12/21/2020
Happy Winter Solstice !❄❄
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Joel Philip Myers
Winter 1, 1984.
Glass
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MAD champions artists, designers, and artisans, presenting contemporary art and design through a craft lens. The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) champions contemporary makers across creative fields—presenting artists, designers, and artisans who apply the highest level of ingenuity and skill to their work.
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Since the Museum’s founding in 1956 by philanthropist and visionary Aileen Osborn Webb, MAD has celebrated all facets of making and the creative processes by which materials are transformed, from traditional techniques to cutting-edge technologies. Today, the Museum’s curatorial program builds upon a rich history of exhibitions that emphasize a cross-disciplinary approach to art and design, and reveals the workmanship behind the objects and environments that shape our everyday lives. MAD provides an international platform for practitioners who are influencing the direction of cultural production and driving 21st-century innovation, fostering a participatory setting for visitors to have direct encounters with skilled making and compelling works of art and design.
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12/20/2020
“I make things I hope people can laugh at and yet take seriously. I use my work as a platform to express my reactions to things I see around me; I use humor in my work to make the serious nature of those things bearable.”- Jewelry artist J. Fred Woell.
In the 1960s master jeweler, J. Fred Woell rejected the status quo and led the way for art jewelers to come. Woell used found objects like bottle tops, beer cans, logos, and cartoon imagery to create jewelry that spoke against the waste and excess in American culture.
In Woell’s piece The Good Guys, featured in our current collection exhibition, 45 Stories in Jewelry: 1947 to Now, a tree of life made from cheap materials and is set into a gold-colored background, recalling a religious icon; tiny portraits of comic-book saviors hang from the branches.
The artist once said: ”This pendant is an assemblage of three buttons of comic strip heroes mounted as if they were sacred icons.... I like satire. In this work I tried to intensify its bizarre sacrosanct absurdity by use of commonplace material which has no intrinsic value."
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J. Fred Woell
The Good Guys, 1966
Walnut, steel, copper, plastic, silver, gold leaf
12/19/2020
“This glass artist’s compact mid-career survey at the Museum of Arts & Design, titled “Collective Elegy,” is a seductive, cinematic affair, well suited to Lipman’s themes and to her glittering, translucent medium.” - Johanna Fateman on Beth Lipman’s Collective Elegy for The New Yorker.
Experience Lipman’s examination of the interdependence and tension between humanity and the natural world now through August 15.
https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/beth-lipman
12/18/2020
We are excited to host another Music at MAD session tomorrow, Saturday, December 19 from 2 - 5 pm ET, featuring the series’ artist directors, American cellist Laura Metcalf, and Australian classical guitarist Rupert Boyd, also known as Boyd Meets Girl Duo.
The award-winning duo known for their eclectic style will play some of their favorites during the pop-up performance including Debussy, Messiaen, Beyonce, and more, in our fifth-floor gallery featuring Brian Clarke: The Art of Light.
12/18/2020
We are saddened by the recent passing of Dorthy Gill Barnes. Known for her innovative basket work and wood sculptures, the #MADCollection artist only worked with materials that she accessed herself. Whether it be bark, branches, or roots, she was always "respectful of her materials." Often the artist would only utilize trees in her area that were already scheduled for removal, hoping to decrease the impact on the environment.
Barnes also created raised bark drawings, which she called "dendroglyphs. She would use a knife to cut a pattern into the bark of a tree and return one to two years later ( although in one instance, she waited 14 years) to see what had formed on the raised scar tissue of the tree. Inspired by the bark's natural transition, she would wait to see the result before deciding how she would create with it.
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#DorothyGillBarnes
Ailanthus and Palm Fiber, 1982.
Ailanthus bark, willow, palm fiber; woven, twill woven
12/17/2020
❄️ SNOW DAY❄️ - time to break out those woolly socks!
Due to the inclement weather, MAD is closed today, Thursday, December 17. Take some time to enjoy the season’s first snow. ⛄️
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Risa Benson
Untitled, 2001.
Wool, wood, watercolor, Plexiglas
12/16/2020
In a year filled with uncertainty, one thing that has remained constant is the support of the MAD community. We are grateful for your generosity and commitment to our mission. Together, we found new ways to gather and experience art, and because of your willingness to adapt, we succeeded in supporting more than 175 artists through our virtual programs.
MAD is committed to connecting you directly with artists, offering opportunities every day for you to deepen your engagement with some of today’s most talented emerging and established craft artists and designers. As 2020 ends, we hope you will consider a year-end donation.
This Museum is a home for makers—amateurs, aspiring, and accomplished. Through the generosity of art lovers like you, MAD will remain a welcoming and inclusive center of art, craft, and design for all.
Click the link below to learn the different ways you show your support.
https://madmuseum.org/support
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We’re #MADlyGrateful for MADArtistStudios 2020 artist Dance Doyle.
