 December 2008
Greetings!
The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design (CCCD) has launched ENEWS to keep you current with all our programs, exhibits and events. ENEWS will be sent out monthly with most news linking to more lengthy information found on our website www.craftcreativitydesign.org. Announcements cards will still be mailed for upcoming exhibits and talks. If you are on our mailing list to receive an announcement card for exhibits and would prefer to receive the information through ENEWS, please let us know and it will save us a stamp! Dian Magie, Executive Director 
We will be CLOSED for the HOLIDAYS Dec. 20, 2008 - Jan. 4, 2009. Take Note - we have NEW GALLERY HOURS.
WONDERING WHERE YOU CAN MAKE A SECURE INVESTMENT? IN SUNSHINE OR IN SHADOW
2009 International Artist in Residence - Tasmanian artist PATRICK HALL
"The primary area of focus for this residency is an examination of the transitory nature of human experience. To look at how our past is illuminated and our future sign posted by the dimming street lights of memory. How our present is a place on a map called "here" - a place en route between the nostalgia and regret gathered on the path to that point and the excitement and trepidation associated with the anticipation of the road ahead. How we are what we have seen, how we are shaped by places we have been, but equally how we are moulded by our hopes, plans and ambitions - our desire to peer over the crest of now and here and view the vast unknowable vistas of beyond." -Patrick Hall
WE NEED YOUR OLD SUNGLASSES & GLASSES! If you have some glasses you'd like to get rid of, we'd love to have them. In May 2009, Tasmanian artist Patrick Hall will be our International Artist in Residence. During this time, he will be working with students from Appalachian State University, University of North Carolina - Asheville, and Western Carolina University. One component of the sculpture produced during this residency will be made using sunglasses - lots of them. INSPIRED DESIGN CONFERENCE
TIME IS RUNNING OUT - REGISTER TODAY! January 7-10, 2009
Paulene Verbeek-Cowart, Felt Lace Diagonals 2008 yardage, extra fine merino wool, woven at The Oriole Mill on a Dornier industrial dobby loom, hand finished
Catharine Ellis, 3 samples from Big Stripe, Jacquard woven Shibori, cotton, reactive and vat dyed Ismini Samanidou, Forest, Fabric prototype woven on a computerised jacquard loom using viscose and metallic threads. There is still time and space to register for the January 7-10, 2009 international conference Inspired Design Jacquard and Entrepreneurial Textiles! In addition to the international speakers at the conference, there are registered participants from Canada, Holland, Finland, Scotland, Norway, and Austria as well as the many U.S. fiber artists, faculty and students. The conference is only $300 for professional registration, and $75 for students, with conference hotels as inexpensive as $65 a night. For information download a registration form from www.craftcreativitydesign.org/education/textiledesign. SPEAKERS Andrew Wagner, editor-in-chief American Craft magazine, and previously founding managing director of DWELL magazine, has graciously agreed to replace keynote speaker, Grace Boney, who had to cancel her participation in the January 7-10, 2009 Inspired Design: Jacquard and Entrepreneurial Textiles. We feel very excited to add Wagner to the stellar speaker line-up. Wagner is responsible for the re-launching of the newly designed American Craft, to include a companion website and links to important blogs, and understands the importance of placing U.S. craft in an international context.Other U.S. speakers include: Genevieve Dion, Director of the Fashion Design Program at Drexel University has been added to the conference schedule with Jill Heppenheimber of Santa Fe Weaving having to cancel. Dion's research leads to the production of unique boutique clothing requiring little to no conventional fabrication. Joan Morris, Dartmouth College faculty, teaches shibori internationally and designed textiles for a scene in Julie Taymor's "The Lion King" on broadway and for its international and road productions. She and inventor Michele Ratte have a U.S. patent for their unique printing process, which allows for an articulately printed, washable deposit of gold and other metals on textiles. Matilda McQuaid, Deputy Curatorial Director, and head of the Textiles department at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. In 2005 she authored Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance curating an exhibition of the same name. She was one of four curators for the 2007 "National Design Triennial: Design Life Now" and is now working on the next Triennial for 2010. Christy Matson, Assistant Professor, Fiber and Material Studies Department,The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, who creates interactive sound installations with electronic circuitry and hand-woven Jacquard "antennae." Pauline Verbeek-Cowart, Associate Professor, Kansas City Art Institute, designs fabric jacquard woven yardage, she then makes into limited-edition clothing marketed in trunk shows in NYC. Past chair of the Surface Design Association's national conference, she is author of Cloque in Handweaving. Anna Zaharakos, founder of Studio Z in Grand Rapids Michigan, designs for the jobber customs market, including panels, seating, and wallcoverings, carried by more than 30 North American furniture and textile suppliers, including Knoll, Steelcase, and DesignTex. Catharine Ellis retired recently after 23 years as Fiber Faculty Haywood Community College. She is author of Woven Shibori (2005), has taught workshops internationally and created bed linen for the Ramble, an upscale craft showcase model home. Bethanne Knudson, founded The Jacquard Center in 2000, and is director of The Oriole Mill which opened in 2007. With Pauline Verbeek-Cowart, she has designed a line of fabric for interior design. Michele