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<br />Society for Contemporary Crafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02924792139103206767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457693615196206826.post-31924744635149097612013-02-26T16:07:00.001-05:002013-02-26T16:07:57.206-05:00Contemporary Craft: An Odessey<span style="background-color: white;"></span><br />
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We recently had three consecutive weekends with ceramics workshops- taught by visiting artists <a href="http://kevinsnipes.com/" target="_blank">Kevin Snipes</a> and <a href="http://vpa.syr.edu/directory/sharif-bey" target="_blank">Sharif Bey</a> (who grew up in Pittsburgh), and <a href="http://yokosekinobove.com/" target="_blank">Yoko Sekino-Bove</a>, (Japanese born and now resides in Washington, PA). Some students from the <a href="http://mcgyouthandarts.org/" target="_blank">Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild</a> were given scholarships to attend these various workshops, and so we met Nikki. Nikki’s an inquisitive and imaginative young lady that MCG sent our way, who initially questioned the validity of ‘contemporary’ craft. Our artists helped her to understand what contemporary is and can be. Here you will read Nikki’s journey through the mystical land of contemporary. (I’m starting to think our studios lead to Narnia or Oz.)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Great were the white stone walls that encased our city on all sides,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">And great were the efforts to recreate such perfection.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Beyond our realm was not known nor explored, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">For the inhabitants of our determined city,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Had brought about a need for flawlessness in great confection.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Hours and hours upon end, we each sat at our wheels,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Robotic hands born of the wondrous place,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">And tried, tried desperately, to bare the magic</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">That had come of these walls that reached into the sky,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">As white and gallant as bridal lace.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">And then one day, to my surprise,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">People began to lift hands, to touch the sky.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Few, rare was the man that scaled the walls,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">And looked onto the other side.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">What could there be after perfection?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">I had counted three people, who’d mastered the white walls,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Before deciding to see the heights for myself.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Several attempts before I could climb to the top,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">And finally, I sat on the freezing ledge.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">I first peered down upon the frantic and striving.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">I then turned my back, and gaped in awe, at all the color.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">I looked back one more time, before deciding,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">I’d had enough perfection to last a lifetime.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Down I fell to the new grounds,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Unsettled, unstable, innovative, incredible.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">The land was a desert. The word ‘Contemporary’</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Had been scrawled in numerous hands among the sand.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">What had it meant? Entirely lost, I’d seemed to be,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">In a nonsense world, where everything was what it wasn’t.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">‘Contemporary’ was beyond my realm. Certainly not perfect.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Sand became canvas as time wore on, someone taking the opportunity</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">In stride, gangly figures hanging in picturesque color,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Almost coming to life, reaching out for it.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Faces had not been proportional, and objects held no meaning.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">There was no message for me here, no perfection.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Inside a cave I met the man behind the figures.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Kevin Snipes, he’d introduced himself as.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">“What do your pictures mean?” I dared to ask.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">“Well, this one,” he said, pointing to a painting of a man</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">With limp arms and a woman looking the other way,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">“Represents the tension between a man and a woman,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">The awkwardness and misunderstanding between the sexes,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">And how that affects themselves, each other, their world.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">And suddenly, ‘Contemporary’ had meaning, had reason.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Was not useless, but instead beautiful, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">For his art had no function, but served purpose greater than that</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Of a bowl or a plate. ‘Contemporary,’ now shared</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Ideals and philosophies, observation in artistry. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">I thanked Kevin for his insight,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">And went about on my way.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Music seemed to twinkle in the wind,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">And grew louder as it howled</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">And sand turned to snow.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">But the musical inspiration drowned</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">In the wake of a hammer and a nail,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Residing in a nearby cabin, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">No perfect walls.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">I knocked on the door. Scratched in it was ‘Contemporary.’</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Why was ‘Contemporary’ entirely present in the realm outside perfect?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">I pondered the query as the door swung open.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">A great bearded man answered, clay faced and hammer in hand.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Sharif Bey, he introduced himself as.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">1,000 pinch pots lay strewn on the floor,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">And nails protruded from ceramic heads.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">“Why,” I dared to ask.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">“Makes them more interesting,” he said in response. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">“Why would I want to do the same thing as the guy next to me?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">I want to be unique.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Innovative. Conceptive. Interesting. Unique.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">This was contemporary.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">I thanked Sharif and went on my way,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Though not entirely sure of my way anymore.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">The snow melted as my feet trudged on,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">The crunch of ice replaced with that of leaves.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;"> On the forest floor,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">I met a woman, black hair, skin fair, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Attempting to place intricate leaves on a cup,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">That was lovely, yet imperfect.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;"> Yoko Sekino-Bove, she called herself.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">“What are you doing,” I dared to ask.