12/15/2020
During her career, multidisciplinary artist and art consultant Cheryl Riley has created wall art, installations, site-specific public artworks, custom lighting, furniture designs. And she started designing jewelry after making her first piece to wear for the opening of MAD’s Global Africa Project, curated by Lowery Sims. Since then, Riley often includes jewelry as a medium in her work. Her art explores similarities between seemingly disparate cultures viewed through the lens of gender, history, rituals, implements, and symbols.
Tomorrow at 2 pm ET, Riley will join associate curator Barbara Paris Gifford for the online conversation series, In the MAD Loupe, which spotlights artists who are the future of contemporary art jewelry. Hear directly from Riley about her multidisciplinary art practice. Learn about her journey toward jewelry and its implications for a more inclusive field in the future. Get a sneak peek at what’s currently on her bench before asking your questions during the interactive Q&A.
Click the link below to register:
https://madmuseum.org/events/mad-loupe-cheryl-riley
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Image 1: Selection from Sculptures in the Form of Necklaces by Cheryl Riley
Photo: Tatsuro Nishimura
Image 2: Photo of Cheryl Riley by Jonathon Andre’ Beckles
12/15/2020
Happy Birthday to potter and MAD Collection artist Hideaki Miyamura.
“As a young potter’s apprentice in Japan, I spent years throwing and perfecting forms, to the point that my hands and body could create without the intervention of my conscious mind. When I began to consider my work in an intentional and creative way, I was driven by a quest to create new glazes. In Japan, I performed thousands of experiments with different materials and firing temperatures to achieve an iridescent glaze reminiscent of ancient Chinese yohen tenmoku tea bowls, dark and mysterious in a way that reminded me of a clear night’s endless sky. Coming to the United States thirty years ago to pursue my life as an artist, I knew that my forms and glazes needed to enhance each other."
Miyamura is inspired by the Chinese pottery tradition, specifically the iridescent glazes of the Song dynasty. While Miyamura continues to test thousands of different recipes, in the end, what’s most important to him is that there is a sense of balance between the piece and its surroundings.
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Hideaki Miyamura
Vase with Peacock Glaze, 2004.
Porcelain, glaze
12/14/2020
When lockdown started, MAD Artist Studios artist Rhonda Weppler spent time casting an heirloom necklace to share with family members. This quarantine project kicked-off a new interest in lockets, and like any good obsession, eventually, lead to inexpensive trawling on eBay.
Tomorrow at 12: 30 pm, Weppler joins associate curator of public programs, Lydia Brawner, for a lunchtime unboxing of her antique treasures, and a deep dive into jewelry and design history on Instagram Live. A little bit holiday shopping, a little bit Antiques Roadshow!
12/13/2020
Brian Clarke on Painting
While Brian Clarke is one of today's leading stained-glass artists, he considers painting his core practice. He has said, “It is through painting that I understand how to view architecture, appreciate the rhythm of a poem, draw pleasure from the structure of a well-composed sentence. And it is through painting that the complexity of music makes itself understood to me. It is through painting, in fact, that I am."
Visit our Online Learning Lab to learn more about Clarke, his inspirations, and practice. Link in the bio.
And be sure to book your timed tickets for Brian Clarke: The Art of Light now on view through February 21.
12/12/2020
Beth Lipman’s Distill series features small-scale dioramas cast in metal containing ancient flora like conifer, lichen, and ferns along with miniature furniture and domestic objects. The small scale scenes depict decaying domestic interiors overgrown with elements of the natural world. The scenes initiate a conversations between prehistoric and present day geological time periods and reinforce the nature’s longevity despite humanity’s impact.
View this piece and more now on view in Beth Lipman: Collective Elegy.
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Beth Lipman
Distill # 21, 2015
Cast iron with plating
12/11/2020
Music at MAD: Daniel Khalikov and Milan Milisavljević
Our Music at MAD series continues tomorrow with the MET Orchestra Musicians' first violinist, Daniel Khalikov, and principal viola Milan Milisavljević. While we’re unable to see these award-winning artists at the opera at this time, we invite you to enjoy a pop-up performance in the gallery.
Performances take place Saturdays between 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm EST on the hour and half-hour following the Museum’s safe social-distancing practices and are free with museum admission
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Daniel Khalikov + Milan Milisavljevic
W.A. Mozart: Duo for violin and viola
12/10/2020
Happy Hanukkah to all those who celebrate! Tonight marks the first night of the Jewish festival of lights.
The +/- hot plate (Hebrew, Memphis and Zen) features a Hebrew blessing for life and bounty, is not only beautiful but also functional - a perfect way to keep your latkes nice and warm!
When designing the piece, designers Dov Ganchrow and Ami Drach used the conducive properties of silk-screened gold or ‘amorphic’ metal films in the same manner print circuit boards or car windshield defrosters work. You hook up the plate to an electrical source, and the current will run through the ‘decoration,’ keeping food warm.
Ganchrow and Drach decided not to let the technology fade into the product, but instead, they used it to bring a unique graphic language to life featuring decorations that gave a hint to their reason for being.
