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Friends have rallied in support
of the furniture maker Jon
Brooks, whose studio in New
Hampshire burned down in
January. The unique structure
was lost along with finished
pieces and machinery, though
his house nearby was spared
and nobody was harmed (visit
jonbrooks.org for updates or
to donate to the reconstruction
project).
.. Five Americans—
Regina Benson, Lanny Bergner,
creator of
Multiplicity®,
Tim
Harding, Nancy Koenigsberg
and Mary Zicafoose—have
work in the prestigious 13th
International Triennial of Tap-
estry, May 10-Oct. 31 at the
Central Museum of Textiles
in Lodz, Poland.
Transitions
Bill Moggridge, who designed
the first laptop computer in
1980 and co-founded the firm
i d e o ,
has become director of
the Smithsonian’s Cooper-He-
witt, National Design Museum
in New York.
.. The Arizona
State University Art Museum
has a new head—Gordon Knox,
formerly with the Stanford Hu-
manities Lab at Stanford Uni-
versity.
.. The Huntington Li-
brary, Art Collections, and
Botanical Gardens in San Ma-
rino,
CA,
has named its first cu-
rator of American decorative
arts—Harold B. (“Hal”) Nelson,
a specialist in decorative art
and contemporary craft.
.. The
Wharton Esherick Museum in
Paoli,
PA,
bid farewell to long-
time executive director Rob
Leonard, who retired, and has
welcomed Tamara Barnes, who
succeeds him.
.. Bonnie Laing-
Malcomson, who was president
of the Oregon College of Art &
Craft for the past nine years,
steps down in May with plans
to pursue her own art work.
Spaces
The Tar Heel State is the place
to see world-class art this year
as two major venues debut. The
expanded North Carolina Mu-
seum of Art unveils in April,
featuring a 127,000-square-foot
addition designed by Thomas
Phifer and Partners (ncartmu
seum.org). In October, the
Mint Museum unveils its new
satellite, the Mint Museum Up-
town, to encompass the Mint
Museum of Craft + Design. The
inaugural show features con-
temporary British studio ceram-
ics from the collection of Diane
and Marc Grainer (mintmu
seum.org).
.. The Davis Art
Center kicked off its soth-anni-
versary in January with “A Seed
Planted: A Tribute to Robert
Arneson,” which presented
sculptures by the late, great Cali-
fornia Pop artist and longtime
ceramics professor at
UC
Davis
(davisartcenter.org).
.. some
things looming is the beguiling
name of a new gallery for con-
temporary' and traditional fiber
art launched by' Rebekah Ritter
and her daughter, Melanie
Mitchell, in Reading,
PA
(somethingslooming.com).
..
