A national listing of exhibits, symposia, workshops and other events drawn from the December/January issue of AMERICAN CRAFT.
Please submit event announcements 90 days ahead of start date to ensure proper listing. Submissions must provide: name/address of sponsor; title, location, opening/closing dates of show, names of all exhibitors with their media.
EXHIBITS
Exhibit circulated by: *American Federation of Arts; **Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service; ***ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance; ****Exhibitions International; *****Art Services International; ******International Arts & Artists.
BIRMINGHAM Birmingham
Museum of Art: “Alabama Folk Art,” to Dec. 30. www.artsbma.org
HUNTSVILLE Huntsville Museum of Art: “Whimsy in 3-D,”
ongoing. www.hsvmuseum.org
MOBILE Mobile Museum of Art: Magdalena Abakanowicz, sculpture/drawings,
to Jan. 13. www.mobilemuseumofart.com
ANCHORAGE Anchorage
Museum: “Ainu Ramati: Art and Craft of Northern Japan,”
to Dec. 16. “From the Fire: Contemporary Korean Ceramics,” to
Dec. 23.****** “Woven Traditions: Alaska Native Baskets from the Permanent
Collection,” to Feb. 3. www.anchoragemuseum.org
FAIRBANKS University of Alaska Museum of the North: “Arctic
Transformations: The Jewelry of Denise and Samuel Wallace,” to Jan.
13. www.uaf.edu/museum/exhibit
ARIZONA
GLENDALE Bead Museum: “Silver: From Fetish to Fashion,”
to Apr. 30. www.beadmuseumaz.org
MESA Mesa Contemporary Arts at Mesa Arts Center: “29th
Annual Contemporary Crafts,” Jan. 25-Mar. 9. www.mesaartscenter.com
PHOENIX Desert Botanical Garden: Patrick Dougherty, environmental
sculpture, ongoing. www.dbg.org Heard Museum: “Young Jewelers,”
to Sept. 7. Basketry festival, Dec. 1-2. www.heard.org
SCOTTSDALE Heard Museum North: “Choices and Change:
American Indian Artists,” ongoing. “Our Weaving: Textiles from
the Four Corners,” to Feb. 10. www.heard.org King Galleries
of Scottsdale: Maricopa tribal pottery from 1950-1975, Dec. 6-20.
“Up, Up and Away: The New Native American Super Hero,” ceramics,
Jan. 31-Feb. 9. www.kinggalleries.com Pinnacle Gallery:
“From Form to Function: Gifting of American Crafts,” Dec. 1-31.
“Blown Glass: The Perfect Contemporary Southwest Accessory,”
Jan. 1-31. www.pinnaclegallery.com Robert Roman Gallery at Artspace:
Aureleo Rosano, glass mosaics and metal sculpture, to Dec. 17. www.artspaceaz.com
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art: “Not Really
So Simple: Sculpture from the Permanent Collection,” Dec. 1-Jan. 16.
www.smoca.org
SURPRISE Heard Museum West: “Our Stories: American
Indian Art and Culture in Arizona,” ongoing. “Family Ties: Young
Navajo Weavers,” to Mar. 30. www.heard.org West Valley Art
Museum: “Artists of the Black Community,” to Dec. 16.
“You’re Fired! All Arizona Ceramic Exhibition,” to Jan.
6. www.wvam.org
TEMPE Arizona State University Art Museum: David Shaner,
retrospective, ceramics, to Jan. 6. Ed, Philip and Matt Moulthrop, turned
wood, to Feb. 24. “The Figurative Impulse: The Diane and Sandy Besser
Collection,” Jan. 26-Apr. 26. Asuartmuseum.asu.edu
TUCSON Arizona State Museum: “Wall of Pots,”
ongoing. www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/exhibits Obsidian Gallery:
Holiday exhibit, Randy O’Brien, ceramics, Steven Ford and David Forlano,
jewelry, Kathyanne White, fiber, Sam Stang, glass, to Jan. 5. Michael Boyd,
Kristin Beeler, jewelry, John Garrett, mixed-media baskets and sculpture,
Jan. 12-Mar. 8. www.obsidian-gallery.com Tohono Chul Park:
“Made for Trade: An Unconventional Look at Native American Art,”
ongoing. www.tohonochulpark.org Tucson Museum of Art: Selections
from the Dan Leach Collection, mixed media, to Jan. 6. www.tucsonarts.com
ARKANSAS
LITTLE ROCK Arkansas Arts Center: “2007 Collectors
Show,” to Dec. 30. “50th Annual Delta Exhibition,” Dec.
7-Jan. 20. “35th Annual Toys Designed by Artists,” Jan. 18-Feb.
24. www.arkarts.com
CALIFORNIA
BERKELEY LACIS Museum of Lace and Textiles: “Needle
Lace,” to Feb. 2. www.lacismuseum.org
TRAX
Ceramic Gallery: Mary Hughes, Carol Bosca, to Dec. 24.
www.traxgallery.com University of California Berkeley Art Museum:
“One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now,” to Dec. 23. www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
CARMEL
VALLEY Valley Girls Gallery: Ronald Cook, musical instruments,
to Jan. 10. www.valleygirlsgallery.com
CLAREMONT Claremont Museum of Art: “Ephemeral: Explorations
in Light,” to Dec. 30. www.claremontmuseum.org Scripps College Ruth
Chandler Williamson Gallery: “L.A. Live: Contemporary Art in Los Angeles,”
to Dec. 16. 64th Scripps Ceramic Annual, Jan. 19-Apr. 6. www.scrippscollege.edu
DAVIS The Artery: Holiday exhibit, to Dec. 31. www.artery.coop
LONG BEACH Long Beach Museum of Art: “The Melba and
Al Langman Collection Gift,” ceramics, ongoing. www.lbma.org
LOS ANGELES Craft and Folk Art Museum: Eva Zeisel, retrospective,
ceramics, to Dec. 30. “Zulu Fire: Ardmore Ceramics from South Africa,”
to Jan. 27. “Mythical Creatures & Characters: Tales from Around
the World,” puppets, Jan. 20-May 18. www.cafam.org del Mano
Gallery: Amatai Kav, jewelry/metal, to Dec. 15. Judith Ubick, jewelry,
Dec. 1-29. www.delmano.com Fowler Museum at UCLA: “Material
Choices: Bast and Leaf Fiber Textiles,” to Dec. 30. “Inscribing
Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art,” mixed media,
to Feb. 17. www.fowler.ucla.edu Los Angeles County Museum of Art:
“SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s from LACMA’s
Collection,” to Mar. 30. www.lacma.org Monkeyhouse Toys &
Art Gallery: “Welcome to Dollywood,” handmade dolls,
Dec. 1-31. Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring A Shenere Velt Gallery:
“Angels & Demons: Blessed or Possessed,” mixed media, to
Dec. 28. www.circlesocal.org
OAKLAND Oakland International Airport: “CCA Centennial,”
to Jan. 13. Oakland Museum of California: “A Legacy
of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection,” to Dec. 30. “Artists
of Invention: A Century of California College of the Arts,” to Mar.
16. www.museumca.org Rowan Morrison Gallery: Ako Castuera
and Narangkar Glover, textiles, to Dec. 24. www.rowanmorrison.com
PALM DESERT Imago Galleries: William Morris, glass, to
Jan. 6. www.imagogalleries.com
PALM SPRINGS Palm Springs Art Museum: Patrick Dougherty,
environmental installation, ongoing. Kaplan/Ostergaard Glass Center:
Glass from the museum collection and private collections, ongoing. www.psmuseum.org
PALO ALTO Palo Alto Art Center: Marilyn da Silva, metal,
to Dec. 22. “Intertwined: Contemporary Baskets from the Sara and David
Lieberman Collection,” “From the Fire to the Forefront: Selections
from the Forrest L. Merrill Collection,” Jan. 27-Apr. 27. www.paacf.org
PASADENA Folk Tree: International nativities, to Dec. 31.
