Blog Category: Craft and Decorative Arts

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

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  Native American Arts in Focus: Sustaining Traditions—Digital Memories

  Discover how artist Kelly Church is ensuring that centuries of Indigenous traditions are preserved for future generations with her beautifully woven basketry.

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  Contemporary Craft

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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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  Making the Most: In the Studio with Kevin Pourier

  Oglala Lakota artist Kevin Pourier creates art from buffalo horn, a material with a deep ancestral and cultural connection

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  Contemporary Craft

  Making the Most - Craft Practice during the Dual Pandemics

  New Acquisitions

  Craft and Decorative Arts

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  Making the Most: In the Studio with Carolyn Crump

  The artist focused on health and happiness, for herself and others, during the pandemic.

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  Making the Most - Craft Practice during the Dual Pandemics

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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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  Pride

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  Making the Most: In the Studio with Kit Paulson

  Kit Paulson is currently a resident artist at the Penland School of Craft in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. She makes intricate and whimsical glassworks that embody histories of ornamentation, material culture, and natural history. SAAM is acquiring her work, Lungs.

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  Contemporary Craft

  Making the Most - Craft Practice during the Dual Pandemics

  New Acquisitions

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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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  Craft and Decorative Arts

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  Making the Most: In the Studio with Donté K. Hayes

  The ceramic artist reflects on his art, studio practice, and life during this challenging period

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  Contemporary Craft

  Making the Most - Craft Practice during the Dual Pandemics

  New Acquisitions

  Craft and Decorative Arts

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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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  Contemporary Craft

  Making the Most - Craft Practice during the Dual Pandemics

  New Acquisitions

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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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