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">“Well you see, curious child, that this cup is not perfect.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">It is close, close enough, but the artistic design is what</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Makes a ceramic piece interesting. Therefore I take</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">My love of color, and use it to make near perfection,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Perfect art.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">I saw now. I understood ‘Contemporary,’ everything it was, and it wasn’t.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">I thanked Yoko for her insight, and went back from whence I came,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Entirely sure of my way.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">My feet trudged once more in the direction of the snow,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Then sand, then magnificent white wall.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Looking at this strong, stable wall,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">It seemed plain and meaningless,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">A functional piece with no beautiful use</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Seemed more worthless than the entirely</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Glorious world of color that lay outside the realm</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Of perfect. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Upon re-entering the boundaries of the wall,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">I saw a sign. It read, “Society for Contemporary Craft.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">I had the benefactors of this place to thank</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">For teaching me that perfect was not everything,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">That the great Contemporary artists who resided here</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Had already mastered perfection, climbed the great</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">White walls of it, and dared to look beyond,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">To use their understanding of flawless</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">In an incredibly bright and innovative way,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Shattering the white wall of perfection,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">And bringing about a revolution in beauty itself.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">I re-entered the city, and shared what I’d learned.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">I was at first rejected, just as all the enlightened had been before me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1997, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Society for Contemporary Craft, a $5,000 prize for excellence in the field of contemporary craft was established. The biennial award is given in conjunction with a catalogue, juried exhibition at SCC, and video profile. This opportunity is funded by the daughters of Elizabeth R. Raphael, the founder of SCC and a nationally known figure in the contemporary art scene for many decades.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each year a different craft material is chosen to define the exhibition. This year (2013) explores clay. The overall theme for each iteration is “Transformation.” </span><br />
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Society for Contemporary Crafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02924792139103206767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457693615196206826.post-77472483348570239112013-01-31T14:24:00.001-05:002013-01-31T14:32:06.102-05:00Out of Hand!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Not your everyday fundraiser</b></span>, Out of Hand is a hands-on evening full of fun and, hands down, one of the liveliest galas in town. Your reservation includes creative opportunities to fashion your own handwork with guidance from SCC’s Studio artists, plus entry to a top-quality Silent Auction filled with objects handcrafted by nationally known artists, as well art-related packages handpicked for this event. If you’d rather be hands-off, watch amazing demonstrations of artistic prowess and chat with artists firsthand. Then dine on handfuls of delicious specialty fare provided courtesy of our Strip District neighbors as you are entertained by a host of musicians and other “hand celebrities” who make a living with their hands.</span><br />
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Society for Contemporary Crafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02924792139103206767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457693615196206826.post-44126450750370962712013-01-09T11:30:00.000-05:002013-01-09T11:30:00.128-05:00Kevin Snipes - Grownup Art, Childlike Vision<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.66666603088379px;">Artist Kevin Snipes will visit SCC to teach <a href="http://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ws.asp?studioid=23447&stype=-8&sView=day&sTrn=100000091" target="_blank">Ceramics: Draw on Everything, </a></span><span style="line-height: 17.66666603088379px;"><a href="http://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ws.asp?studioid=23447&stype=-8&sView=day&sTrn=100000091" target="_blank">Porcelain Tiles </a>on</span><span style="line-height: 17.66666603088379px;"> Monday, </span><span style="line-height: 17.66666603088379px;">January 21 from </span><span style="line-height: 17.66666603088379px;">10 am—4 pm.</span><span style="line-height: 17.66666603088379px;"> Students in this workshop will </span><span style="line-height: 17.66666603088379px;">create two to three porcelain tiles, as they </span><span style="line-height: 17.66666603088379px;">experiment with the ideas and techniques the </span><span style="line-height: 17.66666603088379px;">artist introduces.</span></span><br />
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McKnight Ceramic Artist Fellowship Program exhibition at <a href="http://www.northernclaycenter.org/"><span style="color: blue;">Northern Clay Center</span></a>, Minneapolis, MN. We
are grateful to Northern Clay and <a href="http://www.mcknight.org/"><span style="color: blue;">The McKnight Foundation</span></a> for granting
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Every child is an artist,” Picasso
remarked, “The problem is how to remain one when we grow up.” From Picasso’s
time to the present-day, modern artists have often tried to match the
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The ceramics of Kevin
Snipes feature drawings in a childlike style that is anything but childish.
Snipes uses his adult approach to drawing like a child to achieve some of the
simplicity and immediacy of children’s art, while also opening up other
expressive possibilities. Like two figures he admires, Lynda Barry and
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Snipes considers
himself primarily a storyteller, more than a potter or ceramist. Yet his
stories are not so much complete, self-contained narratives as vignettes—dramatic
moments expressed partly through words and partly through images, but always
with a mystery left unexplained, lingering “beneath the surface” as Snipes
likes to say. Since the images can occupy separate panels on flat-sided works
or flow around curved ones, Snipes is able to build complex relationships
between different elements in the overall design. He also likes to add
enigmatic, non-functional sculptural forms—small extensions somewhere between
colorful blossoms and disturbing growths. Drawn to a range of imagery, at times
from science and math books, he often introduces sharp juxtapositions: one side
of a vase may have a figure, another an abstract doodle, another a geometrical
diagram. The colors can be bright accents within the drawn outlines, or move
toward abstraction as they escape any neat integration with the figural
imagery. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Snipes has a
particular fascination with duality. He is not interested in some grand
metaphysical-cosmological yin/yang sort of thing. His double vision more often
involves the exploration of that old boy-girl, masculine-feminine, “Who can
explain love?” business. A pair of cups, or matched drawings on opposite sides
of a vase, enable Snipes to depict his concerns by fashioning two portraits, complementary
yet at odds. The modeled forms frequently support the drawn imagery. A male arm
will extend along the rim on one side, with a female arm on the other. The top
of a head may be cropped by the top edge of a mug, or extend upward so that the
hairdo doubles as a kiln chimney. Snipes deploys the figures on the surface of
the objects with an acute awareness, often making them appear cramped and
contorted. Beyond that physical tension, the images of men and women, sometimes
nude, sometimes gangly and awkward, bristle with psychological tension. A
female asks, “So?” A male replies, “Never mind.” Another female says, “Ain’t no
sunshine.” A couple on a bicycle built for two say, “Scram” and “Get lost!”
