Join us for a spirited conversation moderated by artist Douglas Ewart featuring Craft Invitational curatorial committee members, Delores Fortuna and Don Friedlich, and exhibiting artist, Kee-Ho Yuen.
The “reasoning” as Ewart calls it, will be a forum to exchange ideas, knowledge and concepts while exploring the role of craft in the art world and in our daily lives.
Topics include: Craft vs. Art, the ecology of traditional ways of fabrication, the intersection of craft with the sciences, and the importance of play.
Following the conversation Douglas Ewart will discuss his multidisciplinary work which weaves together music, art making, and performance.
Mixed media artist Lorraine Reynolds will be harvesting art materials next to her work in the gallery. She will show the process of dissembling garments and making them into the balls that form the exhibition. Lorraine will provide scissors for those who want to join in the harvesting.
Mike Stumbras will demonstrate the construction and ornamentation of fine porcelain vessels on the pottery wheel while speaking about his historical and conceptual interests in craft and studio ceramics.
Toast the beginning of summer with old friends and new artists. Gather in Washington Park for an evening of fashion, craft beer and wine, artful desserts and artist demonstrations inspired by DuMA’s Craft Invitational.
Tickets include Museum admission, all artist talks and demonstrations, music, a Bavarian pretzel from Chew on This food truck, desserts from Pastry by Sandrine, and your choice of a beer flight from Jubeck New World Brewing and Dimensional Brewing, a glass of wine, or a soft drink. Additional food and beverages will be available for purchase from local vendors. AMIDST will offer free digital magazine for event attendees.
This event will take place rain or shine.
All sales are final.
Members: $20
Non-members: $25
Under 21: $10
Members under 21: $8
Join us for the first of two Craft virtual talks in the month of September. Darlys Ewoldt, Ali Kauss and Linda Kelen will share their artwork inspirations and insights on working with metal.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
The Dubuque Museum of Art is currently featuring the 2nd Craft Invitational exhibition highlighting fine craft, with an emphasis on traditional materials handled in unexpected and innovative ways.
This exhibition continues through October 11, 2020.
For more information including artist bios/statements, virtual tours and downloadable art activity worksheets, click here.
We would like to thank Premier Bank, Cottingham & Butler, Mosaic Lodge No. 125, Wisconsin Public Radio and Brigadier General USA (Retired) Bob and Nancy Felderman for being generous sponsors of the 2nd Craft Invitational exhibition.
Join us for the second of two Craft virtual talks in the month of September. James Pearce, Andrew Shea & Rich Robertson will share their artwork inspirations and insights on working within their art mediums.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
The Dubuque Museum of Art is currently featuring the 2nd Craft Invitational exhibition highlighting fine craft, with an emphasis on traditional materials handled in unexpected and innovative ways.
This exhibition continues through October 11, 2020.
For more information including artist bios/statments, virtual tours and downloadable art activity worksheets, click here.
We would like to thank Premier Bank, Cottingham & Butler, Mosaic Lodge No. 125, Wisconsin Public Radio and Brigadier General USA (Retired) Bob and Nancy Felderman for being generous sponsors of the 2nd Craft Invitational exhibition.
DuMA 2nd Craft Invitational Featured Artist: Gordon Browning
Gordon Browning is a wood artist working in Viola, Wisconsin.
Browning makes lathe-turned, blind-hollowed vessels. Aesthetically, he favors clean, full-bodied curves that respect the grain and hint at the log beneath.
Exploring The Craft Movement: Jessie Bayes (1876-1970) “EXPERIMENT”
In conjunction with the Craft Invitational exhibition, we invite you to explore some of the Craft movement’s figures, schools and issues.
The work of British arts and craftswoman Jessie Bayes has been described as ethereal, magical, and an “expression of things felt and seen.”
Bayes was known for her work in woodcarving, painting, calligraphy, gesso and gilding, and stained glass, but is best known for her ethereal illuminated manuscripts inspired by Scandinavian, Celtic, and French poetry. She often wrote the texts which were dominated by themes of romance and mysticism and strove to beautify everyday life and “wed the physical and spiritual.”
Jessie Bayes was raised in an artistic family where the four children were taught by their father Alfred, an etcher and book illustrator, to appreciate beauty at an early age. All her siblings later pursued careers in the fine arts.
Bayes attended evening classes at London’s Central School of Arts and Crafts, which grew directly out of the Arts and Crafts Movement of William Morris. There, Bayes learned to gild on wood and discovered a love for writing and illumination.
The art of illumination requires patience and attention to detail. Bayes, who combined tempera with watercolor and gold gilt, developed her own sense of jewel-like color, often in blues and golds. She felt that the “idea of color symbolizing love should be above all precious to an illuminator, since, in illuminating, color can reach its intensest [sic] height of purity and radiance.”
Bayes exhibited widely with the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society, and at the Royal Academy and the Baillie Gallery in London. In 1922, Bayes exhibited some of her illuminated books, as well as paintings on vellum, fans, and panels, at the Art Center in New York. Bayes gradually expanded her repertoire to include painted and gilded decoration on furniture as well as interior design and stained-glass work.
Excerpted from the Cranbrook Kitchen Sink Weekly Blog.
DuMA 2nd Craft Invitational Featured Artist: Donald Friedlich
Donald Friedlich is a glass artist working in Madison, Wisconsin.
“I had the idea for this body of work (“Organic Series”) for more than five years, but thought it was frivolous, so kept pushing it aside. Eventually, though, the only way to get it to stop haunting me was to make a piece of jewelry and see it if it was worthy of pursuit. In the end, I came to feel that transforming commonplace materials such as food, into glass, allowed viewers and wearers to see the beauty and elegance of their forms in a new light. Plus, the idea of wearing an apple or a stalk of celery as a brooch makes me smile.”
