An article by Leila Mechlin describing the American Federation of Arts, founded at a Washington convention in 1909 to unify art organizations across the United States. It covers the Federation's Octagon headquarters, its chapters, its traveling exhibitions (including textiles and handicraft), its illustrated lectures (one on lace by Frances Morris), and its publications, The American Magazine of Art and the American Art Annual. It also mentions regional offices in New York and Lincoln, Nebraska.