Umali photo Mark Serr / Velliquette photo courtesy of artist and DCKT Contemporary.
The Museum of Arts and
Design in
N YC
honored arts
patron Barbara Tober, designer
Eva Zeisel and business leader
Shelly Lazarus as its 2009 V i-
sionaries at an awards gala in
November.
.. The Center for
Craft, Creativity & Design has
announced its 2009 Craft Re-
search Fund grants. Awards of
up to $ 15,000 for project grants
went to Julia Bryan-Wilson,
Julie Muniz, Marilee Boyd
Meyer and Susan Montgomery,
Cynthia Fowler, Ashley Cal-
lahan, Cat Mazza and the team
of Norm Sartorius, Barry Gor-
don and Phil Jurus. The
CCCD
also gave graduate research
grants of up to $ 10,000 to Elaine
F'ussell Pinson, Mary Helen
Burnham, Annmarie Bobak
and Amy Eisen Krupsky.
The Lighton International
Artists Exchange Program,
which supports foreign residen-
cies for Midwestern artists, has
announced five 2010 American
recipients: Asheer Akram to
Pakistan, Laurene Krasny
Brown to Greece; Roxanne
Jackson to Germany, Ehren
Tool to Vietnam and Susan
White to Japan.
.. The Natchez
Project, established in Missis-
sippi by ceramist Conner Burns,
named three fellowship recipi-
ents for the program: Scott
Bennett, Mark Chatterley and
Steven Hill.
The National Metalsmiths
Hall of Fame in St. Petersburg,
FL,
has named Alan Revere as
2009 award winner in the art-
ist/art educator category', citing
his years of teaching at his Re-
vere Academy of Jewelry Arts
in San Francisco.
.. The Seattle
Art Museum presented the 31st
Annual Betty Bowen Award
to Josh Faught for work combin-
ing textiles, collage, painting
and sculpture, such as
Untitled,
2009©. The award comes with
$ 15,000.
.. Caryl Bryer Fallen
of Kentucky won Best of Show
at the International Quilt Festi-
val in Houston for
On the Wings
o f a Dream.
.. At the 22nd Annual
Washington Craft Show, first
prize went to jeweler Namu
Cho, ceramic artist Judit Varga
received the AmericanStyle
Award of Excellence and glass
artist Michael Mikula earned
the Collectors’ Award.
Commissions
The Rakow Commission,
awarded annually by the Com-
ing Museum of Glass to an artist
working in glass who is not rep-
resented in the museum’s col-
lection, this year went to Pana-
manian artist Isabel De Obaldia
for one of her sand-cast animal >
NY/Corning
Corning Museum of Glass
Masters o f Studio Glass: J in '
Harcuba
Mar. 27-Oct. 31
cmog.org
Whether his portrait subjects
are little known or famous, the
Czech artist always applies sim-
ilar treatments—spare sculptural
cuts and subtle optical effects.
© N Y /N ew York
Museum of Arts and Design
Slash: Paper Under the Knife
to Apr. 4
madmuseum.org
Cut paper as a medium to fabri-
cate provocative, expressive
and arresting installation, video
animation and sculpture, such
as Michael Velliquette’s
Power
Tower
, is explored by 50 inter-
national artists.
N Y /N ew York
Noho Gallery
Erma Martin Tost: Felted
Flightscapes
Feb. 2-27
nohogallery.com
Yost’s felted stitched construc-
tions, enhanced with mono-
prints and photo transfers, cap-
ture the world of birds in
pictorial and poetic metaphors.
www.journal-plaza.net & www.freedowns.net
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