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Dov Ganchrow and Ami Drach
+/- hot plate (Hebrew, Memphis and Zen), 2003.
Ready-made plate, ABS connector housing; conductive silkscreen printed
12/10/2020
Hank Willis Thomas joins the latest edition of Luminaries Live! tonight at 6:30 pm ET. During the art-filled happy hour, Willis will reveal details about his practice, his collaborators, and his first major retrospective.
Don’t miss your chance to chat live with Willis while listening to his favorite holiday songs!
Click the link below to register:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEuc-uqqzgrE9WyIrzPbFPUsLituhKUMRRO
12/09/2020
This week’s #WCW is textile artist Cynthia Schira. The artist received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and studied at École des Arts Décoratifs - Paris. Later, Schira earned an MFA from The University of Kansas, where she also a professor for almost twenty years. Throughout her career, Schira has experimented with various materials and designs in her weaving, including ikat dyed warp designs, aluminum, rayon ribbon, and pre-dyed tapes. However, she has always remained true to the traditional technique of flat tapestry hanging. Continuously looking for ways to incorporate modern influences, Schira was an early advocate of computer-based weaving programs. Much of her more recent work has incorporated digital information.
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Cynthia Schira
Near Eleuthera, 1986
Cotton, rayon, mixed fibers; woven (integrated triple cloth with painted warps)
12/08/2020
Our friends at BOMB Magazine recently released their latest Oral History Project featuring Odili Donald Odita. Known for his geometric paintings, Odita, in conversation with MoMA The Museum of Modern Art curator Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, recalls growing up as a refuge from the Nigerian Civil War and his father's influence, a historian of African art.
Click below to read the full piece.
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/odili-donald-odita-oral-history/
12/07/2020
Tonight at 7 pm ET, MAD Artist Studios alum Natalia Arbelaez joins Chief Curator Elissa Auther and assistant curator Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy for an online conversation about sculpture, ceramics, and craft.
During tonight’s talk, Arbelaez will discuss the inspiration for her work. The artist explores stories of Amerindian identity, women of color, immigration, and colonization through the levity of quirky, sharp-toothed, grimacing figures inspired by Central and South American indigenous ceramics.
Arbelaez is one of the featured artists in Vizcarrondo-Laboy’s recent exhibition for the Center for Craft, Sleight of Hand, which brings together six contemporary artists using humor in ceramics as a tool of resistance, resilience, and healing, to navigate a range of pressing social issues.
Click the link in the bio to register.
https://madmuseum.org/events/mad-moments-natalia-arbelaez
12/05/2020
Helen Britton uses botanicals to explore the relationship between urban environments and nature. Britton collects objects that no longer have a purpose and uses them in her work to give them new life. The artist created the piece Poison Island with vintage glass and freshwater pearls. The brooch is a garden-variety poisonous bloom depicted in etched metal, with a black Jolly Roger flag embedded in its leaves, warning of danger.
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See this piece and more works now on view in 45 Stories in Jewelry: 1947 to Now. Click the link below to book your timed tickets.
https://madmuseum.org/exhibition/45-stories-jewelry
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Helen Britton
Poison Island, 2006-07
Hand engraved and painted silver, vintage glass, freshwater pearls
12/04/2020
Rising viola star Jordan Bak takes center stage at the Museum tomorrow as apart of our #MusicatMAD series curated by the Boyd Meets Girl Duo.
The Jamaican-American artist is establishing a standout career in the recital and chamber music arenas. Bak is a winner of the 2019 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition, the recipient of the 2019 Samuel Sanders Tel Aviv Music Prize, and the 2019 Joh White Prize for the Tertis International Viola Competition.
The pop-up performance will take place from 2 - 5 pm, following the Museum’s social-distancing protocols, and is free with admission.
https://madmuseum.org/
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Jordan BakProkofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suite for viola and piano
12/04/2020
Innovative glass artist Dominick Labino was born on this day in 1910. Originally trained as an engineer, Labino considered himself an inventor rather than an artist. Labino held sixty patents in the United States and hundreds around the world related to glass processes. His developments around heat-resistant glass fibers were used in NASA’s Gemini and Apollo spacecraft.
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Dominick Labino
Vase, 1977
Hand-blown glass
12/03/2020
What are the similarities between a massive Gothic cathedral and the delicate design of a gold necklace? Between a ring set with precious gemstones and a contemporary art museum filled with great art?
This Saturday, at 2 pm ET, join us for a dialogue between architectural artist and painter Brian Clarke and artist-designers David and Sybil Yurman.
The online conversation on living creatively and creating art will be moderated by Paul Greenhalgh, curator of the current exhibition Brian Clarke: The Art of Light and Director of the @sainsburycentre.
Just for our MAD community, we're offering a 25% savings on tickets (use the promo code FRIENDS5). Click the link in the bio to register now!
https://madmuseum.org/events/living-creatively-brian-clarke-david-and-sybil-yurman
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#BrianClarke: The Art of Light is made possible by presenting sponsor David Yurman.