Fricke, professor and program head of art history teaches the history of textiles. A practicing fiber artist, her work has been shown nationally. She is a regular contributor to Fiberarts, and Surface Design Journal magazines. Canadian Speakers: UK Speakers: Janis Jefferies' research into exploration of visual and sonic texture enabled by a mapping of textile images into sound and virtual patterns, performed live and "translated" into new forms of material research through the jacquard process. She is a professor at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Ismini Samanidou is a designer in residence at University College Falmouth. She designs woven fabrics for interior spaces, ranging from one off pieces to limited edition textiles, woven mainly on industrial computerized looms. The interior textile "ismini" has been licensed to George Spencer designs and is available in their London showroom. "Twigs on the Cuadra Chair" is a chair exhibited at the Milan Furniture Fair in April 2006 includes a textile design developed for collaboration with furniture designer John. Miller. Australian Speaker:: CURRENT EXHIBITION
Celebrating the Bringle Sisters: Clay & Textile Mentors
September 5 - December 5, 2008 This exhibition presents the works of textile artist Edwina Bringle and potter Cynthia Bringle. These sisters have dedicated much of their lives to teaching, influencing innumerable students. This exhibition celebrates their contributions by exhibiting select works from throughout their lives. CRAFT RESEARCH FUND HIGHLIGHT
Shannon Stratton
2007 Craft Research Fund Graduate Research Grant recipient "The Craft Research Fund helped fund the completion of my graduate research for an MA in Art History, Theory and Criticism. My thesis,"Re-Materializing the Subject: handicraft and the re-articulation of subjective identity and personal agency" became the basis of further projects, including a panel discussion at the 2008 CAA conference in Dallas (co-chaired with Judith Leemann) and an accompanying exhibition at Grey Matters, both titled, "Gestures of Resistance: craft, performance and the politics of slowness." This work has continued, with a second version of the exhibition slated for fall at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland. I used this grant to travel to New York City to see the Museum of Arts and Design exhibition "Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting and to travel to Los Angeles to do a studio visit with artist Lisa Anne Auerbach. Additionally, these funds where used for travel and planning as chair of the Gestures of Resistance panel at the 2008 College Art Association conference. The support of the Craft Research Fund was invaluable, allowing for time and resources otherwise unavailable to me, and without I wouldn't have been able to continue this projects development." -Shannon Stratton, MAAH, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
WINDGATE FELLOW FOCUS
Images left to right: Juice Box, 2008, silver; Rubbermaid Container, 2008, silver; Spork, 2008 silver
Jason Noble "Over the past 18 months, I have undergone an unexpected crash course in business management. In addition to buying tools and establishing a location to carry out my work as a metalsmith, I have also implemented strategies to make sure the fellowship money continues to self-perpetuate. In October of 2007, I designed a website in order to promote the work I have already completed as well as the work included in my proposed nine piece body of work. Incredibly, the website has already drawn attention from not only locals interested in commissioned work, but also from buyers and collectors from as far away as Moscow. Furthermore, I have secured profitable commission work from multiple customers, most notably the Wisconsin Alumni Association. In addition to the website, I have also promoted my work by entering pieces into national competitions, publications, and galleries. Winning the 2008 Niche Award in holloware, seeing my first published piece in Lark Book's 500 Metal Vessel, finding my face in On Wisconsin's Forward Under Forty Magazine, and winning the Wisconsin Alumni Association's design competition are just a few and hopefully just the beginning of my most notable achievements over the last 18 months. In the end, I have come to realize that in order to make a self-sufficient living as a metalsmith, one must diversify their work. The substantial amount of money I have come to make through independent commissions has and will help finance my personal projects as an artist. I will then continue to promote my personal work through continued exposure in competitions, galleries, and publications, thus gaining the fuel required to sustain my career as an artist." -Jason Noble, 2007 Windgate Fellowship recipient
OF RELATED INTEREST
Mend: love, life & loss. This exhibition explores the paradoxical nature of the idea of mending--be it a human who is sick, a heart that is broken, or a profound grief over a death. Artists: Adrienne Antonson, Pinky Bass, Jon Coffeit, Leslie Kneisel, Nava Lubelski, Preston Orr, Susan Harbage Page, Marilyn Pappas, Mireille Vautier, & Rachel Wright Kentucky Craft History and Education Association (KCHEA) is a new craft history organization that plans to take the lead in craft history by gathering, conserving, and presenting the history and on-going impact of crafts in Kentucky. For more information contact Susan Goldstein, info@kchea.org. OPPORTUNITY
Postgraduate Study in the History of Design
At the Victoria & Albert Museum and Royal College of Art Application deadline: January, 19, 2009 The History of Design course is a pioneering development in UK postgraduate education, bringing together two important South Kensington institutions. It offers a unique opportunity to study the world of design and material culture at an advanced level. It benefits from the context of the high level of design practice undertaken by students at the RCA and the huge resources of the V&A, which houses the National Art Library. At the MA level, three specifications are offered: All three specialisms involve the close study of objects in the V&A collection. PUBLICATIONS
