Upcoming Lectures
Oregon College of Art and Craft Lecture Series
Kim Cridler: Ornamentation in Contemporary Craft
Thursday, July 9, 6 pm, The Lab at Museum of Contemporary Craft
Free and open to the public
The use of ornamentation to enrich objects and environments is as old as humankind, yet as James Trilling writes in The Language of Ornament, for most of the twentieth century it has been excluded from mainstream Western art-making and appreciation in the wake of modernism. As a practitioner of craft, accountable for the aesthetics of pleasure, invested in process and the labor it requires and inclined towards humanistic concerns, Kim Crindler proposes that the decorative can inspire and restore. In this lecture, Kim will explore the recent use of ornamentation in works by examining makers in a variety of craft disciplines and the recent resurgence in ornament due to technological processes in design fields.
Trained as a metalsmith, Kim creates works that utilize history, making and meaning of craft and domestic ornamentation. She is assistant professor in the department of art at the University of Wisconsin and has taught at arts institutions across the country including University of Michigan, San Diego State University and Penland School of Crafts.
Oregon College of Art and Craft’s (OCAC) ongoing series of lectures is designed to examine issues on the cutting edge of contemporary craft and inform new discourse about both process and object. Each speaker has been carefully chosen to create a deeper understanding and appreciation of craft.
This lecture is presented collaboratively by OCAC and Museum of Contemporary Craft.
Panel Discussion
Oregon College of Art and Craft Artists in Residence
Thursday, July 23, 6 pm,
The Lab at Museum of Contemporary Craft
Free and open to the public
This summer, OCAC hosts three guest and two faculty artists in residence for a six week period. The residents will use this period to share ideas and inspiration while working in our studios on their proposed body of work. Artists in residence are Karl Burkheimer (participant in the Museum’s exhibition Call + Response), Tracey Cockrell, Ann Marie Kennedy, Julie McNiel and Michelle Ross.
The OCAC Artist-in-Residence Program brings both emerging and nationally known artists to the College, providing them with time, resources and equipment to push their work in new directions while interacting with students, faculty and the greater Portland art community.
This discussion is presented collaboratively by OCAC and Museum of Contemporary Craft.
CraftPerspectives Series
The CraftPerspectives Series provides a forum for today's leading craft artists, professors and curators to share their knowledge of and ideas about issues in contemporary craft.
Past CraftPerspectives Lectures
CraftPerspectives Conversation
Handmade Nation
April 2009
Listen to the podcast
Visit the Handmade Nation Portland Microsite
Glenn Adamson
Craft in the 21st Century: Directions and Displacements
February 2009
Listen to the podcast
Watch the webcast
CraftPerspectives Panel
Curating the Work of Mandy Greer and Darrel Morris
January 2009
Garth Clark
How Envy Killed the Crafts Movement: An Autopsy in Two Parts
October 2008
Listen to the podcast
Steven Skov Holt and Mara Holt Skov
Manuf®actured: From Readymade to Alreadymade
September 2008
Listen to the podcast
Paul Smith
Reflections: Twentieth Century Studio Craft Movement – Current Observations
April 2008
Ellen Lupton
The Design It Yourself Revolution
March 2008
Image (top): Garth Clark, October 2008, Photo: Brian Foulkes. Image (bottom): Toshiko Takaezu at her
New Jersey studio in Spring 2007.