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1 9 6 2
Centering: In
Pottery, Poetry,
and the Person,
M.C. Richards’
classic philo-
sophical book,
is published.
1966
“Abstract Expressionist Ceramics,”
organized by John Coplans, opens at
the University of California, Irvine,
drawing attention to and legitimizing
the movement.
1966
The National Council on Education
for the Ceramic Arts is founded,
among the first of various medium-
specific groups that would emerge in
this period.
1 1967
Antiques dealer Jim Carpenter makes
the first of several trips to Mississippi,
where he eventually finds almost 7,000
works by George E. Ohr, 50 years
after the artist’s death. Dubbed the
Mad Potter of Biloxi, Ohr emerges as
a great artist.
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1 9 6 9
The Handweavers
Guild of America forms
The following year,
the National Quilting
Association is formed.
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1 9 6 7
Marvin Lipofsky
starts the glass depart-
ment at the California
College of Arts and
Crafts (now CCA).
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1 9 6 6
Galleries reject J. Fred Woell's cast-
silver jewelry: It’s not gold. Woell
rebels, creates a scries of Badges
from random junk - and opens the
door for jewelers using found objects
with no intrinsic value
in their work.
*♦1968
Oppi Untracht’s
M etal Techniques for
Craftsmen
is published; it’s the first
comprehensive technical book in the
metals field, and becomes the standard
reference for many American art jew-
elers and silversmiths.
1966
Walter Hamady joins the art faculty
at the University of Wisconsin in
Madison, where for 30 years he influ-
ences generations of students by inte
grating papermaking, printing, and
binding into his classes in drawing,
lettering, and typography.
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1 9 6 5
Arthur Espenet
Carpenter designs his
signature
Wishbone Chair,
The next year, his hand-
crafted round house is
featured in
Life
magazine.
1969
J.B. Blunk introduces
the world to subtractive
furniture (chainsaw-
carved hunks of wood)
in the “Objects: USA”
exhibition.
C O N F R O N T A T I O N
4 1966
The first ACC Craft Fair
is held in Stowe, VT.
1967
After 22 years of increas-
ingly popular summer craft
workshops, a settlement
school in Gatlinburg, TN,
renames itself Arrowmont
School of Arts and Crafts
and plans a studio complex.
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‘Objects: USA,” curated by Paul
J. Smith and Lee Nordness and spon
sored by S.C. Johnson and Son Inc.,
opens in Washington, D.C. The
sweeping, seminal exhibition tours
20 U.S. and 10 international venues.
1966
Anderson Ranch
Arts Center opens in
Snowmass Village, CO
◄■1966
If I worked my hands in
wood, would you still
love me?” Tim Hardin’s
I f I W ere a Carpenter
evokes a romantic mascu-
line ideal and becomes a
Top 10 hit for Bobby Darin
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The “Summer of Love” explodes
with exuberant hippie fashion, as
youth culture - led by rock idols such
asjimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin -
expresses individuality with feathers,
fringe, beads, tie-dye, and a rainbow
of eclectic ethnic influences.
4 1969
Husband-and-wifc artist team
Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrap
the coast of Little Bay in Sydney,
Australia, in 1
million square feet of
fabric - the single largest artwork ever
at the time. Large-scale environmental
art takes hold in the public imagination.
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1 9 6 7
The Chicago Picasso,
the artist’s monumental
untitled cubist sculpture,
is unveiled at Daley Plaza
■►1968
Bevis Hillier publishes
A r t Deco o f the 2 os and
jo s ,
popularizing the
term and bringing it
back into the conscious-
ness of the art world,
architecture, and design