Exhibition film provided by the educational channel HENI Talks.
12/02/2020
#WCW “Embroidery is to sewing what poetry is to prose.” - Mariska Karasz.
The fashion designer, fiber, and embroidery artist, Mariska Karasz, was born #OTD in 1898.
“Karasz learned embroidery as part of her schooling as a young girl living in Hungary in the early twentieth century. After immigrating to New York at the outbreak of World War I with her mother and sister, she found work as a fashion designer following her studies at the city's famed Traphagen School. Karasz’s designs often combined Hungarian folk motifs with contemporary Western styles, especially in the embroidered treatments of her garments. Moving to work on flat panels of fabric, the subjects of her work ranged from abstract to figurative. Karasz’s early upbringing in Hungary introduced her to the medium as a part of a national heritage. Her continual engagement with embroidery as an artistic act allowed her to expand and develop her own knowledge and ethos.
- Excerpt from curatorial assistant Alida Jekabson’s essay, “Embroidery as an Agent of Cultural Memory.”
Visit our Online Learning Lab to read the full piece in which Jekabson discusses how embroidery is used to make meaning from immigrant and refugee memory.
https://madmuseum.org/views/embroidery-agent-cultural-memory
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Mariska Karasz
Elsa De Brun, 1947
Linen, wool; knitted, embroidered, sewn
#MADCollection
#MariskaKarasz
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Music at MAD: Daniel Khalikov and Milan Milisavljević
Our Music at MAD series continues tomorrow with the MET Orchestra Musicians' first violinist, Daniel Khalikov, and principal viola Milan Milisavljević. While we’re unable to see these award-winning artists at the opera at this time, we invite you to enjoy a pop-up performance in the gallery. Performances take place Saturdays between 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm EST on the hour and half-hour following the Museum’s safe social-distancing practices and are free with museum admission ._______ Daniel Khalikov + Milan Milisavljevic W.A. Mozart: Duo for violin and viola
Brian Clarke on Painting
While Brian Clarke is one of today's leading stained-glass artists, he considers painting his core practice. He has said, “It is through painting that I understand how to view architecture, appreciate the rhythm of a poem, draw pleasure from the structure of a well-composed sentence. And it is through painting that the complexity of music makes itself understood to me. It is through painting, in fact, that I am." Visit our Online Learning Lab to learn more about Clarke, his inspirations, and practice. Link in the bio. And be sure to book your timed tickets for Brian Clarke: The Art of Light now on view through February 21.
Music at MAD : Sumire Kudo
New York Philharmonic cellist Sumire Kudo joins us for an informal performance in the 5th fl gallery tomorrow from 2 pm - 5 pm EST. Kudo, also a chamber musician and soloist, previously taught at Indiana University-South Bend and was the cellist for the Avalon String Quartet. She is just one of the celebrated musical artists that will perform in the galleries on Saturday afternoon through January 2. Curated by Laura Metcalf and Rupert Boyd of Boyd Meets Girl, the seven-week music series includes artists performing various genres from classical to contemporary. Visit the link below to learn more about our upcoming performances. https://madmuseum.org/learn/music-mad ___ Video: Sumire Kudo performing Bach’s Prelude from Suite No. 5 #madmuseum #musicatmad #AllinNYC #livemusic
Crafting the Future's Corey Pemberton
“In the early days of my career as a glassblower, I bounced around between many different studios across the south and midwest, and even Scandinavia, picking up new skills and techniques along the way. For 10 years, I was the only black glassblower in the dozen or so studios that I worked in. This glaring lack of diversity became a growing concern for me, but it wasn’t until I met furniture designer Annie Evelyn in 2016 that we decided to do something about it. The fields of art, craft, and design all suffer across the board. Annie and I decided to form Crafting the Future, a collective of artists with a shared concern, to diversify these fields by connecting BIPOC artists with opportunities to help them thrive. Today we are partnered with 8 different craft schools and 4 youth arts organizations from around the country, working to provide scholarships for young artists of color to have the craft school experience. Not only do we want to create pathways into the field, but we insist on supporting and celebrating artists of color who have already established their careers. “ - Crafting the Future co-founder and glass artist Corey Pemberton. Tomorrow at 7 pm ET, join Corey as he takes us on a virtual studio visit with Brooklyn-based glass artist Leo Tecosky. In addition to discussing their practices, the two glass artists will discuss the importance of diversifying the fields of art, craft, and design. Click the link below to register, https://madmuseum.org/events/crafting-future-studio-visit-leo-tecosky _____ #craftingthefuture #coreypemberton #LeoTecosky #MADMuseum
We’re all missing the live music experience, so we are bringing the music to MAD!