“Hearts & Flowers XXI,” mixed media, Jan. 19-Feb. 16. www.folktree.com
POMONA American Museum of Ceramic Art: “Ohr Rising:
The Emergence of an American Master,” “Other Mad Potters: Steve
Horn, Don Pilcher, Mary Roehm, Lisa Orr,” Dec. 8-Feb. 23. www.ceramicmuseum.org
SAN DIEGO Mingei International Museum: Paper bag hats by
Moses, “Origami—The Art of Paper Folding,” to Dec. 29.
“Craft in America: Expanding Traditions,” to Jan. 27. “The
Beauty of Use—Mingei International Museum at 30,” to May 11.
www.mingei.org Taboo Studio: Holiday exhibit of new jewelry,
to Dec. 28. www.taboostudio.com Visions Art Quilt Gallery: Members exhibit,
to Jan. 13. www.quiltvisions.org
SAN FRANCISCO Artworks Gallery: “New West Coast Design—The
State of the Art Quilt,” Jan. 10-Feb. 28. www.artworksf.com Asian
Art Museum: “Stylized Sculpture: Contemporary Japanese Fashion
from the Kyoto Costume Institute,” to Jan. 6. www.asianart.org Braunstein/Quay
Gallery: Gyöngy Laky, environmental sculpture, to Dec. 22.
Robert Brady, ceramics, Jan. 2-Feb. 2. www.bquayartgallery.com Bucheon
Gallery: “New West Coast Design—Fiber,” Jan.
4-Feb. 9. www.bucheon.com de Young Museum: The Diane and
Sandy Besser Collection, multimedia, to Jan. 13. “For Tent and Trade:
Masterpieces of Turkmen Weaving,” Dec. 15-Apr. 27. www.famsf.org Fort
Mason Center: The Women’s Building 29th Annual Celebration
of Craftswomen, Dec. 1-2. www.celebrationofcraftswomen.org Museum
of Craft and Folk Art: ”C” Change, Craft in Our Future:
Recent Alums from the California College of the Arts,” to Jan. 27.
www.sfcd.org San Francisco Center for the Book: “New
West Coast Design—Books,” Jan. 25-Apr. 25. www.sfcb.org San
Francisco Museum of Craft+Design: “M. Lee Fatherree’s
Photography: Evidence of Artists at Work, 1978-2007,” to Dec. 30.
“New West Coast Design: Contemporary Objects,” Jan. 18-Apr.
27. www.sfmcd.org San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: “Joseph
Cornell: Navigating the Imagination,” mixed media, to Jan. 6. “Your
Tempo: Olafur Eliasson,” mixed media, to Jan. 13. www.sfmoma.org Velvet
da Vinci Gallery: “New West Coast Design: Jewelry + Metalwork,”
Jan. 18-Feb. 17. www.velvetdavinci.com
SAN JOSE San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles: “Saturn
Returns: Back to the Future of Fiber Art,” to Jan. 6. Marion Clayden,
retrospective, master dyer, textile artist and fashion designer, Jan. 15-Mar.
23. www.sjquiltmuseum.org
SANTA MONICA Lois Lambert Gallery: Carmen Spera, glass,
Chris Mason, wire sculpture, to Jan. 6. www.loislambertgallery.com Frank
Lloyd Gallery: Akio Takamori, ceramics, Dec. 1-31. www.franklloyd.com
SONOMA Sonoma Valley Museum of Art: Ann Weber, cardboard
sculpture, to Dec. 16. www.svma.org
STANFORD Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University: “Dreaming
of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings and Early Objects of H.C. Westermann,”
to Mar. 2. www.museum.stanford.edu
STINSON BEACH Claudia Chapline Gallery & Sculpture Garden:
Florence Resnikoff, sculptural objects/jewelry, to Dec. 16. www.cchapline.com
VENTURA Museum of Ventura County: “Art for the New
Millennium: Museum Acquisitions since 2000,” Dec. 9-Mar. 2.
|VISTA Rancho Buena Vista Adobe Gallery: “Art Quilts
at the Adobe 2007,” to Jan. 5. www.ci.vista.ca.us/adobe
WALNUT CREEK Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts Bedford Gallery:
“LEADED: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite,” to
Dec. 22. “Contemporary Warrior: Modern Day Tomb Soldiers by Wanxin
Zhang,” ceramics, Jan. 13-Mar. 9. www.bedfordgallery.org
COLORADO
AURORA East
End Applied Arts: “My Favorite Things,” mixed media,
to Dec. 29.
BRECKENRIDGE Hibberd McGrath Gallery: “Textiles Now:
Celebrating 25 Years,” Dec. 1-31. www.hibberdmcgrath.com
DENVER Denver Art Museum: Maria Martinez, ceramics, ongoing.
www.denverartmuseum.org
ENGLEWOOD Museum of Outdoor Arts: Corwin Bell, mixed media,
to Feb. 16. www.moaonline.org
GOLDEN Foothills Art Center: “Colorado Clay 2008,”
Jan. 19-Mar. 9. www.foothillsartcenter.org Rocky Mountain Quilt
Museum: Biennial exhibit of quilts by men, “Second-hand Stories:
Innovative Quilts by Teddy Pruett,” to Feb. 2. www.rmqm.org
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS Steamboat Springs Arts Council Eleanor Bliss Center
for the Arts at the Depot: Juried craft exhibit, holiday ornaments
by members, to Dec. 30. www.steamboatspringsarts.com
CONNECTICUT
Brookfield Craft Center, Creative Arts Workshop, Farmington Valley Arts
Center, Guilford Art Center and Wesleyan Potters publish the brochure A
Trail of Connecticut Craft Centers. Free. T 203-775-4526
GREENWICH Bruce Museum: “A Taste for Chocolate,”
mixed media, to Feb. 24. Navajo textiles from the collection, Dec. 8-Mar.
24. www.brucemuseum.org
GUILFORD Guilford Art Center: “Artistry,” multimedia,
to Jan. 7. www.guilfordartcenter.org
MIDDLETOWN Wesleyan Potters: 52nd Annual Exhibit, to Dec.
15. www.wesleyanpotters.com
NEW HAVEN Creative Arts Workshop: 39th Annual Celebration
of American Crafts, to Dec. 24. www.creativeartsworkshop.org Silvermine
Guild Arts Center: Holiday exhibit, Dec. 2-22. New members exhibit,
Jana. 6-Feb. 3. www.silvermineart.org
DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA
WASHINGTON Freer
Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution: Korean ceramics, ongoing.
“The Potter’s Mark: Tea Ceramics and Their Makers,” to
Feb. 24. www.asia.si.edu National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian
Institution: “Art of Being Tuareg: Sahara Nomads in a Modern
World,” to Jan. 27. www.si.edu National Museum of the American
Indian, Smithsonian Institution: “Identity by Design: Tradition,
Change and Celebration in Native Women’s Dresses,” to Aug. 3.
www.nmai.si.edu National Museum of Women in the Arts: “Wack!
