 10am-2pm. If you'd like to try to paint one of our Frank Lloyd Wright stencils, stop by our booth behind the FLW Home & Studio Museum Shop on Chicago Avenue in Oak Park, IL.

The weather should be gorgeous and we look forward to meeting you in person!

Our New Website is Up!

We are very excited to announce the launch of our new website today! We have added new products like our mini screens and art screens, plus you can get a sneak-peek of our Teco Art Pottery Collection™ that will release later this summer. There are many new wonderful features, which we hope you will enjoy. Have fun perusing!

Shout Out From Phil

The Prairie Arts group attended the "Prairie Skyscraper" opening reception and lecture this evening at the Chicago Architecture Foundation and thoroughly enjoyed it. We were especially proud to be given a "shout out" by Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation President and CEO, Phillip Allsopp. Thanks for the love, Phil!

If you're in Chi-town, check out the exhibit and the gift store (where you can find plenty of Prairie Arts stencils and authentic Louis Sullivan wooden ornaments!)

Sullivan Ornaments Featured

Our wooden Louis Sullivan ornaments were featured on the weblog, apartment therapy: Chicago in December. You can check the post out by following this link. Thanks for the shout out! We're eagerly developing more Sullivaqn and Prairie School ornaments for next year, so stay tuned!

Image courtesy of apartment therapy: chicago