We’re all missing the live music experience, so we are bringing the music to MAD! Starting tomorrow, we’re introducing a new Saturday Music Series. You’ll now be able to enjoy informal performances from an international roster of celebrated musicians while you explore our galleries on Saturday afternoons. Tomorrow from 3-6 pm ET, we’ll be joined by the duo Lark & Thurber, featuring Grammy-nominated violinist Tessa Lark and bassist and composer Michael Thurber. The pair have fused their Classical and American music influences to create a sound of their own. They've most recently performed at Lincoln Center, #TheKimmelCenter, and NPR's #FromtheTop. The seven-week series is curated by Laura Metcalf and Rupert Boyd of Boyd Meets Girl and features international soloists, Grammy nominees, and members of the New York Philharmonic and The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra performing brief solo or duo acoustic sets. The artists will perform works crossing a range of genres—from classical to contemporary.
Calling all Artists and Designers! Don’t miss your chance to become a MAD Artist-in-Residence!
The Artist Studios at MAD is a community engagement and professional development program for contemporary artists and designers. The selected artists and designers will participate in a wide range of public programs, including open studio hours, art salons, and workshops, to provide the public with an inside look into the maker’s creative process. In addition to our onsite program, this year, we are excited to add an exclusively virtual residency to expand the program's reach to artists and designers across the country. Applications are due November 29 at 11:59 pm ET. Click the link in the bio to learn more and apply today!
Brian Clarke and Norman Foster
Missed today's conversation with architectural artist Brian Clarke, architect Norman Foster, art critic, and curator Robert Storr? Tune-in below.
MAD and Intersect Chicago Virtual Tour of Beth Lipman: Collective Elegy
Today marks the last day of #Intersect Chicago (formerly #SOFAChicago). MAD was honored to be a cultural partner for this year’s fair. If you haven’t yet, visit Intersect Chicago online, link in the bio, to view the full version of this virtual tour of our current exhibition, Beth Lipman: Collective Elegy by Samantha De Tillio, MAD’s curator of collection and exhibition curator. https://www.sofaexpo.com/museum-of-arts-and-design Book your timed tickets now to view Beth Lipman: Collective Elegy this weekend
We’re accepting applications for our next cycle of #MADArtistStudios , running from February 1 - August 1, 2021! The Artist Studios at MAD is a community engagement and professional development program for contemporary artists and designers. Designed to engage visitors and to provide firsthand exposure to the creative process of artists and designers, the Museum residency represents diverse experimental creative practices, and the artists and designers selected to participate in a wide range of virtual public programming, including teen art salons, open studio hours, and intergenerational workshops. Cycle 35 will include onsite and virtual residences. Applications are due no later than Sunday, November 29, at 11:59 pm ET. Click the link to learn more and apply today! #artistresidency #artistresidence #artistfellowship
MAD's Digital Drop-in: Halloween Festival
This Saturday, October 31, families and kids of all ages are invited to join us online for a morning of crafty Halloween fun! Our first Digital Drop-in: #Halloween Festival will include mask making with Artist Studios alum and educator Lexy Ho Tai, storytelling with Strangers Project, and stained glass candy craft creations inspired by our current exhibition #BrianClarke: The Art of Light! Click below to register! https://madmuseum.org/events/digital-drop-halloween-festival #MADDigitalDropin
Political Advertisement : Virtual Screening and Discussion - Thu, Oct 29 / 7 pm ET
As we enter the final full week of the Presidential race, we invite you to join us this Thursday at 7:00 pm ET, for a discussion about the project Political Advertisement, with creators Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese and filmmaker and scholar Rick Prelinger. Political Advertisement looks at how politics and politicians are presented through the moving image. For 36 years, Muntadas and Reese have compiled a history of #presidentialcampaign spots, capturing the evolution of political advertising from its beginnings in 1952 to the present. Over nine general election cycles, the artists have shared the latest version of their compilation with the public and hosted a discussion about the impact of campaign advertising. The tenth edition of Political Advertisement offers a timely and important outlet for discussion just before #ElectionDay. A private Vimeo link will be sent to all ticket holders to view the project asynchronously, beginning 48 hours before the talk and closing one day after. Click the link below to register https://madmuseum.org/events/political-advertisement
Visit MAD this weekend!
Making your weekend plans? Add a visit to MAD to your itinerary! Book your timed tickets and explore over 100 works of stained glass, compositions in lead, and related drawings from aesthetic innovator Brian Clarke featured in Brian Clarke: The Art of Light. During your visit, screen the HENI Talks film, Brian Clarke: The Art of Light, which walks through Clarke’s life and his celebrated career, featuring commentary from collaborators and friends, including exhibition curator Paul Greenhalgh, Director, Sainsbury Centre, Dame Zaha Hadid, architect Sir Peter Cook, and June Osborne, DL, Bishop of Llandaff. Tickets: https://madmuseum.org/exhibition/brian-clarke-art-light HeniTalks is a non-profit initiative dedicated to sharing insights about art history from authorities in the field as part of a broader commitment to supporting art education and riding public access to art. Brian Clarke: The Art of Light is made possible by presenting sponsor #DAVIDYURMAN.
