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THE FASHION INSTITUTE OF DESIGN & MERCHANDISING MUSEUM AND GALLERIES hosts the Seventeenth Annual Art of Motion Picture Costume Design, an exhibition featuring award-winning costumes from various films from 2007, such as Elizabeth: The Golden Age. The exhibit is on view until March 29. 919 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90015; www.fidm.com |
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THE LEGION OF HONOR presents Artistic Luxury: Fabergé, Tiffany, Lalique. The exhibition is the first comparative study of the work of these great jewelry and decorative arts designers. Their rivalry found its stage at the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris, the only exhibition where all three showed simultaneously. Some of their most elaborate designs for the Paris World’s Fair are reunited for the first time. The exhibition explores how these designers responded to the demand for luxury goods in the pre-World War I years by looking critically at the development, design and marketing of each firm. The exhibition ends May 31. Lincoln Park, 34th Avenue and Clement St., San Francisco, CA 94121; 415.750.3600; www.famsf.org/legion. |
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THE FIELD MUSEUM hosts The Aztec World, an exhibition ending April 19. Hundreds of artifacts and works of art have been assembled for the first time to provide a look into the remarkable rise and fall of the Aztec world. Gold, silver, obsidian, jade, and other precious materials are utilized in the nearly three hundred items that comprise the exhibit, including sculptures, jewelry and pottery. 1400 South Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, IL 60605; 312.922.9410; www.fieldmuseum.org. |
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THE FULLER CRAFT MUSEUM
presents a multitude of exhibitions throughout 2009. The Sixth Sense: Contemporary Jewelry from Korea, organized by Fuller Craft Museum and curated by Kiwon Wang, highlights new work by contemporary Korean jewelry artists. The exhibit provides an intimate look at the spiritual and aesthetic elements of Korean jewelry. The show ends July 26. Also exhibiting is The Perfect Fit: Shoes Tell Stories, running from June 6 to January 3, 2010. Curated by Wendy Tarlow Kaplan, The Perfect Fit explores the shoe industry of Brockton, Massachusetts, and addresses topics such as gender, history, sexuality, race, class, and culture. The Fuller Craft Museum is the final stop for Craft in America: Expanding Traditions, the counterpart exhibition to the PBS series, created and produced by Carol Sauvion. This comprehensive, multilayered exhibit, closing May 25, explores craft objects as works of art, works of history and the rich heritage of craft in America that reflects our spirit, history and creative spark. Among the jewelry being shown are works by Roberta and David Williamson, Nancy Worden, Bruce Metcalf, Ken Cory, and Kiff Slemmons. 455 Oak St., Brockton, MA 02301; 508.588.6000; www.fullercraft.org. |
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| MINNESOTA | THE GOLDSTEIN MUSEUM OF DESIGN displays Expressions of Stability and Change: Ethnic Dress and Folk Costume, which runs until June 14. The exhibition showcases vibrantly colored and textured ethnic clothing from around the world and celebrates the vibrant multicultural nature of the University of Minnesota and greater Twin Cities communities. More than thirty ensembles of ethnic dress and folk costume from Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas are included in the exhibit.
364 McNeal Hall, 1985 Buford Ave., Saint Paul, MN 55108; 612.624.7434; goldstein.design.umn.edu. |
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THE NEWARK MUSEUM features the Glass Beads of Ghana, focusing primarily on the contemporary creation and use of glass beads in southern Ghana, with an emphasis on recent innovations. For over four hundred years, Ghanaian bead artists have been producing powder-glass beads from recycled glass to meet local demands of fashion and customary practice. Video footage and contextual photographs, along with examples of bead molds and tools, highlight the technological process of making beads. The exhibit extends through 2009.
49 Washington St., Newark, NJ 07102; www.newarkmuseum.org. |
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THE MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART displays Writing with Thread: Traditional Textiles of Southwest Chinese Minorities, May 15 to August 16. Over five hundred objects from the most inclusive collection of Southwest Chinese ethnic minority costumes in the world will be on display. The exhibit showcases the finest and rarest costumes from fifteen ethnic groups and nearly one hundred subgroups, exploring the meanings associated with the production and use of indigenous clothing. In these societies without written languages, traditions and customs are orally passed from generation to generation.