This world does not suggest a sweet sitcom. It is offbeat, edgy and even
naughty. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Snipes is frequently
asked how he feels about being an African American artist who does not directly
address African American subjects in the usual identity politics fashion. His
reply has been steadfast: his treatment of duality and his interest in
psychological mystery and tension, when translated into the formal elements in
his work such as secret passages, indicate his larger concern with self-object
relationships and otherness, communication and miscommunication. The spaces in
his work serve as metaphorical allusions to the spaces between people, but also
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Wiggle, 2012<br />Porcelain, glaze, underglaze, oxide wash</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Snipes is still fascinated by the
spaces in conventional pottery, where the interiors can indicate not just
physical interiority, but psychological inwardness. Now, however, he is moving
in the direction of an architectural conception of space. Although Snipes has
favored a relatively small scale, he has also started to increase the size of
his work. “I think I need to work bigger, not big,” he says, adding, “The scale
I’ve been working in is really miniature.” Snipes has always regarded scale as
a conceptual element in his functional pottery because it establishes an
intimate relationship between his art and its audience. He is not abandoning
that idea now, but he does hope to introduce a slightly more assertive, public
presence for the images and objects. And now he has begun to introduce elements
that address race directly: first, black masks held by the figures, then black
faces and—a surreal, powerful touch—popsicles with cartoonish blackface
features. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Yes, No, Maybe, 2012<br />Porcelain, glaze, underglaze, oxide wash</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Change is afoot, yet
one characteristic of the work has not changed. The simplicity of the imagery,
like the seeming children’s style, cannot conceal the grownup seriousness and
complexity of Snipes’ art.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">—Robert Silberman</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Robert Silberman, Associate Professor
of Art History at the University of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Minnesota in Minneapolis, writes
frequently about craft and contemporary art.He has published articles about Jun
Kaneko, Karen Karnes, Warren MacKenzie,Nora Naranjo-Morse, Ken Price and many
other artists.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Showcasing three solo exhibitions, <a href="http://www.contemporarycraft.org/The_Store/Bridge_12.html" target="_blank">Bridge 12</a> features the saw-pierced recycled objects of Australian metal smith, Melissa Cameron; Jacquard tapestries by New York textile artist, Betty Vera; and ceramic vessels patterned with quirky, figurative drawings by Kevin Snipes. These concurrent exhibitions reflect the high level of craftsmanship being produced by contemporary artists in the U.S. and abroad today. The exhibition is open and free to the public November 9, 2012 through March 30, 2013.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Participating artist Melissa Cameron will visit SCC to teach <a href="http://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ws.asp?studioid=23447&stype=-8&sView=day&sTrn=100000077" target="_blank">Building Jewelry from Found Objects</a> on </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saturday & Sunday, March 2, 3 from 9 am—4:30 pm. In this two-day workshop, offered in partnership with </span><a href="http://www.constructionjunction.org/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Construction Junction</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://pccr.org/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, she will guide students in the adaptive reuse of repurposed objects for the creation of wearable jewelry. Students will learn the skills of drilling and saw piercing to re-create the shapes and designs of their chosen found objects in their own uniquely fabricated, wearable artwork. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The following essay was written by Marilyn Zapf on the work of Melissa Cameron for the Bridge 12 exhibition at SCC. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">‘ I like elements which are hybrid rather than ‘‘pure,’’ compromising rather than ‘‘clean,’’ distorted rather than “straightforward,” ambiguous rather than “articulated,’’...’ —Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, 1966</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 150%;"> Hybrid,
compromising, distorted, ambiguous: the patterns and elements Melissa
Cameron creates for her Recycled Series flirt comfortably with a weighty
lineage of ornamental history. Often drawing from archetypal decorative
imagery, the artist nimbly transforms her designs from two to three
dimensions.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 150%;">The finished pairs of
objects are at once sculptural, aesthetic, functional, and structural, and
result in a graphically striking and critically poignant contribution to a
long-standing debate on the nature of ornament.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aGk6T2UFrMQ/UOXeeF67ZoI/AAAAAAAAA70/AjWQDtlt9mY/s1600/Melissa+Cameron_Tobacco+tin+set_2009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aGk6T2UFrMQ/UOXeeF67ZoI/AAAAAAAAA70/AjWQDtlt9mY/s400/Melissa+Cameron_Tobacco+tin+set_2009.JPG" width="372" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tobacco Tin Set (Pin and Void Box, 2009<br />
Painted recycled metal, mild steel, silver</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 150%;"> Writer
and architect Robert Venturi theorized a particular type of relationship
between decoration and a building’s façade. The play between various
elements of an edifice, he suggested, should point to or imply unity. This
preoccupation with a ‘whole’ formed through a network of parts is present </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 150%;">throughout Cameron’s
work on display at the Society for Contemporary Craft. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 150%;"> Architectural
theory is useful when considering</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 150%;">Recycled Series</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 150%;">not only because of its overlap with
ornamental theory, but also because the artist originally trained in the
field. Her objects similarly reflect such programmatic techniques of
making and interest in structuring space. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ksAfbUNbKQ8/UOXeTwB7gvI/AAAAAAAAA7k/XaENVy4SGZw/s1600/Melissa+Cameron_Bamboo+plate+set_2009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ksAfbUNbKQ8/UOXeTwB7gvI/AAAAAAAAA7k/XaENVy4SGZw/s400/Melissa+Cameron_Bamboo+plate+set_2009.jpg" width="315" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bamboo Plate Set (Pendant and Altered Platter), 2009<br />
Recycled bamboo, stainless steel cable, silver</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 150%;"> Using
found objects Cameron engineers self-supporting systems of pattern by
piercing delicate, blueprint-like designs out of tin boxes, compact cases,
and bamboo plates. The intricate fragments are then reconstructed into new
forms that can be worn on a lapel or around the neck. Finally the
objects are displayed side by side as diptychs or triptychs. The
connection between the new structure, the</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 150%;">Cigarette Case Neckpiece</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 150%;">for example, and the</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 150%;">Cigarette Case Void Pendant</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 150%;"> are still perceptible, even though both have undergone significant transformation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7RfywuNeIlo/UOXfTn_-JEI/AAAAAAAAA78/lYn2Tcf6yp4/s1600/Melissa+Cameron_Cigarette+case+set+(two+pendants)_2009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7RfywuNeIlo/UOXfTn_-JEI/AAAAAAAAA78/lYn2Tcf6yp4/s400/Melissa+Cameron_Cigarette+case+set+(two+pendants)_2009.JPG" width="357" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cigarette Case (Neckpiece and Void Pendant), 2009<br />
Recycled silver, stainless steel cable, silk thread</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 150%;"> The
patterns crafted by Cameron are equally as important as the forms they
create. Often the ornament is developed through derivative mutations of a
single element—in many cases a rotated, elongated, translated, mirrored,
or bifurcated quatrefoil. With its four symmetrically intersecting
circles, the quatrefoil was a common architectural motif throughout the Renaissance
and has provided a fruitful source of inspiration for the artist. The shape
can be found in both Islamic and Christian designs, such as the Florence
Baptistery Doors, and demonstrates how patterns change in meaning over
time, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 150%;">reflecting shifts in
cultural values and power. By employing such charged imagery, Cameron
knowingly situates her work within such a historical narrative.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ekrY4BtkEEk/UOXeY6DOWjI/AAAAAAAAA7s/2m0XYHk8qlQ/s1600/Melissa+Cameron_Red+Tin+Set+-+pin+and+brooch_2009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="348" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ekrY4BtkEEk/UOXeY6DOWjI/AAAAAAAAA7s/2m0XYHk8qlQ/s400/Melissa+Cameron_Red+Tin+Set+-+pin+and+brooch_2009.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red Tin Set (Pin and Void Brooch), 2009<br />
Painted recycled metal, mild steel, stainless steel, silver</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 150%;"> Venturi
would appreciate the ornamental lineage referenced in Cameron’s work
through the use of quatrefoils, scrolling acanthus leaves, and Greek
crosses. He was a proponent of pillaging the dress-up box of history to
create new decorative compositions for his buildings; combining different
parts of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 150%;">artistic genres to
create a new ‘whole’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 150%;"> The
relationship, however, between part and whole, fragment and original, are
not always straightforward in Cameron’s work. Frequently both the found
object and the structure created from piercing into it have been
manipulated into what are arguably new entities. Take the Red Tin Set for
example—the first pair created in this series. Not only is the spacious, red, radial
structure wearable, but the remaining container becomes a brooch as well.
