{"id":403796,"date":"2026-09-18T18:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T18:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403796\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T18:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T18:16:10","slug":"five-story-expansion-of-museum-of-the-american-arts-and-crafts-movement-takes-shape-in-downtown-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403796\/","title":{"rendered":"Five-story expansion of Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement takes shape in downtown St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The new galleries will include photography and color woodblock prints that have appeared in previous MAACM exhibitions, alongside textiles, clocks, jewelry, and other works from the movement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The galleries will open in phases throughout 2027 with the first expected to debut in late February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The expansion will also include conference rooms, work rooms, offices, curator and object-work areas, and storage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrandbarr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Barr&amp;Barr<\/a> is building the project, and Tampa-based <a href=\"https:\/\/alfonsoarchitects.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alfonso Architects<\/a>, which designed the original museum with founder Rudy Ciccarello, is handling the expansion\u2019s design. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Founded by Ciccarello and funded by the Two Red Roses Foundation, MAACM\u2019s collection includes furniture, pottery, tiles, lighting, textiles, photography, woodblock prints, metalwork, and more. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Artists and designers represented in the collection include Gustav Stickley, Charles Rohlfs, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Comfort Tiffany, the Roycrofters, William Grueby, and Newcomb Pottery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new galleries will include photography and color woodblock prints that have appeared in previous MAACM exhibitions, alongside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-403796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}