One Museum Hill, Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM 87505; www.moifa.org. |
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THE WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN presents From the Railroad to Route 66: The Native American Curio Trade in New Mexico, ending April 19. Starting with the arrival of the railroad in 1880, Pueblo and Navajo artisans collaborated with non-Indian dealers to invent artifacts that had no purpose but to satisfy the demand for Indian goods. Many Native American jewelry artists first started their involvement with jewelry in the curio trade. Among those who are featured in the exhibition are Mark Chee, Ambrose Roanhorse, David Taliman, and Manuel Naranjo.
704 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM 87505; 505.982.4636; www.wheelwright.org. |
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| NEW YORK | THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART shows From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith. This exhibition honors the gift of twenty-one pieces of silver and gold jewelry created by the Brooklyn-reared modernist jeweler Arthur Smith (1917–1982), primarily from Charles Russell, Smith’s companion and heir. Inspired by surrealism, biomorphicism and primitivism, Art Smith’s jewelry is dynamic in its size and form. The exhibition continues until July 19. 200 Eastern Pkwy., Brooklyn, NY 11238; www.brooklynmuseum.org. |
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| NEW YORK | THE MUSEUM AT THE FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY displays Seduction, 250 years of Sexuality in Fashion, to be shown until June 16. Seduction is the first chronological survey to explore the progress of sexuality in fashion through two centuries of material. Featuring some seventy looks and forty accessories, Seduction examines the complex relationship between seduction and clothing, presenting a visual history of sexuality, moral standards, and social norms, observed through the prism of fashion.
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| NEW YORK | THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART features Tibetan Arms and Armor from the Permanent Collection through autumn 2009, in the Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gallery. This installation presents approximately forty highlights from the Museum’s extensive permanent collection of rare and exquisitely decorated armor, weapons, and equestrian equipment from Tibet and related areas of Mongolia and China, dating from the eighth to the twentieth century. Included are several recent acquisitions that have never before been exhibited or published.
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| NORTH CAROLINA | THE MINT MUSEUM OF CRAFT AND DESIGN presents The Miniature Worlds of Bruce Metcalf, the first exhibition with a retrospective view of the artist’s work. The exhibit ends May 17. Featuring approximately sixty pieces dating from the 1970s to the present, the exhibition conceptualizes Metcalf’s work in relationship to his interest in architecture, comics and narrative subject matter. It examines the social, moral and political issues that Metcalf has raised in published essays about the handmade and that are acted out by his rueful, bigheaded and vulnerable protagonists on miniature stages. In their dual life as wearable brooches, they venture into the world, where they engage the unsuspecting viewer with their stories and distinctive visual language. The exhibition was organized by the Palo Alto Art Center in California.
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| OHIO | THE CANTON MUSEUM OF ART features the work of Itchiku Kubota in Kimono as Art: The Landscapes of Itchiku Kubota, closing April 26. Guest curated by Dale Carolyn Gluckman and organized by the San Diego Museum of Art in conjunction with the Timken Museum of Art and the Canton Museum of Art, the exhibition presents forty works by this internationally acclaimed kimono artist.
1001 Market Ave. N., Canton, OH 44702; www.cantonart.org. |
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| OHIO | KENT STATE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM displays Rudi Gernreich: Bold, at the Palmer and Mull Galleries, through May 31. Gernreich’s clothing designs were both experimental and representative of his era. Fascinated by a performance by Martha Graham he attended soon after his arrival in California, dance changed Gernreich’s concept of design, causing a focus on the flow of movement. Characterized by a simplicity of line, strong saturated hues and a daring sense of graphic design that used both the body and cloth as media, his work stood out and often overstepped sociological boundaries.
