CraftNEWYORK
The Art of Craft is coming to New York!
March 30, 31 & April 1, 2012
7W NewYork
7 West 34th Street
New York, NY 10001
CraftNEWYORK, a Show and Sale to Benefit CERF+ (Craft Emergency Relief Fund + Artists’ Emergency Resources), will take place Friday March 30 through Sunday April 1, 2012 at NYC’s most popular new art show venue, 7W New York, on 34th Street at Fifth Avenue, directly across from the Empire State Building.
The second annual exhibit and sale is a must see for anyone interested in the finest American craft being made today and will feature 120 internationally renowned artists producing one-of-a-kind and limited edition pieces. Working within, and expanding from, the traditions of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Gustav Stickley, Alexander Calder, Isamu Noguchi, George Nakashima and Dale Chihuly, the award winning artists chosen for CraftNewYork have become America’s “living treasures”.
Net profits from admission to CraftNEWYORK will benefit CERF+ (Craft Emergency Relief Fund + Artists' Emergency Response), a non profit organization committed to supporting the careers of craft artists throughout the United States.
Schedule
Friday, March 30, 2012 from 3 pm to 8 pm
Saturday, March 31, 2012 from 10 am to 6 pm
Sunday, April 1, 2012 from 11 am to 5 pm
Admission Fees
Net profits from admissions are donated to CERF+
For More Information call 800-649-0279
March 30, 31 & April 1, 2012
7W NewYork
7 West 34th Street
New York, NY 10001
CraftNEWYORK, a Show and Sale to Benefit CERF+ (Craft Emergency Relief Fund + Artists’ Emergency Resources), will take place Friday March 30 through Sunday April 1, 2012 at NYC’s most popular new art show venue, 7W New York, on 34th Street at Fifth Avenue, directly across from the Empire State Building.
The second annual exhibit and sale is a must see for anyone interested in the finest American craft being made today and will feature 120 internationally renowned artists producing one-of-a-kind and limited edition pieces. Working within, and expanding from, the traditions of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Gustav Stickley, Alexander Calder, Isamu Noguchi, George Nakashima and Dale Chihuly, the award winning artists chosen for CraftNewYork have become America’s “living treasures”.
Net profits from admission to CraftNEWYORK will benefit CERF+ (Craft Emergency Relief Fund + Artists' Emergency Response), a non profit organization committed to supporting the careers of craft artists throughout the United States.
Schedule
Friday, March 30, 2012 from 3 pm to 8 pm
Saturday, March 31, 2012 from 10 am to 6 pm
Sunday, April 1, 2012 from 11 am to 5 pm
Admission Fees
Net profits from admissions are donated to CERF+
For More Information call 800-649-0279
American Craft Council Show: Baltimore
SHOW HOURS
FRIDAY, FEB. 24
10 a.m.- 8 p.m
SATURDAY, FEB. 25
10 a.m.- 6 p.m.
SUNDAY, FEB. 26
10 a.m.- 5 p.m.
ADVANCE TICKETS
One-day pass: $14
Three-day pass: $25
Save time and order your tickets online!
ON-SITE TICKETS
One-day pass: $16
Three-day pass: $30
FREE for American Craft Council members, children 12 and under
CHECK OUT
THIS DEAL
FRIDAY EVENING ADMISSION: Get into the show for $5 after
5 p.m.
Meb Boden, Booth 1512
LOCATION
The Baltimore Convention Center is at One West Pratt Street, Baltimore.
PARKING
There are several public lots and hotel parking garages located near the Convention Center. For more information on parking, visit the Downtown Partnership website.
SHOW SPECIAL
Become a member and pay just $25 for show tickets and a one-year subscription to American Craft magazine.
WE'LL MEET YOU
IN BALTIMORE!
The American Craft Council's flagship show rolls into the Charm City, Feb. 24-26. Please join us and more than 650 of the country's top contemporary jewelry, clothing, furniture, and home decor artists at the Baltimore Convention Center. Their latest handmade creations won't disappoint!
AN ACC BOOK CLUB?
That's right! It's the first meeting of the American Craft Council Book Club, happening right at the Baltimore show. We're so excited to have Celeste Sollod, the Baltimore Bibliophile, joining us from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24, to host our book club discussion on The Hare with Amber Eyes. So grab a copy of the book and join in the fun!
SHOPPING HIGHLIGHTS
Elizabeth Novak, Booth 2203
Wow! Five new shopping categories (plus two old favorites) take the show floor this year.
