The Center for Craft Creativity & Design announces a craft lecture featuring Windgate research curator Elissa Auther and designer and Windgate fellow Mark Reigelman. Events are free and take place Friday and Saturday, May 29 and 30, at CCCD’s Benchspace Gallery & Workshop, 67 Broadway St.
Press release from CCCD:
The Center for Craft Creativity & Design (CCCD) will kick-off its new annual lecture series with Process vs Product: Shifting Values in Art, Craft, and Design, a lecture by Windgate Research Curator Elissa Auther. This talk covers the topic of process and it’s influence on value in the art world today.
Debates over the concept of process have been central to the ways craft has been distinguished from art – both positively and negatively – and this presentation will consider how these debates continue to affect the shape and identity of the craft field.
The Windgate Research Curator is a newly appointed position at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City in collaboration with Bard Graduate Center and CCCD which serves to establish a new hub for expanded field of craft research in the United States. Funded by the Windgate Charitable Foundation, the post is intended to advance scholarly research and critical discourse in the fields of craft and design through research, exhibitions, publications, and public programming.
“We are so pleased to showcase Auther’s talents and draw her expertise into the region and CCCD’s programming efforts,” says CCCD Executive Director Stephanie Moore. “Her position forges an important and innovative partnership between CCCD, the Museum of Arts and Design and Bard Graduate Center, allowing us to demonstrate our collective commitment to the field of craft research.”
Visitors are invited to come early and experience the creative process first hand. Brooklyn based designer and CCCD Windgate Fellow Mark Reigelman will be taking over the gallery for the third event in CCCD’s Back to the Drawing Board series. His installation, Blue Mountain, will explore themes of industrial and environmental impact of Western North Carolina’s historically important and detrimental industries: tobacco, timber and textiles. This hand-on activity allows visitors to interact with the artist and help create a work of art to be displayed in the gallery.
EVENT DETAILS
Friday, May 29, 7:30 – 8:30 pm, Process vs Product: Shifting Values in Art, Craft, and Design, lecture by Windgate Research Curator Elissa AutherMay 29 – 30, Blue Mountain, Mark Reigelman (Brooklyn, New York)
Blue Mountain will begin with a public reception from 6 – 9 pm Friday evening and continue from 10 am – 6 pm Saturday.
Events will be held at CCCD’s Benchspace Gallery & Workshop, 67 Broadway Street, Asheville, NC and are free and open to the public.
For more information, call 828-785-1357 or visit www.craftcreativitydesign.org.
Back to the Drawing Board was made possible by the John & Robyn Horn Foundation.
ABOUT THE CENTER FOR CRAFT, CREATIVITY & DESIGN (CCCD)
Established in 1996, The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design is a national nonprofit organization that advances the understanding of craft by encouraging and supporting research, critical dialogue, and professional development in the United States. CCCD provides programs and outreach to international, national, and regional artists, craft organizations, universities/colleges, and the community. Each year, CCCD administers over a quarter million dollars in grants to those working in the craft field. In 2014, CCCD relocated to Asheville, NC, and opened Benchspace, a public gallery and workshop for investigating contemporary practices of making in the shifting creative landscape of the 21st century.ABOUT ELISSA AUTHER
Elissa Auther is the Windgate Research Curator, a joint appointment at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Bard Graduate Center, New York, in collaboration with The Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design. The post is generously funded by the Windgate Charitable Foundation and is intended to advance scholarly research and critical discourse in the fields of craft and design through research, exhibitions, publications, and public programming. Her book, String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art (Minnesota, 2010), focuses on the broad utilization of fiber in American art of the 1960s and 1970s and the changing hierarchical relationship between art and craft expressed by the medium’s new visibility. She is a coeditor with Adam Lerner of West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965-1977 (Minnesota, 2012). Her retrospective exhibition of the painter and photographer Marilyn Minter titled Pretty Dirty will open in 2015 and will be accompanied by a catalogue. In addition, she co-directs “Feminism & Co.: Art, Sex, Politics,” a public program at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver that focuses on issues of women and gender through creative practice.ABOUT MARK REIGELMAN
Mark Reigelman is a Brooklyn based artist specializing in site-specific objects and installations. His work has been exhibited in public spaces, galleries and museums across the country. Currently, documentation of Reigelman’s project The Reading Nest is included in the exhibition Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. His project, Manifest Destiny! was recognized by Americans for the Arts as one of the top 50 public art projects of 2012 and site-specific installation, White Cloud, at the Cleveland Museum of Art was named as one of the top public art projects in the United States. French clothing company Lacoste recognized Reigelman as the Cultural Innovator of 2013 and was featured with his work in Details Magazine (NYC). He is a member of the American Design Club (AmDC) and co-founder of the New York based creative collective Art Stars. Reigelman has exhibited work worked with designers such as Jorge Diego Etienne, Isaac Mizrahi, GyBell, Ron Gilad, Dror, Montana Knox and Rockwell Group. Reigelman’s work has been included in publications such as The New York Times (NYC), New York Magazine (NYC), FRAME (Netherlands), L’uomo Vogue (Italy), Public Design (Korea) and Tele Star (France). Most recently his work was featured in the book, Unexpected Art: Serendipitous Installations, Site Specific Works, and Surprising Interventions, printed by Chronicle Books.
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