The Visual Movement

SMOCA invites all of us to its 10th Year Opening Awards Ceremony in Phoenix…

Richard Avedon Exhibition Opens
Saturday, January 12 - Sunday, April 13, 2008
The Phoenix Art Museum presents Richard Avedon: Photographer of Influence
An exhibition of photographs of the 20th century’s most celebrated fashion, cultural and intellectual subjects.

For Tent and Trade: Masterpieces of Turkmen Weaving at the de Young Museum

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco presents a selection of 40 of the finest rugs, bags, and tent and animal trappings from Turkmenistan, northwest Iran, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan.

Run: December 15, 2007, through April 27, 2008.

de Young
Golden Gate Park
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco, CA 94118

photo:
Left: Camel trapping for bridal procession (khalyk), Central Asia, Yomut Turkmen people, ca. 18th century. Gift of George and Marie Hecksher. Right: Storage bag (juval) face (detail), ca. 1850–1875. The Caroline and H. McCoy Jones Collection

The New Museum of Contemporary Art opens Dec 1

Designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the Japanese firm Sanaa

*see Designboom interview

New Museum

235 Bowery

New York, NY 10002

212.219.1222

New Museum home page

NY Times Slideshow

Form and Imagination: Women Ceramic Sculptors Exhibition

Fifteen female artists from across the country showcase their figurative art whose work has been inspired by their experiences as children, mothers, women, wives, and artists.

Show: Now through November 24

American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA)
340 S. Garey Ave., Pomona, CA, (909) 629-1067

NORA NARANJO-MORSE

Jan Fisher Lecture Series

Oct. 24 @ 7:00 pm

Location: ASU Tempe Campus, Coor 1999

Nora Naranjo-Morse, a Native American artist from the Santa Clara Pueblo explores contemporary issues in a wide variety of media: clay, bronze, video and poetry. Morse embraces traditional practices of working with clay imbued by her concerns with community, the environment and what it means to be a Native American woman, in today’s society. She freely challenges perceptions and expectations, expressing issues of gender and aging in a humorous, yet potent manner.

The lecture series brings to the Phoenix community both established and emerging women ceramic artists.

Nora Naranjo-Morse, The Tribe, 2005, variable dimensions

MOULTHROP GENERATIONS: Turned Wood Vessels

by Ed, Philip, and Matt Moulthrop

Arizona State University Art Museum

October 20, 2007 through February 24, 2008

The Moulthrops are a dynasty of artists – grandfather, son, and grandson – who have made significant contributions to the field of wood turning and share a consistency of vision and process. Ed began turning as a teenager in the 1930s; Philip began turning in the 1970s; Matt, who has spent his life around wood, is just beginning his career. Philip and Matt both apprenticed with Ed in Atlanta, Georgia, where each now has his own studio. Moulthrop Generations: Turned Wood Vessels by Ed, Philip, and Matt Moulthrop presents more than seventy turned wood vessels from 1979 until today by the three artists….

While the Moulthrops are well represented in national and international museum collections, Moulthrop Generations is the first major museum exhibition to bring the three generations together. Moulthrop Generations presents the breadth of their work, and reveals their important place within the field of wood turning and contemporary craft.

Photo: Matt Moulthrop, Chalice, 2006, Black willow, 14 x 7 1/4 in..