 May 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 EXHIBITIONS
Jill K. Baker Gower, Reflection #1, copper, vitreous enamel, silicone rubber, acrylic, and pewter, 2006, 5 1/2 x 4"; Works by Lori Theriault
Blue Ridge Residencies Exhibition
Through May 9, 2008 - 1-5pm, Tuesday through Saturday The Blue Ridge Residencies Exhibit introduces ten artists who are completing, or have recently completed, a residency at one of four residency programs located in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The work in sculpture, clay, glass, furniture and mixed media, by the resident artists, represent artistic experimentation and development during their residency, as well as excellence in craftsmanship, concept and execution. EnergyXchange (Burnsville, NC) Emily Reason, Pablo Soto Read the entire press release.
May 20 - August 22, 2008
The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design will host "Inspired Design: Jacquard & Entrepreneurial Textiles," an exhibition of both national and international leading artists of innovative textile design, including a variety of computer designed textile applications. This exhibit features designs and work that represent five 21st Century design growth areas of creative/innovative textiles and digital technologies. These artists/designer/artisans bring together both the artistic talent and a scientific frame of mind to create their work. Textile design is a specialized field that involves several sectors - fashion, interior decoration, the production of expressive works, sculptures, and hand-crafted items. It overlaps the fields of art, crafts and design, therefore bridging areas that often seek to separate themselves from one another. Read more information about the conference and exhibit. Artists representing each of the five textile design growth areas are listed below.
2008 WINDGATE FELLOWSHIPS ANNOUNCED
View images of the work and descriptions of the proposals Tom Alward, Ceramics, University of Northern Arizona Kate Casey, Printmaking, Mass College of Art and Design Aram Choi, Jewelry, University of Oregon Thomas Edwards, Ceramics, Tennessee Tech, Appalachian Center for Craft Jeremy Holmes, Sculpture/wood, SUNY New Paltz Craig Kelly, Metals, Institute of American Indian Arts Nathan Moren, Metal/wood, Minneapolis College of Art & Design Stephanie Sato, Textiles, University of Kansas, Lawrence William Rogers, Clay, UNC Asheville Jon Watanabe, Glass, Massachusetts College of Art and Design Alternate The Windgate Fellowship Award program was established to help encourage and advance the development of serious, innovative artists in the United States whose work is in some way related to, or informed by, the process, material, or idea of craft. The 64+ partner institutions across the country develop a careful selection process to identify two graduating seniors who best meet the following criteria:
2008 WINDGATE MUSEUM INTERNSHIPS ANNOUNCED
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, has selected Keelin Burrows, a graduate student at the Bard Graduate Center New York, for a two-month internship focusing on the production of a new anthology of writings to be entitled The Craft Reader. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has selected Susie Silbert, a 2003 BFA glass graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison to intern this summer working on the exhibition of contemporary glass from the collection of Dennis and Barbara Dubois. Silbert is returning to graduate school to focus on museum studies as a future curator. Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts, has selected Jeanne Gardner, a BA History Graduate of Swathmore College, and BFA Fine Arts/ceramics graduate from Massachusetts College of Art, to work with the exhibitions programs on planning and installation. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has invited Kaitlin Shinnick, to intern this summer researching the Daphne Farago Collection (jewelry) and other holdings of studio craft at the Museum. Kaitlin has completed her M.A. in the History of Decorative Arts at Bard Graducate Center with a concentration iin American Design and Culture and a thesis on Arts and Crafts jewelry by Josephine Hartwell Shaw. 2008 CRAFT RESEARCH FUND GRANTS
Guidelines and applications are now available online at www.craftcreativitydesign.org for the 2008 Craft Research Fund, awarding PROJECT GRANTS of up to $15,000 for research in United States craft by academics, independent scholars, and curators and GRADUATE RESEARCH GRANTS of up to $10,000 to graduate students currently enrolled in a graduate program in an accredited college or university for research related to a thesis or dissertation on United States craft. This is a national award program in its fourth year, administered by the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design. Deadline for the 2008 grants in both categories is July 1, 2008, with announcement of awards by mid-September 2008 for research beginning October 1, 2008 to be completed within 18 months. PUBLICATIONS
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 |