So although viewers are confronted with two </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 150%;">fragments of the
original tin, they are simultaneously beholding two completely new
objects. </span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KXujlDXBb_M/UOXf7PkHgzI/AAAAAAAAA8E/6yuGOambRwc/s1600/010+Melissa+Cameron_Cold+Handle_+2012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KXujlDXBb_M/UOXf7PkHgzI/AAAAAAAAA8E/6yuGOambRwc/s400/010+Melissa+Cameron_Cold+Handle_+2012.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cold Handle (Brooch, Altered Container), 2012<br />
Recycled mild steel, stainless steel, vitreous enamel, silver</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 150%;"> ‘Difficult
whole’ was the term Vernturi used to theorize the interplay between parts
of a façade and the perceived unity of a building. Cameron’s work could
also be described as such. Her jewelry is difficultly and technically
constructed, involving significant amounts of skill to achieve. Her
structural patterns are difficult to fit within previously held
conceptions of ornament as purely decorative. But ultimately the finished pieces
exemplify ‘difficult wholes’ because they successfully stage an exchange
between objects and decorative imagery recycled from the collection of
history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 150%;">Marilyn Zapf is a
freelance writer and historian of craft and design. Former Editor-In-Chief of
the blog, Unmaking Things, and recent member of the collective, Fig. 9, her
work has also appeared in publications, such as Crafts magazine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Polymer enthusiasts living in Pittsburgh
are lucky to have a guild right here. The <a href="http://www.polymerclayintheburgh.org/">Pittsburgh Polymer Clay Guild</a> is a group of polymer clay enthusiasts who share
a love for this medium. The members meet once a month to share ideas and
techniques. They welcome everyone from tentative beginners to professionals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This post features what some Polymer
artists living in Pittsburgh are doing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you’d like to try your hand at Polymer
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For more information or to register, call
Sherrard Bostwick at 412.261.7003 x25,
email thestudio@contemporarycraft.org or use our new online
registration by clicking here.</span><span style="font-family: Century Gothic;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the <a href="http://societyforcontemporarycraft.blogspot.com/2012/12/poly-poly-polymer.html" target="_blank">previous post</a> we had a
look at the jewelry Polymer artists are creating. This post will concentrate on
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vessels; in sculptures, mixed media, paintings, mosaics and installations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Try it: Polymer Clay T013012 Wednesday,
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Polymer Necklace MM020913b on Saturday
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kathleen Dustin</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lindly Haunani</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anne Klocko</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jill Penney</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Edgar Hernandez</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julie Eaks</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In January and February SCC is offering a couple
of Polymer clay classes. This is a first on a series of posts to show the
variety of work created with the material.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Polymer clay is an incredibly versatile
material. It is a synthetic modeling
compound that comes in a variety of colors and ranges from translucent to
opaque to metallic and liquid. It hardens at a low temperature (between 250<b>°</b>F and 300°F) allowing it to be cured in a regular oven. During this
process the material doesn’t shift colors or size. Once cured it is strong,
durable, flexible and lightweight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Using accessible tools It can be
rolled, sheeted, molded, sculpted, textured, stamped, extruded, it accepts
inclusions, holds inks and paints, is conducive to image transfers and
silkscreen; once cured it can be carved, sanded and polished. It also lends
itself to imitative techniques: glass (millefiori), jade, coral, turquoise,
ivory, wood, opal, and really anything people can imagine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Polymer began being used by artists in
the 1970s. Now a day it is used in jewelry, sculpture, wall art, furniture,
installations, mosaic art, books, just to name a few of its uses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But there is nothing like images to show
the possibilities…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elsie Winters</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maggie Maggio</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Loretta Lam</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ronna Sarvas Witman</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tory Hughes</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wendy Malinow</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ford/Forlano</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cdbeads.biz/index.html" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="312" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qyZAnzXJoDY/UM9rG6ZmfPI/AAAAAAAAA0k/9KoOYPD-O2U/s320/+1-11CynthiaToopscroppedversionyoungpotato.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cynthia Toops</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://julieeakes.blogspot.com/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IpxBDoRqEl0/UM9rIDPAx5I/AAAAAAAAA0s/n-F5PrCD3uA/s320/+1-12JulieEakes.jpg" width="267" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julie Eaks</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.sarahshriver.com/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="226" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XwjEjQVc8Kc/UM9rJBcd09I/AAAAAAAAA00/eQvtEhYBYrc/s320/+1-13SarahAhriverFridaBraclets.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sarah Shriver</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://carolsimmonsdesigns.com/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="256" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xDLc4Z3fsRw/UM9rKGFLWCI/AAAAAAAAA08/sJgnrv5kQvc/s320/+1-14CarolSimmons.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carol Simmons</td></tr>
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For more information or to register, call Sherrard Bostwick at 412.261.7003 x25, email <a href="mailto:thestudio@contemporarycraft.org">thestudio@contemporarycraft.org</a> or use our new online registration by <a href="https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ASP/home.asp?studioid=23447" target="_blank">clicking here</a>.</div>
