Table of Contents
Apr/May 2008
Apr/May 2008
Books
Ken Ferguson: Talking with the Wheel
By Ken Ferguson, Garth Clark, John Perreault, Ted Rowland and Peter von Ziegesar Silver Gate, Inc. Arlington, Texas $45 “How does the son of a Rust Belt worker become a world-renowned ceramist?” asks the ceramics historian Garth Clark in the biographical essay that begins this monograph on Ken Ferguson (1928-2004), a giant of American ceramics. The answer, we learn ...
By Ken Ferguson, Garth Clark, John Perreault, Ted Rowland and Peter von Ziegesar Silver Gate, Inc. Arlington, Texas $45 “How does the son of a Rust Belt worker become a world-renowned ceramist?” asks the ceramics historian Garth Clark in the biographical essay that begins this monograph on Ken Ferguson (1928-2004), a giant of American ceramics. The answer, we learn ...
Silversmiths to the Nation
Silversmiths to the Nation Thomas Fletcher & Sidney Gardiner: 1808-1842 By Donald L. Fennimore and Ann K. Wagner Antique Collectors’ Club Easthampton, Massachusetts $95 Companion to a traveling exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 4, this lavishly illustrated book is the first in-depth study of the silversmithing firm of Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner which, in the early ...
Silversmiths to the Nation Thomas Fletcher & Sidney Gardiner: 1808-1842 By Donald L. Fennimore and Ann K. Wagner Antique Collectors’ Club Easthampton, Massachusetts $95 Companion to a traveling exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 4, this lavishly illustrated book is the first in-depth study of the silversmithing firm of Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner which, in the early ...
Critic’s Corner
Technophilic Craft
Ezra Shales argues that ceramists (and art schools) should reconsider the legacy of the factory and lose the stereotype of industry as alienation.
Ezra Shales argues that ceramists (and art schools) should reconsider the legacy of the factory and lose the stereotype of industry as alienation.
Editor’s Letter
The Craft/Industry Conundrum
Andrew Wagner ponders craft, industry and the ties that bind.
Andrew Wagner ponders craft, industry and the ties that bind.
Feature
Jack Lenor Larsen/Pierre Paulin: Redux
Forty years later, two living legends of design reprise a bold pairing of fabric and furniture from 1967. In conversation with Laurie Manfra, Larsen and Paulin reflect on their collaboration then and now. Photography by Dana Lixenberg
Forty years later, two living legends of design reprise a bold pairing of fabric and furniture from 1967. In conversation with Laurie Manfra, Larsen and Paulin reflect on their collaboration then and now. Photography by Dana Lixenberg
The Hand Meets High Tech
Are we in for a new Arts and Crafts movement, this one powered by the digital revolution? An exhibition at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art explores the question while Marc Kristal talks to the cast of characters.
Are we in for a new Arts and Crafts movement, this one powered by the digital revolution? An exhibition at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art explores the question while Marc Kristal talks to the cast of characters.
The Industrial Complex
Garth Clark charts the thought process of the ceramic triple-threat Marek Cecula: designer for industry, groundbreaking sculptor and curator of the upcoming exhibition “Object Factory,” at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto. Photography by Sebastian Zimmer.
Garth Clark charts the thought process of the ceramic triple-threat Marek Cecula: designer for industry, groundbreaking sculptor and curator of the upcoming exhibition “Object Factory,” at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto. Photography by Sebastian Zimmer.
Hunting & Gathering
The Grotta House: A Stage Built for Craft
A classic craft collection has found a surprising resting spot in the form of a Richard Meier house in the wilds of New Jersey. Beverly Sanders pays a visit and finds the works as comfortable in their surroundings as their owners.
A classic craft collection has found a surprising resting spot in the form of a Richard Meier house in the wilds of New Jersey. Beverly Sanders pays a visit and finds the works as comfortable in their surroundings as their owners.
On Our Radar
Elizabeth Lundberg Morisette
The Washington D.C.-based artist Elizabeth Lundberg Morisette never planned to become a weaver. In 1991 she was studying to be a graphic designer at North Carolina State University College of Design and found herself walking past the weaving room regularly. Finally, after wondering what it was all about, she got up the courage to ask Professor Barbara Schulman to teach ...
The Washington D.C.-based artist Elizabeth Lundberg Morisette never planned to become a weaver. In 1991 she was studying to be a graphic designer at North Carolina State University College of Design and found herself walking past the weaving room regularly. Finally, after wondering what it was all about, she got up the courage to ask Professor Barbara Schulman to teach ...
