Craft Conversation
Gestures of Resistance: Looking at How Craft Performs
Thursday, June 17, 6:30 pm
The Lab at Museum of Contemporary Craft
Free and open to the public. Please enter at 720 NW Davis Street.

One week before the exhibition closes, co-curators Judith Leemann and Shannon Stratton return to discuss Gestures of Resistance. Join us for an open conversation about how the exhibition unfolded, what we've learned about engaging emerging practices in a museum setting and how the project will continue after the conclusion of the exhibition.

Gallery Lecture
Joseph Pintz: Collected
July 15, 6 pm
The Lab at Museum of Contemporary Craft
Free and open to the public.

The functional and sculptural ceramics of featured Gallery artist Joseph Pintz explore the role that domestic objects play in fulfilling our physical and emotional needs. Read more about Joseph Pintz on The Gallery web site.

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CraftPerspectives Series

The CraftPerspectives Series provides a forum for today's leading craft artists, professors and curators to share their knowledge of and ideas about issues in contemporary craft.

Past Programs

Craft Conversation: Reading the Land
Daniel Duford (PNCA) and Matt Johnston (Lewis & Clark College)
April 2010
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William Gilbert
Land Arts of the American West
March 2010
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Vicki Halper
Choosing Craft: The Artist's Viewpoint
November 2009
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CraftPerspectives Open Conversation
Sloppy Craft
October 2009

Anne Wilson
Liminal Networks
October 2009
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CraftPerspectives Conversation
Handmade Nation
April 2009
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Visit the Handmade Nation Portland microsite

Glenn Adamson
Craft in the 21st Century: Directions and Displacements
February 2009
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Watch the webcast

CraftPerspectives Panel
Curating the Work of Mandy Greer and Darrel Morris
January 2009

Garth Clark
How Envy Killed the Crafts Movement: An Autopsy in Two Parts
October 2008
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This lecture is available for purchase as a print on demand book.

Steven Skov Holt and Mara Holt Skov
Manuf®actured: From Readymade to Alreadymade
September 2008
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Paul Smith
Reflections: Twentieth Century Studio Craft Movement – Current Observations
April 2008

Ellen Lupton
The Design It Yourself Revolution
March 2008