Lectures

Manny has delivered lectures or participated on panels on art, architecture, gardening or oriental rugs at these venues, among others:

  • Lecture on Oriental Rugs, Officer’s Wives Club, Otis Air Force Base, 1960
  • Hingham Garden Club and many other garden clubs in MA and IL
  • Worcester Art Museum
  • Frederick Law Olmsted Society, Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio and other venues, "Restoration of the Tomek House"
  • American College of Surgeons, Social Program, 1976
  • American College of Surgeons, 1979, "Rugs in Bloom"
  • Lectured and trained tour guides for Riverside bike tour May 1979, sponsored by local bank. Also designed the poster for the tour.
  • Lecture for Greater Chicago Celebrates Historic Preservation Week, May 1981, "Restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright's Tomek House"
  • Lecture series Riverside 1983
  • Lecture at Kent State University, March 1983, "The Wright Way"
  • International SAH conference Boston, 1984   "Frank Lloyd Wright’s Art Glass"
  • International Association of Art Critics/Universities Art Association of Canada, Ottawa, Canada 1985
  • Taliesin West, Scottsdale, AZ
  • Hollyhock House, Los Angeles, CA
  • Architectural Conferences in Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • Architectural Conference at John G. Blank Center, Michigan City, IN, Moderator
  • The Art Institute of Chicago,  April 9, 1985, "Getting to Know Oriental Rugs"
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, March 3, 1986, "The Wright Way"
  • The Art Institute of Chicago,  April 2, 1987, "Rugs in Bloom"
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, March 6, 1991 "The Art Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright"
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, October 1995, "Space and Light: The Prairie Ethos"
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, 1995  "Down to Earth, an Insider’s View of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Tomek House",  in Rubloff Auditorium
  • Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Conference: "Easements and Tax Freezes" 1995
  • Chicago Architectural Foundation, "Trials, Tribulations and Joys of Owning a Wright House"
  • Chicago Architectural Foundation, "F. L. Wright’s Tomek House landscape: The Wright Garden"
  • Graham Foundation:  "A Portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Tomek House", April 2, 1996
  • The Arts Club of Chicago, "Down to Earth, an Insider’s View of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Tomek House"  June 10, 1996
  • Chicago Architectural Foundation, April 9, 1997
  • Lecture for Symposium in Oak Park, October 15-18, 1998, "The Prairie School and Early Modernism: Frank Lloyd Wright and his Midwest Contemporaries. Many Fingers in the Pie: Collaborators of the Tomek House"
  • The Cliff Dwellers Gallery, "A Portrait of the Tomek House", July 20, 1999
  • Fernwood Botanical Gardens,"Portraits of Gardens", Aug 5, 2002 and other venues