Mesa Contemporary Arts
AT MESA ARTS CENTER
1
East Main Street i Mesa, Arizona 8521 1
I 480-644-6567
Installation photo: Farraday Newsome,
Garden of Isolation.
G laze d terracotta*
with w elded stand by Kim Cridler.
Courtesy of the artists.
$25 entry fee for
each exhibition
* All entry forms and
images must be received
by 5pm, Arizona time, on
the deadline date.
For details and submission
guidelines, download
the 2009-10 Season
Prospectus at
mesaartscenter.com/artistOpps.htm.
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st A N N U A L
C O N T E M P O R A R Y
C R A F T S
A national juried
exhibition of all
craft media
Exhibition Dates:
Jan 23-Mar 15, 2009
Submission Deadline:
Fri, Oct 23, 2009*
$2,000 in juror awards
D R . R U T H T A N L IM
P R O J E C T R O O M
Now accepting proposals
for this experimental
exhibition space
dedicated to the display
of solo and collaborative
work in all mediums
Submission Deadline:
Fri, Dec 18, 2009*
Small stipend offered to
proposal winners
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Council N ews
Am erican C raft Council
Conference:
Creating a N ew C raft Culture
O ctober 15-17,2009
M inneapolis, M innesota
T h e Council w ill host an inter-
active conference, bringing
together voices from within
the field and beyond, to dis-
cuss craft’s role in a changing
world. T he event, which will
take place at the Radisson Pla-
za H otel, will feature distin-
guished speakers such as D r.
Richard Sennett, professor
o f sociology at N ew Y o rk
U niversity and the London
School o f Economics and au-
thor o f
The Craftsman;
R ob
W alker, colum nist for the
New fork Times Magazine
and
author o f
Buying In: The Secret
Dialogue Between What We
Buy and Who W e Are;
Garth
Clark, curator, historian and
gallerist; Sandra A lfold y, as-
sociate professor o f craft his-
tory at N ova Scotia College
o f A rt and Design; and Sonya
Clark, chair o f craft and mate-
rial studies at Virginia C om -
m onwealth U niversity School
o f the Arts in Richmond. For
com plete inform ation on the
conference agenda, speakers
and registration, visit craft
council.org/conferenceo9.
Honoring the Best at St. Paul
A t the Council’s Am erican
C raft Show in St. Paul, M in-
nesota, held A pril 17-19,
Aw ards o f Excellence w ere
presented to jew eler D evta
Doolan o f Portland, M aine;
fiber artist K elly Marshall o f
M inneapolis, Minnesota, who
made
Pinwheel
© ; and cera-
mists Ikuzi T eraki and Jeanne
Bisson from W ashington,
Verm ont. T h e top award for
booth design w ent to Daniel
Dunbar o f Superior, W iscon -
sin, for his furniture display.
Claire Selkurt, a design histo-
rian and an instructor in art
history at the U niversity o f
St. Thom as in St. Paul, was
the guest juror. V ie w w ork
by all o f the show winners at
am ericancraftm ag.org.
