crafts: FEBRUARY NEWS: Gestures of Resistance + The Gallery + Upcoming Programs and Events

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EXHIBITION
Gestures of Resistance
Co-curated by Judith Leemann and Shannon Stratton

Through June 26

Gestures of Resistance focuses on contemporary craft
actions: work that deploys craft to agitate for change through direct
political statements, public interventions, or dialogical,
community-specific projects. Designed to unfold over its tenure at the
Museum, with eight artists slated to take up residency in the galleries
and in Portland, Gestures of Resistanceis planned as a dynamic, collective studio,
with each artist remaking
the space to suit their own purposes and the Museum functioning as a
work space, performance venue and town square.
ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
Sara Black and John Preus
Through February 6
Gestures of Resistance unfolds at Museum of Contemporary Craft with the work of
current visiting artists Sara Black and John Preus. Their live build-out of the
museum exhibition gallery creates a workshop space from inherited
materials that acts simultaneously as platform, town square and
sculpture. This space becomes the staging area for all subsequent
resident artists, who will transform and manipulate the space through
their performances and objects.
First Thursday
February 4, 6-8 pm, Free and open to the public
Join us as Black and Preus
complete the second-to-last day of Rebuilding Mayfield
Artists-in-Residence Conversation
Saturday, February 6
The wall through which Black and Preus have communicated throughout their two-week
residency comes down
on February 6. Working through their "conversation hole" in the
wall, the project will conclude sometime in the afternoon, time determined
by how long it takes to talk through engineering and construction
issues. We invite you to come by and then join us at the end for an
impromptu conversation with the artists-in-residence.
UPCOMING ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
Anthea Black
February 19 - March 10
Join us later this month when Museum of Contemporary Craft welcomes visiting artist
Anthea Black.A Canadian printmaker known for her subversive postering campaigns,
Black will work with PNCA Printmaking students and will recruit queer youth to
deploy her two-sided poster prints across
Portland.
Listen to a podcast [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102998367963&s=10882&e=001_O2kyNL8Btnegt38kr5YR47WF3BS58LnfQq2mqU4Sd4pyHUElpe1mx41r3NrXdclyNEF1r0zwwXoCP4WFP63RAr7CaJhPM_5z7iQ0knMkbUNHlmx9dTHTabW6dZQMPUlf8kL69rzgjykSKXEtH-viNSYDKkRLupVKG_4Iezbd6mpS-Gc04bSQc__lplkPVtL]
featuring co-curators Judith Leemann and Shannon Stratton.
A limited edition
catalog will be available at the close of the exhibition, with an
introduction by MoCC curator Namita Gupta Wiggers and an essay by
exhibition co-curators Judith Leemann and Shannon Stratton.
Read more. [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102986032006&s=0&e=001mFWnhrPLQgwjqscMJyD87iM79WjAxSZUoMjMk2zyST7AagdjixCmyVL0ayODJSYh65dfcfD0nsVneIz-Ycxpft9SlPRXUkXOg60Nvc2nvuoAXzMzwJxl4fYuZaDh5PJ0WLyMawD_FU5PnMH8Oks7Np8uC0Nw9iYL1NbOJdqsBhc2tgSrniIaEcxdj0NgfErt]
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NOW ON VIEW
The Academy is Full of Craft
Through February 20
In the decades following the Second World War, craft curricula proliferated in college
and university art departments throughout the United States as scores of American
veterans entered the educational system. The Academy is Full of Craftreflects the
shifts that ensued as ceramics moved out of industry and into the academic art world,
cultivating dynamic new generations of makers. Focusing on ceramic works from the
Museum's collection, The Academy is Full of Craft maps out the connections between
artists from several generations of academic instruction through a three-dimensional
mapping of visual display designed by Studio Gorm (John Arndt and Wonhee Jeong),
of the product design department at University of Oregon.
Read more [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102998367963&s=10882&e=001_O2kyNL8Btnpet0CYHlyzS1oZLcDb6wNBTXP29lb24SmLIXmBXZBNQ_eGcepz3oIWr4F7zODe6cyrmSDLloIRlspVdyiG2lsqgOMQ_s_JyH34sL9qdgKbaYACUxbCJ_qpvOZkXfWiNeDRvQOnXBFZ347pncn9BVDPOLLBfzN3cUi50RCOPUOj0F_V8PQJ5BJjsUKg6iHXSk=].
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
Land Art: David Shaner
March
10 - August 7