Society for Contemporary Crafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02924792139103206767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457693615196206826.post-35725290329330991492012-12-02T09:48:00.003-05:002012-12-02T11:43:05.742-05:00Handmade Arcade is this Weekend!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can not tell you how excited I am for <a href="http://www.handmadearcade.com/" target="_blank">Handmade Arcade</a> (HA) this weekend! I have been diligently saving all of my shekels to get presents for the art appreciators on my list. And, this may be a bit overboard, but I went to the HA website and researched all the vendors so I know exactly who I want to hit first! As far as I know, <a href="http://www.handmadearcade.com/early-birdie/" target="_blank">Early Bird</a> passes are still available for $15. This is a great option if you don't like the crowds or you just like first dibs. There is also a huge list of hands-on activities this year that you can read up on at <a href="http://www.handmadearcade.com/hands-on-handmade/" target="_blank">handmadearcade.com</a>. </span>Society for Contemporary Crafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02924792139103206767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457693615196206826.post-74636612689456617992012-11-25T12:01:00.000-05:002012-12-02T09:41:55.591-05:00Internship Opportunities!<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's that time again! SCC is now accepting applications for our annual Judy Cheteyan Scholarship. The scholarship is to provide an art student with the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a professional art environment. The scholarship will be used to pay a $3,000 stipend to the student during the internship. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background-color: yellow; color: red;">Deadline March 15, 2013 </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.contemporarycraft.org/The_Store/internships_files/2013-CheteyanScholarshipBrochure.pdf" target="_blank">View Application Here!</a></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: red;">Application deadline March 15, 2013</span></b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.contemporarycraft.org/The_Store/Artist_Opportunities_files/SCCStudioAppFINAL.pdf" target="_blank">View Application Here!</a></span></b><br />
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<br />Society for Contemporary Crafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02924792139103206767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457693615196206826.post-28273103006848898112012-11-10T13:36:00.001-05:002012-11-10T13:40:21.300-05:00Handmade Arcade is only a month away!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">December 8th, 11am-7pm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Downtown Pittsburgh</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">"<a href="http://handmadearcade.com/" target="_blank">Handmade Arcade</a> (HA), founded in 2004, is Pittsburgh’s first and largest independent craft fair. Now in its ninth year, HA brings young, innovative crafters and progressive do-it-yourself designers to the David L. Lawrence Convention Center on December 8, 2012 to sell, their handmade, locally produced, and offbeat wares at a bustling marketplace. A highly anticipated annual event, HA attracts more than 6,000 attendees in one day. HA provides craft artists working outside mainstream and fine arts sectors with a grassroots, high-visibility venue to sell wares, build community, network, and share their artistic practice.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Handmade Arcade is run by a collective of creative Pittsburghers who have helped to shape and bolster Pittsburgh’s independent craft scene over the past nine years. The group’s founders — who, along with new volunteers, still run the event today — were inspired to organize a craft fair of Pittsburgh’s own that would tap into a national movement and provide a welcoming venue for artists and shoppers to come together. Handmade Arcade’s growth has coincided with the international resurgence of crafting, as new generations are reclaiming and reinventing craft materials and methods."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://www.handmadearcade.com/early-birdie/" target="_blank">Buy your Early Birdie Pass today.</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Early Birdie Passes are $15 each, which provide shoppers with the exclusive opportunity to shop one hour before the event opens to the public. Early Birdie shoppers will have first pick to purchase all the unique and one-of-a-kind items that crafters will be selling and be given a bag full of goodies and coupons. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">This is a super fun event, just in time for the holidays! Make sure you visit SCC's hands-on table:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><b>“Headdressed up” (1 p.m.-3 p.m.) </b>/ <a href="http://www.contemporarycraft.org/" target="_blank">SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT </a>Create make & take headdresses using paper and found objects from the “cool” bag.</span></span></div>
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Society for Contemporary Crafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02924792139103206767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457693615196206826.post-45915970368481339472012-10-27T11:53:00.000-04:002012-10-27T11:54:08.931-04:00Betty Vera comes to SCC<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Photographs of a textile mill floor—subtle scars, stains and roughened surfaces, the only evidence of a refrigeration plant that once occupied the site—are transformed into abstract images woven in fine threads on a Jacquard loom. Through these weavings, on view at the Society for Contemporary Craft as part of the Bridge Exhibition Series, New York artist <a href="http://bettyvera.com/" target="_blank">Betty Vera</a> searches beneath the superficiality, noise and visual clutter of everyday life to reveal the underlying solitude, deep silence and fleeting nature of existence. Also featuring solo exhibitions highlighting <a href="http://kevinsnipes.com/" target="_blank">Kevin Snipes</a>’ ceramic vessels patterned with figurative drawings, and <a href="http://melissacameron.net/" target="_blank">Melissa Cameron</a>’s saw-pierced recycled objects that investigate pattern and the interdependence between elements and organic systems, <b>the biennial Bridge Exhibition Series opens with a public reception on Friday, November 9, from 5:30 to 8 pm and continues through March 30, 2013.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With her use of a digital Jacquard loom, pixels become threads as the artist creates woven images that blur distinctions between computer technology, weaving, painting and photography. In her tapestries, aesthetics of form, texture and space reference human relationships, the environments people inhabit or the intangible forces of nature, such as the wind that pushed some trash against a fence to accumulate in the shadows or the graffiti occupying an otherwise empty wall. Vera explores aspects of reality that are often unseen, ignored or forgotten. About the work, the artist comments, “Industrial and urban surfaces record our own comings and goings—often without our realizing it—but sometimes intentionally as we scrawl cryptic messages for passersby to discover. Leaving traces of ourselves everywhere, we continually impose new layers of history over the old.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Betty Vera, </span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Imprint, </span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">2010, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Cotton,
