About – The Stickley Project

About The Stickley Project

The Stickley Project is not associated with The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms, The Stickley Museum in Fayetteville, New York, nor the Stickley Audi Furniture Co. or any of their subsidiaries or associated companies. The Stickley Project, its website (www.stickleyproject.com), and the content and structure of its database are an independent venture solely created by Jonathan Clancy. The primary purpose of The Stickley Project is to provide access to educational content, to encourage rigorous scholarship, and to facilitate learning about objects.

Text Copyright

First things first: the database itself is protected by copyright. You may, however, use the information you glean from it provided you cite it correctly and do not use it for commercial purposes. All of the text on the website (exclusive of the database) is protected by copyright too, but shared under a creative commons license (CC BY-SA 4.0) to promote the dissemination of information. You may view the license deed by clicking here, or the legal code by clicking here.

Image Copyright

Images (unless otherwise credited in the database or on the general website) are copyrighted and shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license that applies to the text; in short, you can use an image for non-commercial purposes that appears on this website (provided there is not a credit line, an attribution in the caption, or any other indication that the image is courtesy of an external source) if you give credit to this site and follow the terms of the license. No permission is granted to use images on this site that are courtesy of an external source.

A word about images: there has been some back and forth about whether the images on this site should be copyrighted because the compiling of them, the editing of them, and even the photography of them represents a considerable amount of time spent in order to make the site usable. My argument against employing a restrictive copyright stems from the fact that the original sources of these images–the catalogs, advertisements, and The Craftsman magazine–all are in the public domain at this point. Copyright exists to protect the creator of an original thing for a period of time, but when a creation enters the public domain, it should exist there unencumbered by restrictions.

About Jonathan Clancy

Dr. Jonathan Clancy received his Ph.D. in Art History from The City of New York’s Graduate Center in 2008. He also holds a B.A. in History and Art History from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. From 2009-17 he served as Director of the American Fine and Decorative Art Program at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York. Prior to that he taught art and design history at a number of institutions including Parsons, the Fashion Institute of Technology, Rutgers, and The City College of New York. He currently serves as Director of Collections and Preservation at The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms. Click here to view his c.v.