Elyse Zorn Karlin, Co-Director of the Association for the Study of Jewelry & Related Arts in Ellicot City, Maryland, will visit the Ayer Mansion, 395 Commonwealth Avenue, on Tuesday, May 23 to speak on the topic of Tiffany Jewels: Jewelry of the Early 20th Century Arts & Crafts Movement, as part of the 2017 Ayer Mansion Lecture Series. A wine and cheese reception begins at 6:30, followed by the lecture at 7. $35. Register online at www.ayermansion.org, or call 617-536-2586.
Visit the Ayer Mansion, 395 Commonwealth Avenue, on Tuesday, April 4 for a lecture by Nonie Gadsden, the Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, who will speak on Tiffany’s Parakeets: The Story of a Window, as part of the Ayer Mansion 2017 Lecture Series. $35. Wine and cheese reception begins at 6:30 with the talk beginning at 7. Register online at www.ayermansion.org, or call 617-536-2586.
Preservationist Jeanne M. Pelletier will speak at the Ayer Mansion, 395 Commonwealth Avenue, on Tuesday, October 18 at 6:30 pm on The Hidden Treasures of the Ayer Mansion. Enjoy a good mystery? See clues for what still remains uncovered at the Ayer Mansion. Wine and cheese reception at 6:30, presentation at 7 pm. Preservation often requires great patience, with painstaking analysis and lots of sleuthing. Jeanne Pelletier will discuss how she and conservationists search for and follow clues to recreate Tiffany’s original design and piece together how the Ayers and their servants lived at 395 Commonwealth Avenue. Join her for a fascinating evening of armchair exploration, that will uncover obscured marble panels, long forgotten servant’s quarters and systems, roofed-over stained glass, and hidden light wells. If you like solving mysteries, this evening is for you.Tickets are $10 per person, $5 for students, and may be purchased online at http://ayermansion.org/Donate.html or by calling Angela Lee at 617-536-2586. All proceeds benefit the restoration of the Ayer Mansion.
The Evening Garden Club of West Roxbury is sponsoring a self-guided driving/walking tour of distinguished private gardens in their classic Boston neighborhood on Saturday, June 13, from 10 – 3, rain or shine. Tour will also include the award-winning Reading Garden at the West Roxbury Branch Library and the opportunity to view Tiffany Studio floral-design stained glass windows at the Theodore Parker Unitarian Universalist Church. The church will be available for viewing only after 1 pm. For further information as tour day approaches, visit http://gcfm.org/eveninggcwestroxbury/Home.aspx. TICKETS AVAILABLE from any garden club member or on tour day at the West Roxbury Branch Library, 1961 Centre St., West Roxbury 02132. TICKET PRICE: $15 in advance; $18 day of tour, and proceeds benefit the mission of The Evening Garden Club of West Roxbury, a
501(c)(3) organization, including community beautification projects and educational lectures. Garden below was featured on last year’s tour.
The Emerald Necklace Conservancy will host the Boston premiere of the new film Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America, on Wednesday, April 23 at 8 pm at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Tickets are $11 general admission, $9 MFA members and Emerald Necklace Conservancy donors.
The new, one-hour documentary chronicling the career and lasting influence of America’s premiere landscape architect who designed Boston’s Emerald Necklace, New York’s Central Park, Biltmore in Asheville, NC among other public and private spaces throughout the United States. The film’s producer, Lawrence Hott will be in attendance for a brief Q & A with the audience.  The film’s co-producer is Diane Garey, and is a co-production of WNED-TV, Buffalo/Toronto and Florentine Films/Hott Productions, Inc. Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America has been made possible by major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the Human Endeavor, and The Margaret L. Wendt Foundation, with funding provided by HSBC, The Tiffany & Company Foundation and The C.E. & S. Foundation. Additional support provided from The Peter C. Cornell Trust and Mass Humanities.
Tickets can be purchased at any MFA ticket desk, by calling 1-800-440-6975, or online.
The final 2013 Jonathan L. Fairbanks Lecture at The Ayer Mansion, 395 Commonwealth Avenue, will take place Tuesday, September 17, with Jeanne Pelletier, Preservation Advisor, The Campaign for the Ayer Mansion, who will speak on Tiffany as Architect and Interior Designer. Wine and cheese will be served at 6:30, with the lecture following at 7. Tickets ($25, $5 students) are available on line at www.AyerMansion.org.
The 2013 Jonathan L. Fairbanks Lecture Series at The Ayer Mansion, 395 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston will continue Monday, March 18 with a lecture by Lindsy Parrott, Director and Curator of The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass in New York City, who will speak on An Illuminating Look at Tiffany Lamps. Wine and cheese will be served beginning at 6:30 and the lecture begins at 7. Tickets ($25, $5 students) may be purchased on line at www.AyerMansion.org.