Through
selected works by David Shaner, this exhibition examines connections between
currently renewed interest in Land Art and contemporary ceramics. While Land
Art works by Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer offer grand, sweeping gestures
within the landscape, Shaner offers a quiet, contemplative and symbiotic
relationship between land and life, art and the home. Drawn from works in the
Shaner family's and the Museum's collections, this exhibition offers work from
1964 to the 1990s as a lens to an alternative relationship between land and
art. Accompanied by web essays by Daniel Duford, and Namita Gupta Wiggers. The
publication Following
the Rhythms of Life: The Ceramic Art of David Shaner, written by Peter Held, Ceramic
Research Center, Arizona
State University, is available for purchase in The Gallery.
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FEATURED ARTIST

Rebecca Scheer
The Gallery at Museum of Contemporay Craft continues its commitment to local makers.
In February, The Gallery features the jewelry of local
metalsmith Rebecca Scheer [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102986032006&s=0&e=001mFWnhrPLQgwjqscMJyD87iM79WjAxSZUoMjMk2zyST7AagdjixCmybUyTp9MXuMp014tdTGn8PjxzmYRtiTdjUdIW73PtiWXAwaftAfwTl4=].
Last year, Scheer served as a juror for the Museum's
exhibition Touching Warms the Art.
Her work has been featured in numerous venues including: Portland
Institute for Contemporary Art,
Velvet daVinci, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, and Center for the
Visual Arts.
Visit The Gallery [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102986032006&s=0&e=001mFWnhrPLQgwjqscMJyD87iM79WjAxSZUoMjMk2zyST7AagdjixCmyVL0ayODJSYh65dfcfD0nsVneIz-Ycxpft9SlPRXUkXOMd8ZxUJ2GM_grBngWkdVrpDOFXpiaTlPssoFJef8S0YeslF0Cjez2A==].
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COMMUNITY SHOWCASE
Etsy: Do It Yourself
Now through March 6
The Lab at Museum of Contemporary Craft
Free with Museum admission

View locally-made work that
represents how the Portland DIY community is tapping into Etsy.com's innovative
way of connecting people to the handmade, as well as empowering their customers
to become makers themselves.

SPECIAL EVENT

I Heart
Art: Portland

Friday, February 26, 6:30 pm

Hosted by
Etsy.com, Portland Etsy Team, Pacific Northwest College of Art & Museum of
Contemporary Craft

PNCA Main Campus Building, Swigert Commons, 1241 NW Johnson St.

Free and open to the public

Etsy, PNCA, Museum of Contemporary Craft and the Portland Etsy Team
welcome Portland's vibrant community of makers, PNCA students, local guild members
and the general public to connect during I
Heart Art: Portland Meet 'n' Greet. The event is a great opportunity
for Portland-based makers to network and learn more about this
burgeoning partnership and future opportunities for professional
development. Featuring light food and drink, music, button making,
Gocco printing and more.
SAVE THE DATE

CraftPerspectives Lecture: William Gilbert

"Land
Arts of the American West"

Wednesday,
March 10, 6:30 pm

PNCA
Main Campus Building, Swigert Commons, 1241 NW Johnson St.

Free and open to the public

In conjunction with the upcoming exhibition Land Art: David Shaner, Museum
of Contemporary Craft in partnership with PNCA presents the lecture "Land Arts
of the American West" by Bill Gilbert, a ceramic artist who holds the Lannan
Chair in Land Arts of the American West in the Department of Art and Art
History at the University of New Mexico. Gilbert will discuss the resurgence of
interest in Land Art and how this genre has shaped the American West while
simultaneously being informed by it.

