It’s in the grey zones, the inbetweens and overlaps, especially between art and fashion and art and design, that things really get interesting. These intersections on the Venn Diagram of culture are what refire ULTRA’s booster rockets on a regular basis. So it is that we are thrilled to co-present the Action/Re-Action Runway Show with the Museum of Contemporary Craft on Wednesday, January 30 at 7 PM.
We’ve invited a dozen Portland independent fashion designers to create responses to pieces selected from the Museum’s upcoming exhibition of jewelry, Touching Warms the Art. In a first for the Museum, the designers’ work will be exhibited in a runway show. Touching Warms the Art is interesting in and of itself, co-curated by Portland jeweler Rebecca Scheer and Namita Gupta Wiggers. Artists were invited to create pieces of jewelry in non-precious materials meant to be handled, tried on, explored by museum visitors. For anyone whose experience of art has always been of the “don’t touch” variety, this is a great gambit, and it’s especially appropriate for craft jewelry. The pieces in the show are sensational: a delicate paper ring to be built by visitors, a hip-length wool necklace, a welded collar, a ring made from a plastic bottle. And the lineup of participating fashion designers is equally exciting: Holly Stalder, Liza Rietz, Adam Arnold, Leanne Marshall (Leanimal), April Melnick (Antidomestic), Julia Barbee, Emily Katz, Kate Towers, Emily Ryan, Elizabeth Dye, Genevieve Dellinger, and Gretchen Jones.
The Action/Re-Action Runway Show is Wednesday, January 30, 7 PM at The Lab at Museum of Contemporary Craft at its new beautiful home on the Park Blocks. Tickets are $10 and may be had in advance from the Museum (it may sell out as the capacity isn’t huge).
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