Museum of Contemporary Craft Presents Interactive Installation, Soundforge
Release date: 04/04/13
Portland, OR – April 3, 2013 – Museum of Contemporary Craft in partnership with Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) continues its SoundCraft series with Soundforge, a multimedia installation by metalsmith and “ethical jeweler” Gabriel Craig and composer Michael Remson. Curated by Anna Walker for Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC), Soundforge will be on view May 16, 2013 – September 21, 2013 in the Museum’s Upper Gallery.
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Museum of Contemporary Craft Collaborates with Portland Chefs
Release date: 04/04/13
Portland, OR – April 3, 2013 – The second part of the exhibition Object Focus: The Bowl entitled Engage + Use opens May 16 and runs through September 21, 2013 at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in partnership with Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA). This part of the exhibition explores the social role of the bowl and features special collaborations with Portland restaurants, chefs, and culinary professionals, and artist projects reaching out into the community and bringing the community into the museum.
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New Exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Craft, Object Focus: The Bowl
Release date: 02/26/13
Portland, OR – February 26, 2013 – The Museum of Contemporary Craft in partnership with Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) opens the second exhibition in its Object Focus series, Object Focus: The Bowl, on March 7, 2013. This two-part exhibition, featuring nearly 200 bowls, focuses attention on the most commonplace of objects, asking us to consider the ubiquitous bowl in new ways. As artist and PNCA professor M.K. Guth has pointed out, the history of the bowl is the history of civilization. Yet because it holds our cereal, our soup, our tea, our spare change, it becomes so familiar as to be overlooked. Through a variety of engaging activities, Object Focus: The Bowl invites the viewer to connect the work on display in the Museum with the bowl in his or her everyday life. The bowls on view range from the functional to the decorative, industrially produced to handmade, and span the globe geographically and culturally.
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Bank of America Donates Feves Sculpture to Museum of Contemporary Craft
Release date: 02/25/13
Portland, OR – February 21, 2013 – Bank of America has made a generous gift of a sculpture by renowned Oregon ceramic sculptor Betty Feves to the Museum of Contemporary Craft in partnership with Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA). The untitled sculpture is a tall, stacked column of rough clay dug from Oregon soil with glazes the artist made from natural materials found in the Pendleton area. The Feves sculpture has been a mainstay in the community for years, and the bank wanted to find a permanent home where the artwork would be accessible to the general public as well as art historians.
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Museum of Contemporary Craft to Host Hallie Ford Fellows Exhibition
Release date: 12/05/12
Portland, OR – December 5, 2012 – The Museum of Contemporary Craft in partnership with Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) presents a survey exhibition showcasing the work of the recipients of the first nine Hallie Ford Fellowships in the Visual Arts, awarded 2010-2012. Opening January 24, 2013 and running through April 27, 2013, We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live fills the galleries at the Museum with work by nine accomplished Oregon artists. Curated by independent curator Cassandra Coblentz for Museum of Contemporary Craft, We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live is presented by The Ford Family Foundation, along with the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and the Oregon Arts Commission (OAC). Additional support is provided by Maribeth Collins, the Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust, and the Ed Cauduro Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation.
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Museum of Contemporary Craft Launches Redesigned Gallery Store
Release date: 11/08/12
November 8, 2012—Portland, Oregon—Museum of Contemporary Craft announces the refresh of its Gallery Store. It's a redesigned shop within the Museum offering a mix of contemporary handmade objects with a new design focus as well as legacy pieces from artists who have been with the Gallery since the 1960s such as Frank Boyden and Mardi Wood. Director Namita Gupta Wiggers worked with Museum board member, designer Randy Higgins of Vizwerks to redesign the Gallery Store. In turn, Higgins has worked to execute the design with a team of students from the MFA in Applied Craft and Design, a joint program of Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) and Oregon College of Art and Craft.
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Symposium: Reflecting on Erik Gronborg Contains Nudity
Release date: 10/01/12
Portland, OR – October 1, 2012 – The Museum of Contemporary Craft in partnership with Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) welcomes ceramic artist Erik Gronborg for a day-long symposium entitled Reflecting on Erik Gronborg Contains Nudity on Saturday, October 20, 2012 beginning at 9:30 am. The symposium coincides with a retrospective of the artist’s work, Reflecting on Erik Gronborg, which is on view at the Museum through February 16, 2013. The symposium promises a full-day of dialogue with one of America's preeminent ceramic artists whose provocative approach pioneered and continues to challenge notions of "sloppy craft" as they exist today.
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Cooper-Hewitt Curator Cynthia E. Smith to Give CraftPerspectives Lecture
Release date: 09/17/12
Portland, OR—September 19, 2012— Museum of Contemporary Craft and Mercy Corps are pleased to present a CraftPerspectives Lecture by Cynthia E. Smith, Curator of Socially Responsible Design at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum on Wednesday, September 26 at 6:30 pm in the Lab at Museum of Contemporary Craft. This lecture coincides with the exhibition Design with the Other 90%: CITIES which Smith curated for the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Design with the Other 90%: CITIES is currently on view at both Museum of Contemporary Craft and Mercy Corps Action Center through January 5, 2013. The exhibition explores design solutions to the challenges created by rapid urban growth in informal settlements, commonly referred to as slums.
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Museum of Contemporary Craft Welcomes New Board Members
Release date: 08/24/12
Portland, OR—August 23, 2012—Museum of Contemporary Craft is pleased to welcome two new members, Randy Higgins and Dr. Joseph Bloom, to its Board of Directors.
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Reflecting on Erik Gronborg
Release date: 07/26/12
Portland, OR—June 24, 2012—Museum of Contemporary Craft is pleased to present Reflecting on Erik Gronborg, a selection of works from the 1960s and 1970s by this venerable ceramic artist whose work incorporates political and pop themes with ceramic forms in a way that we now view as anticipating the contemporary “sloppy craft” movement.
Opening August 7, 2012 and running through February 16, 2013, this exhibition is part of a series of ongoing explorations in which the Museum invites fresh perspectives on the collection and archive by partnering with artists, creative people, and designers to create public exhibitions. Director and Chief Curator Namita Gupta Wiggers invited ceramic artist Jeffry Mitchell to make selections of Gronborg’s work as a way of fostering a dialogue between the work of these two artists of different generations and as a way of creating conversation around Gronborg’s work.
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