Speaking Engagements
- I am giving a one-hour slide presentation about Taliesin at the Waunakee Public Library from 6:30-7:30. You can see the calendar for the library website here: https://www.waunakeepubliclibrary.org/calendar.
- Frank Lloyd Wright x PechaKucha LIVE. Keiran and five other Wright owners / experts participated in the quick, fun presentation style where each participant spoke while 20 slides hold the screen for 20 seconds each. PechaKucha’s FLLW event is now on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnayxUulqTY
- Weekend Lecture/Seminar: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin, through Smithsonian Associates, December 5, 2021 – 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. ET.
- “Life is Not Monotonous at Taliesin”: a Webinar through Monona Terrace in Madison, Wisconsin during their “Wright Design Series”:
https://youtu.be/m85HK23gR5kClick here for the Monona Terrace archive of the Webinars during this series.https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS15756
- “Learning by Doing: Changes at Taliesin in Wisconsin by the Fellowship from the 1930s to the 1950s,” 2017 Taliesin West Symposium, “Finding Refuge: Redefining Shelter,” November 18, 2017.
- “Taliesin’s Loggia Terrace: Experimentation and Preservation,” in the series, “Opening the Envelope: Porches, Porticos and Terraces”. Burchfield-Penney Art Center under the Graycliff Conservancy. Buffalo, New York, October 9, 2013.
- “Building for Earthquakes and Over Waterfalls: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wisconsin Ingenuity,” May 7, 2013, Waunakee Public Library, Waunakee, Wisconsin. Part of the, “Galvanized: Reasons to Rebel” lecture series.
- “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin”, Montana State University, Bozeman MT, and “Frank Lloyd Wright”, Museum of the Rockies. February 22, 2012.
- “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin and New Preservation Work by Taliesin Preservation”, P.E.O. (Philanthropic Educational Organization), Edgewood Hotel, Madison, WI, 2011.
- “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin,” the Kentwood Women’s Club, Kentwood, MI, 2010.
- Panel Speaker, “Works in Progress — Taliesin and Taliesin West”, the 2010 Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy conference, Cincinnati, OH, 2010.
- 2004 Society of Environmental Journalists 14th Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA. Panel Speaker, “Origins of Environmental Architecture: The Wright Stuff”, 2004.
- “Taliesin: the Problem of Working with a Laboratory”, the 2004 Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy conference, Madison, WI, 2004.
- Guest lecturer in the “Survey: Modern Architecture and Design” class for Assistant Professor Tom Kleese, University of Wisconsin-Richland Center, 2003.
- “The Unknown History of Taliesin,” Lecture, Hillside Theater, Spring Green, Wisconsin, 1998.
