Thursday, February 7, 2013
Design proposals sought for "Ragdale Ring" project.
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Thursday, February 7
Ragdale, a nationally-acclaimed artist residency program in Lake Forest, is putting out the call seeking artists, architects and designers to submit their concept plan for a new outdoor performance space called the "Ragdale Ring," to be utilized during the summer for a variety of events. "Ragdale welcomes proposals for full-scale projects and installations that explore contemporary, fanciful and functional interpretations of the original Ragdale Ring, designed by architect Howard Van Doren Shaw in 1912 as an outdoor garden theatre for plays written by his wife, Frances Shaw," according to a press release. Proposals must be submitted through the ArtsApp online portal: at www.artsapp.com/ragdale by Thursday, Feb. 28. A jury of architects, …
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Monday, September 10, 2012
After one week on the job, executive director sees ways artists retreat can flourish
The tranquil world of Lake Forest’s Ragdale Foundation has a new leader and one who hopes can take the artists retreat even deeper into the nation’s—let alone the Chicagoland area’s—culture culture landscape. Jeffrey Meeuwsen (pronounced MOO-sin) has just completed his first week as Executive Director of Ragdale, the colony which has artists coming in from all over the country to concentrate on their craft in peaceful surroundings. It is the fourth largest artists’ community in the country and has been a Lake Forest staple since 1976. “I’ve known of Ragdale for some time and I have really been intrigued by its history,” Meeuwsen said of his reasons for taking the job. “(On) the other side of it I have worked for a museum presenting work …
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Visit a Mediterranean style house and garden designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw.
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Saturday, June 9, 2012
Visit five special gardens in Highland Park and Lake Forest that include inspirational designs filled with beautiful and rare plants on June 20. In Lake Forest, visit a Mediterranean style house and garden designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw in 1909 featuring a restoration of a sunken garden by Rose Standish Nichols. View Craig Bergmann’s garden at a historic David Adler gate-house that includes formal borders, a shade garden, orchard, motor court and a new swimming pool garden. In Highland Park, visit a garden club member’s home overlooking Lake Michigan that was designed in 1926 by architect Robert E. Seyfarth and landscaped by Prairie style master Jens Jensen, a landscape architect’s colonial home with lush garden borders nestled …
Monday, April 23, 2012
Search for replacement underway.
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Monday, April 23, 2012
Susan Page Tillett, executive director at The Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, recently announced her resignation after 12 years. Tillett has guided the non-profit organization through three capital campaigns, including the recent renovation of the historic Ragdale House, architect Howard Van Doren Shaw’s original summer home, built in 1897. Her departure is effective June 30. “The Ragdale House is reopening, the Foundation is thriving, and it is time for me to devote my energies to other projects,” said Tillett. “When I arrived at Ragdale in January, 2000, I found an organization with the compelling mission of supporting artists as they created new work, located on a beautiful, historic property. Those things are still the heart of …
Friday, July 22, 2011
Upcoming 'A Novel Affair' helps raise friends, funds.
Between bites of mouth-melting pot roast and crunchy spinach slaw, poet Karen Duffy wants to talk about smoke inhalation. She’s been thinking a lot about “fires and how they kill you,” as she puts it, during her two-week residence at Ragdale, a historic Lake Forest summer retreat turned artists’ retreat now in its 36th year. The sumptuous evening meal, created by chef Linda Williams, is the nightly common ground for a disparate collection of poets and novelists, musicians and visual artists who have the luxury of spending their days thinking about whatever moves them. Duffy’s family narrowly escaped an arson fire in their New Jersey home, recently purchased from someone they now think was “connected” with the mafia. Now Duffy is living and…
Arthur H. Miller
10:40 am on Monday, September 10, 2012
This new direction shows a great evolution in the "ecology" of Ragdale. Susan Tillet, who came out of the public history community, was just the right person to cope with founder Alice Hayes relatively late decision that Ragdale's structures could be preserved. It took a decade and a half to stabilize these great resources, while all the time also helping artists and gaining visibility. Thanks to… more ›