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Call: Jewelry Artists for MCC Show

Touching Warms the Art January 19-March 23 at The Museum of Contemporary Craft

Touch it. Go ahead. Among the kinds of art our mom’s won’t tell us not to touch are those that are meant to be worn, clothing, jewelry. But as The Museum of Contemporary Craft notes, most museum exhibitions that deal with art jewelry display it under glass…understandable when precious metals &c. are involved.

But the Museum is going to do a show next year — Touching Warms the Art, January 19-March 23 — that foregrounds the relationship between the body and art jewelry, a show in which everything is meant to be, and is, touched. So, they’re issuing a call for artists for this show juried by Rebecca Scheer, Rachelle Thiewes, and Namita Gupta Wiggers.

As the call puts it, “artists are encouraged to explore questions of materiality, construction, design and wearability. Putting aside preciousness, makers of art jewelry are invited to create objects that give audiences the freedom to touch – and temporarily wear – these adornments.”

The deadline to apply is August 15, see the prospectus for more info.

POSTED: May 21st, 2007 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: | No Comments »