Art and the Feminist Revolution,” to Dec. 16. “The Book as Art,”
to Feb. 3. Pueblo pottery from the collection, to Feb. 17. www.nmwa.org
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum:
“Going West: Quilts and Community,” to Jan. 21. www.americanart.si.edu
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution: Japanese
ceramics, “Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia,” ongoing.
www.asia.si.edu Smithsonian American Art Museum: “Celebrating
the Lucelia Artist Award, 2001-2006,” to June 22. www.americanart.si.edu
Textile Museum: “Textiles of Klimt’s Vienna,”
to Jan. 6. “Ahead of His Time: The Collecting Vision of George Hewitt
Myers,” “Private Pleasures: Collecting Contemporary Textile
Art,” to Feb. 17. www.textilemuseum.org Washington Convention
Center: Washington Craft Show, to Dec. 2. www.craftsamericashows.com
FLORIDA
DELRAY BEACH Cornell
Museum of Art and History:
Delray Art League exhibit, to Jan. 9. www.oldschool.org
FORT LAUDERDALE Museum of Art: “The Quilts of Gee’s
Bend,” to Jan. 7. “Inspired by China: Contemporary Furnituremakers
Explore Chinese Traditions,” to Mar. 31. www.moafl.org
GAINESVILLE Harn Museum of Art: Toshiko Takaezu, ceramics,
to Jan. 20. www.harn.ufl.edu
LAKELAND Polk Museum of Art: African art from the collection,
Dec. 15-Apr. 20. www.polkmuseumofart.org
MIAMI Atelier: “Promenade,” multimedia, to
Jan. 30. www.atelier.bz Dave & Mary Alper Jewish Community Center:
“Art from Fire,” enamels, Dec. 9-Jan. 13.
MIAMI BEACH Miami Beach Convention Center: Art Basel Miami
Beach, Dec. 6-9. www.artbaselmiamibeach.com Wolfsonian-Florida International
University: Decorative arts from the collection, ongoing. www.wolfsonian.org
NORTH MIAMI Museum of Contemporary Art: “Jorge Pardo:
House,” mixed media, Dec. 4-Mar. 2. www.mocanomi.org
ORLANDO Orlando Museum of Art: African textiles from the
Norma Canelas and William D. Roth Collection, to July 6. www.omart.org
SARASOTA Sarasota Bradenton International Convention Center:
The American Craft Show, to Dec. 2. www.craftcouncil..org/sarasota
ST. PETERSBURG Arts Center: Holiday invitational exhibit,
to Dec. 31. www.theartscenter.org Florida Craftsmen: Members
exhibit, to Dec. 29. “Highly Recommended: Emerging Florida Artist
Invitational,” Jan. 11-Feb. 24. www.floridacraftsmen.net
WEST PALM BEACH Armory Art Center: Christine Federighi,
ceramics, to Dec. 22. “Close to the Skin: Juried Works of Jewelry
& Personal Adornment,” Jan. 24-Feb. 23. www.armoryart.org Palm
Beach County Convention Center: “PalmBeach3,” Jan.
11-14. www.palmbeach3.com
WINTER PARK Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art:
“The Quest of Beauty—Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Life and
Art,” ongoing. www.morsemuseum.org
GEORGIA
ATHENS Georgia Museum of Art: “Real Western Wear:
Beaded Gauntlets from the William Healey Collection,” to Jan. 6. “20th
Century Fashion Silhouettes,” Dec. 1-Feb. 24. www.uga.edu/gamuseum
ATLANTA Fay Gold Gallery: Marlene Rose, glass/metal, to
Dec. 29. www.faygoldgallery.com High Museum of Art: “A
Graceful Industry: Bentwood Furniture, to Apr. 20. “Embodying the
Sacred in Yoruba Art,” Dec. 22-Apr. 20. www.high.org Vespermann
Glass Gallery: Goblet Show, to Dec. 29. www.vespermann.com
HAWAII
Arts With Aloha publishes a free brochure of cultural events on Oahu. Send
SASE with $1.11 postage to AWA, c/o Honolulu Academy of Arts, 900 S. Beretania
St., Honolulu, HI 96814 T 808-532-8713 www.hawaiimuseums.org
HONOLULU Hawaii State Art Museum: “Enriched by Diversity:
The Art of Hawaii,” ongoing. www.hawaii.gov/sfca Honolulu
Academy of Arts: “Passion for Form: Selections of Southeast
Asian Art from the MacLean Collection,” to Jan. 6. www.honoluluacademy.org
ILLINOIS
ARCOLA Amish Interpretive Center: Kristin Diener, jewelry,
to Dec. 31. www.amishcenter.com
CHICAGO Jean Albano Gallery: Diane Cooper, mixed media,
John Geldersma, woodcarvings, Jan. 11-Mar. 1. www.jeanalbanogallery.com
Chicago Cultural Center: “The Crocheted Coral Reef,”
to Dec. 16. Satoru Aoyama, embroideries, to Dec. 30. Judith Brotman, mixed
media, to Jan. 6. Petronele Gerlikiene, embroideries, Jan. 12-Apr. 6. www.chicagoculturalcenter.org
Columbia College Chicago Center for Book & Paper Arts:
“Papel Mexicano,” to Dec. 15. “Book of Origins: A Survey
of American Fine Bindings,” Jan. 12-Feb. 23. www.bookandpaper.org
Dubhe Carreño Gallery: Barbara Hashimoto, retrospective,
ceramics, multimedia installations and performance art, Jan. 11-Mar. 1.
www.dubhecarrenogallery.com Loyola University Museum of Art:
“Art and Faith of the Creche: The Collection of James and Emilia Govan,”
to Jan. 27. www.luc.edu/luma Marx Saunders Gallery, Ltd.:
Vladimira Klumpar, glass, to Dec. 29. Spertus Museum: “The New Authentics:
Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation,” to Apr. 13. www.spertus.edu
SCHAUMBURG Prairie Center for the Arts: Shelley Brucar,
fiber, Dec. 28-Jan. 30. www.prairiecenter.org
SKOKIE Refuge: Center for Artists in Recovery: “The
12 x 12 Show,” mixed media, to Dec. 22. www.refuge.com
URBANA Cinema Gallery: “The Legacy of University
of Illinois: Glass,” to Jan. 12. www.cinemagallery.cc
WAKONDA Lake County Discovery Museum: “Pocketbook
Anthropology: A Treasure of Handbags,” to Jan. 19.*** www.lcfpd.org/discovery_museum
INDIANA
BLOOMINGTON Indiana University Art Museum: “Sculpture
Transformed: The Work of Marjorie Schick,” jewelry, to Dec. 16. www.artmuseum.iu.edu
FT. WAYNE Artlink: “Self Portrait Exhibition,”
mixed media, to Jan. 10. www.artlibnkfw.com
INDIANAPOLIS Indianapolis Museum of Art: “All Dressed
Up: The Latest Additions,” to Dec. 30. www.indplsartcenter.org
NEW ALBANY Carnegie Center for Art and History: “Form,
Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie,” Jan. 11-Mar. 8. www.carnegiecenter.org
IOWA
AMES Christian Petersen Art Museum: “Albert Paley:
Portals and Gates,” metal/mixed media, to Jan. 15. www.museums.iastate.edu
KANSAS
ARKANSAS Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum: “Native
Threads,” quilts, Dec. 15-Jan. 19. www.arkcity.org
MANHATTAN Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art: “Sculpture
Transformed: The Work of Marjorie Schick,” jewelry, Jan. 5-Mar. 30.******
www.k-state.edu/bma
MONTEZUMA Stauth Memorial Museum: Paper doll quilts by
Rebekka Seigel, to Jan. 6. www.stauthmemorialmuseum.org
WICHITA Wichita Art Museum: “Kansas Quilts from the
Prairie Quilt Guild,” to Jan. 6. “Art of the Needle: Masterpiece
Quilts from the Shelburne Museum,” to Jan. 13. “Bold Expressions
in Modern Art: The Buddy Greenberg Collection,” to Feb. 17. www.wichitaartmuseum.org
BEREA Kentucky Artisan Center: “Under
the Influence: Stephen Rolfe Powell & His Students,” glass, to
Jan. 27. www.kentuckyartisancenter.ky.gov
LEXINGTON University of Kentucky Art Museum: UK Art Faculty
Exhibition, to Dec. 23. www.uky.edu/ArtMuseum
LOUISVILLE Flame Run: Resident artists, glass, Jan. 11-31.
