The Good Making of Good Things at the Center for Craft, Creativity & Design in Asheville
The Good Making of Good Things: Craft Horizons Magazine 1941-1979 will be on exhibit at the Center for Craft, Creativity & Design (CCCD) in downtown Asheville January 20th - May 20th, 2017. This Friday, January 20th, there will be an Opening Reception from 6:30 - 8:30 pm with a Curators' Tour at 7:30 pm. There are a number of events going on during the exhibit run, including a Women and Craft Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on March 2nd.
From the CCCD website:
The Good Making of Good Things investigates Craft Horizons, a watershed publication, which ran from 1941-1979, and explores how the magazine documented and shaped the concept of craft as a movement, career, way of life, and cultural phenomenon.
During its nearly forty years in print, Craft Horizons documented the craft movement as it happened. This exhibition pairs works by makers featured in the magazine with articles, reviews, and letters from readers to illustrate the essential role it played in the development of craft and its cultural connections. In a pre-Internet era, Craft Horizons was the field’s tutorial guide, its social network, and its image-sharing database. It gave the artist, enthusiast, scholar, or casual hobbyist access to all that occurred in craft.
The magazine began as a humble unnamed newsletter in 1941, bringing together a like-minded community that had yet to connect nationally. By the 1970s, Craft Horizons had grown into the field’s leading voice. In 1979, the American Craft Council, its publisher, rebranded it as American Craft, which is still in print today.
Featured artists include: Tanya Aguiñiga (b. 1978), David Gilhooly (1943-2013), Rudi Gernreich (1922-1985), Ted Hallman (b. 1933), Harvey Littleton (1922-2013), Jaydan Moore (b. 1986), George Nakashima (1905-1990), Ruth Radakovich (1920-1975), Svetozar Radakovich (1918-1998), Southern Highland Craft Guild, Rudolf Staffel (1911-2002), Bob Stocksdale (1913-2003), Peter Voulkos (1924-2002), Betty Woodman (b. 1953)
The Good Making of Good Things: Craft Horizons 1941–1979 is curated by The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design’s (CCCD) 2017 Curatorial Fellows Elizabeth Essner, Lily Kane, and Meaghan Roddy and organized by CCCD.
(Note - ICYMI: the complete - and searchable - archive of Craft Horizons is available here: http://digital.craftcouncil.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15785coll2)
More, including a schedule of exhibit events, here:
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