Unpacking the Collection:
Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Craft
By Namita Gupta Wiggers
Essays by Glenn Adamson and Janet Koplos
Edited by Anjali Gupta
The first publication to document Museum of Contemporary Craft’s collection and its connections to dramatic changes in artistic practice over the past seventy years, Unpacking the Collection introduces this vital regional center for craft through photographs of work, essays, texts, archival photographs and an abbreviated exhibition chronology. The book also reveals connections between the collection and the Museum's exhibition history, links between craft and visual culture, and the importance of recognizing regional specificity and identity in the age of globalization.
Softcover; 136 pages; ISBN: 0-9728981-3-1
Release date: July 13, 2008
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Book Celebration
View photographs from the March 10 reading and celebration at Powell's City of Books. Author Namita Wiggers, graphic designer Katherine Bovee, photographer Dan Kvitka, and several featured artists were in attendance. View photos on Flickr
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction by David Cohen
A Glimpse of the Past by Janet Koplos
Look Here by Glenn Adamson
Unpacking by Namita Gupta Wiggers
1930s: A Place for a New Kind of Craft
1940s: Working Around the War
1950s: The Decade of the Northwest Ceramic Annuals
1960s: A New Ceramic Presence
1970s: Changes
1980s: Critical Mass
1990s: Identity Crisis
2000s: Renewal
Artist Information
Exhibition Chronology
Bibligraphy
Credits
ARTISTS
Laura Andreson, Joe and Linda Apodaca, Robert Arneson, Rudy Autio, Rick Bartow, Fred Bauer, Hildur Bjarnadóttir, Frank Boyden, Rose Cabat, Lou Cabeen, Elaine Coleman, Tom Coleman, Peter Collingwood, Anna Belle and Florence Crocker, George Cummings, Donna D’Aquino, Ruth Duckworth, John Economaki, Judy Fawkes, Ken Ferguson, Betty Feves, Ray Grimm, Erik Gronborg, Shoji Hamada, Tom Hardy, Vivika and Otto Heino, Laurie Herrick, Wayne Higby, Ron Ho, Lydia Herrick Hodge, Patrick Horsley, Linda Hutchins, Howard Kottler, Jack Lenor Larsen, James Lovera, Glen Lukens, Sam Maloof, Bodil Manz, Sharon Marcus, John Mason, Otto Natzler, Ronna Neuenschwander, Eric Norstad, Pam Patrie, Antonio Prieto, Don Reitz, Lucie Rie, Hal Riegger, Victoria Avakian Ross, Wally Schwab, Frances Senska, Leroy Setziol, David Shaner, Ken Shores, Ramona Solberg, Paul Soldner, Robert Sperry, Robert Stocksdale, William Stromberg, Lino Tagliapietra, Toshiko Takaezu, John Takehara, Kyoku Tokemaru, Peter Voulkos, Patti Warashina, Marguerite Wildenhain, Betty Woodman
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