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sculptures inspired by ancient
and tribal art,
Rey del Cenote,
which draws upon the form of
the crocodile.
.. William and
Steven Ladd of Brooklyn have
made a chandelier for the Invis-
ible Dog art center there, by
combining hand-loomed panels
of glass beads with old belt
buckles found in the basement
of the former factory.
Museum News
The Carnegie Museum of Art
has reopened its renovated Ailsa
Mellon Bruce Galleries. Deco-
rative arts curator Jason T.
Busch reinstalled some 500 ex-
amples of American and Euro-
pean decorative arts and design
from the mid-i8tli century to
the present, opening with a
show titled “Past Meets Pres-
ent.”.
.. The F. Otto Haas
Award, presented annually by
Preservation Pennsylvania for
outstanding contributions and
achievement, has been present-
ed this year to Mansfield and
Ruth Esherick Bascom for their
stewardship of the Wharton
Esherick Museum in Paoli,
p a .
In the Galleries
Holsten Galleries in Stock-
bridge, M A, a leading contempo-
rary glass venue, has been sold
to former director Jim Schantz
and his wife, designer/artist
Kim Saul. The 31-year-old busi-
ness has been renamed Schantz
Galleries and will continue to
concentrate on glass.
.. Patricia
Gelinas has established an online
art gallery specializing in work
by Quebec’s contemporary
craft artists.
Passing
Sculptor Ruth Duckworth ©,
90, died in Chicago on Oct. 18.
Born in Hamburg and educated
in England, she was first a stone
sculptor but began working in
clay in the 1950s. Her unortho-
dox hand-worked organic forms
drew such attention that in 1964
she was invited to teach at the
University of Chicago. Attract-
ed by the opportunity to work
at large scale, she decided to stay
in the U .S.; after 1977 she de-
voted herself to studio work.
She created murals for the uni-
versity’s Geophysical Science
Building based on satellite pho-
tos of the earth; another major
work was
Clouds Over Lake
Michigan,
created for the Dresd-
ner Bank in Chicago. She made
large stoneware vessels but is
best known for her porcelain
wall reliefs, such as
Untitled
©,
1984, stoneware sculptures like
Untitled
©, 2006, and the porce-
lain Cup and Blade series. She
also created several monumen-
tal bronze sculptures. A 2005
retrospective traveled to seven
American museums—-J.K.
OH / Athens
Dairy Barn Arts Center
Transcending the Figure:
Contemporary Ceramics
Mar. 12-Apr. 25
dairvbarn.org
Leading ceramists from across
the country defy conventional
notions in their effort to broad-
en the viewers’ idea of the hu-
man figure in this decidedly
conceptual cutting edge
exhibition.
© PA /Pittsburgh
Society for Contemporary
Craft
Cornography
to Mar. 20
con t e mporary craft. org
The
Golden Bantam Bomb
is one
of furniture maker and sculptor
Craig Nutt’s imaginative pieces
in an exhibition that honors the
heritage of farming while ques-
tioning prevailing methods of
food production in today’s
society.
TX / Denton
Center for the Visual Arts
Materials: Hard & Soft
Feb. 6-Apr. 1
dentonarts.com
Currently in its 22nd year and
attracting artists from through-
out the country, this highly an-
ticipated competition and exhi-
bition showcases every craft
medium and various combina-
tions thereof.
022 american craft feb/mario
www.journal-plaza.net & www.freedowns.net
Duckworth portrait Jerome De Perlinghi, works James Prinz, all courtesy o f Thea Burger.
