{"id":4531,"date":"2025-03-11T21:33:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T02:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio3.com\/news\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=4531"},"modified":"2025-03-11T21:33:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T02:33:22","slug":"dana-thomas-house-featuring-wooden-it-be-lovely-chairs","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/calendar\/4531-dana-thomas-house-featuring-wooden-it-be-lovely-chairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana-Thomas House featuring Wooden It Be Lovely Chairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-tribe_events pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Dana-Thomas house to feature Wooden It Be Lovely chairs for Women\u2019s History Month<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) is partnering with Wooden It Be Lovely for an exhibit of six refurbished chairs at the Dana-Thomas House State Historic Site in Springfield during March for Women\u2019s History Month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; background-color: initial;\">The chairs were hand-painted by the women at <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 12pt; background-color: initial;\" href=\"https:\/\/woodenitbelovely.love\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/woodenitbelovely.love\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1741462487521000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0pzzoLvGfvetO21Xxn4E24\">Wooden It Be Lovely<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; background-color: initial;\">, which offers transitional employment, housing and support to women healing from poverty, addiction, and abuse. The organization also offers jobs, mentoring, recovery tools, education, networking and a safe community. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; background-color: initial;\">The women in the program are employed to refurbish and sell donated wooden furniture, sew unique products and craft hand-poured candles. This transitional employment empowers women to move toward economic stability and enhanced well-being for themselves and their children. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; background-color: initial;\">\u201cWooden It Be Lovely is so honored to be invited to show some of our work at the Dana-Thomas House,\u201d <\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 12pt; background-color: initial;\">said the Rev. Margaret Ann Jessup, executive director of Wooden It Be Lovely<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; background-color: initial;\">. \u201cThe women who painted the chairs feel so proud that their work will be recognized by the public. They have been telling everyone they know how excited they are. It\u2019s so empowering to them to be honored in this way. I believe this is something that these women will never forget.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; background-color: initial;\">The chairs will be available for purchase at Wooden It Be Lovely\u2019s spring furniture showcase on April 5.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; background-color: initial;\">For more information visit the <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 12pt; background-color: initial;\" href=\"https:\/\/dnrhistoric.illinois.gov\/experience\/sites\/central\/dana-thomas-house.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/dnrhistoric.illinois.gov\/experience\/sites\/central\/dana-thomas-house.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1741462487521000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2opCx75PG--OvEyF5RF8ET\">Dana-Thomas House<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; background-color: initial;\"> website. The site is open seven days a week for free <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 12pt; background-color: initial;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/guided-tour-of-dana-thomas-house-tickets-138010167125?aff=oddtdtcreator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/guided-tour-of-dana-thomas-house-tickets-138010167125?aff%3Doddtdtcreator&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1741462487521000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3JhOSNl-amSQj0vnQDopaS\">scheduled tours<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; background-color: initial;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; background-color: initial;\">The Dana-Thomas House is located at 301 E. Lawrence Ave, Springfield. The home, built between 1902 and 1904, is perhaps the best-preserved of architect Frank Lloyd Wright&#8217;s &#8220;Prairie Style&#8221; homes, with more than 400 pieces of specially made art glass and original furnishings.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dana-Thomas house to feature Wooden It Be Lovely chairs for Women\u2019s History Month The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) is partnering with Wooden It Be Lovely for an exhibit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[40],"class_list":["post-4531","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-community-calendar","cat_community-calendar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dana-Thomas House featuring Wooden It Be Lovely Chairs - 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