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| PENNSYLVANIA | THE FABRIC WORKSHOP AND MUSEUM presents Threads of History: The Fabric Workshop and Museum 1977 to 2008, a retrospective of over thirty years of collaborative experimentation with new materials and new media. All of the displayed works were made by former artists-in-residence. The scope of past projects has entailed not only contemporary art installations and artist multiples, but also pushed the boundaries of items such as fabric yardage, wallpaper, shirts, pants, and even umbrellas. The exhibition ends in April.
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| TEXAS | THE HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT holds the juried exhibition Texas Federation of Fiber Artists: Celebrating Our Creative Spirit, from October 3 to December 27. A variety of fiber work selected by juror Tim Harding will be on display. Textile artist Tim Harding has been working in fiber arts for over twenty years.
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| WASHINGTON | THE TACOMA ART MUSEUM hosts Loud Bones: The Jewelry of Nancy Worden, from June 27 to October 11. For more than three decades, internationally renowned Northwest jewelry artist Nancy Worden has explored the cultural dynamics that shape contemporary social and political agendas. The museum will also present Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection, from June 6 to September 13. This traveling exhibition draws from the highly regarded collection of jewelry expert, gallerist and educator Helen Williams Drutt. Ornament as Art examines the art and design of contemporary jewelry, placing it within the artistic movements taking place during the twentieth century.
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| WISCONSIN | THE CHAZEN MUSEUM OF ART features the traveling exhibition Writing with Thread: Traditional Textiles of Southwest Chinese Minorities, ending April 12. This exhibit consists of rare costumes and jewelry from fifteen ethnic groups and nearly one hundred subgroups living in southwest China. Three galleries showcase entire ensembles of adult and children regalia, baby carriers, quilt covers, and silver ornaments, as well as a loom, weaving tools, and embroidery cases.
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| WISCONSIN | THE RACINE ART MUSEUM displays Edge of the Sublime: Enamels by Jamie Bennett. This traveling exhibition explores Jamie Bennett’s creative use and development of a variety of enameling and metalworking techniques to produce highly color-saturated imagery on signature brooches, necklaces and pendants. Bennett is an internationally recognized metalsmith whose painterly innovations have greatly expanded the field of fired enamel into a medium for contemporary expression. The exhibit ends September 6.
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| KOREA | THE WORLD JEWELLERY MUSEUM hosts Handbag, My Love, an exhibit featuring eighty handbags from Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Africa, and the South Pacific. The history of the handbag deals with many different aspects of fashion. The changing forms and purposes of a handbag have illustrated many social developments, especially the emancipation of women. The exhibition ends May 30. |
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| UNITED KINGDOM | THE DESIGN MUSEUM presents the work of Hussein Chalayan in an exhibition ending May 17. Leading the forefront of contemporary fashion design, the twice named British Designer of the Year, Hussein Chalayan is renowned for his innovative use of materials, meticulous pattern cutting and progressive attitudes to new technology. This exhibition is the first comprehensive presentation of
Hussein Chalayan’s work in the United Kingdom and spans fifteen years of experimental projects.
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| CALIFORNIA | FREEHAND GALLERY, a Southern California source for fine American
craft for nearly thirty years, announces its annual jewelry exhibit, Freehand: Friends and Family, from May 2 – 30. Artists exhibiting work will include Denise Barr, Michael Norman Bayes, Kit Carson, Christina Carroll, Angee Gates, Rachel Gehlhar, Judy Hing, Peggy Johnson, Penny Larsen, Dena Aycock Palser, Holly Rittenhouse, Wendy Walker, and Roberta and David Williamson.
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| CALIFORNIA | VELVET DA VINCI features a number of upcoming exhibits that include jewelry in conjunction with fine art and craft work. Ending April 18, Michael Brennand Wood and Lynn Christiansen display mixed media installations and food inspired jewelry and clothing. Steven Ford and David Forlano exhibit their jewelry from April 29 to May 31.
