Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-18
"SOC|Au|1NG" Of ART
THEME At CONVENTION
Paper Read Before Federation Elab.
Grating the Chicago 1dea-other
Topics-Business Session.

'Socializing Art in Chicago" was the
subject of the first paper offered at this
mornings meeting of the American RED
Grafton of Arts convention at the Ra-
doing it." according to its author. Lena
N. McCauley. art critic OF the chicago
Evening Post.
Socializing art is making it available
and appreciable to the common people
Of that polyglot city. she explained
The presiding officer. Charles L.
Hutchinson, president of chicago
great art institute, announced that
speeches would be strictly limited 10
twenty minutes each; 1T therefore TOOK
two or three of these for Miss McCauely
to outline and describe the work mat
Chicago, so often called materialistic:
is doing to promote the creation OF
works of art by its artists and their
utilization by its inhabitants.
Organizations Enrolled.
Among the organizations enrolled in
the work are the Public School Art Soci-
ety. which influences practically every
child. including the deaf and blind; the
Municipal Art League. which is proud OF
having to a large extent "downed" the
billboards; the Womans Art League.
which covers in membership every
ward and which has started the nucleus
of municipal art gallery composed OF
works of local artists, besides promot-
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Outdoor Art League, the Friends OF Our
Native Landscape and the Mems CITY
Club.
Events mentioned included the annua!
dunes pageant" which is union OF
all the arts, and field house festivals.
which are really international affairs.
Last, but not least. comes the munici-
pality itself, which has appointed q
Commission to encourage local artists,
and which annually gives $4,000 IN
prizes.
dramatic Workshop" Described.
"Tbe Dramatic Workshop" main
tanned by Harvard. but participated IN
by residents of Greater Boston from
seven years of age upward, was ue-
scribed by its originator. George Pierce
Baker, head of the department OF ORA
matic art at that university. Its pur-
pose is to open the doors OF oppor-
tunity to any one interested in any
phase of the dramatic arts VINO "isnes
to experiment" 1t ignores the 1aise
axiom that a short stout actor cam
play only certain sorts Of parts, with
no allowance made for his intellectual
individuality.
Those aspiring to some connection
with the drama as lifework are re.
stricted either to the little theater
or the big outdoors. and the depart
ment of dramatic arts of the Carnegie
Institution of Technology. Pittsburgh
was established to solve this problem
Of restriction, according to Thomas
Woods Stevens, its head. Community
Music" was the subject of the final
contribution, given by Arthur Farwell
president of the New York Community
Chorus.
To Conclude With Banquet.
Committee reports, the election Of d.
rectors and new business occupied the
afternoon session. over which Robert
w. De Forest presided. The conven-
ton ends with the annual banquet to-
night at Rauscher's, which has for Its
general topic The Torch of Art" The
speakers are Edward w. Robinson, d.
rector of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art; Herman A. MacNeil, past presi-
dent of the National Sculpture Society;
Ernest C. Peixotto, president Of the NC
Dowell Club, New York: Charles Dana
Gibson, president Of the Society of IL
Illustrators, and others to be announced
later Tomorrow a number of the dele
gates are going to Baltimore for the
day, where they will be the guests of
the Handicraft Club at a handicraft
exhibition at the Peabody Institute and
at luncheon.
Last night the federation was enter
tanned at an informal reception and lee
ture at the New National Museum by
the heads of the Smithsonian Institu-
ton. The lecture, which was illustrat-
ed, was given by Prof. Victor Horta of
Belgium, dean OF the Royal School of
Fine Arts, Brussels, and dealt with "A
Century Of Modern Art in Belgium"