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Arts and Crafts Movement 1900-1939. By Chelsea, Lauren, Kirsten, and Carly. Setting the scene: 1900-1939. Rapid social, economic, technological, civic, and cultural change Industrialization – rise of machines and impersonal factory work. Setting the scene: 1900-1939. Hull House (1900) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Arts and Crafts Movement1900-1939By Chelsea, Lauren, Kirsten, and Carly
Setting the scene: 1900-1939
Rapid social, economic, technological, civic, and cultural change
Industrialization – rise of machines and impersonal factory work
Setting the scene: 1900-1939
Hull House (1900)Labor Museum
Jane Addams
Setting the Scene: 1900-1939
WWI (1914-1918)
Setting the Scene: 1900-1939
Economic instability: The Great Depression begins in 1929
Scientific View vs. Holistic View
Scientific view of person and physiology of disease vs. holistic view of person (mind-body unity)
e.g. X-Rays began to be used in medicine
Getting back to a simpler time
John Ruskin mid-19th century British university professor
Believed that machines and factory work limited human happiness
Advocated a return to simpler times
The ‘Work Cure’
Dr. Herbert J. Hall, Adolf Meyer, and William Rush Dunton searched for ways to humanize the care of chronically ill patients
Promoted the “work cure” rather than the “rest cure”
Championed “sheltered workshops” where people earned a living by making authentic objects. The goal was to give spiritual support and to help employ people with mental and physical disabilities.
Arts-and-Crafts Societies
Arts and Crafts Movement spread from Great Britain to the U.S. with the help of
furniture-maker and craftsman Gustav Stickley.
The U.S. was accepting of this movement because upper classes desired unique, authentic objects, whereas they criticized mass produced items and idleness.
Arts-and-Crafts Societies
Handicraft clubs and arts-and-crafts societies began popping up around the U.S.
e.g. Boston Society of Arts and Crafts (1901)
Herbert James Hall ran a workshop in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He “called his institution a ‘school of handicrafts,’ where patients became ‘artisans,’ tasting ‘the wholesomeness of a life of labor without the hardships and trials [of] the real industrial world” (Quiroga, 1995, p. 93).
Arts-and-Crafts Project
Paper weaving
How can you see this being beneficial as part of occupational therapy?
Before WWI
Clinics were created for patients with chronic physical illness
e.g. Consolation House
The goal of OT was to return clients to a state of financial independence
e.g. Arequipa Sanatorium – clients were encouraged to earn their keep by making pottery
OT had a vocational focus. This paved the way for programs which would treat wounded soldiers and sailors returning from WWI.
During WWI
Society felt it was their social and moral responsibility to rehabilitate soldiers
WWI forced field of OT to clarify its role and standardize training and practice
During WWIOT was a means to keep soldiers on the front.
In a lecture given at a meeting of MAOT in 1921, Joel Goldwait, an orthopedic surgeon, said:
“These war experiences showed us what was obvious before, that idleness is a dangerous thing. Every maimed soldier was likely to become a centre of social unrest and no nation can stand that. There were numerous cases of wounds in the hand. Three or four months were lost by these during ordinary medical treatments; with occupational therapy available, the time was brought down to as many weeks, and the men returned to the front. This is entirely possible in civil life” (Quiroga, 1995, p. 145).
After WWI
There were six people in attendance at the first meeting for the National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy in 1917
300 people attended the society’s third meeting in 1919
This demonstrates the development of OT as a field during WWI.
Women’s Changing Roles
Women gained the right to vote in 1920
Elizabeth Upham started the first OT program at Milwaukee Downer College
While women who were nurses were under the supervision of male physicians, women in the field of OT had the opportunity to be independent.
Occupational Therapy Schools
Some argued: eye, hand, mind, and creative imagination are stimulated by arts and crafts
As a result, occupational therapy schools began to offer courses in occupations such as needlework, weaving, metalwork, bookbinding, and leatherwork.
The missions and philosophies of occupational therapy and the arts-and-crafts movement were so intertwined over time that it became difficult to distinguish between the two.
Susan E. Tracy
The Impact of the Arts-and-Crafts
MovementEconomic issues led to the demise of sheltered workshops and arts-and-crafts societies
However, the ideals behind the arts-and-crafts movement remain.
Some argue that occupational therapists’ use of arts-and-crafts has decreased in recent years.
The use of arts-and-crafts in therapy can be useful:
As a means of self expression
For increasing self-esteem and motivation
To assist learning processes
How can we incorporate arts-and-crafts into practice?
The Impact of the Arts-and-Crafts Movement
ReferencesLevine, R. (1987). The influence of the arts-and-crafts movement on the professional status of occupational therapy. The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 41, 248-254.
Quiroga, V. (1995). Occupational Therapy: The First 30 Years: 1900 to 1930. Bethesda, MD: The American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc.
Reed, K. (1986). Tools of practice: heritage or baggage?: 1986 Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lecture. The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 40, 597-605.
Thompson, M. (1998). Creative arts in occupational therapy: Ancient history or contemporary practise? Occupational Therapy International, 5, 48-64.