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Today is International Museum Day and Art Museum Day. If you haven't been to your local museum lately, today is the day to go. Many museums are offering free or reduced admission and special events to celebrate the cultural value that museums bring to our everyday lives.
The Toledo Museum of Art has free admission, extended hours, and a special lecture called Museums and Memory, with the directors of the Toledo Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of Art.
The American Folk Art Museum in ...
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The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, the most comprehensive collection of Louis Comfort Tiffany materials in the world, opens a new 12,000-square-foot wing. The wing's opening celebrates Tiffany's 163rd birthday on February 18.
The addition makes available, for the first time, long-term public access to the restored Daffodil Terrace from Louis Comfort Tiffany's celebrated Long Island home, Laurelton Hall. The new galleries feature 250 art and architectural objects from or related to the destroyed estate. Highlights include prize-winning leaded-glass windows, iconic Tiffany Studios lamps, as well as art glass and custom furnishings.
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Surface Design in St. Paul
The Twin Cities is a go-to gathering place for fiber and fabric fans this summer, as the Textile Center of Minnesota in St. Paul hosts the 2011 biennial conference of the Surface Design Association (Jun. 9 - 12). The packed program offers exhibitions, workshops, lectures by speakers such as Pat Hickman, Bhakti Ziek, and Faythe Levine, and an ever-popular runway fashion show.
"This year's theme, ‘Confluence,' celebrates not only the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers in the area, but that of ideas, technologies, cultures - everything in today's mix that informs our artwork," says conference ...
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While working on the digitization project for the American Craft Council's library, I've navigated through the organization's ephemera from exhibitions past that make up the archives. It has been a blur at times. I've uncovered countless files of formal and staged photographs. So when I stumbled upon a series of fun-loving (to the point of mischievous) images from the exhibition Made With Paper I was stopped in my archiving tracks.
Made With Paper was on view at the American Craft Council's Museum of Contemporary Craft in November 1967. For some exhibitions, the MCC found ways to engage with the community outside ...
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We're doing a lot of research for a timeline chronicling 70 years of achievements in the craft field that we'll be debuting in the August/September 2011 issue. Being a wood guy, I gladly dove into the woody details. Beyond the beautiful furniture of Sam Maloof, Wharton Esherick, and George Nakashima, it seems these artists did everything deliberately and with passion. It's really no surprise that these men, used to making things themselves, would spend their "free" time crafting their surroundings. After all, the urge to make, create, and build doesn't stop. Looking at these artists' homes, you get a glimpse ...
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My earliest experiences in making things were not textiles at all. I was not brought up stitching with mum or Grandma, like so many textile makers. By contrast, I spent my pre-school years at home with my dad, mainly in the shed, making things out of wood. I had my own tiny workbench with saw, hammer, vice, and oil can (oh, how I loved my oil can!) and made things from balsa wood. The love of making things has never left me.
My dad later took me to costume museums, where I pressed my nose against the glass, absorbed every detail ...
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It's not often I find an exhibition catalog filled with as many striking images of the artists as of the artists' works. Actually, I don't believe I have ever come across a catalog quite like the one for Woven Forms. The imaginative layout consists only of centerfolds. Yes, I said centerfolds, but don't worry: It's not what you may think. When unfolded, the pages reveal exquisite black and white images of long, woven sculptures. Folded, these pages present detailed profiles of each artist featured in the exhibition, reminding us not to forget the maker behind what's made. By placing the ...
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