Planning Your Evening
The Lecture
The Crichton Club lecture series feature some of the world’s most influential and innovative artists, architects, writers, scholars, designers, and curators. Our lectures take place in the Columbus Museum of Art's Cardinal Health Auditorium, or the Schottenstein Pavilion. Both is equipped with state-of-the-art audio and projection equipment. The speaker is introduced by the President of the Board and talks for approximately 45 minutes.
The presentations are followed by an always-lively question and answer forum.
Dessert Reception
Following the lecture, members and their guests adjourn to the elegant Derby Court, a dramatically sky-lit interior garden space enhanced by the sculpture of Dale Chihuly. Wine and desserts are served. Cinderella must leave the ball no later than 10:00 pm, as the museum becomes a pumpkin when the staff must lock up and go home.
What To to Wear
When Crichton Club was first chartered, just after World War I, the dinner jacket had become de facto evening wear. In the decades following World War II, black tie became special occasion attire rather than standard evening wear. In the 1950s, colored and patterned jackets, cummerbunds and bow ties and narrow lapels became very popular; the 1960s and 1970s saw the color palette move from muted to bright day-glow and pastel, as well as ruffled-placket shirts as lapels got wider and piping was revived. Eee gads!
Happily, styles do change. Today, professional casual-social is appropriate for all attendees
to the lecture and post-lecture reception.
The Lecture
The Crichton Club lecture series feature some of the world’s most influential and innovative artists, architects, writers, scholars, designers, and curators. Our lectures take place in the Columbus Museum of Art's Cardinal Health Auditorium, or the Schottenstein Pavilion. Both is equipped with state-of-the-art audio and projection equipment. The speaker is introduced by the President of the Board and talks for approximately 45 minutes.
The presentations are followed by an always-lively question and answer forum.
Dessert Reception
Following the lecture, members and their guests adjourn to the elegant Derby Court, a dramatically sky-lit interior garden space enhanced by the sculpture of Dale Chihuly. Wine and desserts are served. Cinderella must leave the ball no later than 10:00 pm, as the museum becomes a pumpkin when the staff must lock up and go home.
What To to Wear
When Crichton Club was first chartered, just after World War I, the dinner jacket had become de facto evening wear. In the decades following World War II, black tie became special occasion attire rather than standard evening wear. In the 1950s, colored and patterned jackets, cummerbunds and bow ties and narrow lapels became very popular; the 1960s and 1970s saw the color palette move from muted to bright day-glow and pastel, as well as ruffled-placket shirts as lapels got wider and piping was revived. Eee gads!
Happily, styles do change. Today, professional casual-social is appropriate for all attendees
to the lecture and post-lecture reception.