www.flamerun.com Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft: Harriet
Giles, rugs, “Holidazzle,” to Dec. 29. Stephen Rolfe Powell,
retrospective, glass, to Feb. 2. www.kentuckyarts.org Speed Art
Museum: “Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt,”
Jan. 2-Mar. 23. www.speedmuseum.org
PADUCAH Museum of the American Quilter’s Society:
“Fiber Revolution: Quilts as Art,” to Jan. 22. “The Designer’s
Eye: Kaffe Fassett,” to Feb. 5. “Quilts from the Pacific Rim,”
Jan. 25-Mar. 25. www.quiltmuseum.org
LOUISIANA
LAFAYETTE University of Louisiana Paul and Lulu Hilliard University
Art Museum: Survey of Newcomb Pottery, to Dec. 29.
http://museum.louisiana.edu
NEW ORLEANS New Orleans GlassWorks & Printmaking Studio:
Frank Van den Ham, glass/metal, Dec. 1-Jan. 31. New Orleans Museum
of Art: “Blue Winds Dancing: The Whitecloud Collection of
Native American Art,” to Feb. 24. www.noma.org
MAINE
BAR HARBOR Abbe Museum: Ash and sweetgrass baskets, ongoing.
“The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection of American Indian Art,”
to June 15. www.abbemuseum.org
PORTLAND Daniel Kany Gallery: “Glass at Daniel Kany
Gallery,” to Dec. 29. www.kany.net
ROCKPORT Center for Furniture Craftsmanship Messler Gallery:
“Maine Wood 2008,” to Mar. 14. www.woodschool.org.
MARYLAND
ANNAPOLIS Maryland Federation of Art: “Small Wonders,”
mixed media, to Dec. 22. www.mdfedart.org Prince George’s Delegation
Wing of the Maryland State Capital: “With These Hands: Textiles and
Weavings by Prince George’s County Artists,” Jan. 10-Apr. 9.
BALTIMORE Baltimore Clayworks: “Winterfest 2007,”
to Dec. 22. “Another Cup?” Jan. 12-Feb. 23. www.baltimoreclayworks.org
FREDERICK Zärubä & Zärubä: “Art
of the Martini 6,” metal, Dec. 1-23. www.zarubajewelry.com
SALISBURY Salisbury University Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art:
2007 Mid-Atlantic Crafts Exhibit and Festival, to Jan. 13. www.wardmuseum.org
MASSACHUSETTS
BEVERLY Redbrick Art Center Gallery: “Whimsical,”
ceramics, to Jan. 12.
BOSTON Ferrin Gallery: “Locally Thrown: Studio Pottery
Invitational,” “Size Matters: Small Works,” to Dec. 30.
www.ferringallery.com Hynes Convention Center: “Crafts
at the Castle 2007,” to Dec. 2. www.fsgb.org L’Attitude
Gallery: “Great Gifts, Small Packages,” to Jan. 4.
www.lattitudegallery.com Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: “Shy
Boy, She Devil, and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft, Selections from the
Wornick Collection,” to Jan. 6. “Arts of Japan: The John C.
Weber Collection,” to Jan. 13. “Jewelry by Artists: The Daphne
Farago Collection,” “Ed Rossbach Fiber Art from the Daphne Farago
Collection,” to Mar. 5. www.mfa.org Pucker Gallery:
Mark Davis, mobiles, Dec. 1-30. www.puckergallery.com Society of
Arts and Crafts: “From Minimal to Bling: Contemporary Studio
Jewelry,” to Dec. 30. www.societyofcrafts.org
BROCKTON Fuller Craft Museum: “Pulp Function,”
“Ceramic Sculpture: Fire and Ash,” “New/Now: 10 Makers
for the New Millennium,” furniture, to Jan. 6. James Reynolds, metal,
to Apr. 20. Jamie Bennett, enamels, William Hunter, wood, Jan. 19-May 4.
www.fullercraft.org
BROOKLINE Brookline Arts Center: 33rd Annual Crafts Showcase,
to Dec. 16. www.brooklineartscenter.com
CAMBRIDGE Mobilia Gallery: “Jewelry from Paintings
and Architecture,” Dec. 4-Jan. 1. www.mobilia-gallery.com
CONCORD Lacoste Gallery: “From the Studio,”
ceramics, to Dec. 10.
DUXBURY Art Complex Museum: “Boxes, Baskets and Buckets,”
mixed media, to Jan. 13. www.artcomplex.org
LOWELL New England Quilt Museum: “Lowell: Inside-out,”
to Jan. 12. www.nequiltmuseum.org
NEW BEDFORD New Bedford Art Museum: “Steve
Whittlesey: Tables & Shelves,” “Reclaimed and Rejuvenated:
Discards Into Art,” to Dec. 31. www.newbedfordartmuseum.org
NEWTON CENTRE Dahlia: 3rd Annual Handmade Scarf Show, to
Feb. 2.
NORTHAMPTON Smith College Museum of Art: Daniel E. Kelm,
book arts, to Feb. 10. www.smith.edu/artmuseum
PITTSFIELD Ferrin Gallery: “Size Matters: Small Works,”
mixed media, to Dec. 30. www.ferringallery.com
SALEM Peabody Essex Museum: “Samuel McIntire, Carving
an American Style,” to Feb. 24. “Origami Now!” to June
8. www.pem.org
SPRINGFIELD Museum of Fine Arts: Ruta Smilskalns, thread
paintings, to Jan. 13. Josh Simpson, retrospective, glass, to Feb. 3. www.springfieldmuseums.org
MICHIGAN
BLOOMFIELD HILLS
Cranbrook Art Museum: “Material Memory: World Textiles
from the Collections of Cranbrook Art Museum and Gerhardt Knodel,”
to Dec. 30. “Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future,” to Mar. 30.
“The John Blum Collection of Decorative Arts and Design,” Jan.
26-Mar. 22. www.cranbrookart.edu/museum
DETROIT Pewabic Pottery: “A Long Look Back –
100 Years,” highlighting collaborations of Albert Kahn and Pewabic
for residential and commercial installations, to Dec. 31. www.pewabic.org
FERNDALE Paul Kotula Projects: Iris Eichenberg, metal,
to Jan. 5. www.paulkotula.com
GRAND RAPIDS LaFontsee Galleries: “Miniature Works
by Enormously Talented Artists,” Dec. 7-Jan. 4. ”Luminosity:
Carolyn Fehsenfeld and David Huang,” mixed media, Jan. 11-Feb. 15.
www.lafontsee.us Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts:
Mary Gaynier, cut paper works, “Luring,” mixed media by the
group Distill, Dec. 7-Mar. 2. www.uica.org
PETOSKEY Crooked Tree Arts Center: Works by 24 Studio Art
Quilt Associates members, Jan. 12-Mar. 8. www/crookedtree.org
ROYAL OAK Ariana Gallery: Annual teapot exhibit, to Dec.
