crafts: MAY NEWS: Gestures of Resistance, Ai Weiwei and more

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Gestures of Resistance

Through June 26

Free for Museum
members; $3 general public

CURATOR WALKTHROUGH

May 4, 12 pm

Free with Museum admission

With three more resident artists yet to make their
mark in this ever-evolving exhibition, Gestures of Resistancecontinues to challenge
what it means to create, to have
personal agency and to counter drives toward productivity and consumption
through craft.

The exhibition began with a live buildout of the museum by Sarah Black and John
Preus who set the stage for future performances and interaction. Canadian artist
Anthea
Black then worked with PNCA students to print and poster the city with her
subversive work. Next, Frau Fiber used her pedal-powered sewing machine to
sew upcycled garments composed of fused plastic bags and Mung Lar Lam performed
Ironings, a meditation on labor, gender and class.

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VISITING ARTIST

Cat Mazza

In residence May 18-22

Cat Mazza will work and perform in the Museum each day from 11am-6pm. Additionally,
Mazza's Nike Blanket Petition (2003-08), normally on view in the Gestures of Resistance
Study Center, will be fully deployed in The Lab during the artist's residency.
Cat Mazza, whose Nike Blanket Petition earned her acclaim in both the craft and
anti-sweatshop movements, embarks on a new project intended to initiate a conversation
around global manufacturing practices. Setting up a process by which knitted cast-offs
of American brands are unmade - cut into strips or unraveled into a stitched sculpture
- Mazza will develop a workshop environment where visitors can participate in a
discussion about the global garment industry. Alongside this production process,
Mazza will display videos about the feminization of labor.

UPCOMING VISITING ARTISTS

Ehren Tool, June 1-12

Theaster Gates, June 18-19

Upcoming artists-in-residence Ehren Tool and
Theaster Gates will take Gestures of
Resistanceto its conclusion in June, adding their own work to the ongoing
look at productivity and consumption through craft. Ehren Tool (June 1-12) will
exhaust one ton of porcelain over the course of a durational cup-throwing and
conversational performance, and Theaster Gates (June 18-19) will whitewash everything
that has come before in delicate porcelain slip and hold a public performance
on June 19.

Land Art: David Shaner

Through August 7

Free for Museum
members; $3 general public

David Shaner's work from the early 1960s through the 1990s reveals a concurrent,
domestically scaled yet quietly sensual relationship between art and the landscape
of the American West. Through works drawn from the artist's estate and the Museum's
collection, along with photographs and personal notes taken by the artist, the exhibition
reveals how broader cultural interests in conceptual art and the land, ecology and
materiality are explored through an artist known as a "potter's potter."

Listen to podcasts of William Gilbert's CraftPerspectives Lecture [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103333338836&s=10882&e=0013OeiFNQ58eXcddoiw84ZdM1PY7ir80ztDoWiOsJ8fJCLsclrHjnlOq3q7LUwWnHHSW5XrERL5hPjpFet_sktEzXyfVBogP9Lc1Bk83fKUQ9zhaLSXhczC3Zse5MiJ-Q06dCq64lRcVD8WcIISopCxHHp7vLsPUnl_nTAaHWuvalGoG2CmqoHwQ==]

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COMING SOON
Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn
Ceramic Works, 5000 BCE-2010 CE
July 15-October 30
Free for Museum
members; $3 general public
Museum of Contemporary Craft is pleased to host the
first solo exhibition [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103333338836&s=10882&e=0013OeiFNQ58eWrbjOHHOqYys2AudSueZV54br6bPVfjTQc5rYxVa9CoyJ65AvW76AAAX8brKZFkYDmT_x5k-nQcf5caxmnXP4cqRcG48PYT3kN3NJJc5tB4wW_k6twqftebbtgUOxVzWLpX8UPlsIMyaIqphOGSJq2DA1SY_nFE-FztAOAQQa4E37_pQahITC5]of
work by this leading contemporary Chinese artist on
the West Coast. This exhibition of internationally acclaimed artist Ai Weiwei
features his iconoclastic use of Neolithic vessels, blue and white Qing and
Yuan dynasty replicas, and a work consisting of one ton of "sunflower seeds"
crafted from porcelain. The exhibition is co-curated by Richard Torchia and
Gregg Moore and organized by Arcadia University.
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Spring Art and Craft Book Sale
May 4-29
The Gallery at Museum of Contemporary Craft
Open Tuesday-Saturday, 11 am-6 pm
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during the month of May and save up to 40% on our amazing selection of books, DVDs
and catalogs. This sale includes volumes filled with beautifully photographed objects
and useful information on various craft techniques. Don't miss out on this opportunity
to take home a book, DVD or catalog from The Gallery at a great price while supporting
a vibrant center for contemporary craft.
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COMMUNITY SHOWCASE