FOODIEWARE: Fabulous functional objects designed to flatter your fare.
MEN'S DEPT: Cool, handmade stuff for guys.
BRIDE-TO-BE: Built-to-last one-of-a-kind wedding jewelry and gifts.
BLUE CHIP CLUB: Stunning, one-of-a-kind pieces valued at $10k and up.
LOCAL: Local artists present their innovative handmade craft on a national stage.
And back by popular demand:
HANDMADE UNDER $100: The perfect category for budding craft lovers.
GREENCRAFT: Featuring artists who incorporate recycled materials and use eco-friendly processes to create their "green" pieces.
FRIDAY, FEB. 24
10 a.m.- 8 p.m
SATURDAY, FEB. 25
10 a.m.- 6 p.m.
SUNDAY, FEB. 26
10 a.m.- 5 p.m.
ADVANCE TICKETS
One-day pass: $14
Three-day pass: $25
Save time and order your tickets online!
ON-SITE TICKETS
One-day pass: $16
Three-day pass: $30
FREE for American Craft Council members, children 12 and under
CHECK OUT
THIS DEAL
FRIDAY EVENING ADMISSION: Get into the show for $5 after
5 p.m.
Meb Boden, Booth 1512
LOCATION
The Baltimore Convention Center is at One West Pratt Street, Baltimore.
PARKING
There are several public lots and hotel parking garages located near the Convention Center. For more information on parking, visit the Downtown Partnership website.
SHOW SPECIAL
Become a member and pay just $25 for show tickets and a one-year subscription to American Craft magazine.
WE'LL MEET YOU
IN BALTIMORE!
The American Craft Council's flagship show rolls into the Charm City, Feb. 24-26. Please join us and more than 650 of the country's top contemporary jewelry, clothing, furniture, and home decor artists at the Baltimore Convention Center. Their latest handmade creations won't disappoint!
AN ACC BOOK CLUB?
That's right! It's the first meeting of the American Craft Council Book Club, happening right at the Baltimore show. We're so excited to have Celeste Sollod, the Baltimore Bibliophile, joining us from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24, to host our book club discussion on The Hare with Amber Eyes. So grab a copy of the book and join in the fun!
SHOPPING HIGHLIGHTS
Elizabeth Novak, Booth 2203
Wow! Five new shopping categories (plus two old favorites) take the show floor this year.
FOODIEWARE: Fabulous functional objects designed to flatter your fare.
MEN'S DEPT: Cool, handmade stuff for guys.
BRIDE-TO-BE: Built-to-last one-of-a-kind wedding jewelry and gifts.
BLUE CHIP CLUB: Stunning, one-of-a-kind pieces valued at $10k and up.
LOCAL: Local artists present their innovative handmade craft on a national stage.
And back by popular demand:
HANDMADE UNDER $100: The perfect category for budding craft lovers.
GREENCRAFT: Featuring artists who incorporate recycled materials and use eco-friendly processes to create their "green" pieces.
2011 Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show
The 35th annual Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show will be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center November 10th through 13th, 2011; Preview Party, November 9th.
Show Hours
Thursday, Nov 10th 10a.m. – 8p.m. (New Hours)
Friday, Nov 11th 10a.m. – 8p.m. (New Hours)
Saturday, Nov 12th 10a.m. – 6p.m.
Sunday, Nov 13th 10a.m. – 5p.m.
This premier show and sale of contemporary craft, includes 195 of the finest and most dynamic craft artists in the United States, selected from more than 1,400 applicants. Artists from Scotland will be featured. All work is for sale.
The 35th annual Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show is organized and coordinated by Chair, Reid Bodek; Vice-Chair, Lisa Woolbert and Nancy C. O'Meara, Show Manager.
The Preview Party will be held on Wednesday, November 9, 2011. The Connect & Collect Corporate Reception will be held on Thursday, November 10, 2011.
Show Hours
Thursday, Nov 10th 10a.m. – 8p.m. (New Hours)
Friday, Nov 11th 10a.m. – 8p.m. (New Hours)
Saturday, Nov 12th 10a.m. – 6p.m.
Sunday, Nov 13th 10a.m. – 5p.m.
This premier show and sale of contemporary craft, includes 195 of the finest and most dynamic craft artists in the United States, selected from more than 1,400 applicants. Artists from Scotland will be featured. All work is for sale.
The 35th annual Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show is organized and coordinated by Chair, Reid Bodek; Vice-Chair, Lisa Woolbert and Nancy C. O'Meara, Show Manager.