Outskirts
Outskirts
Do pianos have personalities? The film Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037 follows the step-by-step creation of a grand piano by craftsmen at a factory in Queens, New York. Robert Silberman tunes in on the film’s fine points.
Do pianos have personalities? The film Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037 follows the step-by-step creation of a grand piano by craftsmen at a factory in Queens, New York. Robert Silberman tunes in on the film’s fine points.
People & Places
Openings, Farewells, Honors
How does craft inform the design process? GlassLAB, a new collaboration between the Corning Museum of Glass and the Vitra Design Museum offers a live, up-close look at the eternal interplay, bringing Corning glassmakers and technicians together with leading designers for public demonstrations, in which concepts are rendered into hot-glass prototypes. The project made ...
How does craft inform the design process? GlassLAB, a new collaboration between the Corning Museum of Glass and the Vitra Design Museum offers a live, up-close look at the eternal interplay, bringing Corning glassmakers and technicians together with leading designers for public demonstrations, in which concepts are rendered into hot-glass prototypes. The project made ...
Preview
Scuplture in Hand-carved Paper
Craft and Folk Art Museum The Contemporary Katagami Works of Jennifer Falck Linssen: Earth, Wind, Wave and Fire Los Angeles, California February 9–April 27, 2008
Craft and Folk Art Museum The Contemporary Katagami Works of Jennifer Falck Linssen: Earth, Wind, Wave and Fire Los Angeles, California February 9–April 27, 2008
Vault Project
Quirk Gallery Richmond, Virginia Lissa Hunter April 4-26, 2008 Aleta Braun May 1-31, 2008
Quirk Gallery Richmond, Virginia Lissa Hunter April 4-26, 2008 Aleta Braun May 1-31, 2008
Product Placement
TeDe Hand Design
If the world were in search of a true craft capital, Japan might well fill the bill. Whether the medium is basketry or ceramics or textiles, the Pacific Rim country has a history steeped in work guided by the hand. And though tradition-rich, Japan has also embraced technological advances as few other nations have, and the blending of the two ...
If the world were in search of a true craft capital, Japan might well fill the bill. Whether the medium is basketry or ceramics or textiles, the Pacific Rim country has a history steeped in work guided by the hand. And though tradition-rich, Japan has also embraced technological advances as few other nations have, and the blending of the two ...
Review
Eden Revisited: The Ceramic Art of Kurt Weiser
Patricia Failing considers Kurt Weiser’s “edenic” painted porcelain vessels at Portland’s Museum of Contemporary Craft.
Patricia Failing considers Kurt Weiser’s “edenic” painted porcelain vessels at Portland’s Museum of Contemporary Craft.
Reviewed
Ron Glowen ponders Rik Allen’s eerie glass space ships at Seattle’s Science Fiction Museum and Scott Norris surveys the master enamelist Jamie Bennett’s retrospective at the Fuller Craft Museum.
Ron Glowen ponders Rik Allen’s eerie glass space ships at Seattle’s Science Fiction Museum and Scott Norris surveys the master enamelist Jamie Bennett’s retrospective at the Fuller Craft Museum.
Shop Talk
Starting Fresh
Andora Gallery 77 West Huron Street Chicago, Illinois 60610 312-274-3747
Andora Gallery 77 West Huron Street Chicago, Illinois 60610 312-274-3747
Voices
Los Angeles: Ahead of the Curve on Craft
Joyce Lovelace reports on the craft scene in Los Angeles—a rich blend of old and new and as sprawling and diverse as the city itself, from museums and galleries celebrating the city’s postwar modernist heritage to shops and young, up-and-coming artists riding a new wave of interest in the handmade.
Joyce Lovelace reports on the craft scene in Los Angeles—a rich blend of old and new and as sprawling and diverse as the city itself, from museums and galleries celebrating the city’s postwar modernist heritage to shops and young, up-and-coming artists riding a new wave of interest in the handmade.
Wide World of Craft
Los Angeles: Ahead of the Curve on Craft
Joyce Lovelace reports on the craft scene in Los Angeles—a rich blend of old and new and as sprawling and diverse as the city itself, from museums and galleries celebrating the city’s postwar modernist heritage to shops and young, up-and-coming artists riding a new wave of interest in the handmade.
Joyce Lovelace reports on the craft scene in Los Angeles—a rich blend of old and new and as sprawling and diverse as the city itself, from museums and galleries celebrating the city’s postwar modernist heritage to shops and young, up-and-coming artists riding a new wave of interest in the handmade.
Apr/May 2008
Vol. 68, No. 2
Vol. 68, No. 2
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