1988
Scholar and curator Elaine Levin
publishes
The History o f American
Ceramics: From Pipkins and Bean Pots
to Contemporary>
Forms.
♦
1 9 8 4
Rozsika Parker’s book on embroidery
The Subversive Stitch
, explores how
women have used needlework to
express outrage.
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In the catalogue for the third and final
‘Americans in Glass” exhibition at
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
(WI), organizer David Huchthausen
calls for higher critical standards for
studio glass, causing a stir.
1984
American Craft Museum
director Paul J. Smith
curates “Jewelry USA’*
at the museum. A ver-
sion of the show tours
extensively.
1988
Stanley Lechtzin of Tyler School
of Art sparks controversy at a
SNAG conference, advocating
CAD-CAM as an important new
medium. The department at Tyler
changes its name to Metals/
J ewelry/CAD - CAM.
s T * u c T U * B
o r t h e
VISUAL
B O O K
♦ 1984
Keith Smith publishes
Structure o f the
Visual Rook
, the first of his books that
picture, instruct, and interpret non-
traditional bookmaking - and suggest
the endless artistic possibilities of the
book form.
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The University of Alabama
in Tusealoosa launches its
MFA program in book arts.
It remains the U.S. program
most closely identified with a
high level of craft.
♦1989
Andrew Hoyem, direc-
tor of Arion Press, buys
M&H Type Foundry,
the last remaining major
metal-type foundry, as
other type foundries
are scrapped.
«985
Sam Maloof is awarded a MacArthur
Fellowship, the first American crafts-
man so honored.
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1 9 8 5
Material Evidence: New Color
Techniques in Handmade Furniture,”
organized by Workbench Gallery and
the Renwick Gallery, showcases furni
ture made with Formica Corp.’s
ColorCore, bringing color and post-
modern style to the furniture world.
1989
‘New American Furniture:
The Second Generation of Studio
Furnituremakers” opens at the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and
studio furniture is further embraced
by the fine art world.
1986
‘Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical
inaugurates the American Craft
Museum’s dramatic new space on
West 53rd Street in New York.
- ♦
1 9 8 7
The Philbrook Museum of Art (OK)
launches “The Eloquent Object,”
a touring exhibition of 200 works in
various craft mediums created since
World War II.
1 1986
The Memphis design movement -
epitomizing colorful ’80s style, as in
Peter Shire’s
B el A ir
armchair (below)
- is spoofed in the film
Ruthless People.
♦1987
The Names Project
A ID S Memorial (Juilt
is exhibited for first time on the National
Mall in Washington, D.C. By 2010 it
consists of more than 46,000 panels
commemorating 91,000 lives lost.
+ • 1 9 8 9
The New Yankee Workshop
with Norm Abram hits the
airwaves and brings the tech-
niques of a master craftsman
into living rooms everywhere
♦1989
Shepard Fairey creates the
A ndiM
e the Giant Has a Posse
street art and viral branding
campaign as an experiment
in phenomenology.
THC
GIANT
1988
The Museum of Modern Art’s
‘Deconstructivist Architecture”
exhibition cements the movement
with work from Peter Eisenman,
Frank Gehry, and Bernard Tschumi
among others.
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