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1980
Wendell Castle opens a
woodworking and furni-
ture design school in
Scottsville, NY. In 1988,
the school becomes part
of Rochester Institute
ofTechnology.
•►•►1981
Garth Clark (here with
Beatrice Wood) opens
his ceramic art gallery
opposite the L.A. County
Museum of Art. A second
space opens in New York.
1980
The Appalachian
Center for Craft opens
near Smithville, TN.
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ms
1982
“Magdalena Abakanowicz,” curated
by Mary Jane Jacob and celebrating
the artist’s ominous mass-figural
work, opens at Chicago’s Museum
of Contemporary Art and travels to
six other venues.
4 ^ 1982
Mary Jackson begins showing her
sweetgrass baskets, which continue
a 300-year-old tradition begun in
West Africa. John Garrett, Jane Sauer,
Norma Minkowitz, Pat Hickman,
Gyongy Laky, and Patrick Dougherty
take basketweaving in new directions.
■985
The Arrowmont conference on wood-
turning takes place in Gatlinburg, TN,
and inspires the establishment of the
American Association of Woodturners
and the Wood Turning Center the
next year.
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On his Victory Tour,
Michael Jackson dons a
crystal-studded glove
that becomes an icon of
personal adornment in
the Decade of Glitz.
■►1983
Timothy Barrett publishes
Japanese
Papermaking: Traditions
,
Tools, and
Techniques,
based on his research trav-
els. He later leads efforts to produce
conservation-sound papers while at
the University of Iowa and is recog-
nized as a Mac Arthur Fellow in 2009.
◄■1981
Pritam & Eames opens
as a gallery devoted
exclusively to studio
furniture.
KENTUCKY
M USEUM
OF A RT AND CRAFT
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The Kentucky Art and Craft
Foundation (now the Kentucky
Museum of Art and Craft) is
launched in Louisville by the state’s
first lady, former Miss America
Phyllis George Brown.
1982
Columbia University’s School
of Library Service sponsors the
Fine Printing Conference with
an exhibition and book fair.
An active book-arts community
begins to coalesce at the meeting.
◄■1982
Czech artists Stanislav Libensky
and Jaroslava Brychtova arc invited
as artists in residence at Pilchuck.
The pair’s mastery of the specialized
aesthetics and technology of mold-
melted glass will have a far-reaching
impact on glass sculpture.
1980
Metalsmith
magazine
begins publication as
a subscription and
newsstand quarterly,
produced by SNAG.
1983
Creative Glass Center of America
is established at Wheaton Village
in Millville, NJ.
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1981
A walnut rocker by Sam Maloof
is donated to President Reagan
and his family for use in their pri-
vate quarters at the White House.
Maloof s appeal is bipartisan;
President Carter and President
Clinton are also fans.
1983
A Steuben crystal egg
(or, as one character
dubs it, “some glass
artsy-fartsv thing”)
co-stars with Tom
Cruise in the megahit
Risky Business.
The Radiant Child,” an article on
bad-boy painter Jean-Michel Basquiat,
is published in
A rt forum
magazine and
brings the quintessential neo-expres-
sionist exponent into the conscious-
ness of the art world.
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