A pplause.
..
T h e philanthropist and former
L iz Claiborne CEO Jerom e A .
C h azen, w ho played a key role
in the creation o f the new M u-
seum o f A rts and D esign
as chair o f its capital campaign,
w as honored at Visionaries!
2008, m a d ’s annual awards
gala, N ovem ber 12 in N ew York.
A lso saluted w ere A frican
sculptor E l A natsui, commu-
nications titan A lan Siegel
and C laudio Luti o f the Italian
furniture maker K artel.
.. The
jew eler M a ry L ee H u © , cre-
ator o f
Choker
#<?<?©, is the
newest inductee into the N a-
tional M etalsm ith’s H all o f
Fam e, maintained by the F lori-
da Society o f Goldsm iths at the
A rts Center in St. Petersburg.
G rants and com m issions
T h e Tam arack Foundation o f
W est Virginia awarded fellow-
ships to four artists in the state
fo r2 0 o 8 -th e jew eler Jean-
P ierre H su, w ho created
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Mobile
© , w oodw orkers Stan
and Sue Jennings, and black-
smith M ark Sch w enk.
. .On the
heels o f winning a $500,000
M acArthur Foundation “ genius
grant,” the South Carolina bas-
ket w eaver M ary Jackson was
one o f 50 artists to each receive
an unrestricted $50,000 fellow-
ship from the advocacy organiza-
tion United States A rtists (u sa).
Also named u sa Fellows in the
category o f crafts and traditional
arts w ere R ichard Notkin © ,
the clay sculptor and maker of
the stoneware
Teaset-Iraq,
2007
©; Judith Schaechter (see page
56), who works in stained glass;
and A lvin Aningayou, a Yupiq
scrim shaw carver from Alaska.
(For more on the u sa Fellows,
visit our Zoom /Extra blog at
www.am ericancraftm ag.org).
..
T he Corning Museum o f Glass,
n y , has unveiled its 2008 R a k o w
Commission
-North Sea Waves,
a large cast glass sculpture by the
Slovak artist Zora Palova.
A t the museums
W h en the U n iversity o f M ichi-
gan M useum o f A r t broke
ground for a big renovation, 26
trees w ere cut dow n. T h e y now
live on in a v a riety o f w ood
objects—from vessels to pens
to tables—by 80 lathe turners.
“ W e kept th in kin g, w hat i f w e
took the trees and transform ed
them into som ething o f lasting
beauty,” says Suzanne W it-
th o ff, m anager o f the u m m a
M useum Shop, where the piec-
es w ill be sold to benefit the
museum, reopening early this
year (w w w .um m a.um ich.
edu).
.. N ew Y o rk ’s Cooper-
H e w itt, N ational D esign
Museum is turning the form er
third-floor library o f its
F ifth A venue mansion into
a 7,000-square-foot gallery,
more than doubling exhibition
space.
.. T h e M in t M useum
o f C h arlo tte, NC, received
a more than $5 million bequest
from the estate o f longtim e
benefactor N an cy A k e rs
W a lla ce, to go tow ard exp an -
sion effo rts that include a
new dow ntow n facility for its
collections o f contem porary
art, craft and design.
Education notes
T h e Pacific N orthw est College
o f A rt and Oregon College of
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