The Preview Party will be held on Wednesday, November 9, 2011. The Connect & Collect Corporate Reception will be held on Thursday, November 10, 2011.
Review for Chromaphobia exhibition at David Lusk Gallery
As different in weight and implication as the materials may be, it makes sense to juxtapose pastel-on-paper drawings by Pinkney Herbert with painted steel constructions by Susan Madacsi, as David Lusk Gallery has done. The two exhibitions — "Broken Time — Progressions" by Herbert and "Chromaphobia" by Madacsi — bear a marked similarity in color and coincidental shapes and in a sense of latent contemplative power that flows from the works.
There will be an opening reception from 6 to 8 tonight.
Herbert, long a creative presence and an influential teacher in Memphis, has defined his commitment to abstraction in several decades' worth of paintings and drawings that teem with energy so compelling that the whirling, tornado-like vortexes that comprise his central motif seem to suck viewers into their maelstroms — or blow them out of the gallery. At times that intensity, that exertion and giddy exuberance overwhelmed the work, leaving a feeling not so much of exhilaration but of exhaustion; at a time, it seemed as if Herbert had painted himself into a corner, a highly animated and intoxicating corner, to be sure, but still a difficult place from which to extricate himself.
But extricate himself he has.
The large — 41.5-by-29.5 inches — pastel on paper drawings now displayed at David Lusk Gallery, through June 30, are the most beautiful and most confident works that Herbert has produced in his career, or at least that we have seen in Memphis. No, the artist has not abandoned his trademark rapid and sometimes abrupt gesture, nor has he forsaken the circles, swirls and voids circumscribed by blunt squares, rectangles and trapezoids that characterize his imagery. However, these themes now convey signs of elegance and shapeliness that are new to Herbert's esthetic; there's a perception of thoughtfulness, of well-gauged balance and poise that lend these pieces deep and essential equilibrium. At the same time, the artist has not lost his fundamental spontaneity and sense of play.
Particularly in the "Mark" series and in two from the "Detour" series (Nos. 9 and 10) there's a new emphasis on meditative stasis, on standing outside oneself and — one never thought to say this about Herbert's work — egoless restraint that's not only refreshing but that also seems to have brought from the artist remarkable insights about the nature of his own effort and achievement "out of time." Let's hope that these are not detours but a rigorous path to self-examination and enlightenment.
What, then, do Herbert's two-dimensional works on paper have to do with Madacsi's three-dimensional sculptures? Her exhibition title, "Chromaphobia," means "fear of color," which seems anomalous since she is a master of subtlety and seemingly instinctual use of color; many of the hues she uses on these tightly clustered yet freely composed pieces resonate with Herbert's colors in happy coincidence. As in his work, there's a force of power and dynamism in Madacsi's pieces that is paradoxically active and passive, the forged steel disks from which she builds the form conveying weight and substance, while the colors — enamel covered with wax — are airy, playful and expressive.
The steel disks are not merely disks; one senses from a distance some kind of texture, and up close sees many-pointed stars, hexagons, grooves, ridges and other striations worked into the surfaces, animating them like busy jewels. Especially with the major pieces, "Blue Cloud" and "Confectioner's Flag," the viewer feels the company of craft, art and imagination inextricably twined.
Pinkney Herbert, 'Broken Time — Progressions'; and Susan Madacsi, 'Chromaphobia'
Reception tonight from 6 to 8 at David Lusk Gallery, 4540 Poplar in Laurelwood. The exhibits run through June 30. Call 767-3800.
There will be an opening reception from 6 to 8 tonight.
Herbert, long a creative presence and an influential teacher in Memphis, has defined his commitment to abstraction in several decades' worth of paintings and drawings that teem with energy so compelling that the whirling, tornado-like vortexes that comprise his central motif seem to suck viewers into their maelstroms — or blow them out of the gallery. At times that intensity, that exertion and giddy exuberance overwhelmed the work, leaving a feeling not so much of exhilaration but of exhaustion; at a time, it seemed as if Herbert had painted himself into a corner, a highly animated and intoxicating corner, to be sure, but still a difficult place from which to extricate himself.
But extricate himself he has.
The large — 41.5-by-29.5 inches — pastel on paper drawings now displayed at David Lusk Gallery, through June 30, are the most beautiful and most confident works that Herbert has produced in his career, or at least that we have seen in Memphis. No, the artist has not abandoned his trademark rapid and sometimes abrupt gesture, nor has he forsaken the circles, swirls and voids circumscribed by blunt squares, rectangles and trapezoids that characterize his imagery. However, these themes now convey signs of elegance and shapeliness that are new to Herbert's esthetic; there's a perception of thoughtfulness, of well-gauged balance and poise that lend these pieces deep and essential equilibrium. At the same time, the artist has not lost his fundamental spontaneity and sense of play.