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To complement the Bridge 12 Exhibition Series, educational programs are planned to encourage an exchange of ideas. <b>On Saturday, November 10, from 9 am–3 pm, Vera will teach <a href="http://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ws.asp?studioid=23447&stype=-8&sView=day&sTrn=100000080" target="_blank">Line & Space: An Intuitive Approach to Fiber Sculpture</a>, a studio workshop</b> in which students explore simple strategies for constructing lightweight forms to exploit the expressive potential of line and its dynamic relationship with space. Class tuition is $100, with a $25 materials fee. Like many artists who love handweaving for its color potential and tactile qualities, Vera is also part of the digital age and uses new technologies in her work. <b>In a slide lecture, <a href="http://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ws.asp?studioid=23447&stype=-8&sView=day&sTrn=100000080" target="_blank">From Hand to Computer-Assisted Loom: Following the Thread</a>, also on November 10, from 5–6:30 pm, the artist examines the relationship between her handwoven tapestries and a more recent body of work consisting of computer-assisted Jacquard tapestries. </b>Suggested donation is $5. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On <b>Sunday, November 11, Vera shares her personal journey as a fiber artist in a <a href="http://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ws.asp?studioid=23447&stype=-8&sView=day&sTrn=100000080" target="_blank">Meet a Maker program, Touching Threads: An Artist’s Passion for Materials & Process. </a></b>Replete with “please do touch” examples, this presentation covers her involvement with handweaving, sculpture and computer-assisted Jacquard tapestry. Participants will look at her creative process, materials, techniques, influences and sources of inspiration, and receive tips on how to display and care for fine textile art. The program runs from 11:30 am–1 pm, and tuition is $20. These programs are co-sponsored by the <a href="http://fiberartspgh.org/guild/" target="_blank">Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh</a>. For more information or to register, call The Studio at 412.261.7003, x25.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Betty Vera, </span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Residue, </span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">2010, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Cotton,
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An exhibition brochure documenting Vera’s solo show includes biographical information, photo-documentation of the artist’s work and an essay, title, written by Patricia Malarcher, a studio artist, art critic and former editor of Surface Design Journal and SDA Newsletter. Bridge 12: Melissa Cameron, Kevin Snipes, Betty Vera is made possible, in part, by the <a href="http://radworkshere.org/" target="_blank">Allegheny Regional Asset District</a>, the <a href="http://www.pacouncilonthearts.org/" target="_blank">Pennsylvania Council on the Arts</a>, the Elizabeth R. Raphael Fund of <a href="http://pittsburghfoundation.org/" target="_blank">The Pittsburgh Foundation</a> and other generous donors.</span></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Society for Contemporary Crafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02924792139103206767noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457693615196206826.post-45558170565858708892012-09-29T15:03:00.001-04:002012-09-29T15:04:28.439-04:00How does music inspire art? Find out....<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Metalsmiths Lisa and Scott Cylinder and a Pittsburgh treasure, Chatham Baroque, join forces for a night of musical collaborations at the Society for Contemporary Craft (SCC) in the Strip District on <b>Friday, October 26, from 6-8 pm</b>. Much like changing a piece of music from one key to another with historical reverence, the Cylinders transpose discarded musical instruments into exquisite jewelry. A series of the Cylinder’s wearable works will be featured on exhibition and available for sale. Chatham Baroque, an ensemble of baroque violin, viola da gamba, theorbo and baroque guitar, will perform a concert as part of the program. <b>The event is free to the public and includes light refreshments.</b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">“Peg-Eyed Violin Scroll Snail Necklace” 2010 - Vintage Violin Scroll, Epoxy Resin, Copper, Sterling Silver, Ebony Violin Pegs, Cello Strings, Paint and Patina. Fabricated, Cast and Carved.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nationally recognized artists Lisa and Scott Cylinder began working together in 1988, after graduating from Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia. For 22 years, this husband and wife team has collaborated from their studio in Oley, PA, to make small production pieces and one-of-a-kind, highly collectible art jewelry under the label of “L and S Cylinder.” Their influences are as varied as their materials. With a reverence for Lalique, Spratling, Los Castillo, Jensen, Ken Cory and many other fine handcraftsmen, the Cylinders are always looking for that elusive inspiration from which their next concept will emerge. The work that will be on view at SCC is the result of an exploration that began with a discarded clarinet. Disassembled and repurposed, the deconstructed instrument merged into a body of work that transformed a once aural implement into a visual one. About this series of jewelry Scott comments, “these well-crafted instruments carry with them a rich history of use: played, tarnished, worn, repaired, loved and hated. From practice room to concert stage, we are left only to imagine the stories each instrument could convey.” During the evening, the Cylinders will talk about their artistic process and how their love of music has directed them to an exploration of musical instruments. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With their sharp technique and lively interpretations of 17th- and 18th-century music played on period instruments, Chatham Baroque engages local, national and international audiences. Founded in 1990, the ensemble presents a full calendar of concerts, tours and musical collaborations, and has recorded nine critically acclaimed CDs. With a nod to the repurposed instruments used by the Cylinders’ to create their unique art jewelry, the 30-minute concert by Chatham Baroque will offer audiences the opportunity to hear baroque music that is accessible and thrillingly vivid, with an improvisational freshness akin to jazz.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Baroque violinist Andrew Fouts joined Chatham Baroque in 2008. In performance with the ensemble, he has been noted for his “mellifluous sound and sensitive style,” and as “an extraordinary violinist” who exhibits “phenomenal control”. In 2008, he won first prize at the American Bach Soloists’ International Baroque Violin Competition. In addition to Chatham Baroque, he has performed recently with the Four Nations Ensemble, Apollo's Fire, Musica Pacifica, Philharmonia Baroque, and as a soloist with American Bach Soloists. Patricia Halverson (viola da gamba) holds a doctorate in Early Music Performance Practice from Stanford University in CA. After completing her graduate work, she studied in the Netherlands at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. A native of Duluth, MN, she is a founding member of Chatham Baroque. Her recent performances include concerts with Ensemble VIII of Austin, TX, the Washington Bach Consort, and a duo viola da gamba recital in Pittsburgh with Martha McGaughey. Scott Pauley (theorbo and baroque guitar) also holds a doctoral degree in Early Music Performance Practice from Stanford. Before settling in Pittsburgh in 1996, he lived in London, where he studied with Nigel North at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. There, he performed with various early music ensembles, including The Brandenburg Consort, The Sixteen and Florilegium. Pauley has also performed with Tempesta di Mare, Musica Angelica, Opera Lafayette, the Folger Consort, the Four Nations Ensemble, The Toronto Consort and Hesperus, and has soloed with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. </span><br />