15. www.arianagallery.com
SAUGATUCK Saugatuck Center for the Arts: Fiber
Revolution members exhibit, to Dec. 18. www.sc4a.org
WYANDOTTE Biddle Gallery: “Clay Show Invitational,”
to Dec. 31. www.biddlegallery.com
MINNESOTA
MINNEAPOLIS Minneapolis
Institute of Arts: Art of the Apsaalooka, to Oct. 21. “The
Genius of Shibata Zeshin: Japanese Masterworks from the Catherine and Thomas
Edson Collection,” to Jan. 6. Ta-coumba Aiken, mixed media, to Jan.
13. “NUNO: Textiles of the 21st Century,” to Mar. 3. Weathervanes
and whirligigs from Twin Cities collections, to Apr. 13. www.artsmia.org
Minnesota Center for Book Arts: “Book: Unlearned,”
to Jan. 5. “Situations,” book-inspired installation art, Jan.
26-Apr. 7. www.mnbookarts.org Northern Clay Center: Holiday
exhibit, to Dec. 30. Ryan Greenheck, Eric Jensen, Mike Norman, Jan. 3-27.
“2008 Jerome Artists Exhibition: Donna Flanery and Peter Jadoonath,”
“Jerome Artists in Retrospect: Reflections on 17 Years of Ceramic
Artists Project Grants,” “Fogelberg and Red Wing Artists Exhibition,”
Jan. 11-Feb. 24. S.C. Rolf, Christ Wert, Tara Wilson, Jan. 31-Mar. 3. www.northernclaycenter.org
Textile Center: Holiday show, to Dec. 29. Susan Stein,
to Jan. 5. “A Common Thread,” Jan. 11-Mar. 1. www.textilecentermn.org
Weisman Art Museum: “Changing Hands: Art Without
Reservation 2, Contemporary Native North American Art from the West, Northwest
& Pacific,” to Jan. 6. www.weisman.umn.edu
ROCHESTER Rochester Art Center: “Karen Reimer: Embroideries
1999-2005,” to Jan. 6. www.rochesterartcenter.org
ST. PAUL American Association of Woodturners Gallery of Wood Art
at Landmark Center: “Turning Green,” Merit Award exhibit,
to Dec. 30. “Far from the Tree,” “Woodturning in Basic
Black,” Jan. 11-Apr. 18. www.woodturner.org
MISSOURI
ST. LOUIS Art
Saint Louis: “Art St. Louis XXIII,” to Jan. 3. www.artstlouis.org
Craft Alliance: “The Goblet Redefined,” to Dec. 24. www.craftalliance.org
Duane Reed Gallery: Ross Richmond, glass, to Dec. 31. www.duanereedgallery.com
St. Louis Art Museum: “Plains Indian Beadwork from
the Donald Danforth Jr. Collection,” to Dec. 31. www.slam.org Sheldon
Art Galleries: “Unraveled: Crossing the Line Between Fashion
& Art,” to Jan. 5. www.sheldonconcerthall.org
SEDALIA Daum Museum of Contemporary Art: Peter Callas,
ceramics, to Jan. 27. www.sfccmo.edu
MONTANA
HELENA Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts: Holiday
exhibit, to Dec. 22. www.archiebray.org
NEBRASKA
KEARNEY Museum of Nebraska Art: “Nebraska’s
Glass Artists,” to Dec. 30. Rick Beck, glass, Tom Towater, ceramics,
to Jan. 6. Monet.unk.edu/mona
LINCOLN Lux Center for the Arts: “Wrappable,”
mixed media, to Dec. 22. www.luxcenter.org Museum of Nebraska History:
“Quilting from A to Z,” ongoing. www.nebraskahistory.org
NEW
HAMPSHIRE
CONCORD League of New Hampshire Craftsmen: “The Later
Years, Pieces from the Permanent Collection, 1960-2007,” to Dec. 7.
www.nhcrafts.org
DURHAM University of New Hampshire Art Gallery: “In
Residence: Artists and the MacDowell Colony Experience,” to Dec. 17.
NEW
JERSEY
CLIFTON Clifton
Arts Center: “Interwoven Influences,” group fiber exhibit,
Jan. 23-Mar. 1. www.cliftonnj.org
CLINTON Hunterdon Museum of Art: Shellie Jacobson, ceramics/paper,
members exhibit, to Jan. 6. Nancy Moore Bess, baskets, Jan. 13-Mar. 30.
www.hunterdonartmuseum.org
CLOSTER Belskie Museum of Art & Science: “Contemporary
Craft,” to Dec. 16. www.belskiemuseum.com
DEMAREST Art School at Old Church: 33rd Annual Pottery
Show, to Dec. 2. www.tasoc.org
LAMBERTVILLE Greene and Greene Gallery: “Jewels of
the Season: Holiday Show,” to Dec. 31. www.greeneandgreenegallery.com
MILLVILLE Museum of American Glass: “Celebrating
Connections: Contemporary Glass by Mid-Atlantic Artists,” to Jan.
6. www.wheatonarts.org
MORRISTOWN Morristown Armory: Holiday Crafts at Morrison,
Dec. 14-16. www.CraftsatMorristown.com
NEW BRUNSWICK Rutgers University Alexander Library, Special Collections
and University Archives: “Suellen Glashausser and Her Circles,”
book arts, to Jan. 10. www.rci.rutgers.edu
NEWARK Newark Museum: “Glass Beads of Ghana,”
Jan. 31-ongoing. www.newarkmuseum.org
OCEANVILLE Noyes Museum of Art: “Waterways: Interpretations
by Nancy Cohen,” mixed media, Jonathan Shahn, wood/mixed media, to
Jan. 6. www.noyesmuseum.org
ALBUQUERQUE
Palette Contemporary Art & Craft: Sarah Nelson, glass,
Dec. 7-Jan. 11. www.palettecontemporary.com
LAS CRUCES New Mexico State University Art Gallery: “Frippery,”
mixed media, to Dec. 14. www.nmsu.edu/~artgal
SANTA FE LewAllen Contemporary: Carolyn Morris Bach, John
McVeigh and Janis Kerman, jewelry, Dec. 7-31. www.lewallencontemporary.com
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture: Navajo textiles from
the collections, to Sept. 1. “Native Couture: A History of Santa Fe
Style,” Dec. 16-ongoing. www.indianartsandculture.org Museum
of International Folk Art: “Gee’s Bend Quilts and Beyond,”
to Mar. 15. “Needles + Pins: Textiles and Tools,” to Apr. 13.
www.internationalfolkart.org Santa Fe Clay: “Atmospheric
Pots,” to Dec. 29. “The Seven Deadly Sins,” Jan. 4-Feb.
2. www.santafeclay.com Patina Gallery: Roberto Cardinale,
wood/mixed media, Dec. 7-Jan. 6. www.patina-gallery.com Jane Sauer
Gallery: Carol Shinn, embroidery, Vharla Khanna, dolls, Dec. 7-Jan.
