HSDFF 2009 Film List

Fay Jones of Fayetteville, Arkansas studied under Frank Lloyd Wright, and eventually ascended to heights rivaling his master. Jones became one of the most acclaimed and significant architects of the latter 20th century.  He won the prestigious AIA Gold Medal in 1990, awarded for a lifetime of work that included his masterpiece, Thorncrown Chapel,near Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Jones was among the most successful Frank Lloyd Wright acolytes, having lived and worked at Taliesin in 1953 but subsequently finding his own architectural voice. In his 1992 book about Jones, author Robert Ivy noted: “Jones has, more than any other Wright disciple, fulfilled Wright’s wish, contributing an architecture with ‘forms of his own devising.’”
Filmmaker-in-person. Arkansas Film.
lfoley@uark.edu

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