Portland Bead Society

Through June 5
The Lab at Museum of Contemporary Craft
Free with Museum admission

ARTIST DEMONSTRATIONS

May 1, 8, 22, 29, June 5

Saturdays, 1-4 pm in The Lab at Museum of
Contemporary Craft

Free with Museum admission

In
conjunction with the Community Showcase of work by the Portland Bead Society, artists
will give demonstrations of their work. Learn more about the Portland Bead Society
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CONVERSATION

Open Engagement Conference: Curating with Abandon

Saturday, May 15, 2:30 pm

The Lab at Museum of Contemporary Craft

Free to Museum members and Conference attendees; open to public with Museum admission

The Open Engagement Conference [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103333338836&s=10882&e=0013OeiFNQ58eWDqRsTsenXTuN_99eoqDE_uIrUVe1cGYvkDffjichrPbpVTAT9IuyjrU2m8wjRRhl73t7MV_M9GmncIJxybrELCixVWt3jGUkIBnqfDV5_zQ==](May
14-17) challenges traditional ideas of what art is
and does. The conference will feature three nationally and internationally
renowned artists: Mark Dion, Amy Franceschini and Nils Norman, in addition to
a number of art installations, lectures, presentations and discussions on the
subject.

Gestures of Resistanceco-curators Judith Leemann and Shannon Stratton and Museum
curator
Namita Wiggers will hold a conversation about "Curating with Abandon." The conference
arrives
in the midst of the Museum's six-month long exhibition that continues to
unfold through a series of artist residencies. This program considers Gestures
of Resistanceas a site for potentially self-contradicting conversations
about curatorial abandon and "not-abandoning" curation.

EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLIC PROGRAMMING
ARE SUPPORTED BY:
PNCA+FIVE
Ford Institute for Visual Education
Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, BOORA Architects, The Collins Foundation, Maribeth
Collins, Truman & Kristin Collins, John Gray Charitable Fund of the Oregon Community
Foundation, First Independent Wealth Management, Douglas Macy, Mary Maletis, Miller
Nash LLP, Oregon Arts Commission, PGE Foundation, Regional Arts & Culture Council,
Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation, The Estate of Gordon Smyth, Al Solheim,
The Standard, Mary Hoyt Stevenson Foundation, Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust, US
Bank, 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, The Nines Hotel and Twentyfour
Seven.
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Ford Institute for Visual Education
Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, BOORA Architects, The Collins Foundation, Maribeth
Collins, Truman & Kristin Collins, John Gray Charitable Fund of the Oregon Community
Foundation, First Independent Wealth Management, Douglas Macy, Mary Maletis, Miller
Nash LLP, Meyer Memorial Trust, M.J. Murdock Trust, The James F. and Marion L. Miller
Foundation, Oregon Arts Commission, PGE Foundation, Regional Arts & Culture Council,
Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation, The Estate of Gordon Smyth, Al Solheim,
The Standard, Mary Hoyt Stevenson Foundation, Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust, US
Bank, 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, The Nines Hotel and Twentyfour
Seven.
IMAGE CREDITS (top to bottom)
Gestures of Resistance Artist residencies:
Mung Lar Lam, Ironings, performance view, April 2010. Photo: Chloe Dietz
Sara Black and John Preus, Rebuilding Mayfield, performance view, January 2010.
Photo: Chloe Dietz
Anthea Black works with students at Pacific Northwest College of Art. Photo: Chloe
Dietz
Frau Fiber, KO Enterprises: High Performance Apparel Production, an experiment of
uneconomical production; performance, March 2010. Photo: Heather Zinger.
Mung Lar Lam, Ironings, performance view, April 2010. Photo: Chloe Dietz
Land Art: David Shaner, installation view, 2010. Photo: Katherine Bovee
Ai Weiwei, Coca-Cola Vase, 1997; vase from Neolithic Age (5000-3000 BCE) and paint,
11 7/8" x diameter 13". Courtesy Tsai Collection, New York.
Gallery Book Sale. Photo: Chloe Dietz

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