Three event highlights
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The Memorial Art Gallery’s Fine Craft Show this weekend, sponsored by the Gallery Council, showcases the works of 40 of master craft artists from 11 states. They were selected by jurors from more than 100 applications. Fifteen of the featured artists are new this year.
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Crafts on display and for sale will include ceramics, glass, jewelry, furniture, metal, wood, wearable art and more. All are one-of-a-kind or limited-edition works. The artists almost exclusively make their living through their work.
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In collaboration with Rochester Institute of Technology’s School of American Crafts, there will also be an exhibit of works by honors students there.
Why you should attend
Proceeds benefit the gallery. A ticket to the show also includes admission to the museum.
Webster resident Charlotte Herrera, a member of the Memorial Art Gallery’s board and of its Gallery Council, a volunteer fundraising organization, is a founder of the show and its artist liaison.
“We have craft in the permanent collection (of the gallery) and Western New York has a really fabulous craft history,” Herrera said, “so it (this kind of show) seemed like it fit in.” To get it started, she and others visited the Philadelphia Craft Show and asked regional artists what makes a show “good.”
The first year, the show had 40 spaces and they had 41 applications, Herrera said.
The show remains limited to 40 spaces, but this year there were more than 100 applications.
Unique to this show, housing is provided to the participating, out of town artists. Organizers also provide a chili dinner to the artists on Friday evening and host artists in private homes for a Saturday night dinner.
“We have artists whose work is in major museum collections; they would never come if we didn’t extend the additional hospitality,” Herrera said.
She especially loves craft art, Herrera explained, “because I like the idea of someone creating it with their own hands.” Her personal collection includes glass and ceramics, mostly, she said.
What’s really great about the show, added this year’s cochairwoman, Mary Clare Hamlin, is the quality and “national flavor” that’s brought here.
“You couldn’t (otherwise) find most of here, in one spot,” agreed Herrera, who added that being involved with the gallery is one of the best things that had ever happened to her.
“It (the Memorial Art Gallery) is such a phenomenal institution,” she said.
Three event highlights
1
The Memorial Art Gallery’s Fine Craft Show this weekend, sponsored by the Gallery Council, showcases the works of 40 of master craft artists from 11 states. They were selected by jurors from more than 100 applications. Fifteen of the featured artists are new this year.
2
Crafts on display and for sale will include ceramics, glass, jewelry, furniture, metal, wood, wearable art and more. All are one-of-a-kind or limited-edition works. The artists almost exclusively make their living through their work.
3
In collaboration with Rochester Institute of Technology’s School of American Crafts, there will also be an exhibit of works by honors students there.
Why you should attend
Proceeds benefit the gallery. A ticket to the show also includes admission to the museum.
Webster resident Charlotte Herrera, a member of the Memorial Art Gallery’s board and of its Gallery Council, a volunteer fundraising organization, is a founder of the show and its artist liaison.
“We have craft in the permanent collection (of the gallery) and Western New York has a really fabulous craft history,” Herrera said, “so it (this kind of show) seemed like it fit in.” To get it started, she and others visited the Philadelphia Craft Show and asked regional artists what makes a show “good.”
The first year, the show had 40 spaces and they had 41 applications, Herrera said.
The show remains limited to 40 spaces, but this year there were more than 100 applications.
Unique to this show, housing is provided to the participating, out of town artists. Organizers also provide a chili dinner to the artists on Friday evening and host artists in private homes for a Saturday night dinner.
“We have artists whose work is in major museum collections; they would never come if we didn’t extend the additional hospitality,” Herrera said.
She especially loves craft art, Herrera explained, “because I like the idea of someone creating it with their own hands.” Her personal collection includes glass and ceramics, mostly, she said.
What’s really great about the show, added this year’s cochairwoman, Mary Clare Hamlin, is the quality and “national flavor” that’s brought here.
“You couldn’t (otherwise) find most of here, in one spot,” agreed Herrera, who added that being involved with the gallery is one of the best things that had ever happened to her.
“It (the Memorial Art Gallery) is such a phenomenal institution,” she said.
