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NC/Charlotte
RedSky Gallery
Shane Fero
to Nov. 12
redskygallerv.com
Fero’s flame-worked objects
catch and hold the eye.
PA / Lancaster
Kevin Lehman’s Pottery
Strictly Functional Pottery
National
to Oct. 25
strictlyfunctionalpottery
national.net
Useful objects—approachable,
recognizable and valuable—are
juried into the Market House
Craft Center’s popular presen-
tation for the 17th year.
PA / Philadelphia
O Philadelphia Museum of Art
Wrought & Crafted: Jewelry and
Metalwork ipoo to the Present
to Jan. 31
philamuseum.org
Recent museum acquisitions of
20th- and 21st-century hollow-
ware, sculpture and jewelry,
including Samuel Yellin's
Lock,
Key and Handle,
celebrate Phila-
delphia’s rich heritage in the
field of metalwork.
TN / Gatlinburg
Arrowmont School of Arts
and Crafts
Women in Wood
Oct. 16-Jan. 2
arrowmont.org
The inroads made by women
into the discipline of wood-
working are illustrated through
the turned and constructed
objects of 27 gifted artists.
Gifts & Grants
The architect
Sidney Swidler
fell in love with contemporary
ceramics in the 1980s, and even-
tually amassed some 800 pieces
by 300 artists from the U.S.,
Canada, Europe, Japan and
Australia. Now retired, he has
made a gift of his collection to
the
Crocker Art Museum
of
Sacramento, CA, where it will
be featured as one of the inaugu-
ral exhibits in an addition set
to open next year.
As artists struggle through
tough economic times, some
relief comes in the form of
grants from organizations like
the
New York Foundation for
the Arts,
which this year gave
$7,000 each to 134 individuals
for excellence in their respective
disciplines, including
Emily
Barletta,
who made
Horizon f i ,
and 13 others in the crafts cat-
egory (For the complete list,
visit nvfa.org').
.. The largest
annual artist fellowships in the
People & Places
Newsfrom
Everywhere
Check out
First Week,
a trompe-l'oeil in-
stallation by
Mary Temple
on
view through December on a
fourth-floor landing in the
Mu-
seum of Arts and Design,
is the
first in a series of “Art Encoun-
ters,” a joint project with Benja-
min Moore & Co. that commis-
sions artists to paint the
stairwells of m a d .
.. A monu-
mental ceramic head form by
Jun Kaneko
is a highlight of the
new Peter Kiewet Foundation
Sculpture Garden at the
Joslyn
Art Museum
in Omaha, N E,
home city to the Japanese-born
sculptor since 1986.
.. Imagine
cocktails and hors d’oeuvres
against the backdrop of spec-
tacular art-glass windows in
a historic home designed by
Frank Lloyd Wright.
“After
Hours at Wright’s Robie
House” is one of the new pro-
grams at the celebrated 1910
Chicago residence, designed to
provide viewers with a personal
experience. The series is made
possible by a $250,000 MacAr-
thur Foundation grant to the
Frank Lloyd Wright Preserva-
tion Trust fG0Wright.0rg').
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nation currently come from the
Pew Charitable Trusts,
which
in 2009 awarded $60,000 each
(an increase of $10,000 over last
year) to 12 Philadelphia-area
recipients in painting, pi ay writ-
ing, and folk and traditional
arts-among them
Vera Na-
konechny,
a master of Ukrai-
nian embroidery (pewtrusts.
org).
..
The Kresge Founda-
tion’s
new fellowship program,
administered by the College for
Creative Studies, has awarded
$25,000 apiece to 18 Detroit-
area visual artists, including
Sioux Trujillo,
who made
Rhino
Squid f i .
(collegeforcreative
studies.edu).
Awards & Honors
Diane
and
Marc Grainer
will
be honored for their support
of the
Mint Museum of Craft +
Design
at the annual Mint Con-
dition gala October 3 in Char-
lotte, NC, where the museum’s
Founders’ Circle will present
them with its McColl Award.
Avid collectors and advocates
of fine craft, the Grainers have
played leadership roles in orga-
nizations such as the James
Renwick Alliance, Furniture
Society and American Craft
Council.
..
The Craft Emergen-
cy Relief Fund
has received
an award for “leadership, cre-
ative thinking and outstanding»
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