Calling all crafters, craftspeople, artists who employ craft, designers, architects, fashion designers, and the list goes on. You need to know about this talk tomorrow, Saturday, February 21 at the White Stag building (70 NW Couch) at 2:30. Glenn Adamson is a design theorist and head of research at the V&A, but if that sounds hifalutin’, he’s written a very down-to-earth if incredibly comprehensive/expansive book called _Thinking Through Craft_ which covers a range of craft-related ideas from a Marxist view of the crafty girl to why craft is seen as art’s little cousin.
This weekend “School of Architecture and Allied Arts, University of Oregon”:http://aaa.uoregon.edu/ and the “Museum Contemporary Craft”:http://www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org band together to bring Adamson to town for “Craft in the 21st Century: Directions and Displacements,” part of the “Craft Perspectives Series, Museum of Contemporary Craft”:http://www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org/programs_lecture.php.
By 2:30 you should be done with breakfast and in that little lull of not yet getting ready to go out tonight. Plus, if you haven’t had occasion to check out the White Stag building yet, where U of O’s architecture outpost is housed, here’s your chance. And it’s free.
From the press release:
A leading force in the development of an academic framework for craft, he is hailed by writer and historian Garth Clark as “one of craft’s fresh, young, nontraditional voices.” Adamson dispenses with clichéd approaches to craft theory, posing such questions as: “Is craft truly a subcategory of art, or rather its antithesis, challenging art’s most fundamental values?” “Why is craft perceived as subservient to art?” “Could craft’s orphaned status actually be its great strength?” Framing his discussion broadly throughout contemporary aesthetic culture, Adamson provides ripe context for a range of visual practitioners – including fine artists, designers, architects, historians and indie crafters.
Glenn Adamson is head of graduate studies and deputy head of research at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. His focus of research ranges from modern craft and industrial design to English and American decorative arts during the 17th and 18th centuries. Adamson holds at Ph.D. in art history from Yale University and is the author of “Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World and Thinking Through Craft”:http://www.powells.com/partner/33529/biblio/9780262511865, published in late 2007. Adamson is also an editor of the “Journal of Modern Craft”:http://www.powells.com/partner/33529/s?kw=journal%20of%20modern%20craft and a contributing essayist to “Unpacking the Collection: Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Craft”:http://www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org/salesgallery_publications.php. His forthcoming anthology “The Craft Reader”:http://www.bergpublishers.com/?tabid=5096 will be released in 2009.
POSTED: February 20th, 2009 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art, craft, event, museum of contemporary craft | No Comments »
“Preview,” Jenene Nagy
The elementary school you wish you’d gone to is hosting two events you won’t want to miss. Portland, your future artists and patrons are being cooked up in schools like Buckman Elementary School Arts Focus (and DaVinci Arts Middle School as well) where students do (and have access to) phenomenal drama, art, music, dance.
“Sandy Boys (3 of 3)”. Storm Tharp
Even if these two events didn’t support Buckman, you’d want to be there. The Buckman Art Show & Sell features great visual art, jewelry, fashion, and more running this evening and all day tomorrow at Buckman. And tonight, April 11, 7pm, at the Jupiter Hotel, is the Buckman Bash with a benefit concert by James Mercer of The Shins and Stephen Malkmus of The Jicks. And our favorite, Andrew Dickson (performance artist equally smart and funny) hosts an auction of art by a host of some of our favorite artists in Portland (and incidentally, a few whose stars are seriously on the rise):
- Storm Tharp (Elizabeth Leach Gallery artist whose been in the Biennial and has work in the permanent collection of the Portland Art Museum)
- Jenene Nagy (co-owner of Tilt Gallery, Nagy currently has an installation as part of the Apex series at the Portland Art Museum with an upcoming show at the Art Gym)
- Scott Wayne Indiana (the hardest working artist in Portland, Indiana is responsible for the ponies installations on curbs all over town)
- Harvest Henderson (Henderson had a very busy 2007 with sensational shows/installations in PDX and LA)
And the list goes on and on, Joe Thurston, Alicia J. Rose, Marlana Stoddard Hayes, Grass Hut Master
Bwana Spoons, and many more.
Brenda Rose
Today and tomorrow are the Buckman Art Show & Sell Friday, April 11, 5-9 PM (admission $5), and Saturday, April 12, 10-5 ($2 suggested donation), at Buckman Elementary School Arts Focus (320 SE 16th). And it’s kind of the all-stars of this kind of thing…no crocheted tea cozies here, but visual art, fashion, jewelry, and loads more. We’re looking forward to seeing work by Brenda Rose (above). Emily Katz will be there with her eponymous line and is relaunching Bonnie Heart Clyde, her beloved machine embroidered artwear, at the event. Liza Gastelum’s beaded jewelry, is perfect first fruit for spring days, and Melissa Stiles modern resin jewelry line Stubborn is a favorite.
dress: Emily Katz. photo: Holly Stalder
Plus Suzanne Koelker’s Mugwump bags, and jewelry by Adjowah Brodie, Julie Briggs, and Christine Claringbold.
POSTED: April 11th, 2008 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art, art auction, event | No Comments »
This thing “sells” out. Meaning that you better RSVP for this free event, Creating A Killer Portfolio, to reserve a space and learn how to sell out over and over again just like a pro! OFFICE PDX has to turn people away at the door from this super popular event because Creating A Killer Portfolio, a panel discussion at OFFICE on April 9 from 6-8 PM gives firms or freelancers specializing in graphic design, retail design, interior/environmental design, advertising and/or industrial design invaluable perspective from professionals at firms like Nike, Boora, Nemo, Big Giant, UNKL on what makes a portfolio that Works. That’s access, dear. And it’s free! So what are you waiting for? RSVP by emailing info@officepdx.com.
POSTED: April 7th, 2008 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: design | TAGS: art, design, event | No Comments »
For the third year, the AIGA’s Portland chapter brings Portland’s design community together for PDXpo tonight, Thursday, March 27 from 5:30-9 PM at the Portland Center for Performing Arts: The Winningstad Theater (1111 SW Broadway). The main event is the keynote address by former Portlanders Alicia Johnson and Hal Wolverton (Johnson + Wolverton), currently Executive Creative Directors at Euro RSCG in New York who will reflect on Portland and present the work their firm created for Amnesty International, the Sundance Channel, and perhaps their current work for Jaguar, among others. Keynote begins around 8 PM. PDXpo showcases Portland-based graphic arts vendors and service providers with a side of social and snacks (the price of admission—$12 AIGA members and $17 non-members—gets you a drink ticket at the no-host bar). Exhibitors at the event include Aquent, The Art Institute, Dynagraphics, FILTER, City of Portland Office of Sustainable Development, Pro Photo Supply, PNCA, SMART Papers, and Unisource.
POSTED: March 27th, 2008 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: design | TAGS: art, design, event | No Comments »
Pop meets folk art (with Basquiat overtones) in the work of Portland’s prolific Chris Haberman. At its best, Haberman’s many-media (paint, glue, charcoal, ink pen, oil stick, lipstick) work on found everything (panels of discarded wood, trays, table tops) is a complex visual poem, meeting its subjects with a sometimes jaded, sometimes exuberant layered style invoking urban chaos, if a bright and not particularly apocalyptic sort. Vino Paradiso (417 NW 10th) opens a solo show of Haberman’s work with a reception for the artist this Wednesday night, December 5 from 7-10 PM.
POSTED: December 4th, 2007 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art, art exhibition, art show, artist, chris haberman, event, folk art, pop art, portland | No Comments »