5. www.jsauergallery.com Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian:
“Native American Modern, 1960 to the Present,” to Apr. 20. www.wheelwright.org
NEW
YORK
ALFRED Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art:
Jeffrey Mongrain, Jan. 24-Mar. 21. www.ceramicsmuseum.alfred.edu
ALBANY Albany Institute of History & Art: Estelle Kessler
Yarinsky, fiber, to Dec. 30. www.albanyinstitute.org
BROOKLYN Brooklyn Museum: “Global Feminisms Remix,”
to Feb. 3. www.brooklynmuseum.org UrbanGlass Robert Lehman Gallery:
“Artists of UrbanGlass, to Dec. 22. www.urbanglass.org
COOPERSTOWN Fenimore Art Museum: “Being Indian: The
6th Contemporary Iroquois Art Biennial,” to Dec. 30. www.fenimoreartmuseum.org
CORNING Corning Museum of Glass: “Masters of Studio
Glass: Joel Philip Myers and Steven I. Weinberg,” ongoing. www.cmog.org
Rockwell Museum of Western Art: “Crafted to Perfection:
The Nancy & Alan Cameros Collection of Southwestern Pottery,”
to May 11. www.rockwellmuseum.org
KATONAH Katonah Museum of Art: “Shattering Glass:
New Perspectives,” to Feb. 24. www.katonahmuseum.org
LONG ISLAND CITY Noguchi Museum: “Design: Isamu Kenmochi
and Isamu Noguchi,” to Mar. 16. www.noguchi.org P.S. 1 Contemporary
Art Center: “Irrational Profusion: Nicole Cherubini, Marc
Leuthold, Joyce Robins, and Peter Schlesinger,” ceramics, to Jan.
14. www.ps1.org
NEW PALTZ Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art: “A Designed
Life: The Arts and Crafts of Byrdcliffe,” to Dec. 9. www.newpaltz.edu/museum
NEW YORK American Folk Art Museum: “A Legacy in Quilts:
Cyril Irwin Nelson’s Final Gifts to the American Folk Art Museum,”
to Feb. 24. www.folkartmuseum.org American Museum of Natural History:
Origami Holiday Tree, to Jan. 1. www.amnh.org Bard Graduate Center:
“Fragile Diplomacy: Meissen Porcelain for European Courts,”
to Feb. 11. www.bgc.bard.edu Denise Bibro Fine Art: Erica
Licea-Kane, mixed media, to Dec. 15. www.denisebibrofineart.com Cooper-Hewitt,
National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution: “Piranesi
as Designer,” to Jan. 20. Ingo Maurer, retrospective, lighting installations,
to Jan. 27. Nancy and Edwin Marks Gallery: “IDEO
Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection,” to Jan. 20. www.cooperhewitt.org
Nathan Cummings Foundation: “Well Dressed,”
to Dec. 14. www.nathancummings.org Dieu Donné: Paper:
Workspace Program, 2001-2007, to Jan. 5. Alan Shields, Jan. 10-Feb. 9. www.dieudonne.org
Gallery 221: Lisa Marie Barber, ceramics, to Jan. 12. www.uppereast.com
Greenwich House Pottery Jane Hartsook Gallery: Stacy Cushman,
to Dec. 21. Anna Siok, Jan. 3-Feb. 2. www.greenwichhouse.org Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum: Peachy Levy,
fiber, to Jan. 5. www.huc.edu/museum/ny Heller Gallery:
Ivan Mares, glass, to Dec. 22. “Moulthrop: A Legacy in Wood,”
Dec. 1-22. www.hellergallery.com Jewish Museum: “Repairing
the World: Contemporary Ritual Art,” to Mar. 16. www.thejm.org Leo
Kaplan Modern: Kreg Kallenberger, glass, to Jan. 5. www.LKModern.com
Nancy Margolis Gallery: “Beginnings: Sculptors as
Draftsmen,” to Jan. 12. www.nancymargolisgallery.com Metropolitan
Museum of Art: “Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor,”
to Jan. 6. New Gallery for the Art of Native North America:
Native American objects, ongoing. www.metmuseum.org Joan B. Mirviss
Ltd.: “Breaking the Mold: Leading Women Ceramists of Japan,”
to Dec. 15. www.mirviss.com Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology:
“Chic Chicago: Couture Treasures from the Chicago History Museum,”
to Jan. 5. “Exoticism,” to May 7. www.fitnyc.edu/museum Museum
of Arts & Design: “Pricked: Extreme Embroidery,”
“Cheers! A MAD Collection of Goblets,” to Mar. 9. www.madmuseum.org
Museum of Modern Art: Martin Puryear, sculpture, to Jan.
14. www.moma.org Lillian Nassau Gallery: “Tiffany
Favrile Glass and the Quest for Beauty,” to Jan. 31. www.lilliannassau.com
National Academy Museum: New York Ceramics Fair, Jan. 16-19.
www.caskeylees.com National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian
Institution: “Listening to Our Ancestors: The Art of Native
Life Along the North Pacific Coast,” ongoing. Diker Pavilion
for Native Arts and Cultures: Objects from the collection, ongoing.
www.nmai.si.edu Noho Gallery: Erma Martin Yost’s
Feltworks, Jan. 29-Feb.16. www.nohogallery.com Pratt Manhattan Gallery:
“My World: The New Subjectivity in Design,” Dec. 15-Feb. 23.
www.pratt.edu/exhibitions Primavera Gallery: “Not
Your Mother’s Jewelry,” to Dec. 30. www.primaveragallery.com
SteubenGlass: Josh Simpson, to Dec. 31. www.steuben.com
UBS Art Gallery: Josiah Wedgwood Ceramics, Jan. 24-Apr.
18. www.ubs.com
PORT CHESTER Clay Art Center: Albert Pfarr, “Parts
& Pieces,” Jan. 5-26. www.clayartcenter.org
ROCHESTER University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery:
“Wild by Design: Two Hundred Years of Innovation and Artistry in American
Quilts,” “Michael James: Reinventing Quilts in a Digital Age,”
Jan. 20-Mar. 16. www.mag.rochester.edu
YONKERS Hudson River Museum: “Pattern and Decoration:
An Ideal Vision in American art,” to Jan. 20. www.hrm.org
NORTH
CAROLINA
HandMade in America publishes The Craft Heritage Trails of Western North
Carolina. $19.95 plus shipping. www.handmadeinamerica.org
ASHEVILLE Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center:
“Breaking New Ground: The Studio Potter + Black Mountain College,”
to Jan. 19. www.blackmountcollege.org Southern Highland Craft Guild:
Harriet Smith, polymer clay, Michael Hughey, calligraphy, to Jan. 1. “Western
North Carolina Pottery: The Rodney Henderson Leftwich Collection,”
to Jan. 13. www.craftguild.org
CHAPEL HILL Somerhill Gallery: Holiday exhibit, to Jan.
5. www.somerhill.com
CHARLOTTE Hodges Taylor Gallery: Virginia Scotchie, ceramics,
Boris Bally, metal/mixed media, to Dec. 22. Randy Shull, furniture, Jan.
11-Feb. 29. www.hodgestaylor.com McColl Center for Visual Art:
“Labels, Tags & Misconceptions: Work by Susan Harbage Page,”
mixed media, “11-Month Affiliate Artists Exhibition,” to Jan.
19. www.mccollcenter.org Mint Museum of Art: “Contemporary,
Cool and Collected,” multimedia, to Dec. 30. “Then and Now and
In Between: A Gift from the American Ceramic Society,” to Jan. 27.
“Salt-glazed Stoneware in England and North Carolina,” to Feb.
