The Week in Craft: May 23, 2018
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The Week in Craft: May 23, 2018
ACC Fellow Thomas Gentille is a jeweler known for his use of alternative materials, and he'll be speaking with us at the SNAG conference on Saturday. Pictured is Thomas Gentille's Plywood Maple and Grid, No. 6.
Courtesy of the artistThe Society of North American Goldsmiths convenes their 47th annual conference in Portland, Oregon, this week. The schedule includes a conversation with renowned jeweler and 2018 ACC Fellow Thomas Gentille on Saturday morning.
What's wrong with the tony art fairs and how to fix them: New York magazine critic Jerry Saltz has a proposal.
The College Book Art Association offers a multitude of resources for the book arts on their website, including open access to their journal Openings: Studies in Book Arts.
On May 14, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston hosted its first ever naturalization ceremony for new US citizens. Approximately 200 immigrants from 57 countries were honored outside of their Art of the Americas wing.
The Cabbage School is a new education initiative founded by Jessica Green of A Little Weather Handwoven Goods and inspired by the rural craft school tradition. Its summer programming begins in early June.
The intersection of quilting and activism continues with the Migrant Quilt Project, recently written about in this Los Angeles Times article. The goal of the project, they say, is to add a human component to the polemic, numbers-driven immigration debate. Created with materials collected along established migrant trails in the Sonoran Desert, each quilt tells the stories of those who died seeking a better life.
Here's the lowdown on Making It, an NBC craft reality competition hosted by Nick Offerman and Amy Poehler. The show premieres July 31.
Americans for the Arts announced their two keynote speakers for their 2018 Annual Convention, June 14 – 17, 2018 in Denver, Colorado.
It looks like the Textile Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, will be moving to a new location in the near future.
The Fuller Craft Museum's newest exhibition is perfectly timed for summer vacation. Featuring craft greats Tommy Simpson, Karen LaFleur, Nancy Tucker, and Marlow Shami, the show explores the role of play in creativity. "Playtime in the Making" is on view at the Brockton, Massachusetts, museum through September 16.
Monica Hampton is the new education director for the Furniture Society.
Bill Keyser, professor emeritus at the School for American Crafts, Rochester Institute of Technology, remembers Doug Sigler, a woodworker, furniture designer, and teacher who died in April.
Robert Indiana, an artist closely affiliated with the pop movement and the creator of the iconic LOVE sculpture, has died. He was 89.
