The new, $74 million renovated and expanded Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) will be the first American venue for the Victoria and Albert Museum’s traveling exhibition of International Arts and Crafts. The show will open on September 25 and run through January, 22. It is one of the largest Arts and Crafts exhibitions ever mounted and the first to showcase the movement’s influence in Europe, America and Japan.

C.F.A. Voysey clock, 1895-96. Courtesy the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The Arts and Crafts movement originated in Great Britain inthe 1880s as a response to the Industrial Revolution and itsmachine-dominated production. Led by theorists John Ruskin andWilliam Morris, the movement promoted the ideals of craftsmanshipand individual-ism along with the integration of art into everydaylife.

The exhibition will feature more than 300 objects from Great Britain, America, Central and Northern Europe, and Japan – where it developed as the mingei, or folk craft, movement. A variety of objects will show how the Arts and Crafts movement influenced all aspects of life in countries around the world.

Two reconstructed furnished interiors of the period, an American Craftsman room inspired by Gustav Stickley, and a Japanese room from a pavilion built for a 1928 Tokyo exhibition, are among the highlights of the show. Other highlights include furniture by Gustave Stickley, and objects from designers such as Josef Hoffmann, Hamada Shoji, C.F.A. Voysey, Frank Lloyd Wright and Rookwood Pottery.

Timed tickets are required and may be purchased by calling 888-670-3048. The IMA is at 4000 Michigan Road.

Call 317-920-2660 or go to www.ima-art.org for more information.