A Modest Manifesto for Museums
Last year, Orhan Pamuk opened a museum in Istanbul, the city where the Nobel Prize-winning writer grew up. His Museum of Innocence doesn’t have white walls, famous artworks, or rare antiquities. It is...
View ArticleShows to See: June/July 2013
CA / Los AngelesCraft and Folk Art MuseumSonya Clark: Material Reflexto Sep. 8This is not your great-grandma’s dainty Victorian hair art. Clark, a fiber artist, ACC trustee, and chair of the...
View Article50 Years of Building Community
Craft Alliance Delmar Loop 6640 Delmar Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63130 314-725-1177Grand Center 501 N. Grand Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63103 314-534-7528 In 1964, a group of 15 makers in St. Louis opened Craft...
View ArticleAct 8 by Gerhardt Knodel
ACC Fellow Gerhardt Knodel created the pictured work, Act 8, in 1974; Knodel was early in his career and exploring monumental fiber art that integrated art and architecture to bring life to spaces...
View ArticleJinsoo Song: Various Means of Preservation
Jinsoo Song was an artist in residence at the Archie Bray Foundation and has been a resident at the Clay Studio since 2013. His work explores the fragility and fleeting nature of life by creating works...
View ArticleBrian Kluge, 'Collective Confluence'
Brian Kluge, "Collective Confluence"In Brian Kluge's exhibition, each visitor's path is recorded in unfired clay tile covering the floor. As the clay tiles dry during the duration of the exhibition,...
View ArticleDorothy Gill Barnes and Dona Look: Beyond the Trees
"Beyond the Trees" is an exhibition of installations from two renowned artists who work closely with salvaged trees and bark. Dorothy Gill Barnes manipulates the limbs and bark of trees during their...
View ArticleInside Out Outside In: Domestic Commitments
Insisting that “materials” have a voice of their own, Sandra Menefee Taylor uses common materials like salt, flour, and soil that refer to the body, food, and domesticity to reconsider/re-present...
View ArticleRebecca Hutchinson in residence at NCC
Rebecca Hutchinson will be in residence working on a new site-specific installation for the NCC exhibition "Florilegium." See the installation on May 1, 1 - 3 p.m.Dates: Apr 28, 2016 12:00PM to May 2,...
View ArticleOn Borrowed Time: Postponing the Inevitable
The Textile Center presents "On Borrowed Time: Postpointing the Inevitable," an installation by Maggie Thompson. As an Ojibwe woman of mixed heritage, Maggie Thompson works with an intuitive hand to...
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