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Past EventsScotty Fleetwood2021-03-26T15:51:47-05:00

Each season, Farnsworth House hosts a number of special events and unique tour opportunities. Click on a link below to view descriptions and photos of past events:

  • International Women’s Day Virtual Symposium: Chicago Women in Midcentury Design
  • Architea: Poetry in Place and Time – Edith Farnsworth’s Nature Poems to Today’s Ecopoetics
  • Architea: Anything He Can Do She Can Do Better – The Women Designers of Mid-Century Modernism
  • Mod & Merry
  • Edith Farnsworth’s Birthday Celebration
  • Forest Bathing & Mindfulness Workshop
  • Fall Landscape Walk
  • Farnsworth Family Day
  • Staged Reading of The Glass House Play
  • Farnsworth with Fido
  • Geometry of Light
  • Summer Landscape Walk
  • Harmony & Hops
  • Wildflower Walk
  • Finishes + Furnishings
  • Riffs & Roots
  • Mod & Merry: A Farnsworth House Holiday
  • Night Fall Exclusive
  • Fall FUNdays
  • An Afternoon of Music
  • Chicago Architecture Biennial 2017
  • For the Love of Farnsworth
  • Architecture + Art: Inspiration Amplified
  • INsite by Luftwerk

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Edith Farnsworth House

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Plano, IL 60545
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