MAD BALL 2020 WATCH PARTY TONIGHT AT 6:30 PM ET
TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT! Everyone, everywhere, tune in to the #MADBall2020 virtual celebration at 6:30 pm ET. Join us as we celebrate the lifetime contributions of artist and feminist icon Judy Chicago. We are bringing the museum experience direct-to-you in an action-packed, livestreamed event hosted by Justin Bond, with a special musical tribute by singer/songwriter Rosanne Cash. Join the party for as little as $5 and help MAD remain home for artists and a center for craft. Get your tickets now! https://madmuseum.org/support/mad-ball
Brian Clarke with HENI - PT 1
Not only does Brian Clarke push the boundaries of stained glass technically, but his work “ has the ability to transform consciousness,” says exhibition curator Paul Greenhalgh. Clarke’s work highlights the “ ability of material and light to explore what it is to be human.” Greenhalgh and other Clarke collaborators and friends share their reflections on the artist and his creative process in the film, “Brian Clarke with HENI,” currently featured in our exhibition, Brian Clarke: The Art of Light. HENI Talks is a non-profit initiative dedicated to sharing insights about art history from authorities in the field, as part of a broader commitment to supporting art education and widening public access to art.
ATTENTION NEW YORKERS! PLAN YOUR VOTE!
Attention New Yorkers! Today is the LAST DAY for in-person voter registration. Applications are being accepted at your local board of elections or any state agency participating in the National Voter Registration Act. Submitting your registration by mail? Today is also the deadline for applications to be postmarked. MAD is proud to partner with @planyourvote, the 2020 artist initiative, to promote and empower citizens to exercise their right to vote. Visit www.planyourvote.org (link in bio) to finalize your voting plan. Don’t miss the opportunity to make your voice heard in this crucial election .____ Artwork: Jenny Holzer #PlanYourVote
🎉 Save the Date for #MADBALL2020 on October 15! 🎉
🎉 Save the Date for #MADBALL2020 on October 15! 🎉 New York’s most highly anticipated event of the year is going virtual! Join us for a global celebration honoring iconic artist Judy Chicago’s lifetime achievements. This year’s ball will be hosted by Mx Justin Vivian Bond, with a musical performance by Roseanne Cash and special appearances by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and more. You don’t want to miss it! The #MADBALL auction kicks off on September 29. Click the link below for more details! https://madmuseum.org/support/mad-ball ____ #MADMuseum
Digital Drop-in: Zero-Waste Weaving
Kick-off New York Textile Month with #MADArtistStudios alum Cynthia Alberto as she leads Digital Drop-in: Zero-Waste Weaving this Tuesday at 7 pm ET. Lear introductory weaving techniques and structures, including plain weave and rya knots using found and recycled materials. MAD’s Digital Drop-ins are for participants of all ages, backgrounds, and skill levels. Click the link below to register now! https://madmuseum.org/events/digital-drop-zero-waste-weaving _________ #newyorktextilemonth #MADDigitalDropin #cynthiaalbertoweaver
Digital Drop-in: Introduction to Cyanotypes
This Saturday at 10 am ET, join us for Digital Drop-in: Introduction to Cyanotypes! Multidisciplinary artist Naomi Nakazato will introduce basic approaches to the alternative photographic process of cyanotype and its potential for experimentation and abstraction. Step-by-step instructions and guidance will help you to familiarize yourself with the chemistry and produce your own vivid blue images through hand-painting, photogram, and digital photo negative processes. MAD’s Digital Drop-ins are for participants of all ages, backgrounds, and skill levels. Following the demonstration, participants will have time to independently work on their project and share with “neighbors” in the virtual class. Register: https://madmuseum.org/events/digital-drop-introduction-cyanotypes
Type (ish) Tuesday - Fake News and True Love
Australian contemporary artist Robert Baines’ solo exhibition, Fake News and True Love: Fourteen Stories by Robert Baines, examined the fake news phenomenon through the lens of jewelry. By making up and “fact-checking” news stories to accompany his works, Baines manipulated what is accepted as truth to address the influence that fake news has on our perception of events. The artist’s whimsical pieces and accompanying “evidence” were used to create alternate realities that spanned from 650 BCE to the present day and included a wide range of topics, including migration, conspiracy, forgery, celebrity, and politics. His pieces demonstrate the misunderstandings that design can create, emphasizing the constructed nature of collective history. When creating the exhibition identify, MAD Creative Director Josh Graver and the design team looked at print tabloids and TV news to build loud, yet ordered, layouts.“Our tabloid takeaway featured Baines’ fake stories, and correlated with his works on display, while the jumbo type graphics that wrapped the exhibition were also taken from these layouts. We deliberately chose a chaotic number of fonts to then order into readable design layouts in a single(ish) voice,” says Graver. Fake News and True Love: Fourteen Stories by Robert Baines was curated by Barbara Paris Gifford and Sasha Nixon.
