Lost and Found Productions

06/27/2024

NEWLY AVAILABLE CONCERT

WHITE CITY DREAMING
a musical journey - How the 1893 World's Fair was created -
is now available as a full musical or concert of songs for organizations, schools, parties, as a special event or benefit. Music by Elizabeth Doyle, inspired by songs of the Gilded Age, book by June Finfer, lyrics by June and Elizabeth. Contact june@lostandfoundproductions for more information.

06/27/2024

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WHITE CITY DREAMING
a musical journey - How the 1893 World's Fair was created -
is now available as a full musical or concert of songs for organizations, schools, parties, as a special event or benefit. Music by Elizabeth Doyle, inspired by songs of the Gilded Age, book by June Finfer, lyrics by June and Elizabeth. Contact june@lostandfoundproductions for more information.

11/05/2021

Along with Ida B. Wells and Frederic Douglass's pamphlet " The Reason Why Colored America is Not Part of the Columbian Exposition", Potawatomi leader Simon Pokagon protested the Fair and American society.

By Haku Blaisdell, Newberry Communications Coordinator Printed on actual sheets of birchbark, Potawatomi leader Simon Pokagon’s "Red Man’s Greeting” is a living entity. Published as a response to the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the book's materiality and text provided a cou...

09/29/2021

After nearly 70 years, a forgotten, unbuilt design by the pioneering architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe comes to life on Indiana University’s Bloomington campus.

09/29/2021

https://apple.news/AnEt4W1kfThWEHMH_328vRw

After nearly 70 years, a forgotten, unbuilt design by the pioneering architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe comes to life on Indiana University’s Bloomington campus.

07/14/2021

Essies obit.pdf

06/03/2021

Coming out of our shared isolation and planning for a production of The Glass House in New York. Also still rewriting The White City musical, now entitled Dream City. Enjoying seeing faces again!!

03/30/2021

My husband Paul is honored by being remembered for his plan for the New Town of Valdez, Alaska.

Andrew Goldstein, Curator of Collections & Exhibitions at the Valdez Museum was pleasantly surprised when he opened an envelope to find a $7,500 check from Mark Finfer of San Diego, CA with an accompanying letter, personally addressed to Andrew. In the letter Mark stated where his contribution shoul...

01/27/2021

https://savingplaces.org/stories/the-past-present-future-of-farnsworth-house?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=weekly

The Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois, is an architectural masterpiece owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and is one of the most acclaimed Modernist buildings in the world.

01/23/2021

Brilliant poetry at the Inauguration. As the New Yorker says:
Gorman’s poem is, explicitly, a text about the future. She exhorts Americans to look not at “what stands between us / But what stands before us.” She says, at the beginning, that “we know, to put our future first,” and she ends with a verse of promises and challenges as rousing as any ever written:

So let us leave behind a country
better than the one we were left with
Every breath from my bronze-pounded chest,
we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one
We will rise from the gold-limbed hills of the west,
we will rise from the windswept northeast
where our forefathers first realized revolution
We will rise from the lake-rimmed cities of the midwestern states,
we will rise from the sunbaked south
We will rebuild, reconcile and recover
and every known nook of our nation and
every corner called our country,
our people diverse and beautiful will emerge,
battered and beautiful
When day comes we step out of the shade,
aflame and unafraid
The new dawn blooms as we free it
For there is always light,
if only we’re brave enough to see it
If only we’re brave enough to be it

01/08/2021

My film on Mies van der Rohe masterpiece will be excerpted on Feb. 4. Free program.

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Mies van der Rohe Society"
Subject: Join us for Interiors: Lilly Reich and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Date: January 8, 2021 at 2:39:02 PM CST
To: "June K. Finfer"
Reply-To: Mies van der Rohe Society

Join us for Interiors: Lilly Reich and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

REGISTER HERE
Thursday, February 4, 2020
5:30-6:45 pm CT
Free | Virtual

Interiors: Lilly Reich and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Case study: The Tugendhat House

The Mies van der Rohe Society, in partnership with Illinois Tech’s College of Architecture, is pleased to bring you an evening through the lens of acclaimed filmmaker, June Finfer, alumna. You will experience actual footage of the Tugendhat House and hear about it first hand from our presenters, art historian Daniela Tugendhat and her husband, preservationist Ivo Hammer, who are currently working to maintain and share one of the most influential homes of the 20th century.

Join host and moderator, Cynthia Vranas Olsen (M.S. ARCH ‘01, Ph.D. ‘17) and hear about the dynamic collaborative effort between Mies and Lilly Reich to make Tugendhat House, in the words of Daniela Tugendhat and Ivo Hammer, “Mies’s finest residential project.” Commentators include Jong Soung Kimm (ARCH '61, M.S. ‘64); Dirk Lohan, alumnus; Reed Kroloff, dean; and Martin Felsen, Masters of Architecture program director, College of Architecture, IIT.

Celebrate the award winning accomplishments on Lilly Reich’s work with Laura Lizondo-Sevilla and Débora Domingo-Calabuig from the Universitat Politècnica de València.

This evening was made possible through the organizational help of Mies Society members Margaret and David Hensler.

To learn more about this event and The Mies van der Rohe Society, please visit https://www.miessociety.org

Photos provided by Jong Soung Kimm (ARCH ‘61, M.S. ‘64)

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10/23/2020

https://savingplaces.org/stories/two-modern-masterpieces-farnsworth-and-the-glass-house-side-by-side?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=weekly

Photographer Robin Hill brings Farnsworth House and the Glass House together in one exhibition, side by side.

10/01/2020

https://vimeo.com/463919308

This video is about The Glass House

09/14/2020

van der Rohe
House
Glass House. A lovely day at the Farnsworth House presenting my play! Theater lives!

09/04/2020

Mies lives!

Indiana University Bloomington’s Eskenazi School has started construction on a new building based off of a design by Mies van der Rohe.

09/01/2020

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08/20/2020

https://www.archpaper.com/2020/08/edith-farnsworth-reconsidered/

Edith Farnsworth is often overlooked when discussing the home she once lived in (and accompanying legal troubles), but a new show reconsiders her life there