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| NEW MEXICO | PATINA GALLERY presents Ironic Attachment, an exhibition showing the work of Pat Flynn. The jewelry artist is one of the early pioneers in the use of hand-forged iron for fine jewelry and is well known for his utilization of diamonds in combination with the blackened metal. The exhibition shows from June 5 to July 5.
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WEXLER GALLERY presents Neoteric Matter: New Studio Jewelry, from May 1 to June 27. The show will focus on jewelry that is primarily comprised of new twenty-first-century or late twentieth-century materials, and their related processes, that have significantly influenced the field of jewelry. A few examples of new materials include: polymers, materials used in rapid prototyping, electronics, Precious Metal Clay, new metal alloys, and composite materials. 201 N. 3rd St., Philadelphia, PA 19106; 215.923.7030. |
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| WASHINGTON | FACÈRÉ JEWELRY ART GALLERY hosts Signs of Life 2009. Signs of Life is a contemporary jewelry art show and companion jewelry art catalog/literary journal. The show features work by nine artists. The catalog/literary journal pairs jewelry artists with nine writers in a unique publication that celebrates both literature and jewelry art. The exhibition extends from May 13 to June 3. |
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| UNITED KINGDOM | STUDIO FUSION GALLERY will be taking part in the London Jewellery Week, running from June 8 – 14 this year. 2008 was the first year of the event, featuring more than six hundred jewelers with a grand total of one hundred eighty events. |
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| CALIFORNIA | THE MASTERS SYMPOSIUM holds its thirtieth anniversary at the Revere Academy in San Francisco, featuring important goldsmiths and jewelry experts from around the world, with fourteen master classes offered. The symposium, held April 3 – 29, offers workshops of three to five days in length, which for the most part are open to students from the beginner to the advanced. Early this year the Academy awarded its Jewelry Technician Diploma to thirteen students who graduated from the recent Jewelry Technician Intensive Program, led by Alan Revere. Additionally, five students received the following awards: Best Setting, Scott Addis; Best Design, Justine Collins; Best Engraving, Ibtsam Ali; Technical Excellence, Adam Evans; and My Favorite, Elizabeth Lass. |
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| MINNESOTA | THE CRAFT ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION is holding its 2009 annual conference in St. Paul. This year’s conference, Crafting Partnerships for Growth: Creating Connections, takes place April 23 – 26. CODA’S annual conference attracts leading professionals in the craft field, including nonprofit craft organizations, media specific organizations, schools, universities and craft centers, museums and galleries. There will also be a special exhibition, CODAchrome: A Snapshot of Craft in America, featuring contemporary craft from CODA member organizations. The conference is being held at the Crowne Plaza Riverfront Hotel, located at 11 East Kellogg Blvd.
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THE SURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION presents its 2009 International Conference, titled Off The Grid I. The conference is being primarily held at the Marriott Country Club Plaza Hotel and the campus of the Kansas City Art Institute, and runs from May 28 - 31. Pre- and post-conference workshops take place May 23 - 27 and June 1 - 5. There is also a trunk show where conference participants will sell their own work.