SAVE THE DATE
CraftPerspectives Conversation: Reading the Land
Daniel Duford (PNCA) and Matt Johnston (Lewis and Clark College)
Tuesday, April 6, 6:30 pm
The Lab at Museum of Contemporary Craft
Free and open to the public
In this new program format, artist
Daniel Dufordand art historian Matt Johnson will each speak for 20 minutes about
how
"reading" the landscape functions in their own work, providing another
lens through which the connections between David Shaner's work and land
can be understood. The final 20 minutes will focus on connecting their
talks through discussion and dialogue with the audience.
SAVE THE DATE
CraftPerspectives Lecture: Hannah B. Higgins
"Fluxus Experience"
Thursday, April 22, 6:30 pm
PNCA Main Campus Building, Swigert Commons, 1241 NW Johnson St.
Free and open to the
public
Commonly
associated with political and cultural activism in the 1960s, the Fluxus Movement
struggled
against narrow definitions of art and performance. Hannah
B. Higgins, the
daughter of the Fluxus artists Alison Knowles and Dick Higgins and noted
author of Fluxus Experience, will lecture on this movement to provide an additional
context for the practices engaged in
Gestures of Resistance.
Read more about upcoming programs in our online calendar. [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102998367963&s=10882&e=001_O2kyNL8BtnVOH4NlhCr4vv1E1Q_7yX___r51vE0UKnGAREyF8uQhVXGKz568S0AxuEZZ3JuJkqSev9w6xNVdKrc9nlXHYTdflZLWthBIvOVCMH6S8dqYYk_kcUwTsrI-04ZVrWA0eoUZ911DocUH3wByUt7zwU1]
EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLIC PROGRAMMING
ARE SUPPORTED BY:
PNCA + FIVE Ford Institute for Visual Education
Paul G. Allen Family Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Maribeth Collins · Truman
and Kristin Collins - John Gray Charitable Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation
· Mary Maletis · PGE Foundation - Regional Arts & Culture Council · Harold & Arlene
Schnitzer CARE Foundation - Howard & Manya Shapiro Fund of the Oregon Community
Foundation · The Estate of Gordon Smyth - Al Solheim - The Standard · Mary Hoyt
Stevenson Foundation · Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust - Western States Arts Foundation
· Whiteman Foundation
With special thanks to: Gerding Edlen Development and their support of the CYAN/PDX
Cultural Residency Program, The Heathman Hotel and The Nines Hotel.
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CONNECT WITH THE MUSEUM

Museum of Contemporary Craft
in partnership with Pacific Northwest College of Art
724 Northwest Davis Street | Portland, Oregon 97209
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Hours | Tuesday-Saturday 11 am to 6 pm, First Thursdays 11 am to 8 pm
Museum of Contemporary Craft in partnership with Pacific Northwest College of Art
is supported in part by:
PNCA + FIVE
Ford Institute for Visual Education
Paul G. Allen Family Foundation · Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation · Maribeth
Collins · Truman and Kristin Collins ·The Collins Foundation · Mary Maletis · John
Gray Charitable Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation
Howard & Manya Shapiro Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation · The Estate of Gordon
Smyth - Al Solheim · Mary Hoyt Stevenson Foundation · Rose E. Tucker Charitable
Trust · Western States Arts Foundation · Whiteman Foundation
With special thanks to: Gerding Edlen Development and their support of the CYAN/PDX
Cultural Residency Program, The Heathman Hotel and The Nines Hotel.
IMAGE CREDITS (top to bottom):
Sara Black and John Preus, Rebuilding Mayfield, installation view at Museum of Contemporary
Craft, 2010. Photo: Chloe Dietz
The Academy is Full of Craft, installation view, 2009; Photo: Dan Kvitka.
David Shaner, Garden Slab, 1964; slab built stoneware; 4 × 18
inches diameter; Oregon Ceramic Studio Purchase, George T. Gerlinger
Memorial Award Fund, 1964; 1998.64.01; Photo: Dan Kvitka
Detail of necklace by Rebecca Scheer. Available for purchase in The Gallery at Museum
of Contemporary Craft.

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