10. www.themintmuseums.org Mint Museum of Craft + Design:
“Fiberart International 2007,” to Feb. 24. “White Light:
Glass Compositions by Daniel Clayman,” Dec. 15-May 25. www.themintmuseums.org
HICKORY Hickory Museum of Art: “Bill Brown: The Art
of Transformation,” Dec. 8-Mar. 9. www.hickorymuseumofart.org
RALEIGH Gregg Museum of Art & Design: Tom Spleth, retrospective,
ceramics, paintings, prints, drawings, to Dec. 20. “Recent Gifts:
Eye to Eye, Object to Object,” Jan. 24-Mar. 16. Randy Shull, furniture,
Jan. 24-May 11. http://gad.ncsu.edu
SEAGROVE North Carolina Pottery Center: Donna Craven, “An
Independent Spirit: the Potters of Seagrove Today,” to Mar. 29. www.ncpotterycenter.com
FARGO Plains
Art Museum: “Quilts: Fiber for Thought,” to Jan. 13.
www.plainsart.org
GRAND FORKS North Dakota Museum of Art: “Warren MacKenzie:
Legacy of An American Potter,” to Jan. 20. www.ndmoa.com
MINOT Minot State University Northwest Art Center: “Americas
2000: Paper Works,” Jan. 15-Feb. 27. www.minotstateu.edu/nac
OHIO
ATHENS Ohio
University Kennedy Museum of Art: “Art of the Zuni,”
ongoing. www.ohio.edu/museum
CINCINNATI Cincinnati Art Museum: “Vanishing Frontier:
Rookwood, Farny, and the American Indian,” to Jan. 20. “Designed
to Dazzle: Cincinnati Collects Tiffany Jewelry,” to Feb. 17. www.cincyart.org
COLUMBUS Columbus Museum of Art: Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson,
mixed media, to Feb. 24. www.columbusmuseum.org Hawk Galleries:
Christopher Ries, glass, to Dec. 30. www.hawkgalleries.com Ohio
Arts Council Riffe Gallery: “New Horizons: Rewards of Time
and Place,” mixed media, to Jan. 6. “Connections II: Ohio Artists
Abroad,” mixed media, Jan. 24-Apr. 6. www.riffegallery.org Ohio
Craft Museum: “Gifts of the Craftsmen,” to Dec. 23.
www.ohiocraft.org Sherrie Gallerie: John Balistreri, ceramics,
Dec. 9-Jan. 31. www.sherriegallerie.com
KETTERING Rosewood Gallery: “HWD 2007: A Regional
Sculpture Competition,” to Dec. 14. www.ketteringoh.org
TOLEDO Toledo Museum of Art: “Building Books: The
Art of David Macaulay,” to Jan. 6. “GlassWear,” to Jan.
31. www.toledomuseum.org
PENNSYLVANIA
ALLENTOWN Allentown
Art Museum: “Tiffany by Design,” “Alphonse Mucha:
Art Nouveau Extraordinaire,” to Jan. 6. www.allentownartmuseum.org
COLLEGEVILLE Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College:
Fiber forms and paintings by Eve Peri, to Dec. 16. www.ursinus.edu
DOYLESTOWN James A. Michener Art Museum: John Costanza,
porcelain and stoneware sculptures, to Feb. 24.
ERIE Erie Art Museum: “Earth & Spirit: Contemporary
Indigenous Art from Australia and New Zealand,” to Dec. 30. www.erieartmuseum.org
JENKINTOWN Abington Art Center: Regional artists, Dec.
8-Jan. 25. www.abingtonartcenter.org
LANCASTER Heritage Center Museum: “Stars Over
Pennsylvania,” quilts, to Dec. 31. www.lancasterheritage.com Lancaster
Museum of Art: Shalya Marsh, ceramics, Jan. 5-Mar. 2. www.lmapa.org
Lancaster Quilt and Textile Museum: “Rags to Rugs:
Pennsylvania Hooked and Handsewn Rugs,” to Dec. 31. www.lancasterheritage.com
PAOLI Wharton Esherick Museum: Pepper and salt grinders,
wood, to Dec. 31. www.levins.com/esherick.html
PHILADELPHIA Clay Studio: “Gifted Too,” Dec.
6-30. Rob Kirsch, “New Year/New Residents,” Jan. 4-27. www.theclaystudio.com
Design Center at Philadelphia University: Susie Brandt,
textile installation, Jan. 24-Apr. 9. www.philau.edu/designcenter Gallery
908 at Philadelphia Glass Works: Lighting exhibit, to Dec. 23.
www.gallery908.com Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania:
Collaborative installation by Margo Mensing and John McQueen focusing on
the dawn redwood tree, ongoing. www.morrisarboretum.org Philadelphia
Art Alliance: SunKoo Yuh, ceramics, drawings, sketches, to Dec.
30. www.philartalliance.org Philadelphia Museum of Art:
“Clay, Wood, and Paper: Materials for Korean Art,” ongoing.
“Designing Modern: 1920 to the Present,” to Feb. 29. www.philamuseum.org
Wexler Gallery: Michael Manthey, jewelry, Marilyn Arnold
Palley, wearable sculpture, Yuji Kubo, lacquer-ware, Dec. 7-28. New works
by Wendell Castle, furniture, Jan. 4-Feb. 29. www.wexlergallery.com
PHOENIXVILLE Barnstone Gallery: “Ceramic, Pottery
and Clay, Oh My!” to Jan. 20. www.barnstonegallery.com
PITTSBURGH Carnegie Mellon University Regina Gouger Miller Gallery:
Michelle Stitzlein, recycled materials sculpture, to Dec. 21. http://millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu
Carnegie Museum of Art: Associated Artists of Pittsburgh’s
97th Annual Exhibit, to Jan. 21. “Designed to Be Lit,” to Feb.
10. www.carnegiemuseums.org Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild:
Jason Van Anden and Christy Matson, multimedia, to Jan. 6. www.manchesterguild.org
Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery: “Teapots! 2nd
Invitational,” mixed media, to Jan. 19. www.morganglassgallery.com
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts: “A Tryst with Glass,”
to Jan. 27. www.pittsburgharts.org Pittsburgh Glass Center:
Michael Rogers, glass, and Richard Hirsch, ceramics, to Mar. 30. www.pittsburghglasscenter.org
Pittsburgh International Airport: Daviea Davis, glass installation,
ongoing. Society for Contemporary Craft: Nick Cave, mixed
media, Dec. 7-Feb. 23. www.contemporarycraft.org
WAYNE Wayne Art Center: “Craft Forms 2007,”
to Jan. 25. www.wayneart.org
WILLOW GROVE Langman Gallery: Contemporary menorahs, “Art
Jewelry 2007,” to Dec. 31. www.langmangallery.com
YOUNGWOOD Westmoreland County Community College: “Contemporary
Craft: Recycled & Rethought,” to Dec. 19. www.wccc.edu
RHODE
ISLAND
NEWPORT Newport Art Museum: Judith Larzelere, quilts, to
Dec. 31. www.newportartmuseum.com
PROVIDENCE Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art:
“Fabulous Fakes: Jewelry by Kenneth Jay Lane,” to Jan. 27. www.risd.edu/museum
SOUTH
CAROLINA
GREENVILLE South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and
Humanities Lipscomb Gallery: Katy Bergman Cassell, metals/enamels,
to Dec. 12.
NORTH CHARLESTON Riverfront Park: Outdoor sculpture exhibit,
to Mar. 28. www.northcharleston.org
TENNESEE
CHATTANOOGA River Gallery: “Emotion,” mixed
media, Dec. 1-31. www.river-gallery.com
GATLINBURG Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts: “Weaving
a Life: The Gatlinburg Cottage Weaver’s Industry,” to Jan. 5.
