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Named for the American Craft Council's founder, the Aileen Osborn Webb awards honor those who have demonstrated outstanding artistic achievement, leadership and service in the craft field. ...
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Bravo! A lawyer, two curators and seven artists receive the American Craft Council’s 2009 Aileen Osborn Webb Awards. ...
ACC Shows
At every American Craft Council show, the ACC gives out Awards of Excellence to a group of exceptional exhibitors, who are selected by guest jurors. It's a thrilling event: Show-goers gather with jurors and ACC staff, then everyone marches off in a grand parade to surprise the winners in their booths.
This year in St. Paul, ceramic artist Mark Pharis was the juror. Pharis, a one-time student of Warren MacKenzie, is an esteemed professor at the University of Minnesota, where he has taught in the department of art since 1985. He has exhibited and taught across the country, and his work ...
ACC Shows
Four artists were honored today with Awards of Excellence at the ACC Atlanta show.
Junco Sato Pollack, an associate professor at the Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University, served as juror.
Patricia Palson won for her ebullient handwoven wearables. Pollack praised Palson's color palette and the timeless quality of her jacket designs.
Gina Pannorfi was honored for her rich felted pieces, many of which have an almost topographical texture. Pollack called the work "intuitive."
David Bryce won for his figural sculpture. Pollack liked the "sense of drama" and "unfinished, unresolved line" of Bryce's figures.
Glass artist Michael ...
People & Places
Plus: the Ceramics Research Center of the Arizona State University Art Museum, and remembering Paul Soldner ...
Scrapbook
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Council News
The American Craft Show BaltimoreAs a new year approaches, the Council is busy preparing for its 34th annual show in February at the Baltimore Convention Center, the largest juried, indoor craft show in the nation. Buyers can save time by pre-registering online until Feb. 18 at http://www.craftcouncil.org/wholesale for badges to access the wholesale event (Feb. 23-24). Now running for four days, the retail portion will take place Feb. 25-28.
There will be several opportunities for wholesale buyers to mix and mingle, including complimentary continental breakfast, educational seminars and roundtables with leading experts in the field. For the second ...
People & Places
ExcellenceThe Bush Artist Program announced its 2010 fellowships for upper Midwestern artists, awarding $50,000 to each of 15 winners, including three in the traditional and functional crafts category: Dan Jerome of Belcourt, ND, an educator and advocate of Native American arts; Debra Lyn Korluka of Stillwater, MN, a maker and scholar of Byzantine iconography; and Delina White of Deer River, MN, a textile and mixed-media artist in the traditional woodland style. To honor mature artists, Enduring Vision Awards of $100,000 apiece went to Lakota collagist Arthur Amiotte, Lao weaver Bounxou Daoheuang Chanthraphone and photographer Paul Shambroom (bushfoundation.org)... The nonprofit ...
ACC Shows
The Awards of Excellence Walking Tour is - hands down - my favorite part of every ACC Show. Everyone gathers at the Council booth, and off we go to surprise the winning artists. This year's San Francisco jurors were Mike Holmes, co-owner of Velvet da Vinci, and Ted Cohen, an exhibition designer who works with institutions such as the Museum of Craft and Design and the Museum of Craft and Folk Art. It was a supreme treat to listen to these veterans of the studio craft world as they bestowed four awards of excellence.
Here's what they had to say:
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Extra
While there were no claims of Obama sightings, sounds of jubilation rose once again in Chicago during a celebration last night at the Museum of Contemporary Art, when artists across a broad array of disciplines—architecture and design, crafts and traditional arts, dance, literature, media, music, theater arts and the visual arts—were honored with United States Artists (USA) Fellowships.
Launched in 2006, USA, the national artists’ advocacy organization, annually provides support to outstanding artists, some still struggling to achieve their dreams, through its highly competitive national nomination process. This year, 50 unrestricted grants of $50,000 each ...
Letter from the Editor
➢ Many wearables artists wear their merchandise and change regularly during show hours. Sometimes the switching of jackets or shawls was going on at such a pace that I couldn’t tell for a moment who was the customer and who the maker.➢ Randall Darwall, who weaves complex plaids with a luxurious feel and makes garments with partner Brian Murphy, was no exception. He made his own fashion show with vivid shirts. It was also fascinating to watch the two men pair scarves with jackets, not trying to match but to slightly shift the color conversation.➢ Speaking of conversation, ...
Member News
Please join us in welcoming our newest addition to the Minneapolis office, director of education Tana Hargest, who recently moved here from New York to spearhead the Council's educational and public programs. Hargest's goal is to "advance our understanding of craft and promote the forward edge of innovation and ideas in the field," she says.
Hargest spent the past 15 years steeped in contemporary art education, most recently as director of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. She holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and is a multidisciplinary artist who has exhibited at venues such as MASS ...
ACC Shows
Previously, we recounted the winners of the Awards of Excellence at the 2011 American Craft Council show in St. Paul. Juror Mark Pharis did the honors this year. Pharis is a former student of Warren MacKenzie, and he teaches ceramics at the University of Minnesota, where he's been an instructor since 1985. Susan Mahlstedt, Lynn Joris Reintsema and K. Meta Reintsema, and B.J. Christofferson were all honored for outstanding work, and Ikuzi Teraki and Jeanne Bisson of Romulus Craft were honored for exceptional booth design.
If you missed the show, but would like to hear Pharis' remarks about each winning ...
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