Join us to learn more about Colorado’s arts and crafts movement, see the new collection donated by Ray & Donna to History Colorado, and even try out some of Griswold’s leather punches to take home a little piece of history.

Free with Museum admission.

Coloradan Lester Griswold grew up learning leathercrafting and silvercrafting from Mexican vaqueros in Trinidad before attending Colorado College for Mathematics and Chemistry and becoming an engineer. His wife, Kathleen Roe, worked at the Hull House in Chicago before they met. They shared an interest in the newly emerging American arts and crafts movement and he developed a handicraft program. They returned to Colorado Springs, where Griswold started a business focused on preserving and celebrating traditional arts and crafts.

Join us, along with Ray and Donna Phillips, Griswold’s grandson and his wife, to learn more about Colorado’s arts and crafts movement, see the new collection donated by Ray & Donna to History Colorado, and even try out some of Griswold’s leather punches to take home a little piece of history.

This Meet the Collection will be hosted by Dr. Rachael Storm, Curator of Business & Industry, who wrote her master’s thesis on two American arts & crafts movement colonies.