Sevier County Invitational, mixed media, Jan. 11-Feb. 23. www.arrowmont.org
MEMPHIS National Ornamental Metal Museum: “The Ring
Show 1977-2007,” “Thomas Mann: Storm Cycle,” jewelry/mixed
media, to Jan. 27. www.metalmuseum.org
SMITHVILLE Appalachian Center for Craft: “2+2: Four
Current Approaches to Craft and Content,” Jan. 14-Feb. 18. www.tntech.edu/craftcenter
TEXAS
COLLEGE STATION J. Wayne Stark Galleries: “Teapots:
Object to Subject,” to Dec. 16.*** http://stark.tamu.edu
DALLAS Dallas Museum of Art: “When Gold Blossoms:
Indian Jewelry from the Susan L. Beningson Collection,” to Jan. 27.*
www.dallasmuseumorart.org Kittrell/Riffkind Art Glass:
“Ornament Extravaganza,” to Dec. 31. www.kittrellriffkind.com
DENTON Center for the Visual Arts Meadows Gallery: “Materials
Hard & Soft,” mixed media, Jan. 26-Mar. 20. www.dentonarts.com
HOUSTON Houston Center for Contemporary Craft: “Women’s
Tales: Four Leading Israeli Jewelers,” Bianca Eshel-Gershuni, Vered
Kaminski, Esther Knobel and Deganit Stern Schocken, to Jan. 20. www.crafthouston.org
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: “Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde
Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection,” to Jan. 21. www.mfah.org
Houston Museum of Natural Science: Fulco di Verdura, jewelry,
to Feb. 17. www.hmns.org
LUBBOCK Museum of Texas Tech University: Jun Kaneko, ceramics,
drawings and paintings, Dec. 9-Feb. 10. www.depts.ttu.edu/museumttu Texas
Tech University School of Art Landmark Gallery: “Clay on
the Wall,” Dec. 1-Feb. 17. www.landmarkarts.org
ODESSA Ellen Noel Art Museum: “The Art of Fashion:
What American Women Wore,” to Dec. 31. www.noelartmuseum.org
SAN ANTONIO Southwest School of Art & Craft: “Over,
Under, Around and Through,” mixed media, to Jan. 13. Contemporary
art from New Zealand, Jan. 24-Mar. 16. www.swschool.org
WICHITA FALLS University Art Gallery Midwestern State University:
Danville Chadbourne, mixed media, to Jan. 5. http://finearts.mwsu.edu/art/gallery
UTAH
SALT LAKE CITY Salt Lake Art Center: “San Francisco
Recycled,” “Masters of West Coast Assemblage and Collage,”
to Jan. 26. www.slartcenter.org
VIRGINIA
ALEXANDRIA
Torpedo Factory Art Center Target Gallery: “Molded Earth,”
ceramics, Dec. 13-Jan. 20. “The Kinetic Image,” mixed media,
Jan. 30-Feb. 24. www.torpedofactory.org
RICHMOND Quirk Gallery: “Sparkle Plenty 3,”
jewelry/metal, to Dec. 22. www.quirkgallery.com University of Richmond
Museums Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature: “Castings
in Contemporary Ceramics,” to Dec. 16. “Ceramic Portraits: Selections
from the Georganna Yeager Johns Collection of Royal Doulton Character Jugs,”
to June 29. http://museums.richmond.edu VCUarts Anderson Gallery:
“Gord Peteran: Furniture Meets its Maker,” to Mar. 2. www.vcu.edu/artweb/gallery
TYSONS CORNER Habatat Galleries: Tanija and Graham Carr,
leather, Peter Powning, mixed media, to Dec. 29. www.habatatgalleries.com
VIRGINIA BEACH Contemporary Art Center of Virginia: Peter
Eudenbach, mixed media, to Dec. 30. Adia Millet, found materials constructions,
Jan. 10-Mar. 30. www.cacv.org
BELLEVUE Bellevue
Arts Museum: Dinh Q. Lê, survey exhibit, woven photographic
works, to Dec. 30. Paul Marioni, glass, “Russel Wright: Living with
Good Design,” to Jan. 20. “Material Terrain: A Sculptural Exploration
of Landscape and Place,” mixed media, Jan. 17-May 4. www.bellevuearts.org
SEATTLE Facere Jewelry Art Gallery: “Animalés,”
Jan. 30-Feb. 16. www.facerejewelryart.com Seattle Asian Art Museum:
“Pattern Richness in Modern Japanese Textiles,” ongoing. www.seattleartmuseum.org
Stongington Gallery: Angela Swedberg, glass and beaded
sculpture, Alano Edzerza, glass and 2D works, “Engraved in Tradition:
A Group Exhibit,” jewelry, to Dec. 31. “Rain,” mixed media,
“Fits in Your Pocket: Spirit Amulets by Hib Sabin,” Dec. 6-31.
www.stoningtongallery.com Winston Wächter Fine Art:
Ann Gardner, mixed media, to Jan. 4. www.winstonwachter.com
TACOMA Museum of Glass: “Contrasts: A Glass Primer,”
ongoing. “Mining Glass,” to Feb. 3. www.museumofglass.org Tacoma
Art Museum: Highlights from the collection, ongoing. “Gee’s
Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt,” to Dec. 9. “Threads that
Bind: Works by Pacific Northwest African American Quilters,” Dec.
18-Feb. 18. www.tacomaartmuseum.org Washington State History Museum:
“Evolution of the Art Quilt,” to Dec. 9. www.wshs.org
WISCONSIN
Midwest Art Fairs publishes a guide to shows in IA, IL, MI, MN, ND, SD and
WI. $16.95. MAF, Box 72, Pepin, WI 54759. MidwestArtFairs.com
MADISON University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Human Ecology
Design Gallery: “Crafting Kimono,” to Feb. 3. www.designgallery.wisc.edu
MILWAUKEE Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum: “A
Stitch in Time: 18th & 19th Century Children’s Samplers,”
to Jan. 12. www.cavtmuseums.org
RACINE Racine Art Museum: “Icons of Elegance: The
Most Influential Shoe Designers of the 20th Century,” to Jan. 20.
“Feeling Groovy! Textures in RAM’s Collection Inspired by Icons
of Elegance,” “Cloaking Devices: Clothing and its Interpretations,”
to Mar. 30. Diane Simpson, fiber/mixed media, to July 27. www.ramart.org
SHEBOYGAN John Michael Kohler Arts Center: “Sublime
Spaces & Visionary Worlds,” mixed media, “One and Only:
Gifts Made by Hand,” to Jan. 6. Mead Public Library:
“Material Studies,” works by artists participating in the Kohler
Arts Center’s Arts/Industry program, to Feb. 1. www.jmkac.org
FOREIGN
- Listed exhibitions include American artists.
CANADA
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA Winnipeg Art Gallery: “18 Illuminations:
Contemporary Art and Light,” to Mar. 2. www.wag.mb.ca
BURLINGTON, ONTARIO Burlington Art Centre: Quilt Art group’s
20th anniversary exhibit, Dec. 2-Jan. 27. www.burlingtonartcentre.on.ca
TORONTO, ONTARIO Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art: Gertraud
Möhwald, ceramics, to Jan. 20. www.gardinermuseum.com
MONTREAL, QUEBEC Espace Verre: “Around the Table,”
to Jan. 11. www.espaceverre.qc.ca Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h: “International
Jewelry Exhibition,” to Jan. 26.
DENMARK
COPENHAGEN Drud & Koppe Gallery: “Func Art,”
mixed media, to Dec. 22. www.drud-koppe.com
SILKEBORG KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad: “Quilt Art
22—Under Construction,” to Mar. 2. www.silkeborgbad.dk
ENGLAND
LONDON Victoria and Albert Museum: “Out of the Ordinary:
Spectacular Craft,” to Feb. 17. “The Art of Drinking,”
to May 23. “Collect: The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects,”
Jan. 25-29. Museum Shop: “The Unusual Suspects,” metal, to Jan.
13. www.vam.ac.uk
MIDDLESBROUGH Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art: “Bauhaus:
1919-1933,” to Feb. 17. www.visitmima.com
SOUTH KOREA
GIMHAE Clayarch Gimhae Museum: Shin Sangho, retrospective,
ceramics, to Mar. 30. www.clayarch.org