In the Studio with Leonardo Drew
Leonardo Drew assembles and reworks wood, paper, metal, and other construction materials to create large-scale and rough-hewn installations and sculptures. During a studio visit on behalf of the 2013 exhibition Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft, and Design, Drew describes the connections of artist, materials, nature, and time that are evoked through his large scale works. Visit the MAD Online Learning Lab to view more artist studio visits. _____ #LeonardoDrew #WoodSculpture
Making with MAD on NY1 !
MAD Deputy Director of Education April Tonin spoke with Spectrum News NY1 about our new virtual summer camps and teen workshops! Check out the clip below and visit madmuseum.org to learn more about Making with MAD! https://madmuseum.org/learn/summer-camp-and-teen-workshops
Typeish Tuesday: Surface/Depth : The Decorative After Miriam Schapiro
Surface/Depth: The Decorative After Miriam Schapiro, examined the aesthetic and political objectives of #MiriamSchapiro’s "femmages." Shapiro coined the term to describe her distinctive hybrid of painting and collage inspired by women’s domestic arts and crafts and the feminist critique of the hierarchy of art and craft. The other artists featured in this exhibition, including Jeffery Gibson, Sanford Biggers, and Jasmin Sian, also utilized abstract, decorative elements to address a range of topics, including gender, racial, and sexual identity. For this edition of #TypeTuesday, MAD Creative Director Josh Graver and the MAD Design team explain the inspiration behind the exhibition’s identity: “ We chose Le Jeune, by Commercial Type for our display type. The sturdy letterforms and ornate ball terminals—strong and decorative, were perfect for the show. The exhibitions and curatorial teams selected several pastels for the wall colors, and we expanded the palette across all of the promotional and exhibition graphics while making a few additional “decorative type-interventions.” All inspired by Schapiro’s work in elevating “the decorative.” - Museum of Arts and (G)Design Surface/Depth: The Decorative After Miriam Schapiro was curated by MAD Deputy Director and Chief Curator Elissa Auther with the support of Assistant Curator, Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy.
Online Maker Camps and Teen Workshops Start June 15
Making with MAD summer camp and teen workshops are virtual immersions in art and design for curious creatives ages 8 to 18 who want to expand their skill sets and discover new creative outlets - that are needed now more than ever. MAD’s experienced artist-educators will lead hands-on making activities, and each week, an artist-in-residence from the Museum’s Artist Studios program will welcome participants for a virtual studio visit and talk about life as a working artist. Sign up today: https://madmuseum.org/learn/summer-camp-and-teen-workshops
Digital Drop-In: Appliqué Quilt Blocks
This Tuesday, MAD Artist Studio alum and our favorite goddess bread maker, Emily Oliveira, will lead Digital Drop-in: Applique Quilt Blocks. Oliveira will guide you in applying basic quilting techniques to make a small quilting block using recycled materials around your home. MAD’s Digital Drop-Ins are for participants of all ages, backgrounds, and skill levels. To register: https://bit.ly/3fVpV82
Frank Stella
To celebrate Frank Stella's 84th birthday, we look back at former director Glenn Adamson, former Senior Curator Ronald Labaco, and collector David Mirvish's reflections on how the artist has pushed the boundaries of his art form since the beginning of his career in the 1950s. Stella's use of 3D printing has allowed him to create avant-garde sculptures, unlike anyone else.
Typish Tuesday: Vera Paints a Scarf
For our next #TypeishTuesday, creative director Josh Graver and @madmuseum_gd explain how Vera Neumann's signature ladybug became one of the stars of #VeraPaintsaScarf. "Known affectionately at the Museum as the "Wandering Hero," Vera Neumann often used the iconic ladybug as a part of her branded signature. At MAD, the ladybug became our guiding spirit in establishing the exhibition's identity, as she embarked on a joyous and love-filled journey throughout the Museum. Her trails became a playful wayfinding system, leading visitors to wall texts and the gallery elevator - she adventured onto animations, merchandise, and across our front desk. Through it all, she never tired."🐞🏅 _____ #museumfromhome
Lydia's Lunch Break - Emily Oliveira's Bodybuilder Goddess Bread
A huge thank you to Emily Oliveira for joining Lydia Brawner, Associate Curator of Public Programs, on Thursday for the first Lydia’s Lunch Break. It was the perfect midday break that we all needed! Lydia had a great conversation with Emily about her work and life in quarantine. And during the chat, Emily managed to create an amazing bread loaf based on the bodybuilder goddess motif she frequently uses in her textile designs. Check out the final product above, which was topped with butter and loads of lemon syrup. If this isn’t the inspiration for your weekend #quarentinebaking, then we don’t know what is! � Visit our Stories to see this goddess come to life. � #museumfromhome #culturefeomhome
Studio Stories International Exchange with Craft Victoria and James Lemon