A Theory of Craft: Function and Aesthetic Expression by Howard Risatti. Published by Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. What is craft? How is it different from fine art or design? Risatti examines these issues by comparing handmade ceramics, glass, metalwork, weaving, and furniture to painting, sculpture, photography, and machine-made design from Bauhaus to the Memphis Group. He describes craft's unique qualities as functionality combined with an ability to express human values that transcend temporal, spatial, and social boundaries. Craft must articulate a role for itself in contemporary society, says Risatti; otherwise it will be absorbed by fine art or design and its singular approach to understanding the world will be lost. Thinking Through Craft is co-published in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Written by Glenn Adamson, Deputy Head of Research and Head of Graduate Studies at the Victoria and Albert Museum, "this book is a timely and engaging introduction to the way that artists working in all media think about craft. Workmanship is key to today's visual arts, when high 'production values' are becoming increasingly commonplace. Yet craft's centrality to contemporary art has received little serious attention from critics and historians. Dispensing with clichéd arguments that craft is art, Adamson persuasively makes a case for defining craft in a more nuanced fashion. The interesting thing about craft, he argues, is that it is perceived to be 'inferior' to art. The book consists of an overview of various aspects of this second-class identity - supplementarity, sensuality, skill, the pastoral, and the amateur. It also provides historical case studies analyzing craft's role in a variety of disciplines, including architecture, design, contemporary art, and the crafts themselves." Source: www.amazon.com Ornament as art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection This richly illustrated 528-page catalogue, available at amazon.com, features an introduction and essay by Cindi Strauss, an essay by Helen Williams Drutt English, an interview of Drutt by Strauss, a chronology of major events in contemporary jewelry, a complete illustrated checklist of the Drutt collection and artist biographies. This catalogue accompanies a landmark exhibition that explores contemporary jewelry from a global perspective. The exhibition traces the development of artist-made jewelry and honors its craft roots while also placing the work within a larger framework of seminal movements in 20th century art. Ornament as Art showcases a broad array of national and international works made between 1963 and 2006. The exhibition includes 300 objects, including 275 pieces of jewelry and drawings, watercolors, sketchbooks and sculptural constructions by the artists. Cindi Strauss, curator of modern and contemporary decorative arts and design at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, organized the exhibition; Robyn Kennedy, chief of the Renwick Gallery, is coordinating curator for the exhibition in Washington. Makers: 20th Century American Studio Craft (working title) At the first "Think-Tank" convened by CCCD in 2002, of craft faculty, museum director and curators, scholars and critics, the initiative ranked as most important to the advancement of the field was a history of American Craft in the twentieth Century. The journey toward making this a reality can be tracked on www.craftcreativitydesign.org/research/history.php. 20th Century American Studio Craft by Janet Koplos and Bruce Metcalf is with the publisher, the University of North Carolina Press. Long awaited, the book, researched and written under the auspices of CCCD, will include 500+ images and also serve as an undergraduate text. It will be released in late 2008. The University of North Carolina Press is making craft history and criticism a focus of the Press. Cahiers métiers d'art* Craft Journal, is a nonprofit organization that encourages and publishes critical, historical and technical research on local and international craft. Membership includes a subscription to the Cahiers métiers d'art* Craft Journal published twice a year. Each issue presents essays from international researchers in both French and English; book and exhibition reviews; and profiles of craftspeople from around the world. (www.craftjournal.ca) Denis Longchamps, publisher and managing editor, is interested in critical, technical and historical research on craft from all regions of the world. The first issue of The Journal of Modern Craft, edited by Glenn Adamson, Victoria & Albert Museum, UK; Edward S. Cooke, Jr. Yale University, USA; Tanya Harrod, Royal College of Art, UK, is the first peer-reviewed academic journal to provide an interdisciplinary and international forum in its subject area. It address all forms of making that self-consciously set themselves apart from mass production - whether in the making of designed objects, artworks, buildings or other artefacts. Published three times a year in March, July and November. To place an order/subscription visit www.bergpublishers.com and download order forms or email custerserv@turpin-distribution.com. About Us
The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design is an inter-institutional Center of the University of North Carolina. The mission of the regional UNC Center is to support and advance craft, creativity and design in education and research, and, through community collaborations, to demonstrate ways that craft and design provide creative solutions to community issues. The mission of the nonprofit CCCD is to support the mission of the UNC center through funding, programs, and outreach to artists, craft organizations, schools in the community, region and nation. email: info@craftcreativitydesign.org |