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| PENNSYLVANIA | THE SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICAN GOLDSMITHS celebrates its fortieth anniversary with the conference Revolution from May 20 - 23. Presentations will be given by speakers Leo Caballero, Paul Greenhalgh, Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, Camille Paglia, Albert Paley, Neri Oxman, with a keynote speech given by Stanley Lechtzin. There will be a professional development seminar entitled Maximizing the Online Revolution: Websites and Beyond, with lead speaker Marla Johnson Norris. There will also be a gallery night, a special event held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, student events, and much more. SNAG is the publisher of Metalsmith Magazine, which recently underwent a significant redesign. The conference will be held at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel,
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| CALIFORNIA | American Jewelry Design Council is currently accepting applications for its 2009 New Talent Contest. The winner will be given a booth in the New Designer Gallery at the 2009 Jewelers of America New York Summer Show and will receive extensive media coverage. The winner will be judged on originality, craftsmanship, innovation, marketability, and cohesiveness. The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2009. For more information or to receive an application go to AJDC.org. 760 Market St., Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94102. |
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| CALIFORNIA | THE ACADEMY OF ART UNIVERSITY announces its thirteenth Annual Faculty and Alumni Fine Art Auction. The live auction takes place on November 8. Over seventy faculty and alumni artists participate across the disciplines of painting, sculpture and jewelry. Fifty percent of the auction will help support the Academy of Art University Student Scholarship Fund. 79 New Montgomery St., San Francisco, CA 94105; www.academyart.edu/auction |
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| CALIFORNIA | THE PALO ALTO ART CENTER hosts Style 2009, an art-to-wear trunk show and sale featuring the work of more than thirty-five international and California-based textile, clothing, accessory, and jewelry designers. Now in its fifth year, the event is produced by Diane Master, manager of The Gallery Shop at the Palo Alto Art Center. Style 2009 is a key fundraiser for the Palo Alto Art Center Foundation and benefits children’s art education programs. The show takes place April 25.
1313 Newell Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94303. |
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| MAINE | HAYSTACK MOUNTAIN SCHOOL OF CRAFTS announces its Summer 2009 program. Among the classes are Traditional and Non-Traditional Chasing and Repoussé, by Nancy Megan Corwin; Jewelry as Personal Adornment, by Robert Ebendorf; Advanced Glass Beadmaking: The Bells and Whistles, by Kate Fowle Meleney; Experimental Enameling: Going Beyond the Limits of the Familiar and Expected, by Barbara Minor; and Millinery Industrial Complex: Feltmaking for the Head, by Jean Hicks. The regular application deadline is April 1. The first session begins May 31.
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| NEVADA | WHOLESALECRAFTS.COM presents 2009’s American Craft Retailers Expo, May 31 to June 2 in Las Vegas. Spanning eighty-two thousand square feet with close to six hundred exhibitors, items for sale include stationery, tabletop, jewelry, furniture, decorative accessories, seasonal and garden, toys, clothing, fashion and fashion accessories, green products, and more. The show location is at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Hall S1.
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| NEW MEXICO | THE INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS MUSEUM STORE features the work of two IAIA alumni, Paul Moore and Frank Buffalo Hyde. Moore is a jewelry artist who uses a variety of materials in his work, including silver, paint, film, stone, and wood. Buffalo Hyde is a painter whose work is a reaction against the Southwest’s tradition of “serene” Indian portraits, instead choosing to portray images representing the reality of the Native American condition. The exhibit ends April 19.
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| NEW YORK | THE INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITIONS OF SCULPTURE OBJECTS AND FUNCTIONAL ART holds its New York show at the Park Avenue Armory, April 16 - 19. The twelfth International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art fair has moved from its former Memorial Day weekend dates. The exposition has been heralded as the nation’s premier fair for outstanding contemporary decorative arts and design. Among the group of participating dealers are Jane Sauer Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Lea Sneider, New York City; Aaron Faber Gallery, New York City; Charon Kransen, Ltd., New York City; The David Collection, Pound Ridge, NY; Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA; Ornamentum, Hudson, NY; Sienna Gallery, Lenox, MA; and Valentin Magro, New York City. The show location is Park Avenue & 67th St., New York City. |
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| WASHINGTON, D.C | THE JAMES RENWICK ALLIANCE announces Craftweek DC. During the five-day period, April 22 - 26, there will be opportunities to attend the Smithsonian Craft Show, visit galleries, including a special Penland School of Crafts exhibition, open studios by nationally and internationally exhibited area artists, attend lectures and participate in JRA’s Spring Craft Weekend. Lloyd E. Herman, Founding Director of the Renwick Gallery, will be honored at a brunch on April 26 at the same event where the Masters of the Medium awards will be presented. Master of the Medium awardees are Warren MacKenzie, ceramics; Norma Minkowitz, fiber; Richard Marquis, glass; June Schwarcz, metal/jewelry; and David Ellsworth, wood/furniture.
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