Lectures

2014
John Gomez, Architectural Historian. Journeys in Color and Light: The Search for Connick Windows in New Jersey.

2013
Milda Richardson, Ph.D.  Maginnis & Walsh in the Service of the Roman Catholic Church.

November 2012
Peter Houk, Director of MIT Glass Lab

November 2011
Curtis Almquist SSJE, lecture: Poetic Splendor in Color and Light.

November 2010
A Filmed Lecture on Charles Connick Stained Glass, presented at Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago.

October 2009
Albert M. Tannler, Windows are Architecture: William Morris, Viollet-le-Duc, and the Artistic Journey of Charles J. Connick

November 2008
Peter Cormack F.S.A., illustrated lecture: Transatlantic Gothic: Aspects of Anglo-American Medievalism.

November 2007
Mark David Baden, Ph.D, illustrated lecture: We Met in a Crypt.

November 2006
Peter Cormack F.S.A., illustrated lecture: Charles J. Connick (1875-1945): America’s Greatest Stained Glass Artist.

November 2005
Albert M. Tannler, illustrated lecture: Charles J. Connick and the “Early School” of American Stained Glass Artists

November 2004
James O’Gorman, slide presentation: The Arts and Crafts Movement:Two Bridges to Boston

November 2003
Lance Kasparian, Historical Architect: The Stained Glass Work of Donald MacDonald (1841-1916) and His Times

November 2002
Alan Younger, Vice President & Fellow, British Society of Master Glass-Painters; part-time Lecturer in Fine Arts, American International University, London: “Measure Thrice, cut once”: glazing the clerestory windows of Henry VII’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey

November 2001
Julie L. Sloan, Stained Glass Consultant: History of Stained Glass in America

November 2000
Dr. Nicola Gordon Bowe, Professor of Art and Design, College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland: The Glow of Controlled Fire: Stained Glass and the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement

November 1999
James Yarnell, director of the La Farge Catalogue Raisonné: The Light of Other Days: John La Farge Stained Glass at Trinity Church and Memorial Hall

November 1998
Paul F. Norton, Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Revelations from the Stained Glass of Rhode Island

November 1997
Peter Cormack, Deputy Director of the William Morris Gallery, London: ‘Aglow with brave resplendent colour’: the stained glass of Christopher Whall (1849-1924)

November 1996
Madeline Harrison Caviness, Mary Richardson Professor and Professor History of Art, Tufts University: Brilliant Collectables: Medieval and Renaissance Stained Glass in the U.S.

November 1995
No lecture. Instead a memorial service for Orin E.Skinner, who passed away on April 4, held on his 103rd birthday, at Saint Mary’s and Saint John’s Monastery Chapel of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, MA. Mr. Skinner was the founder and president of the Connick Foundation and President of the Studio 1945-1986.

November 1994
Jonathan L. Fairbanks, Katharine Lane Weems Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Connick Idea.