Blog Category: Craft and Decorative Arts

Featuring contemporary craft and decorative arts at SAAM and the Renwick Gallery.

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  Reflecting on Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020 During a Global Pandemic

  Nora Atkinson, curator-in-charge of SAAM’s Renwick Gallery, reflects on an unprecedented year and a half and the universal force of nature

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  Sculpting Pride: Timothy Horn’s artworks delve into the human and natural worlds

  Learn more about the artwork and evolving career of Timothy Horn, feature artist in Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020

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  Christine McHorse, an Artist Whose Clay Works Pushed Against Conventions

  Remembering the Navajo artist whose clay works pushed against conventions over her fifty-year career

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  The Graphic Appeal of Amish Quilts

  Celebrating National Quilting Day with a gift of Amish quilts

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  Making the Most: In the Studio with Linda Lopez

  Checking in with the artist who creates lively and unexpected sculptures from clay.

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  Making the Most - Craft Practice during the Dual Pandemics

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  Lauren Fensterstock in Focus: Finding Inspiration in the End of the World

  New artwork explores how weather and celestial activity have been used as metaphor

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  Debora Moore’s Glass Sculptures are Rooted in Nature

  Sculptor Debora Moore works with glass to achieve great feats of creativity, craftsmanship, and natural wonder.

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  Making the Most: In the Studio with Julia Kwon

  Julia Kwon’s interactive art projects facilitate solidarity and community

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  Making the Most - Craft Practice during the Dual Pandemics

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  Sharing Native American History through Art and Craft

  Anya Montiel on her work as Curator of American and Native American Women’s Art and Craft

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  From Indigo Farm to Art Gallery with Artist Rowland Ricketts

  The work of fiber artist Roland Ricketts, featured in the Renwick Invitational, begins on his farm in Indiana

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  Forces of Nature

  The 2020 Renwick Invitational offers an inspired vision of nature

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  Saying Goodbye to Artworks by David Best, Ginny Ruffner, and Michael Sherrill

  Last chance to see three exhibitions at SAAM's Renwick Gallery is January 5, 2020

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  Back in Bacne

  Lauren Kalman's challenging work is meant to get under our skin.

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  50 Things about OBJECTS: USA at 50

  Public programs coordinator Gloria Kenyon revisits the influential Objects: USA exhibition on its 50th anniversary

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  Artist Ginny Ruffner Reimagines Nature

  Ginny Ruffner's exhibition conjures up notions of beauty and frailty through her use of glass, drawing, and augmented reality (AR) technology.

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  Mom's the Word with artist Tyler Fuqua

  A blog post in honor of Mother's Day, featuring Burning Man artist Tyler Fuqua and his mother talking about his work in "No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man."

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