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Society for Contemporary Crafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02924792139103206767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457693615196206826.post-35019795172721584512012-08-07T14:28:00.000-04:002012-08-07T14:28:00.607-04:00More from Humor in craft<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Picking up where I left off highlighting some works from the <a href="http://www.contemporarycraft.org/The_Store/the_Store.html" target="_blank">Humor in Craft </a> book.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Becky McDonah, Packaging Packaging: A Reliquary for the Styrofoam Peanut, Sterling silver, nickel silver, pick sapphire, packing materials</td></tr>
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<br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Society for Contemporary Crafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02924792139103206767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457693615196206826.post-50301990212586209412012-07-24T13:36:00.000-04:002012-07-24T13:40:09.730-04:00Odd Balls<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was flipping through the ol' <a href="http://www.contemporarycraft.org/The_Store/the_Store.html" target="_blank">Humor in Craft book </a>today realizing now that the show is open, I can take some time to get to know the other artists in the book. <a href="http://www.contemporarycraft.org/The_Store/Humor_in_Craft.html" target="_blank">Our exhibition</a>, which is representing this book, only has 32 artists in it. The book has well over 100 artists! So, I am going to share with you some choice pieces from the book. And yeah, it's alphabetical, cause that's how I roll. Enjoy!</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.bifeicao.com/index.html" target="_blank">Bifei Cao, No Parking, Sterling silver, copper, nu gold, plastic, acrylic, enamel, paper</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://lesdeuxgarcons.nl/" target="_blank">Les Deux Garcons, L'Adieu Impossible, Taxidermy, mixed media</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://jennyfillius.com/artwork/1234507_Liar_Liar.html" target="_blank">Jenny Fillius, Liar, liar, pants on fire, recycled tin</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://marichagenovese.com/home.html" target="_blank">Maricha Genovese, Amy, Enamel, sterling silver</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gpnbkeHduOc/UA7cUTwJZOI/AAAAAAAAAt0/qDuAy-Gceto/s1600/magda04.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gpnbkeHduOc/UA7cUTwJZOI/AAAAAAAAAt0/qDuAy-Gceto/s400/magda04.jpeg" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.missmagdag.com/gallery/pics10/page04.html#" target="_blank">Magda Gluszek, Not Funny, Clay, wool, resin, fabric, sand</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ok, it seems it will take more than one entry to do this, so more next time!</span></div>Society for Contemporary Crafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02924792139103206767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457693615196206826.post-4254586689643269032012-07-14T12:22:00.000-04:002012-07-14T12:23:08.675-04:00HUMOR IN CRAFT - Opening Reception<br />
Public Reception - Friday, July 20, 5:30-8 pm<br />
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Curated by artist and author Brigitte Martin, editor of crafthaus, and organized by SCC, this world premiere exhibition presents highly ironic, political, sarcastic and just plain amusing works by 32 makers from across the United States and abroad. The concept of "funny" varies widely based on social background, personal experiences and values, knowledge of popular culture events, education, national origin and various other factors. There are overlaps, but also differences, in humor perception. Hardly any topic is off-limits for the artists in this exhibition. Everything can be made fun of. Why not laugh at the human foibles, the banana-peel jokes, and, yes, the politicians? Beginning July 21 through October 27, the exhibition is on view Monday through Saturday, from 10 am to 5 pm.<br />
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July 20 also marks the first date SCC visitors can see an exclusive live installation created by <a href="http://www.billchisnellproductions.com/" target="_blank">Bill Chisnell Productions</a> (BCP), Pittsburgh's premier florist and event designer, to complement the Humor in Craft exhibition. In Polaroids to Pixels, BCP combines flowers and live materials with a variety of media, old and new, to create an eye-popping, interactive installation. BCP is SCC's neighbor in the Strip, located at 1111 Penn Avenue. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When you think of Pittsburgh and Steel a couple things immediately come to mind, not necessarily in this order:</span></div>
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<b>Blacksmithing: An Iron-troduction on June 13, 5:30-7 pm</b></div>
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<b>With Chris Holt & John Steel, of <a href="http://www.steelwelding.net/about.htm" target="_blank">Steel Welding</a> & the <a href="http://www.paaba.net/" target="_blank">Pittsburgh Area Artist-Blacksmiths Association</a></b></div>
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Join us for an educational evening about the age-old craft of blacksmithing, beginning with a presentation on creative trends in decorative ironwork. Learn to identify good ironwork, how to care for rusted iron, and about choices for railings and gates. See and feel the difference between mass-produced and finely crafted work.<b> Tuition is $60 and includes a hand-forged dinner bell to sweeten the experience.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The
art community has lost a gentle giant, and SCC has lost a dear friend. Gregory
Warmack, the self-taught artist known as Mr. Imagination, was called “one of
the supreme practitioners of visionary art” in the world by American Visionary
Art Museum founder/director Rebecca Huffberger. “Mr. I” died at age 64 this
week, apparently from a spider bite that resulted in pneumonia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Mr.
Imagination’s life epitomized the way in which the human spirit can triumph
over adversity to become a powerful positive force in the world. Born into
poverty in Chicago, he was shot during a street robbery in the late 1970s, resulting
in a near-death vision in which he was told he should dedicate his life to art.
When he recovered from the shooting, he set about becoming an artist who could
bring healing to the world. When his brother died in 2001, he felt the need for
a fresh start and moved to Bethlehem, PA, where thrived there for several years.
He travelled to many communities during this period, doing residencies to create
public sculpture gardens with hundreds of young people, whose lives he touched.