While we’re more physically distant than ever these days, this time has allowed us to build community virtually. We are excited to participate in Craft's Studio Stories International Exchange. Based in Melbourne, Australia, similar to MAD, #CraftVictoria has a long history of championing craft-based artists. As both organizations work to stay connected to our maker communities during this time, we’re visiting several of each other’s artists in their creative spaces to see what they’ve been working on. Our first Craft Victoria studio visit is with artist and ceramicist James Lemon. Born in New Zealand and now based in Melbourne, Lemon’s work explores and experiments with clay as a generative activity to develop sculptural and functional works that are highly tactile, playful, and dynamic. #craftstudiostories
MAD Type (ish) Tuesday:Non-Stick Nostalgia:Y2K Retrofuturism in Contemporary Jewelry
For our next Type (ish) Tuesday, Creative Director Josh Graver and the MAD Design team share the inspiration behind the type design for our 2019 exhibition, Non-Stick Nostalgia: Y2K Retrofuturism in Contemporary Jewelry, which explored the friction between the analog and the digital and highlighted different interpretations of futurism in jewelry. “In keeping with the show’s focus on “retrofuturism”, both of the featured type designs were inspired by various sci-fi looking fonts, but with the laws of astrophysics altering them. We stretched the N-SN logotype across the gallery as if being pulled into a black hole. The secondary type looked like an LCD display font, but with a few gravitational alterations made.” #NonStickNostalgia: Y2K Retrofuturism in Contemporary Jewelry was curated by Kellie Riggs with the support of MAD Assistant Curator Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy. The exhibition was secured for the Museum by Associate Curator Barbara Paris Gifford. Exhibition design consultation by Misha Kahn. Creative Director: Josh Graver Learn more about the exhibition: https://madmuseum.org/exhibition/non-stick-nostalgia #TypeishTuesday #MuseumFromHome
Artist Shahzia Sikander in Shangri La
To quench our serious wanderlust, we’re taking a look back at the 2013 exhibition Doris Duke’s Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape, and Islamic Art, which explored the dialogue between Islamic tradition and Western modernity that shaped the fabled Honolulu residence of the philanthropist Doris Duke. A participant in Shangri La’s Contemporary Artists Residency program, the international visual artist Shahzia Sikander, shared her impressions of the estate with MAD and discussed how it informed her awe-inspiring site-specific large-scale projections. Click the link below to visit our Online Learning Lab to watch more MAD Makers discuss their work and process. https://madmuseum.org/online-learning #ShahziaSikander #Shangrila #artanddesignrewind #museumfromhome #Travelfromhome
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So upset about my recent experience with the Solar (sp) cubes. On the day I got an e mail offering the cubes I ordered. Foolishly I was going to apply my membership discount. Back and forth e mails. saw my membership expired in March; so rejoined as an Itinerant (?) for $75. Ended up ordering without discount. Fine; Then yesterday got an e mail that my order was cancelled. I have been a member, out of town and now here for many years. Before the virus and before I got to 90 this Feb. I would visit the Museum, taking the train to Penn and then a local to Columbus Circle. So much fun. Many of my craftspeople friends are represented at your store. One, Hitomi Jacobs was also featured prominently one year. But now I have to go outside the Museum to find a replacement. I can't go out shopping so here I am e mailing my favorite Museum.
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Iwakawa Yukihiro Web Exhibition
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IMAGE 1951-
Iwakawa Yukihiro Web Exhibition
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The late Joram Mariga the Godfather of the modern Shona Stone Sculptures movement
Please check to see if I have/ had two memberships. I keep getting duplicate emails. I will renew the one that expired most recently. B Fittipaldo
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United States plastic artists. We think of you as an American artist who wants his work to be known in South America, Central America and Europe.
We invite you to participate in the virtual contest of the renowned arts group Universo de las Artes Brazil / Argentina.
A catalog will be made with 5 photos of each artist's works, mini biography and all contacts. Great publicity on Social Networks. The artist chooses the theme and style to be presented.
The three winners will have the reproduction of their works exhibited in Brazil at the Ateliê and Galeria de Arte Buana Lima in a physical exhibition entitled to a certificate of participation.
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Hello, I’m taking part in a “Crafting during covid-19” Type of exhibition (called Covidesign) in Copenhagen, Denmark December to April. I’ve done embroidery work of unusual mask wearers. A friend of mine said my work was something your museum would probably enjoy, but there is no email that I can find so I’m posting it here. I don’t know how it all works but I get my work back in April and didn’t know if you would be interested in that type of show come spring?
Spent the pandemic making amazing art?
Now you need to share it!
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The Pure Arts group.
Hi I saw this image on your page. Who is the artist and is it currently on display? Thanks so much.
Amazing exhibit to see in NYC!!!
New way web design using art and design methodology
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Iwakawa Yukihiro Web Exhibition
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Work 2019 12_1 Dissolution(溶解)
Arrows. Sounds. Various 1~3 (12 pieces of works)
Canvas size F3
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