Particularly in the "Mark" series and in two from the "Detour" series (Nos. 9 and 10) there's a new emphasis on meditative stasis, on standing outside oneself and — one never thought to say this about Herbert's work — egoless restraint that's not only refreshing but that also seems to have brought from the artist remarkable insights about the nature of his own effort and achievement "out of time." Let's hope that these are not detours but a rigorous path to self-examination and enlightenment.
What, then, do Herbert's two-dimensional works on paper have to do with Madacsi's three-dimensional sculptures? Her exhibition title, "Chromaphobia," means "fear of color," which seems anomalous since she is a master of subtlety and seemingly instinctual use of color; many of the hues she uses on these tightly clustered yet freely composed pieces resonate with Herbert's colors in happy coincidence. As in his work, there's a force of power and dynamism in Madacsi's pieces that is paradoxically active and passive, the forged steel disks from which she builds the form conveying weight and substance, while the colors — enamel covered with wax — are airy, playful and expressive.
The steel disks are not merely disks; one senses from a distance some kind of texture, and up close sees many-pointed stars, hexagons, grooves, ridges and other striations worked into the surfaces, animating them like busy jewels. Especially with the major pieces, "Blue Cloud" and "Confectioner's Flag," the viewer feels the company of craft, art and imagination inextricably twined.
Pinkney Herbert, 'Broken Time — Progressions'; and Susan Madacsi, 'Chromaphobia'
Reception tonight from 6 to 8 at David Lusk Gallery, 4540 Poplar in Laurelwood. The exhibits run through June 30. Call 767-3800.
Art Opening: Precious and Heavy Metal
SIBLEY GALLERY presents:
Precious and Heavy Metal
May 8th - June 3rd
Featuring
Jodie Vaun Backensto
Jason Kimes
Elaine Gleason
Mark Grote
Susan Madacsi
Meet with the artists for the
Opening Reception
Saturday May 8th, 2010
6-9 pm
Wine and food provided by Vega Tapas Cafe
Precious and Heavy Metal
May 8th - June 3rd
Featuring
Jodie Vaun Backensto
Jason Kimes
Elaine Gleason
Mark Grote
Susan Madacsi
Meet with the artists for the
Opening Reception
Saturday May 8th, 2010
6-9 pm
Wine and food provided by Vega Tapas Cafe
Iron 2010
Below is a description of Iron 2010. The show opens May 29th 2010 at the Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, Tennessee.
Iron: Twenty Ten
Juried Exhibition of American Blacksmithing
With an eye toward the future of a vital art form, Iron: Twenty Ten will offer a survey of the finest contemporary blacksmithing in the United States. Making use of both traditional and innovative approaches, the selected work demonstrates the tremendous breadth of ideas and depth of talent found in American blacksmithing today. Work was selected by a jury of prominent blacksmiths and scholars, including Anna Fariello, Tom Joyce, Richard Quinnell and James Wallace.
May 29 - July 19, 2010
The exhibition is timed to coincide with the 2010 ABANA conference in Memphis. After the initial exhibition, the show will travel for up to two years to other venues, which are currently being secured.
Iron: Twenty Ten
Juried Exhibition of American Blacksmithing
With an eye toward the future of a vital art form, Iron: Twenty Ten will offer a survey of the finest contemporary blacksmithing in the United States. Making use of both traditional and innovative approaches, the selected work demonstrates the tremendous breadth of ideas and depth of talent found in American blacksmithing today. Work was selected by a jury of prominent blacksmiths and scholars, including Anna Fariello, Tom Joyce, Richard Quinnell and James Wallace.
May 29 - July 19, 2010
The exhibition is timed to coincide with the 2010 ABANA conference in Memphis. After the initial exhibition, the show will travel for up to two years to other venues, which are currently being secured.
American Craft Exposition
American Craft Expo
at the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion
Lincoln Street and the Lakefront
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
http://www.americancraftexpo.o
Proceeds support breast cancer and ovarian cancer research at NorthShore University HealthSystem. 

at the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion
Lincoln Street and the Lakefront
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
http://www.americancraftexpo.o
Proceeds support breast cancer and ovarian cancer research at NorthShore University HealthSystem. 