Three years ago when his Bethlehem studio burned to the ground, destroying his
art, his belongings and beloved dog, he moved to Atlanta to be with friends and
to heal. Soon he had put down roots, and started again. “Even though I lost
lots of things,” he said, “I still have my gift.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://old.post-gazette.com/ae/20021114imaginationp2.asp" target="_blank">In November 2002 SCC featured Mr. Imagination in a one-person, mind-blowing exhibitionthat remains one of my all-time favorite shows. </a>His art was very accessible,
yet substantive. The gallery walls were painted a deep red, his favorite color,
and the gallery was stuffed to the brim with his vibrant and expressive art —furniture,
installations, and sculpture — all of it obsessively covered in bottle-caps and
found objects. The centerpiece of the exhibition was a giant throne on which
visitors were encouraged to sit. He explained that felt that everyone deserved
to feel important and that sitting on a throne made it possible to savor that
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was fortunate to host Mr. I as a guest at my home for several days. Hanging out
with Mr. Imagination took me back to my childhood, and that state of innocence,
spontaneity, and possibility, where the entire world was an art studio and the
most mundane object could be transformed into something magical. The morning
after his exhibition opening, as he headed out for a walk in my neighborhood,
he noticed a few scraps of wood in the garbage waiting to be picked up at the
curb. Delighted, he gathered them up, disappeared into our basement shop, and within
an hour, came upstairs to present us with a small sculpture he had made as a
gift.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mr. I, creating art was all about expressing love and making people feel
special. Rest in peace, dear friend. You will be missed beyond measure but you deeply
touched us all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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specialty fare provided courtesy of Pittsburgh restaurants and food purveyors,
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The night is going to heat up fast with
<b>LIVE</b> blacksmithing, raku pottery, and open-flame glass bead-making
demonstrations with artists Robert Burns, Dan Kuhn and Darlene Durrwachter-Rushing.
As the sun drops below the riverbank, grab a drink and sample the tastes of the
Strip District while taking stock of more than </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #351c75;">100</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> silent auction items, such as Jason Forck’s
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jeweler Kat Cole’s stunning and convertible </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Tin Brooch/Steel Converter Necklace. Before the evening is over, try your
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programming for the community. <a href="http://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ws.asp?studioid=23447&stype=43&sCat=100001" target="_blank">Click here to preview select items appearing in the auction.If you see something you can’t live without, BUY-IT-NOW</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Join us for this special opportunity to meet and hear from <a href="http://www.araphael.co.uk/" target="_blank">Alexandra (Alex) Raphael</a>, a gifted artist who has perfected the ancient craft of enameling over many years. Largely self-taught, she specializes in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plique-%C3%A0-jour" target="_blank">plique-à-jour </a>(backless enamel) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloisonn%C3%A9" target="_blank">cloisonné</a> jewelry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alex's talk will reflect on the experience of growing up with SCC Founder <a href="http://www.contemporarycraft.org/The_Store/ERR_Interview.html" target="_blank">Elizabeth R. Raphael</a> as her mother and how this influenced her artwork. She will also speak about her new "Celestial Dream Series," which showcases the delicate ethereal images in rich colors reflected within gold and silver that can be achieved with the challenging plique-à-jour technique.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The depth and meaning of images in Alex's jewelry are often personalized for the wearer. This necklace, created in memory of the artist's mother, depicts: "eclipse of the sun with date of my birth, windows (from our first house), zodiac signs, acorn (representing our community of Oakmont), bee representing Mother - always busy as a bee and her initial, the letter "B", water, the word "STAY", phases of the moon, stars, and my hand holding a drop of blood."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alexandra's latest collection of gold and silver cloisonné jewelry reflects the individual style for which she is well known. From ancient times, the mystical properties of stones are held as precious talismans. In her new three-dimensional "Within the Stone" series, she entices you into the magic and powers of the jewel. Looking through the stones there are delicate pictures drawn in gold and silver cloisonné, with the stones’ facets changing the reflective image.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In her new "Study in Grey" series, her imaginative use of reflective gold and silver foils change her colors as they flow across the surface with warmth of the gold and the cold of the silver.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alexandra's amazing enamels have won her numerous prizes worldwide, and are in the permanent collections of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths as well as the Musée Municipal de l'Évêché (Limoges, France), Musee de l’Horlogerie (Geneva), and the All- Russian Decorative-Applied and Folk Art Museum (Moscow).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The exhibition of Alexandra Raphael's work and her March 30 talk are signature events of SCC's 40th anniversary year. The talk is free of charge, but we ask that you R.S.V.P. in advance to 412.261.7003, x12, or </span><a href="mailto:development@contemporarycraft.org" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="s1">development@contemporarycraft.org</span></a><span class="s2" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></div>Society for Contemporary Crafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02924792139103206767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457693615196206826.post-55624188288761594202012-03-12T14:53:00.000-04:002012-03-12T14:55:00.726-04:00Keep your pants up!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This weekend I had the pleasure of taking a Belt Buckle making class with instructor <a href="http://www.sharonmasseymetalsmith.com/sm_site/sharonmasseymetalsmith/Sharon%20Massey.html" target="_blank">Sharon Massey</a> of <a href="http://www.jewelrynat.com/" target="_blank">Jewelry N'at</a> at SCC.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After some confusion involving not knowing that Day Light Savings time occurred, I managed to get to SCC just in time for the 8 hour workshop. I've taken a class with Sharon before and loved her teaching style - flexible, accessible, and extremely knowledgeable - so I was looking forward to spending the day gabbing and sawing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 8 hours our small group designed, constructed and finished our very own belt buckles. It has been 8+ years since I did any small metals constructing, so I found all of the cutting challenging. I think I broke a record number of saw blades, but I am very happy with how it turned out in the end. The pieces we made were fabricated from brass and copper, primarily, with some nickel and found tin. We also used a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liver_of_sulfur" target="_blank">liver of sulphur</a> concoction to patina the copper a deep black, which added a nice contrast. To secure all of the layers we used both a <a href="http://www.theartofmakingjewelry.com/sweat-soldering.html" target="_blank">sweat soldering technique</a> as well as a variety of riveting techniques.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What was especially nice about this class was the small size, which allowed us each to work one-on-one with the instructor when we needed to, keep our own pace, and kept us from having to fight for tools or wait in line to solder. All in all I can't think of a better way to have spent my Sunday. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the other students brought in her own Dale's Pale Ale can to use. It turned out great!</td></tr>
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